Memories of the Dubworld

MEMORIES OF THE DUBWORLD

With his CD "Memories of the Dubworld" Jokke Ilsøe reveals a landscape with a diversity of grooves. A bass player’s vision of electronic music.



 

With "Memories of the Dubworld", a nine-track CD, Jokke Ilsøe takes a trip from downtempo misty dubgrooves over techy floorbeats to minimal house. After successful releases through labels such as Nanobeat, Vapour, Sprout, Renaissance and several other ones, Jokke sets a milestone with his first full CD album.

Ilsøe started as an electric bassplayer in 1979, working and performing with various bands like The Overlords, URD, Dog Patrol, City Kids, and more. In 1998 he was a member of the Trigbag DJ pack with Trentemøller and T.O.M von Rosen. Jokke has been DJing for some 25 years and producing for over 10 years. More recently he was featured playing bass on Trentemøllers famous remix of Röyksopp’s 'What else is there?’ and remixed Trentemøllers banger ‘African People’ on Namnam Records. Jokke Ilsøe is also running the Brazilian label Tropical Beats as well as the Danish label Namnam Records.

Through 2007, working from both of his hometowns Hovedstaden (Denmark) and Sao Paulo (Brazil) and after a massive success with his 12” release ‘Feeling good’ (Namnam) Jokke Ilsøe has been performing at many clubs and festivals in Europe, Brazil and South America.

His full album ’Memories of the dubworld’ & single ’After Hells’ are out now.