FREEDOM OF SPEECH (1)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 12 2009

"FREEDOM OF SPEECH (1)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 12 2009 - Currently, I'm working on a double interview with a fellow online artist concerning a whole lot of topics, ranging from mp3 sales to world events and a lot of things concerning the online (DUB) Reggae Artist community.

It's gonna be in-depth, obviously. One of the issues we talk about is "Freedom of Speech".

Or maybe more explicitly, the right to that freedom.

A JAH-given right, that is.

As many of our JAH-given rights are being stolen because Babylon cannot afford too much Truth Exposure, I do think it is time for conscious people to meditate a little bit deeper on the need for that freedom of speech.

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:

DAWA HIFI - ANTIK THINGS (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Brand New, Good For You: at least for us as listeners and searchers for the better online DUB. Antik Things refers to the fact that the five tracks on Dawa Hi-Fi's début EP are produced one or two years ago. Does it matter?

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MAD PROFESSOR - DUB YOU CRAZY WITH LOVE (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - It's not just, that he is known for his original and creative DUB mixes. A thing, for which he stands at a lonely height when it comes to the Art of DUB.

His originality includes original concepts, too. What about this 16 track collection of superb Dubs from original Lover's Rock tunes produced by Neil Fraser, aka Mad Professor, in his Ariwa Sound Studio's?

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DAWA HI-FI - ANTIK THINGS

DAWA HI-FI - ANTIK THINGS
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW

WWW, June 2009 - Brand New, Good For You: at least for us as listeners and searchers for the better online DUB. Antik Things refers to the fact that the five tracks on Dawa Hi-Fi's début EP are produced one or two years ago. Does it matter?

The French label Original DUB Gathering, started by DUB Collective Ondubground, knows how to introduce artists to the online massive. Too bad, the collective have not released any début album on their own label, but with Panda Dub and Dawa Hi-Fi they got some impressive material already.

It's a French Interpretation of UK Dub, and the mix goes well. Dawa Hi-Fi love their steppers, they love to bring out the echo machine on top of some massive drum and basslines and that's just how we, the online DUB Massive, like it to be.

Crucial and more than crucial as I would say!

PLAYLIST

1. Africa
2. Friendly dub
3. Outernational Skanking
4. Smokee Riddim
5. Tanguy de la Boîte à Rythme

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MAD PROFESSOR - DUB YOU CRAZY WITH LOVE

MAD PROFESSOR - DUB YOU CRAZY WITH LOVE
DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW

WWW, June 2009 - It's not just, that he is known for his original and creative DUB mixes. A thing, for which he stands at a lonely height when it comes to the Art of DUB.

His originality includes original concepts, too. What about this 16 track collection of superb Dubs from original Lover's Rock tunes produced by Neil Fraser, aka Mad Professor, in his Ariwa Sound Studio's?

One would almost forget it: with the enormous flood of DUB albums coming from Mad Professor's Ariwa studio's, he also releases an equal amount of vocal albums in a wide variety of Reggae styles, and sometimes even beyond.

His upfull Lover's Rock releases, for example. Sweetness galore, but how does this actually sound when Mad Professor creates some DUB mixes from several of his Lover's Rock riddims?

Dub You Crazy With Love obviously gives the answer.

In 16 tracks, the Mad Professor creates a nice atmosphere that will definitely enhance the vibe when two people who love each other decide to be together for a while, without anyone watching. They could just decide to let it go, while the album plays.

Arguably, without too much words, the Lover's Rock is getting into the Love Vibe even more. Do not expect too much spaced out and tripped out parts, do expect an easy chilled out time where some righteous loving is accompanied by some righteous dubbing in several senses of the word.

OBAMA NATION (10)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 11 2009

"OBAMA NATION (10)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 11 2009 - Certainly, the facts show no justification of the multitude of praises to Barack Obama, and even more there is no justification for the lack of protests in "Reggae Land", so to speak.

Hardly any artist or website is critical, where there used to be quite a lot of chanting down of Babylon going on. In the meantime, Hip-Hop artists are more vocal in their critique and so it comes that we've arrived in a time where a Hip-Hop artist is quoted on the Dubroom.

I would love to see at least the start of a reasoning, of people in mediation and even debates on Reggae sites and other places concerning this matter.

In all of this, we should consider how Jah is not partial and Barack Obama perpetuates, even accelerates the policy of his predecessor George W. Bush.

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:

PANDA DUB - SUBCONTRAIRE (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Four riddims, five titles: introducing the French based DUB producer Panda DUB. Straight from Lyon, this Dub Stepper comes with some serious Digital Niceness for the DUB Lovers worldwide.

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MAD PROFESSOR - SCIENCE AND THE WITCH DOCTOR (DUB ME CRAZY CHAPTER EIGHT) (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - The year is 1989. Nuff and nuff things are going on in the world as communism seemed to collapse and the last decade of the 20th century is dawning at the horizon.

Mad Professor is working on yet another superb album in his DUB ME CRAZY series. He's been doing it for the last seven years and he's not about to stop either.

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PANDA DUB - SUBCONTRAIRE

PANDA DUB - SUBCONTRAIRE
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW

WWW, June 2009 - Four riddims, five titles: introducing the French based DUB producer Panda DUB. Straight from Lyon, this Dub Stepper comes with some serious Digital Niceness for the DUB Lovers worldwide.

