The Dubvisionist from Hanover is the true artist among the local people DubMixers and producers. An old master who knows all the finesse of the craft and sometimes throws the large composition onto the canvas with a bold swing, at other times like Godefridus Schalcken working out the smallest details with a fine brush. He's a tinkerer, tinkerer and great sound artist at the same time. And as you would expect from an old master, his art is fine, subtle and profound. Logically, his new work also bears the modest, factual title "DV IV“(Percussion & Electronics) and pays homage to the timeless, organic sound of hand-played music. Almost everything here is analog: “real” drums, “real” microphones and “real” tape machines. Only when all these natural ingredients for one of its warm, rich Dubs are available, the visionist brings the computer into play and combines them into a complex, finely tuned and absolutely contemporary Dub-Masterpiece that would not have been possible in this quality with the old Jamaican methods alone. Most of these tracks were created in collaboration with Markus Dassmann from the Senior Allstars. The two played drums, percussions, bass, guitar and keyboards themselves. Marco Baresi from the Far East Band added a few drum takes to some of the tracks. Two other fascinating tracks in the style of an early Lee Perry were created in collaboration with Blunt Command. What in the classic Dub-Style begins, towards the end of the album it increasingly approaches another side of our visionist: the spheres of relaxed downtempo, culminating in the last track "Highway to Heaven", which gently fades the work to an end.
