Dubroom Online: Your Daily Dose of (DUB) Reggae and Consciousness (Dubroom In-Site 7)

DUBROOM ONLINE: A DAILY DOSE OF (DUB) REGGAE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
DUBROOM IN-SITE #7



WWW, September 2007 - Gradually, the Dubroom is moving into a next format that will build further on the foundation laid 10 years ago. While nothing is removed, a lot will be added and interaction is only a small part of it.

The Dubroom independently promotes (DUB) Reggae and Consciousness online since 1997. We do so by Reviewing, Releasing and Researching.

Thousands of people visit the site every day to satisfy their hunger for Word, Sound and Power and because everything has it's own category, it's easy to stay away from material that might not have your interest.

Almost every day, new reviews are written and added to the site. Research material and original articles about conscious topics are published on a regular basis as well.

Most of the new additions to the site are mentioned on the Dubroom Front Page, together with a short column by the Dubroom Webmaster. That column can be just about everything: from comments on the new contents of the day to a meditation or just a little word.

The new contents can range from Reviews, Releases and Research material. Every day we have at least one review of a musical work, and more often than not the music can be enjoyed free of charge.

The columns and new items come under the title "Dubroom Online".

You can compare Dubroom Online with a magazine or a daily newspaper, but it's not really the same. This is because we deal with (DUB) Reggae and Consciousness rather than with the latest gossip and propaganda. The format, however, is designed to help you find what you want fast without being bothered by those topics you are not interested in.

You can find a new edition (almost) every day, and not just on the Dubroom Frontpage. There's a couple of messageboards and weblogs where you can find it too, but dubroom.blogspot.com is by far the most interesting place to visit as you can find the columns and the full Reviews and Articles on one page every day.

You can subscribe to Dubroom Online with your browser or RSS reader, or even have the new editions sent to your email address without having to register at the Dubroom Messageboards.

Dubroom Online is also interactive. You can place comments to the new Reviews, Releases and Research material as well as the daily column of the Dubroom Webmaster.

You do not have to register yourself in order to place a comment, but it has to be approved. The prevention measure is to stop spammers and stalkers from mashing up the site.


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Dubroom Online - Edition September 19, 2007

Dubroom Online - Edition September 19, 2007

WWW, September 19 2007 - Musically, the concepts in Reggae are quite different than what is usual in western popular music. For example, you don't really speak about "songs", but rather about riddims.

Mick Sleeper's second episode of his magnificent Podcast series deals with another aspect of Reggae Music: Chapter and Version. When you (don't) know what that's all about, you want to get the Podcast.

Producers play a significant role in Reggae Culture, too. The name Henry 'Junjo' Lawes, for example. He is said to be the founder of early Dancehall or Rub a Dub music. Check out his material and skank heavy!

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


ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:


MP3 Podcast: Chapter and Version (Sleeper's Record Shack #1)
MP3 Podcast: Henry 'Junjo' Lawes: Rub A Dub Style!
New Age Rage (A Babylon Observer Observation)

MP3 Podcast: Chapter and Version (Sleeper's Record Shack #1)

CHAPTER AND VERSION
SLEEPER'S RECORD SHACK #2



WWW, September 2007 - In the Bible we will find Chapter and Verse, in Reggae Music we'll find Chapters with Versions: vocal tunes with their Dub versions.
Mick Sleeper in a Showcase stylee!

In Reggae Music, we speak about "riddims" rather than "songs". A riddim usually is a bass-line, combined with a theme usually played by horns. Such riddims are re-done throughout the decades by various generations of Studio Bands.

Reggae is very much a Studio Music, even though in the world wide Reggae Culture there are many bands with their own repertoire, a'la Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Tracks are usually recorded in the studio's as instrumentals. Later, vocalists and Dub engineers do things with these riddims and release them under a wide variety of names. Some collectors even make it a real quest to find just about every release of a specific riddim or even a specific recording of a riddim.

Most Reggae 7" vinyl singles come with a vocal mix on the A side, and a "version" or Dub on the other side. People would speak about "chapters" with their "versions".

Later, the 12" would enter the record plants and a chapter and version would be presented in one long non-stop mix. These chapter and version mixes would be collected and released on so called "Showcase" albums.

In the second episode of his excellent podcast, Mick Sleeper shows this principal as he plays a selection of excellent 1970's Rockers Reggae in "Showcase Style".

Ire!


