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I know for most of you the “Vice Kills Jamaica”-series won´t be any news, but as Linus from Bonn (GER) reminded us that we never featured it on this blog - I thought pooling all the episodes wouldn´t hurt (some of them are pretty lame though).
Jan Tißler, blogger and publisher of Upload magazine (German PDF-mag on Digital Publishing), recently asked the bloggers among his readers to write a post about three of their favourite blogs who they think have less readers than they deserve.
I don´t want to miss that chance to promote my favourite slept-ons, so here we go.
Number 1 is www.zokko.de (GER) - without a doubt Germany´s funniest blog. Since 1999, the Zokko-team (consisting of a bunch of creative souls from the heart of Bavaria: Munich) has constantly published texts, poems, songs, graphics, flash-games, picture-stories, wallpapers, stickers and videos that make you laugh your ass off. Their latest gimmicks are those thanksforaddingmeatmyspace-lookalike card-graphics and cut-out Helloween-masks which were seen on Helloween-parties from Passau to Prague. But despite some random mini-triumphs, their blog never really reached beyond the borders of Southern Germany. A shame. This is Studio Braun 2.0.
Number 2 is Ross Sheil´s blog on Jamaica (E). Straight from Kingston, Sheil (an English journalist who writes for the Jamaican Observer newspaper and has been working for the Jamaican Gleaner and First Magazine before) gives an interesting insight into his daily work as well as the politics and the social circumstances of the country he lives and works in - a country which is too often reduced to blunted tourist clichees.
And number 3 is Frank Gruber´s Voidboys (GER)-blog. Nice layout. Nice topics. But unfortunately - besides the opening of the Voidshop which carries those fantastic “Don´t Mess With Bayern”-shirts - it has been too quiet in the blog for quite a while now. I hope this blog won´t die but rather be back with a vengeance in 2008.
Dave Stelfox, the Heatwave and John Eden (yep, the one from Woofah mag) round up what´s happened for Reggae and Dancehall in 2007. Even though there´s one month to go (and one month for Dancehall is a long time) in 07 and I don´t agree with every single one of the tunes in their hitlists, this article is definitely worth a read:
As we round up 2007, one certainty is times are changing for reggae and dancehall. Vinyl production in Jamaica is at a virtual standstill, the apparently unstoppable flow of riddim albums on international labels such as VP and Greensleeves has now come to an end, Jah Cure can no longer make records about being in jail, and some of the best roots music of the year has been made by white people. (more after the jump)
When it comes to Dancehall from the UK, the Suncycle collective has been a source for high-quality output for quite a few years now. One female member of the supergroup, Baby Chann, has now changed her name to Lady Chann and amazes us with a bunch of pretty wicked new tunes. Check her Myspace and the video above (via The Heatwave).
I know I´m a little late for this one - but I just moved and had no internet access for the last few days… (via BBC1xtra, Hearing Test).
The blog of Complex magazine drops a few lines on Afflicted´s show in Bern and made P. D. Rickards do a nice little rundown of some street reggae artists he shot.
