INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD

Dubroom Online, Edition August 18 2009

"INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, August 18 2009 - Jah Willing, the next months will be extremely interesting for those visitors and readers of the Dubroom who like their free and legal MP3 collection grow in quality and quantity.

We just had the brand new EZ Track portal, and now the Dubroom has acquired access to a truly giant collection of crucial music. There's a whole article concerning it in today's edition of Dubroom Online.

Basically, a number of labels would love to introduce their releases to you in a more than friendly way: they offer free MP3's with no strings attached, no registration required, nothing of that.

So keep checking back at the Dubroom every day, or even better: subscribe to Dubroom Online and check out our daily MP3 review for several months to come!

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

HERE ARE... THE DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEWS (DUBROOM NEWS AND VIEWS)

WWW, August 2009 - In the middle of August (2009), the Dubroom acquired access to a very large collection of free and legal MP3 files. Hundreds of very interesting musical works, in just about every thinkable Reggae style you can think of.

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SUGAR MINOTT - DREADER THAN DREAD (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, August 18 2009 - Taken from Sugar Minott's more-than-excellent first self-produced album, this one gives prophecy and pure Roots in the same time.

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DON CARLOS (DUBROOM ARTIST PAGE)

WWW, June 2009 - Don Carlos a.k.a. Don McCarlos (born Ervin Spencer, 29 June 1952) is a Jamaican reggae singer and composer. He was born and raised in Western Kingston, Jamaica in a very deprived district known as Waterhouse out of which came many talented reggae musicians. One such artist was King Tubby, one of the founders of Black Uhuru, The Jays, Junior Reid and King Jammy.

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THE GREAT MP3 UPDATE (DUBROOM IN-SITE 19)

WWW, August 2009 - This month marks the start of what is not only a very interesting period when it comes to downloading free and legal High Quality MP3 files, it also marks the end of a feature in the Dubroom MP3 Portal that was there for many years: the Emusic Portal. Read all about a very exciting time ahead!

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ABYSSINIANS - BLOWING IN THE WIND (DUBROOM EZ TRACK PORTAL)

WWW, August/September 2009 - From August 16 to September 30, the Dubroom presents a new track available for free download at EZTRACKS.com. Just click to listen and check it out!

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HERE ARE... THE DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEWS!

HERE ARE... THE DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEWS!
NEW SECTION IN DUBROOM MP3 PORTAL

WWW, August 2009 - In the middle of August (2009), the Dubroom acquired access to a very large collection of free and legal MP3 files. Hundreds of very interesting musical works, in just about every thinkable Reggae style you can think of.

The music is offered by the labels themselves, in what can only be described as an extremely customer-friendly way of promoting their releases. The Dubroom, namely, has the official permission to present a free MP3 (direct) download link with every review!

The collection is so huge, that it required a special section in the allready huge Dubroom MP3 Portal. This section is not just integrated with the MP3 Portal, but also with our online magazine Dubroom Online where as of August 17, 2009, the tracks are presented on a daily basis.

Each track has a download page, where you can also choose to listen to the album where the track has been taken off, or buy the mp3 files at places like Amazon and ITunes. These download pages contain links to other tunes you can download, or to the Dubroom Artist Pages of these artists (when available). There are also ratings and style classifications.

This is a time wherein major labels scream bloody murder and don't even pause before sending in the SWAT teams to raid people who download music via P2P Networks or Bittorent sites. The labels whose music is reviewed in the Dubroom Online MP3 Reviews, on the other hand, have taken an enormous step in the positive direction by offering so much music for free.

The Dubroom therefore would like to (more than) encourage you to not just download the free music, but also to consider to buying other tunes. Links to do so, as said, are provided at every download page.

In name of all the labels and artists, the Dubroom wishes you a lot of download and listening pleasure in another addition to the already gigantic Dubroom MP3 Portal at mp3.dubroom.org.

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

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SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 17-31 2009:

Aug 17: Enos Mc Leod - Blood And Fire
Aug 18: Sugar Minott - Dreader Than Dread
Aug 19: Jah Stitch - Mash Mouth
Aug 20: Clint Eastwood - Whip Them Jah
Aug 21: Mikey Dread - Proper Education (Ext.)
Aug 22: Vibronics - Red, Gold and Green
Aug 23: No More Babylon - Youthman (Ext.)
Aug 24: Johnny Osbourne - Night Fall (Ext.)
Aug 25: Centry - Bible Dub
Aug 26: Zyon High - Vampire
Aug 27: Aswad vs the Rhythm Riders - This Sound
Aug 28: Michael Palmer - Run, Run
Aug 29: Tenor Saw - Golden Hen
Aug 30: Twilight Circus - #1
Aug 31: Augustus Pablo - Thriller

THE GREAT MP3 UPDATE

THE GREAT MP3 UPDATE
DUBROOM IN-SITE 19

WWW, August 2009 - This month marks the start of what is not only a very interesting period when it comes to downloading free and legal High Quality MP3 files, it also marks the end of a feature in the Dubroom MP3 Portal that was there for many years: the Emusic Portal. Read all about a very exciting time ahead!

Bad news for those that used the Dubroom's E-Music Portal: it's gone. Because there are still links to the portal on hundreds of pages, only the front page remains, explaining the reason why it's gone.

First of all, when they started their affiliate program, E-music offered nice things to the people. This became less and less, and in the meantime they changed providers several times, so that every link of the more than 360 albums and the rest had to be changed. Since the Dubroom is a manual site, not an automated one, this is a lot of work.

They didn't inform their affiliates about their last move, about a year or so ago. Everyone had to re-apply to become affiliate and the offers they had were so low, that it was really not worth the trouble to maintain the portal. Even though the links still worked, nothing came out of it no more and it was only a matter of time before they would all go dead.

Too bad, as it was a pleasure to set up and maintain the portal for all these years.

Anyway, one door closed but two doors opened: the EZ TRACKS Portal and our brand new series of Dubroom Online MP3 Reviews.

EZTRACKS.com is a website which offers their visitors 1000 free downloads. The registration and download process is a bit complicated and even irritating at times, but there are about 72 crucial Reggae tunes to be discovered so you might like to check it out as we've made it possible to listen to each and every one of these tracks before jumping into the registration and download process.

The Dubroom Online MP3 Reviews is a brand new series, wherein a review of a free and legal MP3 file is offered on a daily basis for several months to come. We're talking about artists like Mikey Dread, Jah Stitch, Sugar Minott, Luciano, and quite a whole flood more. We're talking 100's of tracks, which can be downloaded straight from download pages right here on the Dubroom. Everything free and legal, with compliments and respect from the various labels that want to introduce their releases to you in a more than friendly and positive way.

In the same time, we've made a start in creating Dubroom Artist Pages, from where everyone can easily find just what the Dubroom has on the artist of your choice. These pages are integrated with the other section of the Dubroom Reviews, like the Video and MP3 reviews. We've also added extra features to the Dubroom Artist Pages such as Wikipedia entries. All in all, these pages -when they're finished, which will not likely to be in this year- will hopefully a welcome addition to the Dubroom.

This-and-that means, that in the coming months, together with all the nice additions, the especially the Dubroom MP3 Portal is going to look quite different when it comes to content. Pages with dead links will either be updated or removed, many more pages will come with some really interesting material!

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