PLAYLIST

01. DRIFTER - Dennis Walks
02. COMBINATION DRIFTER - I Roy
03. PLEASE BE TRUE - Cornell Campbell
04. SET UP YOURSELF DREADLOCKS - Jah Stitch
05. HOW LONG - Pat Kelly
06. HOW LONG DUB - Pat Kelly
07. CASSAVA ROCK - Big Youth
08. CASSAVA PIECE - Augustus Pablo
09. SACRIFICE - Gregory Isaacs
10. HEALTH WARNING - Prince Far I
11. WINEY WINEY - The Kingstonians
12. TINY WINEY - Ray I
13. SO LONG - Dennis Brown
14. SO LONG RASTAFARI - Dillinger & Trinity


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MP3 Podcast: Henry 'Junjo' Lawes: Rub A Dub Style!

HENRY 'JUNJO' LAWES: RUB A DUB STYLE!
RUB A DUB PODCAST #2



WWW, September 2007 - Six out of the ten tracks in this great 30 minutes non-stop mix contain the vocal works of Yellowman. Still, the podcast isn't credited to this legendary Reggae Toaster who made his name during the 1980's Rub a Dub era.

what's up with that?

Reggae historians will tell you, that Henry 'Junjo' Lawes was the predominant producer of Jamaican Rub a Dub Reggae in the early 1980's. His name is on just too many albums and single releases to mention, and some even credit him with the founding of this early form of Dancehall back in 1979.

Junjo launched singers like Barrington Levy, made extensive use of top notch Dub engineer the Scientist, whose legendary series on the Greensleeves label is considered among the top of the all-time Dub releases.

In this Podcast, the focus is mainly on one of that other legend of Rub a Dub style: Yellowman. All tracks are Junjo productions, though. Showing how the producer worked with Harmony Groups (Wailing Souls), DJ's (Michigan & Smiley) and Singers (Barrington Levy).


PLAYLIST

01 Shine Eye Gal Barrington Levy
02 Juggling Little John
03 Come When I Call You Yellowman & Fathead
04 Sweetie Come Brush Me Wailing Souls
05 Diseases Michigan & Smiley
06 Lost My Sonia Cocoa Tea
07 Zungguzungguguzungguzeng Yellowman
08 Natty Sat Upon The Rock Yellowman
09 Take Me To Jamaica Yellowman
10 Crying For Love Yellowman


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New Age Rage (A Babylon Observer Observation)

NEW AGE RAGE
A BABYLON OBSERVER OBSERVATION

WWW, September 2007 - Tolerance, peace, love, unity and positivity. Titles of doctrines within the New age movement. What happens when you break the rules?

Where sects like the so-called "Jehovah Witnesses" predicted the end of the world on a number of occasions, so do the New Agers and the year is 2012. Most with the Movement work towards the establishment of their fascistic New World Order in that year, in which it is said that the "Age of Aquarius" will finally arrive...

We'll see what happens then, as the year is 2007 at the moment this is written. However, it is extremely interesting and sometimes even entertaining to see the principals of the New Age Movement at work as we approach that year.

Whitley Strieber is the host of a broadcast called "Dreamland". He is a well-known author within the New Age Movement and is in direct contact with spirits, or as some would say, "extra terrestrials". He's not your typical New Ager, though.

And this became clear during one of his recent episodes of "Dreamland", in which he interviewed what seemed to be a real New Age Fascist: a man called Daniel Pinchback. Pinchback speaks enthusiastically about the New World Order, and at a certain moment he starts to rebuke the host.

In the New Age Movement, there is what you could call a "doctrine of positivism". You must not speak what is experienced as "negative", and in the same time, you can always accuse your New Age brother of "negativity".

What happens, when you break the rules? How "positive" is "positive" in the New Age Movement? In a nutshell, you can see the fascism at work at a micro-level in Whitley's Strieber's interview with Daniel Pinchback.

Pinchback accuses Strieber of "negativity" because Strieber basically says that there's gonna be a lot of suffering before the New Age can be established according to the prophecies of the New Age movement.

No, it's not that the two New Age Brethren disagree about the upcoming return of Atlantis. It's not, that they think everything is really that positive as they try to prepare themselves and their audiences for the magical 2012.

It's just, that Pinchback is much more legalistic in his total obedience to the "doctrine of positivism". And when he is confronted with too much reality, he activates the defense mechanisms which come with the doctrine.

In his turn, Strieber shows his attachment to the beings that he is in contact with as during the interview he breaks "friendship" with Pinchback. Pinchback, namely, claims that these beings are "negative".

New Age Rage is usually very ugly, but sometimes it can be quite entertaining. This particular episode of Dreamland definitely is worth a listen and worth a smile.