Too bad, that it's just 5 tracks. But hey, Panda Dub's début is definitely promising. A good choice of the French Net Label on which this EP is released. Original DUB Gathering, known from their excellent Step 4 I DUB Compilation series previously reviewed on the Dubroom, definitely put themselves on the growing map of great DUB Net Labels.

French Dub, as this EP clearly shows, is closely related to UK DUB but it has that extra touch. A continental touch if you will, which adds another dimension to the Digital DUB. With that in mind, Panda Dub mixes slices from Techno and House with steppers drum, has an original and creative use of synthesizers et voila!

PLAYLIST

1. Neighbor Connexion
2. Axion Esti
3. Warrior Step
4. (R)evolution
5. Axion Esti (Ondubground Remix)

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MAD PROFESSOR - SCIENCE AND THE WITCH DOCTOR (DUB ME CRAZY CHAPTER NINE)

MAD PROFESSOR - SCIENCE AND THE WITCH DOCTOR (DUB ME CRAZY CHAPTER NINE)
DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW

The year is 1989. Nuff and nuff things are going on in the world as communism seemed to collapse and the last decade of the 20th century is dawning at the horizon.

Mad Professor is working on yet another superb album in his DUB ME CRAZY series. He's been doing it for the last seven years and he's not about to stop either.

From 1982 to 1993, the Mad Professor released twelve albums in the DUB Me Crazy series. They're all reviewed by the Dubroom and not without reason. Not only does the series itself give a perfect overview for the evolution of DUB throughout the 1980's (and a little bit further than that), it has put the Mad Professor at the top of the top of DUB engineers.

In the 9th Chapter, the Mad Professor once again keeps up to his own standards, wherein each and every aspect of the Art of DUB is given the right attention. Subtle effects you might only hear when you're listening on headphones with your ears closed in an Ire vibration, but also hard hitting changes in atmosphere and most of all: a deep, deep bass.

Twelve original Ariwa riddims, several vocalists, a whole variety of effects including some impressive echoing: it's clear that throughout the 1980's, the Mad Professor acquired more and more devices enabling him to express his talents in an ever-growing way.

This 1989 release shows it without a doubt!

OBAMA NATION (9)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 10 2009

"OBAMA NATION (9)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 10 2009 - The video "The Obama Deception" revealed, how Barack Obama was selected to be the successor of George W. Bush at a Bilderberg Conference.

These annual conferences are highly secretive. They have to be: this is where bankers come together with members of the press and politicians of past present and future to discuss matters "outside of the public's eye".

Increasingly, thanks to people who chant down Babylon, the Bilderbergers are exposed. The Internet has shown to be a marvelous way for the information to spread and so it has come to pass that even mainstream media have to report on the not-so-secretive-anymore conference.

Why did the Bilderbergers choose to put Barack Obama at the front?

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:

VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEP 4 I (PART 5) (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - The fifth and last (for now?) episode in the line of DUB compilations by the French Net Label Original Dub Gathering gives us no less than 15 top shots from the DUB Underground. You might not want to miss out this great legal and free album, when you're a DUB connoisseur, that is.

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MAD PROFESSOR - EXPERIMENTS OF THE AURAL KIND (DUB ME CRAZY CHAPTER EIGHT) (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - After the introduction by Macka B, the 8th chapter in the DUB ME CRAZY series opens up with a very hard hitting steppers riddim.

The tone is set for yet another collection of DUB tracks by one of the masters in the discipline and his mysterious set of effect devices.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEP 4 I (PART 5)

VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEP 4 I (PART 5)
DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW

WWW, June 2009 - The fifth and last (for now?) episode in the line of DUB compilations by the French Net Label Original Dub Gathering gives us no less than 15 top shots from the DUB Underground. You might not want to miss out this great legal and free album, when you're a DUB connoisseur, that is.

Industrial sounds, dubbed out medieval audio illustrations: the robot in the autumn forest on the cover of this album isn't there just for fun. The music on Step 4 I Part 5 will definitely give you "vibes like that".

It's DUB, DUB and more DUB and the wide variety of styles even within the DUB Underground is versatile enough. After all, it's all in the mix and when it comes to DUB mixing, this album will do just fine. Especially when you're a DUB head with an unquenchable thirst for DUB, DUB and more DUB.

There's funny dub, serious dub, deep dub, militant dub, peaceful dub, and it's all present. Let's hope that the people at the Original Dub Gathering will keep on gathering, for they know how to make their compilations.

Big Up's!

PLAYLIST

01. Mottron P - Get Stuck
02. Padawin - N3W Cello Track
03. King Looping - Number One
04. No Name Dub - Era Mesianica
05. Metastaz - Santa Skank
06. Mysy K Dub - Alarme
07. Dub In V.O. - Bagdad Cola
08. Blondubsexysound - They Don't Know
09. Molecule - Falujah
10. Kojito - Uhuru
11. Mayd Hubb - Magic Camel
12. Disrupt - Riddim Grid
13. Panda Dub - Domptes Des Panda
14. Dawa Hi-Fi - Lion Step
15. Ondubground - High Tist ft. Mighty Cricket

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