Dublab

{{Short description|Non-profit internet radio station}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox broadcasting network

| network_name = dublab

| network_logo = Dublab-Logo

| network_type = Public radio network

| country = United States

| available = Global

| founded = 1999

| key_people = Mark McNeill
Alejandro Cohen, Matthew McQueen, Jake Viator & Diego Herrera

| owner = Future Roots, Inc.

| website = [https://www.dublab.com dublab.com]

}}

dublab is a non-profit music public broadcasting internet radio station based in Los Angeles. They have also been involved with art exhibitions, film projects, event production, and record releases. These shows are archived and downloadable on the dublab website. dublab also broadcasts on KLDB-LP on 99.1 FM in Los Angeles. dublab was founded in 1999 by Jonathan Buck, Mark McNeill and fellow students from KSCR Radio at the University of Southern California.

Their name is a portmanteau of dubbing and laboratory for the combined meaning: a place of experimenting with sampling music. Examples of this, besides their stream, is their film production Secondhand Sureshots{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735893/|title=Secondhand Sureshots|access-date=Oct 1, 2019|via=www.imdb.com}} where they gave producers, such as Daedelus, five dollars to buy albums from thrift stores and sample the music to create new tracks.{{cite web|url=https://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/11/secondhand-sureshots|title=Dublab's Secondhand Sureshots: DVD, 12-inch, Slipmats & Hand-screened sleeves | Stones Throw Records|website=www.stonesthrow.com|access-date=Oct 1, 2019}} Another in audio/visual form is Into Infinity a collaboration with Creative Commons.{{cite web |url=https://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/8987 |title=Dublab & Creative Commons Launch "Into Infinity" - Creative Commons |access-date=2008-11-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212034849/http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/8987 |archive-date=2008-12-12 }} It is a group art exhibition of around a hundred vinyl record sized circular artworks and more than a hundred eight-second audio loops. The works are randomly dubbed together and is all made freely available for others to remix and sample, even on the project's website.

In January 2008, dublab formed a non-profit umbrella corporation Future Roots, Inc.{{cite web|url=https://xlr8r.com/news/dublab-turns-8-goes-non-profit/|title=Dublab Turns 8, Goes Non-Profit|first=Fred|last=Miketa|date=Nov 6, 2007|website=XLR8R|access-date=Oct 1, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dublab.com/?id=997|title=dublab|website=www.dublab.com|access-date=Oct 1, 2019}} The name comes from their characteristic style of mixing traditional music, such as folk, with electronic sounds. It also refers to the paradox that often music that is actually really old can sound very much like it was made in the present. In that theme, dublab will often only be written as either all lowercase or all uppercase by those familiar with the collective. There are other such characteristic writing styles such as a heavy use of alliteration.

Much of dublab's funding comes directly via listener support,{{cite web |url=http://www.scpr.org/blogs/offramp/2011/05/23/turning-tomorrow-dublabs-proton-drive-fundraiser/ |title=Turning on Tomorrow: Dublab's Proton Drive Fundraiser | 89.3 KPCC |website=www.scpr.org |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120418225408/http://www.scpr.org/blogs/offramp/2011/05/23/turning-tomorrow-dublabs-proton-drive-fundraiser/ |archive-date=18 April 2012 |url-status=dead}} with other funds generated through grants, Underwriting spots and event production. Their sound system and DJs have been featured at; MOCA, LACMA, Art Center College of Design, Barnsdall Art Park, CalArts, Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits, The Getty Center,{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/performances/framing_la.html|title=Framing L.A.|website=www.getty.edu|access-date=Oct 1, 2019}} Disney Hall,{{Cite web |url=http://www.laphil.com/tickets/orbsold-out/2006-03-18 |title=The OrbSOLD OUT | LA Phil |access-date=2014-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202223826/http://www.laphil.com/tickets/orbsold-out/2006-03-18 |archive-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead }} UCLA, Hammer Museum, Hollywood Bowl, and El Rey Theatre.

They also have extended to releasing records such as; In The Loop series, Summer, Freeways, Echo Expansion and Light from Los Angeles. They record many Sprout Sessions at their studio in Los Angeles, which are released via their [https://liveatdublabradio.simplecast.com/ Live at dublab] Podcast. These have made their way to record releases such as the Feathers Sprout Session. In August 2008 they released their performance video project called Vision Version,{{Cite web |url=http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2008/10/14/dublabs-vision-version-series-typically-inspired-offerings |title=Dublab's Vision Version Series: Typically Inspired Offerings | West Coast Sound | Los Angeles | Los Angeles News and Events | LA Weekly |access-date=2014-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202112106/http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2008/10/14/dublabs-vision-version-series-typically-inspired-offerings |archive-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead }} which is available as an RSS feed.{{cite web|url=http://futureroots.org/core-programs/|title=Core Values | Future Roots|access-date=Oct 1, 2019}} They also have music-themed group art shows such as Into Infinity, Dream Scene, Up Our Sleeve, and Patchwork.