RE-RELEASE OF HIGH TONE'S 2 CULT VINYL EPS True sorcerer's apprentices when it comes to massive vinyl sampling, dub alchemy in sound effects, neo-electronic tinkering and cascading hip-hop scratching. The High Tone brothers have seemingly nonchalantly and (especially) freely, since the dawn of digital, explored the byways of so-called current music (novo & live dub, jungle, drum'n'bass, trance techno, etc.), always in search of the right frequencies: low & high tones! Obviously in the warmth of the sounds. In fact, the adventures of the "club of five" musicians began in 1997, when free parties were in full swing in the undergrowth across Europe and, between two rivers in Lyon, the new, supportive scene was starting to clear our ears in a joyful sonic effervescence (Kaly Live Dub, Meï Teï Shô, Le Peuple de l'Herbe, to name but a few...). After several self-produced EPs, the group took advantage of the millennium bug to release their first album, titled Opus Incertum, already on the independent label Jarring Effects, which to this day intelligently accompanies High Tone's destiny on the road to total artistic freedom. A music immediately self-qualified as ethno-dub to avoid the catalogue of metaphysical or simply media-related questions, and High Tone was directly catapulted to the forefront of the "French dub scene" (with Improvisators Dub and Zenzile); a scene that would drive the point home by giving new life to the said "dub" in a direct live version, unlike its big British sister which had elevated the reign of machines in studios eager for remixes to its zenith.
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