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Umberto Echo
Dub Artist & Record Producer
New Album
On "The Afrodub Experience", Umberto Echo takes us on a ride across four continents, exploring 50 years of Afro-Caribbean music history with numerous collaborators.The inspiration is the Afrobeat of the 1970s, which he discovered through original musicians from Fela Kuti's "Africa 70" band in the Berlin project "Afrobeat Academy" which he began to fuse with dub and reggae.
About Umberto Echo
Umberto Echo aka Philipp Winter is a Gold awarded Record Producer, Sound Engineer and Dub Activist. He has released 11 albums on Enja Records, Echo Beach and Oneness Records under his name and contributed to over 350 albums, engineering, mixing and/or producing in a wide range of genres since he started his studio career in 1999.
His credits include Quadro Nuevo, Jazzrausch Bigband, Dub Inc., Jamaram, Sara Lugo, Silvan Strauss and Jojo Mayer and remixes for artists such as Abdullah Ibrahim, Seeed feat. Ceelo Green, Gentleman, Steelpulse feat. Damian Marley and Sly & Robbie. Umberto also mixed over 2000 live concerts since 1996 and is a live recording expert.
