Artist-coined microgenre

Dubadub

2000s development · named through Stand High PatrolBrittany · France → European dub network
THE STORY

Stand High Patrol’s private dialect: early digital reggae and dub rebuilt with hip-hop drums, jazz color, new wave, house and the dry drawl of Pupajim. A sound-system style with its own gait.

GO DEEPER

Stand High Patrol coined “Dubadub” for the hybrid they developed from Brittany beginning in the 2000s. Roots reggae and early digital dub remain important, but the crew deliberately pulls in hip-hop beat construction, bass music, jazz, trip-hop, techno, new wave and house. Pupajim’s voice, Mac Gyver’s production and the sound-system format hold those references together. Like Vapor Dub, Dubadub is valuable because it names a recognizable artist-led language. It should not be stretched into a universal category for every hybrid dub record. The scene grows from Stand High Patrol’s own records, sessions, label and audience.

Stand High Patrolearly digitalhip-hop drumsBrittany microgenre

Where the history is argued

  • The term belongs primarily to Stand High Patrol and closely related listeners; it should not be applied broadly without evidence that artists use it.

How they stand with the others

Mixed withDubadub is Stand High Patrol’s self-defined musical language rather than a historical Jamaican genre.

Listen

Midnight Walkers Stand High Patrol · 2012 YouTube
A Matter of Scale Stand High Patrol · 2015 YouTube
The Shift Stand High Patrol · 2017 YouTube
Stand High Patrol · official Bandcamp

People

Stand High PatrolPupajimMac GyverRootystepMerry

Connected

Digital DubMixed with · early digital foundation Hip-Hop ReggaeMixed with · hip-hop beat architecture French Electro-DubTook root · the wider scene around it Stand High Patrolthe crew that coined it

Sources

Stand High Patrol · official Bandcamp profile standhighpatrol.bandcamp.comFirst-party history of the Brittany sound system and its roots-reggae/early-digital foundation.
NTS · Stand High Patrol nts.liveMusic-platform profile defining Dubadub as a hybrid of dub, hip-hop, bass music and digital reggae.

Last checked 1 September 2026

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