DUBADUB
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.
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.