Fearing File Sharing (4) (Webmaster Column)

Dubroom Online - Edition November 29, 2007


"FEARING FILE SHARING (4)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, November 29 2007 - There is a mention of "Internet 2". Partly to "protect" the entertainment industry against file sharing, people are working hard to create a form of Cyberspace where Big Brother knows even more about you than he does now and will shamesly decide for you what to see and what not to see.

Independent producers who walk the Party Line and complain along with the majors about File Sharing, do not realize how they themselves will be a victim of their own actions.

For really, there is no real Fearing of File Sharing. The established industry simply fears the independent nature of the Internet as they have seen the rise of the Online Artist Community and an emancipated customer-base who will at least try before they buy...

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


ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:
Rootical Part 7: Pause For the Cause (MP3 Review)
Ziggy Marley - Could You Be Loved? (Live, Video Review)

Rootical Part 7: Pause For the Cause (MP3 Review)

ROOTICAL PART 7: PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW



WWW, November 2007 - "Too much claiming of the word DUB without foundation", says the selector of the Ambassada High Power. Subsequently, he delivers yet another foundational mix to the online (DUB) Reggae Massive.

And yes, there's DUB too!

An Ambassada Hi Power Podcast is an experience. Each one of them will come with their own vibe, and that vibe is a dominant vibe. Even when you know the tunes, as they become part of the mix you'll hear a completely different track in a way.

In "Pause For The Cause" there is an exceptional amount of well-known tracks by -obviously- a number of well-known artists. Jr Delgado's "Famine", "Children of JAH" by the Chantells, DJ Ian Irie makes us hear them in a completely different way.

A Jimmy Cliff DUB stands out as well, when it comes to exceptional aspects of the 11th Podcast by the Ambassada. In fact, most tracks come with their DUB or DJ (on DUB) version, like Big Youth chanting over Dennis Brown's "In His Own Way".

Roots Rockers galore in this one, another Foundational One coming from the UK based Ambassada High Power Sound System, who have been serving the (DUB) Reggae Massive with crucial music since the late 1970's!


PLAYLIST

01) Festival 10
02) Children Of Jah - Chantelles
03) Time Fe Unite - U Brown
04) Concentration - Dennis Brown
05) Concentration Dub
06) Famine - Jnr Delgado
07) In His Own Way - Dennis Brown & Big Youth
08) Go Seek your Rights - Mighty Diamonds
09) Material World - Jimmy Cliff
10) Material Dub
11) Peaceful Warrior - Taxi Gang
12) Reality - Mykel Rose
13) I don't Know - Jah Mali
14) Jah a we father - Freddie McGregor


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Ziggy Marley - Could You Be Loved? (Live, Video Review)

ZIGGY MARLEY - COULD YOU BE LOVED (LIVE)
Dubroom (DUB) Reggae Video Review



WWW, November 2007 - Germany is known to have been favored by Bob Marley, and so it is no surprise to see his son performing on one of the country's most popular Reggae festivals.

South Germany, Bavaria to be precise. The place is Chiemsee, a magnificent lake and the location of one of Germany's most popular Reggae festivals. It's the perfect place for a performance by a son of the King of Reggae, given Marley's preference for Germany being one of his favorite U-ropean countries.

Thanks to the Internet, a world-wide audience can now enjoy what otherwise would have been reserved for the ones fortunate enough to be able to receive the Bavarian Public Broadcasts: Ziggy performing one of his father's greatest hits.

Himself being part of the Next Generation, his audience contains a large portion of youths as well.

Enthusiastically, both performers and audience take Bob Marley's work into their generation and make it their own in their own special way.

Enjoy!

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Fearing File Sharing (3) (Webmaster Column)

Dubroom Online - Edition November 28, 2007


"FEARING FILE SHARING (3)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, November 28 2007 - With producers being in a total State of Paranoia, with governments imposing fascistic laws on citizens to "protect" these producers, we have entered into a time that could very well mark the last steps of what used to be the entertainment industry.

For where the industry claims that File Sharing is the reason for their behavior, there is another reason which they do not wish to share.

It's the existence and strength of the independent Online Artist Community who present their works on several websites such as DOWNLOAD.com or SOUNDCLICK.com!

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


ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:
TOK (MP3 Review)
Barrington Levy - Here I Come (Live, 1984) (Video Review)

TOK (MP3 Review)

T.O.K.
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW



TOK stands for Touch Of Klass. The Jamaican group can wear the name with pride, being known to have restored the discipline of the Vocal Harmony in the contemporary Dancehalls.

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Barrington Levy - Here I Come (Live, 1984) (Video Review)

BARRINGTON LEVY - HERE I COME (LIVE, 1984)
Dubroom (DUB) Reggae Video Review



WWW, November 2007 - Backed by Aswad's very own Drummie Zeb, Barrington Levy performs one of his many hits during the days wherein Rub a Dub style was at it's heights.

Historically Rub a Dub can be placed between the digital Sleng-Teng riddim that changed Reggae Music during the mid 1980's and the Toasters ("Reggae Rappers") who chanted on heavily mixed Rockers DUB in the 1970's.

It was the predominant style within Jamaican Reggae during the early to mid 1980's and with Channel One Studios releasing one hit after the other played by the Roots Radics, vocalist Barrington Levy became one of the most popular singers during the time.

This video captures a young Barrington in the year of George Orwell's famous novel performing live with Aswad's Drummer and the rest of a crucial Reggae band.

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Fearing File Sharing (2) (Webmaster Column)

Dubroom Online - Edition November 27, 2007


"FEARING FILE SHARING (2)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, November 27 2007 - Ever since Heavy Metal band Metallica started to complain about people sharing music over the Internet, the disdain and hatred from the entertainment industry towards their customers became painfully clear.

We have definitely entered an Age of Paranoia and the victims of this craziness are the consumers.

Idiotic laws, stories about police raiding houses where little children share music over P2P networks, independent film makers so intimidated by the propaganda machine that they even fear to send out review copies of their works.

However, in the long run it could very well be that you, the consumer, will be the winner in this race.

More tomorrow.

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


ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:
The Mixotheque (MP3 Review)
Natural Ites - Picture On The Wall (Video Review)

The Mixotheque (MP3 Review)

MIXOTHEQUE
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW



The Mixotheque is livicated to rare and obscure, out-of-print and hard to find music. One of their specialties is Ska, Rocksteady and early Reggae.

In-depth reviews packed with info and niceness come with the MP3 files of that hard to find music, too. Music for the hard core Reggae fan and historian!

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