Truth Musician Dub FX Talks About Freedom and More After NYC Performance

Derrick Broze of Intellihub and Houston Free Thinkers was able to catch up with truth musician Dub FX after his recent NYC performance to discuss some of the deeper issues that he covers in his music.

 
Dub FX (real name Benjamin Stanford) is a worldwide street performer and studiorecording artist from St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.After playing and singing in a band called Twitch, he set out solo when he moved to Europe. His trademark is creating rich live music using only his own performance aided by Live looping and effect pedals combined with his voice.  He creates intricate hip hop, reggae and drum and bassrhythms
Derrick Broze of Intellihub and Houston Free Thinkers was able to catch up with him after his recent NYC performance to discuss some of the deeper issues that he covers in his music.
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Dub FX is completely independent using only: live performance, word of mouth, internet social networking and a number of easily accessible free samples. Dub FX is also the main founder of the label Convoyun.ltd which could be described as a co-op label for Dub FX’s own work and other people’s. To date artists that have released albums on Convoyunltd are: Flower Fairy, Sirius, Mr Woodnote, and Dub FX. With additional featured artists on separate songs of each album. Every album released through Convoy Un.Ltd has been produced by Dub FX with the exception for Dub FX & Sirius’s release, A Crossworlds, a collaboration album released in 2010 which revealed a much darker and instrumental sound.
His lyrics both address generalized world events and contemporary angst while suggesting individual based revolution through self determination and engagement.
He also addresses issues of social importance, the most notable example being the song “Society’s Gates”, loosely based on the life of the philosopher Socrates.