seen.´s non-hippie reggae and dancehall blog

After the “Censored“-set of Danielle Lowe, Peter Dean Rickards delivers another one with the amazing model. This time, her sister is featured, too. See the Lowe Twins at The Afflicted Yard.

Hm, while our general opinion about Puma´s attempts to connect with Jamaican popular culture (for more information on how their little adventure trip back in 2004 ended up, check The Afflicted Yard, The Guardian and FIRST magazine #4 (spread 2). By the way: does anybody have that Channel 4 documentary called “Trainers, Reggae and the Olympics” by John Deol and Paul Blake? I accidentally deleted my copy…) is not a big secret, everybody can decide on his own what he/she thinks about “Riddim” magazine.
Why I´m writing about this? Well, Puma and Riddim now cooperated and put out a limited edition version of the Clyde sneaker (which it looks like Puma kinda tries to make the next Superstar) that - like every Puma “sneaker” - is perfectly described by the lyrics of German rapreggaefunk-hero Jan Delay: verse 2, line 13. Nuff said.

Even though, the big “Throw Your Zett In The Air”-contest from our friends at Zokko is over, they´re still searchin for pictures of people forming a “Z” in the most creative way in order to extend their image gallery. So don´t hesitate to send them your version to asphaltlungen@zokko.de. (I think I don´t have to mention that they prefer to receive “Z”-throwing and good looking, seen.-wearing ladies…)

About 2 months ago, I posted a link to an interesting WIRED article comparing nowadays don´t-give-a-fuck-about-copyright trend to the ever-exisiting remix-culture in Jamaican popular music.
If you liked the article, you might also be interested in this one: during a stay in Leipzig (GER), my Norwegian friend Frode from Spreadshirt told me that there´s a pretty nice movie out there, dealing with almost the same issue. It´s called “Good Copy, Bad Copy - a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture”. Best thing about it: It´s under a Creative Commons license that allows you to download the whole flic for free. Get your torrent now.

Good news: One of the finest live-mixing radio-shows in German-speaking radio, “FM4 Summerbreaks”, will go on even though the station switches back from its summer to winter schedule tomorrow.
DJs Beware and Functionist´s “new” show is called “Unltd” and will be on air Monday to Friday from 2 to 3 pm CET.
You can catch the stream at fm4.orf.at.

If you are a Reggae-/Dancehall-selecta, you might sometimes wanna do a remix on a riddim/instrumental of which you don´t actually have the clear version. Well, this tutorial I found via the MZEE blog shows how to easily remove vocals from a tune using the free software Audacity. However, this won´t work for any tune and some trial and error might be needed to get a satisfying result.