THE MAPaDUBta fam · studios, friends & rooms

aDUBta’s studio up in the attic, by the Ammersee – home base, and the knot where all the red threads start.

The riddims of the Black Oak Roots Allstars were recorded here, aDUBta’s parts of the Mamba Bite singles with Ikobox were recorded and the singles mastered here, and Roots Organisation’s dub album “A Tale of Dubbing Horns” was dubbed live and analog in this room.

Rehearsal room and studio of Los Babriks – cumbia bávara from Munich with an international line-up. Mauricio-Joran Ceseña recorded the debut album “El Vuelo del Babrik” (One World Records, 2025) here; aDUBta mixed it analog on his Tascam 388.

Johnny Ashburn – real name Jonas Aschenbrenner – is a soul producer and musician from Ingolstadt: soulful moods inspired by the sounds of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

With singer-songwriter Ol’ June (Julian Wilcoxson) from Cincinnati he is Ol’ June & The Ashburns. Their single “What’s Her Name?” / “Can’t Let Go” came out in 2026 on the UK label LRK Records: a slow-burning soul groove in 6/8 and a modern soul ballad with a timeless 70s feel.

A fresh project, an old friend: Johnny has worked a lot with Audi Bamer – his alter ego is Jone C Fyah.

Ol’ June – Julian Wilcoxson – is a soul singer, songwriter and producer from Cincinnati, Ohio. With Johnny Ashburn from Ingolstadt he is Ol’ June & The Ashburns – the two worked entirely online and had not even met in person when their debut came out: “What’s Her Name?” b/w “Can’t Let Go”, 20 March 2026 on LRK Records (Cambridge, UK), a 7" limited to 300 copies.

In December 2025 they released the holiday single “Please Come Back This Christmas” – recorded at Attic Roots Studio by aDUBta.

Ikobox’s studio near Rennes, home of K-Gibi Records. A cagibi is French for a tiny storage room – and the label is “constantly searching for the mysterious dusty sound”.

Together with aDUBta he makes the Mamba Bite singles: all recorded, mixed & produced by Ikobox at K-Gibi Rec. Studio and aDUBta at Attic Roots Studio. On “So Far, So Close” and “Windrush Riddim” aDUBta plays drums & piano and Ikobox bass, guitar & percussion.

Roots Organisation, founded in Graz in 2019: instrumental reggae & jazz, dub & ska – with a horn section of trumpet, trombone, alto and tenor sax.

Records: the EP “strictly recreational” (2021), the album “A Tale of Skanking Horns” (2022, aDUBta on percussion) and “A Tale of Dubbing Horns” (2024) – six dub versions of it, dubbed live & analog by aDUBta at Attic Roots Studio. On F-Spot Records: “Caribbean Serenade” by Roots Organisation, aDUBta & The Black Oak Roots Allstars (release date 16 October 2026).

Fainschmitz from Vienna have been making “music to dance and to cuddle” since 2016 – gypsy swing, chanson, jazz and pop, with plenty of wit. Jannis Klenke plays guitar and banjo.

Three albums so far: “Fainschmitz begins” (2018), “The Fainschmitz rises” (2021) and “Fainschmitz begins again” (2025) – the latter with Matthias Vieider (sax, clarinet, vocals), Philip Yaeger (trombone), Jannis Klenke (banjo), Martin Burk (double bass, vocals) and Michael Schatzmann (drums).

Marcus I – Marc Ibarz – is a roots reggae singer, songwriter and musician in the 70s style, originally from Cantabria in Spain and now living in the south of France. He started out on trumpet in the ska band Komando Kokilla, formed in 2002.

With aDUBta he makes Marcus I meets aDUBta: their first 7" came out on Hornin’ Sounds in 2023, the album “Fullness” on F-Spot Records on 13 March 2026 – recorded at Attic Roots Studio and mixed on a Tascam 388.

Umberto Echo – Philipp Winter – is a record producer, sound engineer and self-declared “dub activist”, in the studio since 1999 and behind the desk as a live dub engineer at well over a thousand concerts. He is part of the Oneness Records team.

Reggae label from Munich, founded in 2007 by Benjamin Zecher and Moritz “Da Baron” von Korff; Umberto Echo joined the team in 2014. The label’s 10-year compilation features Luciano, Sara Lugo & Protoje, Sizzla Kalonji and Morgan Heritage.

An independent French label for Jamaican music from Strasbourg – historic tracks and rarities. In 2023 Marcus I and aDUBta made their first record together here: the 7" “Heavy Manners”.

A record label from the Dutch–German border area for reggae, rocksteady and roots music. It started as an Oi! and punk label before turning to early reggae, roots reggae and soul.

Longfingah is called “one of Germany’s premier reggae MCs” – he has worked with Mungos Hi Fi, Dubmatix and Zion Train’s Neil Perch, played festivals such as Rototom Sunsplash, Summerjam and Boomtown, and toured Mexico, India and Japan. His album “Urban Mystic” came out on GuerillJah Productions in 2017.

Martin Zobel is a German reggae singer and the frontman of Soulrise. His album “Land of the Free” (2012, Irie Vibrations) was produced by Fully Fullwood, who also played bass on it – in Fully’s Kitchen in California.

In 2017 he founded Analog Vibes in Tübingen: kits for building your own copies of classic analog studio gear – compressors and equalisers in the style of the great studio classics.

An independent boutique vinyl label from Los Angeles for new records influenced by soul music from around the world, mainly from the golden years of the 60s and 70s. F-Spot released the album “Fullness” by Marcus I meets aDUBta on 13 March 2026.

George “Fully” Fullwood from Kingston is the founder and bassist of the Soul Syndicate – first called the Rhythm Raiders, from Greenwich Farm in Kingston, and one of the top Jamaican session bands from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, with Earl “Chinna” Smith, Carlton “Santa” Davis, Tony Chin and Bernard “Touter” Harvey, later Keith Sterling on keys. They recorded for Keith Hudson, Winston “Niney” Holness (as The Observers) and Duke Reid; the same core players also cut as The Aggrovators for Bunny Lee. They backed Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs, and the original versions of the Wailers’ “Small Axe” and “Mr. Brown” are credited to them.

Fully also played in Peter Tosh’s band Word, Sound and Power. His own albums: “For All Time” (2006), “Fully Loaded” (2011), “Crazy Town” (2013) and “Breathe Deep” (2016) – made in his studio “Fully’s Kitchen” in Southern California.