„It was Count Dubulah, Nick Plato Page aka the Dub Colossus who has taught me that VERSION is the KEY! Socially and politically, version has created the necessary cultural environment for people of all races and classes to create and add layers to the historic fabric of music and art. Through Nick I understood a song is a blank canvas open to renewal each time you want to revisit it and that it has to reflect the times we are living. When we worked together on Vraja and Tacerea, each of our songs had 4 versions and Nick encouraged me to start the platform to release them myself. I owe Count Dubulah the foundation of the now 3 year old label, Sound of Art to Come.

Me and Marius Costache of Studio148 had the privilege to remix Dub Colossus, anti-politricks anthem Madmen, the only composition in their beautiful catalog with Nick Plato Page aka Count Dubulah’s vocals. It is amazing to have it launched on Bandcamp Friday celebrating what would have been Nick’s 63 birthday. THE MAD MADMEN THE MADMEN THE MADMEN RULE MY LIFE! I loved this song from the first listen and to be able to bring it into space with Marius Costache my co-producer and collaborator is one big honor.

Dub music is an artform and if King Tubby was Pablo Picasso and Lee Scratch Perry was Salvador Dalí, then Nick Page aka Dub Colossus, was Phidias reborn as Alexander Calder. Nick would carve out dub from Ethiojazz and world/ global music sounds like no other with a special balance between modern and old school, with Joe Gibbs and Niney the Observer as inspirations.” Obeah

Count Dubulah aka Nick Page was a composer, guitarist, bass player, producer and programmer who worked with a long list of notable artists and eccentrics. In 1990 he formed Transglobal Underground with Tim Whelan and Hamilton Lee aka Hammid Man-Tu, with whom he produced-wrote-played six albums before leaving in 1997 to form Temple of Sound with Neil Sparkes. Once Temple of Sound had run its course, Nick then decided to concentrate on his favorite alter ego, Dub Colossus. Dubulah first travelled to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa in 2006 to collaborate with musicians and explore traditional Azmari styles, 60s Ethiopian pop, Ethiojazz and 70s Jamaican dub reggae. Once there, he came across some amazingly talented artists such as Sintayehu Zenebe, Tsedenia Gebremarkos, Samuel Yirga, Feleke Hailu and coming back to the UK added other artists to the project: Bernard O’Neill, Paul Chivers, Dr. Das, Nick Van Gelder and Toby Mills.

Dub Colossus may have started out as a studio-based project, but they proved to be a rousing live band, known to transport audiences to the pounding dancehalls of Addis Ababa with their intriguing and exuberant mix of traditional Ethiopian sounds, sturdy reggae rhythms and a modern dub twist.

From 2008 to 2011 Dubulah released the albums "A Town Called Addis", "Addis Through The Looking Glass" and "Dub Me Tender" on Real World Records. "Addis to Omega" followed and his last long play “Dr. Strangedub (Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Dub The Bomb)” was a successful crowdfunded album very well received by critics and fans.

Dubulah has also remixed many artists including Toots & The Maytals, Tom Tom Club, Natacha Atlas, Transglobal Underground + Fanfara Tirana, Eccodek, Brina, Solus 3 and Lunar Drive.