MYSTERY BABYLON (187)

Dubroom Online - November 27, 2008


"MYSTERY BABYLON (187)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, November 27 2008 - "You sleep with dogs, you rise with flees". First time I heard that saying, was in an Israel Vibration tune.

Well, I surely rose up with flees after finding myself in the spiritual brothel called the "Christian Reggae Scene".

I discovered it was filled with people who had their heart and soul set against Rastafari and the Truth. People who were involved in setting up something we now know as the "Gospel Reggae Industry", which in it's turn is part of a larger complex I call the "Christian industrial Complex".

For years, I privately contacted key-figures in the assumption that they did not know what they were doing. I provided them with information which showed how their ideas about Rastafari were not at all in accordance with reality.

With the Truth.

More Tomorrow...

One Love, Give Thanks,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)




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TUF TUF TUF (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)



WWW, November 2008 - Dennis Brown's rendering of Marley's "Want More" opens up a mix that more than deserves the name given by the Selector.

Roots and Culture, Tuffer than Tuff!

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THE SPECIALS AND MADNESS LIVE (DUBROOM VIDEO REVIEW)



WWW, November 2008 - In the 1960's, you had skinheads who liked Ska music and were usually seen as rude boys.
No, this is no typo and this is not about neo-nazi's either.

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TUF TUF TUF

TUF TUF TUF
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW



WWW, November 2008 - Dennis Brown's rendering of Marley's "Want More" opens up a mix that more than deserves the name given by the Selector. Roots and Culture, Tuffer than Tuff!

Before the Zagreb based Radikal Dub Kolektiv ends this 47 minute Podcast, we've been treated to some of very hard Dubs and Vocals. Tuf, Tuf, Tuf is indeed the word to use no less than three times you'll need to describe what you've just bee going through.

You will rise up, full of energy to Chant Down Babylon one more time, definitely wanting more as Dennis Brown asks us right at the start.

It's the thing, you know. It's the one thing you want, once you've been taken by the deep, conscious sounds we loosely call UK DUB and Roots.

You want more.

You want it Tuf, Tuf and Tuf.


PLAYLIST

01. Dennis Brown - Want More
02. I-Plant - I Am Blowing a Dub
03. Improvisators Dub - Serious Time
04. I-Plant ft Ganja Tree - Hard Road To Travel
05. Eastman Sounds - Help The youth
06. Eastman Sounds - Jah Jah Way
07. Eastman Sounds - Bot Speaking Dub
08. The Bush Chemist - Speaker Rocker
09. The Disciples - Imperial Stepper
10. Abassi All Star - Roading Of Correction
11. Kanka ft Mc Oliva - No Stress (part 1)
12. Manutension - Tribute to King Tubby
13. Radikal Dub Kolektiv - Loonich

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WWW, November 2008 - In the 1960's, you had skinheads who liked Ska music and were usually seen as rude boys.

No, this is no typo and this is not about neo-nazi's either.

In the end of the 1970's, the UK witnessed the birth of the "Two Tone" movement. It was a Movement with a philosophy and with a music, too.

The name of the music was a bit deceptive, though. It was basically a Reggae rhythm with the drums playing on the 2 and the 4 with the skanks between the counts, where the bass continued to play a reggae-ish line.

It sounded like Reggae, but it was not Reggae.

However, ten years before that, Jamaica also had a music called Ska.

And this is not the only comparance...

Two-Tone was also an answer to the rising army of neo-nazi's who called themselves skinhead. We can see them in the streets today, even, too. However, what most neo nazi skinheads do not know, is that just like Ska, also the skinheads were originally found in Jamaica.

Two-tone had the mission to tell the skinheads about their Toots, and they did so with a lot of music. Here are two of these bands.


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