seen.´s non-hippie reggae and dancehall blog

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Here´s some stuff to entertain and educate you while waiting for the new seen.-shirts to come online.

Dutty Artz
UK hiphop 1998 to present. A 31 minute mix.

DJ C
“On the Night Bass” Mix

Demarco “Police”
Another Fader freeload.

Unlabeled: The Anonymous as Exotic in Presenting Proibidao.
“Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de Janeiro” as subject of Gregzinho´s talk at the BRASA conference in New Orleans.

The House the Kids Built
The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music.

These two new seen.-shirts (”Loyalty over Royalty” and “Bounty Killer” - the next Afflicted Yard combination tee) will be available from Monday, April 28th. More pictures and information to follow on the weekend.

You know which side seen. is on, right (if not: the upcoming shirt release will tell)? However, I just felt bored for a second and let Google Trends tell me about the (online) popularity of the two ever-feuding Jamaican deejays.

Byte FM is the station. WobWob! is the show. Finest Dubstep is the music. Nothing more to say. Tune. In. Now (= 22nd of April, 11:50 pm).

Edit: Actually it´s not dubstep but some bloody nice roots reggae which is playing now. That might change later on though.

After bringing you the international iTunes Reggae top 10 albums a few days ago, I´d like to present you some more stats. This time from the BBC´s brand new “Sound Index“. The Sound Index is something like the Billboard charts 2.0 - a

massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.

It works like this:

Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public. (BBC)

I checked what this index looks like for Reggae (artists and tracks) in the US and the UK for a male/female demographic in the age of 5 to 35. See the results:

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Muxtape is a nice little service that allows you to upload tunes and easily share them with the world. I created an account for seen. last night and upped the first batch of tunes. It´s here (http://seen.muxtape.com for your bookmarks). In case you´d like to see some of your songs, productions or remixes in that list, hit me at contact at seen-site dot com.