A Lifetime Later, Christoph El Truento Finds His Way Back To Dub

An interview with the longstanding New Zealand DJ, beatmaker, and producer about dub music, his two dub reggae albums and working with Haymaker Records. Selected Works is a weekly (usually) newsletter by the Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand) based freelance music journalist, broadcaster, copywriter and sometimes DJ Martyn Pepperell, aka Yours Truly. Most weeks, Selected Works consists of a recap of what I’ve been doing lately and some of what I’ve been listening to and reading, paired with film photographs I’ve taken + some bonuses. All of that said, sometimes it takes completely different forms. Christopher Martin James, now better known as Christoph El Truento, was introduced to Jamaican dub music as a child during the final years of the twentieth century. Thinking back to his upbringing, he remembered finding a copy of Augustus Pablo and King Tubby’s King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown album in one of his older brothers’ record collections. At the time, James spent his evenings outside school flipping through the radio dial to see what he could find on the airwaves in 1990s Auckland. In comparison, the slinky sounds he heard on that record – equal parts spaced-out and low-slung – were an early revelation. ...