Dub & Reggae News

DFR035 came back from mastering today, thus I'm positive that the release will be available from all the streaming platforms on 4th May, as planned. It's a digital-only album release by Dubby Cruiser called “Convertible Dubs”. The individual tunes were previously released as digital singles on Whimsical Music, but all songs received fresh mixes for the album. There will be 8 songs in 2 versions each, thus 16 tracks in total. Free download on Bandcamp.

During the last two weeks, I spent a lot of time fighting spam registrations. I implemented a couple of solutions and today I managed to integrate the hCaptcha tool. I hope that the spam stops now and I can focus on developing the site itself again.

WHIM042 is coming out this Friday, 11th April 2025. Spoiler alert: Convertible Dubs Season 1 Episode 8. This means that the first season is complete. Yay. 😄

Well, that was a loooong Sunday. But GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! After over one month of trying, the navigation is finally optimised for desktop and mobile view. It was such a difficult task, and eventually, thanks and praises go to Nikolai from WZM who provided the last missing pieces of the puzzle. At the same time, I tweaked the general layout and the whole website looks classier now. Dubbook inna fine style, seen. Do you agree or disagree? Comment below. (Buttons and some areas needs further styling.)

I made a new logo for the Dubbook. You can see it on the start page (if you click e.g. on “The Dubbook” in the top left corner of the site). It's a classy golden record-kinda style. I'm still working on making the top navigation more user-friendly on mobile and at the same time, will try to improve the visuals of this site. The framework isn't that easy to update. If you're a PHP or CSS coder and would like to help make the Dubbook more pleasing to the eye, send me a message. 😄

WHIM041 will be quite the treat. I don't want to spoil anything, but I'm gonna say this: Sandstorm. Out on 1st April. No fool's day joke. 😉

Great initiative! Big up Ralph and Dub Flash family!

50+ users are registered now and some first posts have been created, e.g. in the “Dub Events” section. Step by step forward. I'm currently still working on the mobile view navigation area. It's trickier to update than e😜ected. But I'll get there eventually. 😄

A small update for convenience to the “Dub Events” section: You can list past events now. It's nothing fancy, but it's one more option which didn't exist before.

We already have 44 registered users on the Dubbook. 😄 Not bad. Let's add some spice: New user no. 50 gets a Bandcamp download code of their choice for a Dub Flash release. Spread the word. Also, to all artists: Please check https://www.dubbook.org/jobs/view/1775/dubbook-allstars-compilation-release.

Good news everyone: The Dubbook has notifications now. Don't miss new posts, comments, likes etc. Unless you don't want notifications, then you go to your settings page in your profile and unmark what you're not interested in. I'm still testing this out more. Stay tuned.

Off to Iration Steppas now in Helsinki. Any other Dubbook member going?

Tomorrow Iration Steppas in Helsinki! Who else is going?

Yes, yes, yes! For one month, my biggest difficulty was creating an Instagram-like design for the dub photos section, which is actually an online photo album tool like Flickr. But I made it. Without external coding help. It doesn't look perfect yet, and the photo upload isn't as smooth yet as I one day want it to be, but nonetheless, I herewith announce our own “Dubbygram”. Post your pictures, dubheads!

Another new feature got added today: “Dub gigs”. You can now search for dubwise collaborateurs for your projects on The Dubbook. Just enter what you are looking for, for example a singer or a carrier of heavyweight soundsystem scoops, and specify your project's details. Happy collaborating! 😄