If you love dub music and you live in—or anywhere near—New Jersey, you need to immediately buy tickets (see link at the bottom of this article) for what promises to be one of the most far-out, fun, and sonically pleasing dub extravaganzas of 2025.
On April 26, legendary studio engineer and dub pioneer, Hopeton Brown—known worldwide by his stage name, “Scientist”—will be live-dubbing upstart—and up-and-coming—New Jersey-based reggae-punk band, “Blanc du Blanc.”
Despite releasing, in the last few years, two experimental, extremely irie and highly recommended full-length LPs (“The Blanc Album,” 2020; “Regatta du Blanc du Blanc,” 2022)—and an EP (“Wind of Change,” 2021) in which they collaborated on a mix with the legendary Lee “Scratch” Perry—Blanc du Blanc has, so far, flown somewhat under the radar in the reggae world.
This is strange given the quality of their output, but explainable, in part, due to the pandemic and other circumstances which have, until now, prevented the band from playing together in a live performance. This will change big-time April 26! But this will not only be Blanc du Blanc’s debut show. This historic happening will double as a record-release party celebrating the release, April 18, of Blanc du Blanc’s third LP: “Scientist Meets Blanc Du Blanc: Before the Beginning.”