Submitted By: dvlina

Genre: Electro

Date of Set: Jul 30th, 2006

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Grant Phabao meets the still young Pro-Zak Trax label just when their first EP is issued, and quickly becomes the label's sound engineer. He takes part in the recording of Aleëm, Stephane Malca and Seven Dub's albums, before releasing, in 1998, his first single, 'Tub'.

The A-side, a real 'Tub' indeed, will be played in all the clubs of the planet by the biggest Djs in the world. Erik Morillo even played it for more than one year at the climax of his set, looping three times in a row the famous and massive rush/break of the track! 'Andub Head Yudu', the B-side, will directly place him at the Pantheon of the Masters of dub, beside Lee Perry, King Tubby and the others... Guidance, one of Chicago most illustrious record labels, will not be mistaken and immediately chooses the track to close its 'Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions' compilation.

His second EP, 'Cannonbutt', is released the following year. Its A-side is frighteningly effective on a dancefloor too, but it's the B-side that especially enables him to present Henchy, one of the crazy guys with which he launches his own record label, T.I.M.E.C..

Grant Phabao shares then the production duties with Professor Oz for the Prof's first album, 'One', and does some remixes with a '110% rate of reggae in it' (2 versions of 'Stupid Jack' for Kojak and 'Waves & Skunk' for Professor Oz). Pro-Zak Trax's studios in Bagnolet, near Paris, are bubbling with creative power.

In 2001 he releases his third EP, a very classy one, 'Jus' Play My Mind', whose B-side with its Martin Luther King speech, 'We Shall Overcome', still warms with sense the best chillouts today.

Advertising then starts to get more and more interested in his works and Grant Phabao starts to produce music for Hugo Boss, Metropolitan, Passoa... But clearly, he spends most his time producing and collaborating with other artists from the french musical landscape, who all regroup in the form of a collective of the same name as his own label: T.I.M.E.C. (for The Incredible Melting Entertainment Compagnons).

'Tub' is issued again in 2002 as a 12' of remixes by Antoine Clamaran and J. Graü. In 2003 things go the next level with the production of 3 concept-albums from T.I.M.E.C. (the collective), 'Time(c) To Relax', 'Tear The Latin Roof Off' and 'Noëlectro', but also the production of Grant Phabao's first album, 'Kulchaklash', recorded between Paris and Kingston, and featuring the legendary Studio One deejay Lone Ranger, and friends Ray I, Danny Dread & Simon diamond, all released as strictly limited editions (500 hand-numbered CDs).

Autumn 2005 marks the beginning of a collaboration with Loik Dury (former Radio Nova honcho), Djouls (collegue in T.I.M.E.C.) and Fourmy (Kraked's famous illustrator), producing thematic mixes for the cult Paris DJs Podcast, where he especially manages the mastering of all audio content from original audio sources before their encoding into MP3s.

In 2006 he releases on the T.I.M.E.C. label a new reggae single, a cover of the classic '(A Message To You) Rudie' with The Lone Ranger and his rub-a-dub partner Carlton Livingston, and it's an instant hit! Only released on a strictly limited edition 12 inch (500 copies), in extended and dub versions... of course this sold out in a few weeks (with heavy support from Fat City Records). An upcoming single is schedule to follow on this first reggae 12 inch, with The Lone Ranger and Echo Minott on vocal duties.

2006 also sees Grant Phabao getting a lot of remixing jobs, with skanking reworks for George Clinton, Jon Kennedy, Chronic Sonata (Bastard Jazz Records), and bootlegy productions with Alice Russell and Ty vocal parts...

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