Yes, it is all true that the New Agers are just another branch of Babylon Shitstem that works so hard to establish an environment of evil to dwell in. It's described in the second Psalm of the Good Book, and the response of Jah the Almighty is to laugh hard.

They will fail, as this discussion between two New Age Brethren shows.

Enjoy!

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Dubroom Online - Edition September 18, 2007

Dubroom Online - Edition September 18, 2007

WWW, September 18 2007 - The video we reviewed for today gives a rather uncensored look into a 1984 Jamaican Dancehall session, and may be disturbing to some viewers.

No worry, though..

A young pickney called Yami Bolo in the midst of a hot Dancehall session in the 1980's, is just one of the highlights of the musical works we reviewed for today.

As we dig further into the Podosphere to discover niceness after niceness which Dubroom visitors and readers will definitely apprecilove with us, many of us will have the opportunity to learn deeper about Reggae Culture and music too!

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


ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

MP3 Podcast: Solid Selections (Sleeper's Record Shack #1)
Video: 60 Minutes Of 1984 Jamaican Dancehall
Young Mac Gililan Has A Farm... (Babylon Observer Video Review)

MP3 Podcast: Solid Selections (Sleeper's Record Shack #1)

SOLID SELECTIONS
SLEEPER'S RECORD SHACK #1



WWW, September 2007 - The first episode of Sleeper's Record Shack starts of with a special jingle by none other than Mikey Dread, introducing the man called Mick Sleeper.

With such an introduction, Mick Sleeper obviously captures the attention of everyone who is even remotely familiar with Reggae Music.

But he didn't need to introduce himself to everyone, though...

Being a veteran of the online (DUB) Reggae scene, Sleeper isn't an unknown figure for those who've been around in Reggae Cyberspace.

It doesn't matter. Everyone who listens to this musical introduction will give thanks that this huge lover of Reggae Music decided to spread some positive vibes through the Podosphere...

The vibes start off with fourteen of what our host calls "solid selections". Solid Roots, interesting material like a Robert Palmer tune recorded in Jamaica, Rub a Dub stylee is there too.

Highlights galore: Dr. Alimantado's "Conscious Man", a heartical encouragement for those that need it. Horace Andy's "Man Next Door" is another one.

Like Reggae? Get this one!



PLAYLIST

01. DON'T LET ME SUFFER - The Concords
02. EDUCATE YOUR MIND - The Morwells
03. PROPHECY MUST FULFILL - Delroy Wilson
04. HEALING OF THE NATION - Inner Circle
05. SYSTEMS - Julian Marley
06. HIT ME WITH MUSIC - Jah Cure
07. LOVE CAN RUN FASTER - Robert Palmer
08. ROUGH - Ini Kamoze
09. MAN NEXT DOOR - Horace Andy
10. MONKEY WRENCH - Ansel Collins & Augustus Pablo
11. DJ'S CHOICE - Dennis Alcapone
12. TRACK SHOES - General Echo
13. CONSCIOUS MAN - Dr. Alimantado
14. REBEL VIBRATIONS - Creation Rebel




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Video: 60 Minutes Of 1984 Jamaican Dancehall

60 MINUTES OF 1984 JAMAICAN DANCEHALL
Dubroom (DUB) Reggae Video Review



In the year of George Orwell's famous book on the Police State, Jamaica was completely captured by Rub a Dub or early Dance Hall Music.

Channel One Studio's was creating hit after hit with the Roots Radics as their Studio Band, while DJ's and Singers chanted over the drum and basslines of what was then a brand new thing.

It was the time in which digital technologies entered the (Jamaican) Studio's big time. Jammy's produced the now famed sleng Teng Riddim that set the tone for yet another thing: Ragga, or simply Dancehall.

This is where, and when, the video captures the sights and sounds in the Dance during a very exciting time in Jamaica, both musically and politically.

Uncensored, that is. So if you can't stand the sights of marihuana or a reasonable amount of sensual dancing, in other words if you can't stand to be in a Reggae Dancehall anyway, read on what you're going to miss out on.

In one hour, a whole host of vocalists enter stage: singers and DJ's. Tippa Lee, Nicodemus, Yami Bolo, Philip Frazer: just four names out of many great performers.

Especially Yami Bolo (around 32 minutes into the video) is kind of special as he really is still a pickney when in that time but already a great performer.

Towards the end of the video, certain vocalists express the fact that they have taken just a little bit too much beer, which has it's charm. Just like the few minutes wherein there is no music, but another vocalist just plays around with the echo on his voice...

An uncensored look in what was a Jamaican Dancehall in Orwell's year. 1984, a year wherein certainly nuff things were going on!

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