seen.´s non-hippie reggae and dancehall blog

© Last Night´s Party

Just a few links to check while lying around lazy in your beds before getting ready for the cup final (in case you´re German).

Egyptian Lover
Lodown Magazine gets down with the legend. Saw his show myself yesterday (thanks General Go!). Some oldschool for your a**es!

Mad Decent
Finally, South Rakka´s “Mad Again RMX EP” is available in selected real and virtual music stores.

King Jammy´s (via Rockers NYC)
SlamXHype praises the interweb for being a neverending archive for rare Jamaican video footage and pulls out some Jammy flicks.

UK World Cup Clash (via Uncarved)
BBC 1xtra presents the highlights of the soundwar between Sentinel, Matterhorn, Bass Odissey, Mighty Crown, Killamanjaro, Black Kat and Father Rodigan.

Upliftment International “Spr1ng Dropz” mix
Some nice modern roots juggling by the Germaican soldier Mighty Flo. Get it here.

It´s wicked to see that a very good friend of the seen.-camp - Natalie Storm - is finally starting to get the international attention she deserves.
In the latest “Ghetto Palms” column of The Fader she is mentioned among some other female talents:

The next new gal on the scene is Natalie Storm outta the Passa Passa crew. If you don’t know about Passa Passa, please proceed immediately to Youtube and get used to “Da One Deh”. Storm’s Myspace page describes her music as “Reggae/Electro/Club”, which makes me love her even more. “Anuh My Fault” picks up the banner that Lady Saw has been waving damn near solo for well over 10 years… It’s basically about how it’s not her fault if she can f*** your man better than you can, and how in fact, you should thank her for teaching him a few new tricks “like a dog.”

Go Nats! For more of her tunes check Everest Soundsystem´s myspace and run the Storm specials in the player.

(via DHM & Ayranmaiden)

Everybody following this blog or visiting the seen.-site regularly knows that we rate Max Glazer´s and Kenny Meeze´s “Federation Invasion” podcast to the fullest.
For me, it even replaced the BBC1xtra DJs as my premier sources for fresh reggae- and dancehallmusic.

In order to celebrate the 1st birth- aka earthday of their show, the Federation Soundmen spin tunes for 3 - meaning t-h-r-e-e - full hours. Download Federation Invasion #52 here. (via The Fader)

After Dancehall-Mobi published the Top 10 Reggae Album of the iTunes Store Canada yesterday, I felt like looking up the international hitlists.
Quite some Bob in there.