The hypnotic rhythms of psychedelic electronica collide with the surreal and twisted atmosphere of global dub in the musical creations of Mexico’s Rafael Hernandez, aka. Tor.Ma in Dub. Born from the sweaty dance floors of the psytrance movement, his sonic styling takes shape as a kaleidoscopic montage of old- and new-school sounds careening through the psychedelic expanse, each broken apart and reshuffled to create a funky, bass-driven interpretation of 21st-century dub music.
Pulling from his roots as a trance producer, Tor.Ma in Dub’s stylish compositions brandish a driving, psychedelic edge set atop an intoxicating and dance-inducing beat, militant percussion, and heavy bass. Drenched in the dark and fragmented tones of classic dub, these arrangements converge as a portrait of sound projected through a psychedelic lens and beamed into the very heart of dance floor culture. Revelrous and capable of hurdling listeners across time and space with the flip of a switch, Tor.Ma in Dub’s swashbuckling approach to production promises adventure and wildness to all who partake in his swaggering musical visions.
It is this style-bending approach to groove and bass that has landed Tor.Ma in Dub in the shapeshifting landscapes of some of the globe’s most revered psychedelic music events, including Boom Festival (Portugal), Hadra Trance Festival (France), Mo:Dem Festival (Croatia), SUN Festival (Hungary), WAO Festival (Italy), Tribal Gathering (Panama), VooV Festival (Germany), Enchanted Forest (USA) , Cosmic Convergence (Guatemala), Voltron Festival (Turkey), Vibronica Festival (Ukraine), Neo Nomads (Canada), and Mexico’s Ometeotl, Kupuri, and Promised Land festivals.
With releases on Dubmission Records, Beats and Pieces, and Iono, and with an array of collaborations and remixes with Kaya Project, Tripswitch, Pitch Black, Josie Telch, Vlastur, Whitebear, IshDub, TRON, Jumpstreet, Animalien, and Suns of Arqa, Tor.Ma in Dub has shown a striking ability to infuse sounds from across the electronic music realm with his unique, dub-centric flavoring.
Primed equally for live experiences and for the confines of one’s private quarters, Tor.Ma in Dub is an invitation to peel back the layers of separation between genres and cross over into a lawless space, where tempo and style ebb and flow without control. Come aboard, but come prepared — there is no turning back to simpler definitions of music once this hallucinatory journey begins!
