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GROUNDATION

Halogen Records welcomes

GROUNDATION

Maddub

Friday, June 20th

Higher Ground Ballroom

$15 advance | $18 day of show doors 9:00 show 9:30 ALL AGES tickets
GROUNDATIONhttp://www.groundation.com

Groundation has truly become a worldwide movement. Incorporating a unique blend of reggae, jazz, and dub Groundation has created a global community of fans that continues to grow. Their live shows are bursting with energy and improvisation. In the past two years, Groundation has played shows in nineteen countries spanning four continents. Highlights include playing for over 45,000 fans in Morocco, 10,000 people in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and 15,000 during a headlining spot at SummerJam in Germany.

Maddubhttp://www.maddub.com

MADDUB is the premier (only) dubtronica band of Vermont, centered in the historic yet warped metropolis of Montpelier. They unearth the early roots of "dub" from Reggae bands of the 70's in Jamaica and enmesh them with contemporary electronic sound and cutting-edge rhythms... rhythms that make you move. MADDUB is a radical response to a precipitous decline in the levels of conscious dance music available to the Vermont region. Maximizing efficiency, they plucked choice personnel from the rhythm-section stock of the former dance powerhouse, Ken Sleeps Naked. Together they are the shock-troops in the Battle for Riddim, Low End, and the American Booty. MADDUB informs the human struggle, writhing and gulping, against the onslaught of the soulless mechanizations that have ruthlessly blindsided our cultural conscience. MADDUB embodies the flee and the recoil from the snarling perpetration of The Man: chokingly mindless, in-your-face surveillant, spoonfeeding fear, popping paxil, devouring power, and ten feet from disaster. Or, you can just dance. MADDUB is an ongoing experiment combining rhythm and roots and flesh and blood and sweat, mixed in a laboratory called the dance club...