This is the scunderground city pick of the week:

SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2005

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DUB MISSION celebrates Memorial Day Weekend with
J-BOOGIE's DUBTRONIC SCIENCE live! (Om Records)
featuring TONY MOSES (kpoo, kpfa) on vocals
CHARLES COOPER (Greens Crew) on saxaphone
ROBIN SUKHADIA (Project Ahimsa) on tablas and
GABBY LA LA (Dakah, Weapons Of Choice) on sitar
plus DJ SEP
Elbo Room - 647 Valencia @17th - 415 552 7788 - 21+
9 pm to 2 am - $8 - adv tix @ JAMBASE

J-BOOGIE is a San Francisco multi-genre DJ/producer
who blends a mix of dub, hip-hop, soul, funk, latin,
jazz, afro, bossa, house, electro and broken beats. He
has been on the air at KUSF for over 10 years,
producing Beatsauce on 90.3fm. Dubtronic Science is
his next step in production and live music. J-BOOGIE's
DUBTRONIC SCIENCE blends an organic fusion of
musicians and the dj, mixing turntable beats with live
percussion, sitar, flute, sax, vocals, and other live
elements in a constantly evolving improvisation. The
sounds of Dubtronic Science have been featured at The
Fillmore, The Justice League, DNA Lounge, Elbo Room,
111 Minna, Mezzanine, Boulder Theatre, The Crystal
Ballroom, Hollywood Athletic Club, Root Down, Amoeba
Records, and Fais Do Do in Los Angeles. They have also
toured with OM performing live in Denver, Portland,
Seatlle, San Diego, Santa Fe, Austin, and New York.
J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science full-length album is
available on OM Records and features Goapele, Gina
Rene, Omega, People Under The Stairs, and more. You
can also hear music featured on Ubiquity Recordings,
Future Primitive Sounds, BSI Records, plus remixes of
Mark Farina, Soulstice, and Romanowski.

Originally a native of Portland, OR, Justin Boland
(aka J-Boogie) relocated to San Francisco, CA, and
founded the Dubtronic Science collective. Originally
the name of his radio show, the concept expanded into
the clubs. Dubtronic combines the soul of world music,
hip-hop, broken beat, and deep house in a live
improvisational setting. Their debut release was
issued by OM Records in 2003.

A rich blend of hip-hop, broken beat, dub, and deep
house infects this debut release from J Boogie and his
Dubtronic Science collective. As can be immediately
discerned from the package itself, Dubtronic's whole
aesthetic focuses on a warmth otherwise missing from
the majority of downtempo records. Similar in
diversity to Recloose, the collective gets it right
from start to finish. An impressive debut from these
West Coast staples and a sure sign of promising things
in the future.