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Right after having “Radiodread” on this blog, we bring you another mashup-album. Well, not really album, but a mix. A mix by DJ Perrington Levy from the Most High Sound. He blended the accapellas from Jay-Z´s movie-inspired “American Gangster”-LP with more or less contemporary Jamaican reggae- & dancehall riddims and put it in the mix with some regular tunes on the various selections.
Get it via Discobelle before the ZShare-link is dead..
Ok, this one is really old (2006). But hey, I discovered it just two days ago: “Radiodread” (via Stylespion). A one-drop version of Radiohead´s (ye, the group that offered music in the “pay what you want“-way just recently) legendary “OK Computer” album.
It was recorded by the “Easy Star All*Stars” who did something similar a while ago, when they recorded a dub version of Pink Floyd´s “Dark Side of the Moon”. But while the “Dub Side of the Moon” was kind of too slow and too dark from my perspective, I really like what they come up with on “Radiodread”. Esp. “Karma Police” and “Let Down”, two Radiohead-classics, really work with a Reggae flavour. What Toots & The Maytals did to the second could almost be described with “magic”. Pure niceness. The perfect christmas present for your Indie-Pop/-Rock-girlfriend…
A little Sunday entertainment. I love that spot (and the beer).
(via Jamaica Observations)
One of the two serious daily newspapers of Jamaica, The Observer, launched a new weblog named “Obervations“. Observer journalist Ross Sheil, former Gleaner editor and contributor to e. g. FIRST and Riddim magazine, describes the blog in the following way:
Observations highlights new ideas, innovations, inspirations, issues and people impacting development in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
There is much happening in the region that is worthwhile yet often goes uncovered, which is where we are trying to make a difference.
Already we have touched on a range of subjects and stories: micro-finance initiatives in our deprived inner city communities; entertainment; converting shipping containers into homes and a Jamaican scientist who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
It is early days still, but we are already starting to feature multimedia and as we progress, an increasing range of contributors.
The most recent story featured on the blog (which will also be published in tomorrow´s Sunday newspaper´s finance section and the main website), is an article on “Passa Passa”- Tivoli Gardens´ weekly hardcore Dancehall session that has managed to become a “downtown tourism brand” (no worries: that doesn´t mean Spanish Town Rd. is crowded by fat white “ladies” getting their hair braid each Wednesday night) over the years.
Our friend Ross interviewed another friend and business partner of seen., Dylan Powe, for the story and used two of the pictures seen.´s creative director Gabriel Holzner took in Tivoli while our stay in Kingston. See it after the jump.
What´s up people - All good? You probably thought we were on vacations as this blog was kind of dead for about one week. Wrong. We worked harder than ever. Not only to release the probably best seen.-shirt ever: “One” (heavy heavy double-layered two-color print on the front), but also to implement a brandnew Wordpress (that´s that genius software, I´m also writing this blogpost with)-based e-commerce module.
That means we can e. g. finally offer an in-site shopping cart and products/sizes that run out of stock will automatically taken out of the shop. However, as this module hasn´t been used by us before, there might be some bugs showing up in the beginning. Please let us know if you find one.
So yes, get the new shirt (if you order until the 19th of December, you´ll definitely have the shirt in your mailbox for Christmas) and stay tuned. The blog will be back with a vengeance - I got, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 things already bookmarked and will write them up in the next couple of days.
While there aren´t that many blogs out there focussing on Reggae- and Dancehallmusic, there´s a whole bunch of Message Boards dealing with the varieties of Jamaican music.
Everybody probably knows dancehallreggae.com, the epicenter of online Passa Passa. Giving an well-written overview of English-speaking forums, Dance Crasher also lists some less popular boards:
Blood And Fire
The message board survives even if the record label is currently inactive. For old music, especially 70’s Roots, Blood And Fire was always the busiest board. Nowadays there seems to be a bit of a struggle between Revival people and those who follow Jah Shacka and Steppers almost exclusively. Also for some reason the board has a tradition of wind ups by people using false names when posting, this means that it’s sometimes hard to tell if some people using the board is genuine or not.
Chatty Mouth
The original melt down board. This one has seen more blazing rows and toys chucked out of the pram than an entire lifetime of soap operas. As a result membership seems to fluctuate quite alot. It seems to be have settled down quite alot in recent weeks.
Champion Sound
Champion Sound emerged out of one of the melt downs on Chatty Mouth, though since Chatty Mouth has settled down this board has been fairly quiet. There is a loyal user base who are sticking with it though. It’s too early to say if it will prosper or fade away.
Pama Forum
As the name implies this board seems to focus mainly on the era up to the early 70’s. It’s relatively quiet but has a loyal user base that is very knowledgeable. The presence of several record sellers means that they have a slightly unhealthy obsession with ebay.
Dancehallreggae.com
The undisputed leader for modern Reggae and the busiest board on the web. There are far too many sections and some members seem to take their online badman personas far beyond what is normal and sane. That said there is a huge amount of knowledge there. The foundation board is superb for 80’s sound tape downloads.
Roots Archives Forum
This board seems to have expanded rapidly and is currently quite lively. It’s most frequent focus is 70’s Roots.
Trojan
A little quieter than it use to be and it’s future seems unsure following the purchase of the label by Universal. The main problems with this board is there are far too many sections.
SNWMF Forum
The board for the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival this has grown to be very popular, particularly with Americans. It’s not the easiest on the eye and lacks some of the features on other boards but it’s simple approach is quite refreshing. Beware, some of the conversations about who is the best Rasta, dreadlocks etc. can be a bit alarming on occasions.
Any others you know of?
