Zabilježili smo prvo gostovanje Dreadzonea u Hrvatskoj 2008. godine i tom prilikom smo napravili intervju s Gregom i Earl 16-om na legendarnom Radiju 101.

CroReggae: Hello! Introduce youselves for the readers, please
Greg: Yes, hello! I am Greg Dread from Dreadzone, live and direct in Zagreb just arriwed for VIP festival tommorow to play Dreadzone live.
Earl 16: Hi! This is Earl 16, nice to be here in Croatia one more time and this is Dreadzone, we are coming in live to VIP festival and it's going to be massive!

CroReggae: Alright! How and when Dreadzone start with activities?
Greg: It was long time ago, fifteen years ago. It started in 1992. when we relased the first demo, and in 1993. we released the first album for Creation. Then we sign for Virgin Records and then we met Earl. He started with us on 'Second Light' album. We made couple albums for Virgin and we just keep going ever since.
Earl: I started with guys, with Dreadzone in 1995., I think. Yes, the first album I featured is 'Second Light' and I am working with them and some other people, but, yes, Dreadzone massive!!
Greg: He is very modest man (laugh!!)! He (Earl) is one of top singers in country (op.a. Great Britain), we loved to work with him. We are working together so long and it is nice to do it, especially when we come out in festivals. We are enjoying, we bring sunny vibes, happines, jump up on party music.

CroReggae: How come that you decided to mix electronic and reggae music?
Greg: Because we like different kinds of music. We are not mix just electronic and reggae, we mix rock and roll too. But I like reggae, I like soft music, but I felt that electronic music is in early nineties doing something good in British music in generating ideas. I like electronic music, I like all kind of music, but electronic music is quite cinematic as well, you are playing with sound. When you write a track, you are naturally mix the bass, drums in certain ways. Dub sound is really melodic.
Earl 16: Yeah, it got that kind of root notes. I love the notes in reggae music. I worked with people like Leftfield, some of the first people who started intubated reggae with techno and stuff like that. It's has been great transition, more or less, in UK idea, in the moment, like now dupstep wich is been popular few years now. Not so much dubstep, even drum and bass. I been traveling in America, Australia, all over the world, everywhere is underground, not just in UK. I think that is good, good combination...

CroReggae: Who has the most influence on your music?
Greg: It is hard to say this... I like different styles and I can't tell that we try to make anything that someone have an influence. I like sampling, if you listen music and it puts you in mood , it makes you quite emotional. I really like that- when you do something and mixed and use that as starting point. That how 'Little Britain' started ( imitira ritam početka pjesme). First thing is that you find that piece. The bassline is come out first more than anything else. I imagine rhythm in my head and then bassline is smash beetwen whats going on. The most people who like reggae, think, hm...'Ot, that's nice!!'- bassline is groove. Mixing that it can be adventures!!
Earl 16: I am interesting a lots of things like ska music, wich is like a jazz flow. Jamaican ska music we called Jamaican version of jazz. Ska is, for me, one of points in Jamaica and UK, it is intubating a lot of different nations, colors or whatever. Bob Marley songs is  like connection in different part of world; lots of ska gropus are specialist for stuffs like that. I am getting lots of vibes from that, to me is not just in my music, it is in everyonce. It is good to able to get across that, even in way like Dreadzone did, pu different stuff together.

CroReggae: Are you feeling any difference when you are playing with band and just like soundsystem?
Greg: Yeah, it's completely different, but we enjoy in both but on different levels. I like being a DJ, playing sets, I really get into it!!And it works very well, it is easier to travel like soundsystem. If you wanna see the band, everybody must go! We can go to L.A. from UK on weekend like soundsystem, we are trying to keep organize, it's more realxed. But I love vibes in the show! Really, honestly, people prefer live, most people would say that. But some people love dance in clubs.

CroReggae: Yes, I watch you like soundsystem here in Zagreb...
Greg: O, yeah??! Did you enjoyed?
CroReggae: Yes, of course!! (laugh!!)
Earl: It almost same as live, as way we does it. We play lots of songs that we play in live anyway, but in mixes and remixes of different people. But soundsystem is more intimate, small, it's nice , you are very close to people, it's very nice in the clubs. In a stage, we are miles away from the crowd, but it works on both ways. I really prefer soundsystem.

CroReggae to Greg: And you?
Greg: In thing being a DJ, I am always trying to share with people. Thing is, in live you effect everybody, everybody is in the crowd together jumping! As a DJ you may losing crowd, someone is our music too much techno, so you lose people of the dancefloor. The live thing, they are there, you can see responce, they get really hyped. I all the time watch the crowd, not like some DJ's, I like when lady dancing!! (laugh!)

CroReggae: When we can expect a new album and do you have some plans to collaborate with somebody else?
Greg & Earl 16: Next year!
Greg: We are hoping that will be next year, we are working on album at the moment. We want to come out with new single too keep that energy that we got on last live album.
Earl: We are mixing some other people and so...
Greg: We have couple remixes, once you get dancehall thing rolling , you get new album out, people like it, then you get remix album and you get particular sound.