DUBROOM ONLINE: FROM DAILY TO WEEKLY

DUBROOM ONLINE: FROM DAILY TO WEEKLY
DUBROOM IN-SITE 28

WWW, April 2010 - After having released the brand new Heartical Double Album "Joie de Vivre", the Dubroom will be in a bit of a transitional phase as a new concept is worked out. Read about it in this episode of Dubroom In-Site.

For quite a while now, a couple of years to be precise, the Dubroom has been publishing almost daily. A column and one or more items, usually reviews. It's a concept which works just fine, but after such a long while of doing this one could reason that it might be time to do it a little bit different.

A reasoning which makes a lot of sense because of a variety of reasons: one of which being the fact that the Dubroom Studio is currently being built and made ready for deeper mixing of not just Messian Dread music but also recorded material with and from other artists. This is a very time-consuming process which will not be ready for quite a few months.

Roughly spoken, the (vague) plan is to make Dubroom Online from a daily thing into a weekly. This weekly edition will obviously have much more contents than a daily one. It will probably come -more or less- in the form of an electronic magazine with features such as reviews of free/legal MP3 files, releases, video's et cetera.

On top of that, there's just something posted almost every day on the Dubroom Message Boards: a lot of news and views, for example. This will not change when Dubroom Online goes weekly instead of daily. Instead, the weekly might just contain a "best of the boards" feature or something like that.

As you see, the plans are there and even though they're vague, Jah willing they will not stay vague for very long. Keep an eye on the Dubroom for updates!

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

SPRINGTIME GREENS

SPRINGTIME GREENS
MESSIAN DREAD PERSONAL UPDATE APRIL 19, 2010

WWW, April 19 2010 - A change in Dubroom Online, a deepening of (not only) my music as building the Dubroom Studio continues, indeed it's spring time and that causes me to write another personal update for those that might be interested.

I've been going through all kind of rather intense and crucial changes in my personal, spiritual and productional lifes lately. Lately, as in these last years that is.

A lot of projects which I started could not be worked on as I found myself being led by Jah to be doing other, more important things than the things I was working on. During this process, which I came to call "A Spiritual Journey Called Psalm 91", I've learned too much to mention on too many topics to list in this update.

In the mean time, I've arrived in the phase that I can now pick up these projects again. On top of updating the website, that is. However, I cannot spend the amount of time updating the site as frequently as I used to do. It consumes too much time when it comes to my other projects, building the Dubroom Studio being one of them.

The idea now is, that I'll make some kind of format wherein Dubroom Online will not be put out daily, but weekly. These publications obviously have to be in some kind of format similar to an electronic magazine and currently I'm thinking about several different features as well as the format in which they will be presented.

It's not easy: there's so much different topics and things covered by the Dubroom, and a weekly edition must contain a healthy doses of just about everything. In the same time, there's stuff that requires immediate attention, there's news which pops up and that can not be integrated in a weekly.

I do hope that turning from a daily into a weekly will provide me with the time that I truly need to build on the Dubroom Studio. I'm going to seriously study multi-track recording and on top of that I am looking to enhance my own sound as well by making a concept wherein the best of automation and live mixing is combined.

That's not easy either: usually I only study things which I kind of have to study because I have to do a thing. I've been mixing my music throughout the years, doing things in the studio and as everything just seemed to go just nice, I didn't really bother to check out the musical runnings when it comes to possibilities. These possibilities seem to be kind of endless: at least in my idea now.

Nuff things to do, with not so much time as I would like to have. It's all a matter of creating the right schedule, though. As spring is strongly there at this moment and I'm looking at trees becoming more and more green, I will just give thanks to the Creator for a new season with it's own fruits in it's time.

One Love, Give Thanks,
Messian Dread

NEWS AND VIEWS ON BUJU BANTON'S COKANE CASE

NEWS AND VIEWS ON BUJU BANTON'S COKANE CASE
BABYLON OBSERVER MESSAGE BOARD

WWW, March 2010 - When the news went out in December 2009 that Buju Banton was arrested in the USA on cokane charges, the Babylon Observer Messageboard was quickly filled with relevant, ongoing news and views concerning the matter. A summary of the latest postings can be found here.

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HEARTICAL - FOREVER

HEARTICAL - FOREVER
HEARTICAL - JOIE DE VIVRE NET ALBUM - TRACK 25

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It may be the last track of this double album, but the life which is portrayed in a dUb style throughout the twenty-five titles in reality has no end. This track celebrates Eternity, the Dwelling Place of JAH, without beginning and without end. A meditative, peaceful place, the mystical region which I and I know to be I and I true Father Land.

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HEARTICAL - BLESSED

HEARTICAL - BLESSED
HEARTICAL - JOIE DE VIVRE NET ALBUM - TRACK 24

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Blessed is a massive, danceable Steppers Dub that will make you move and groove from the top to (almost) the very last drop. Crucial hi-hats, well put through the very present phasers.

After all, blessed is the man that liveth the life that JAH gave him according to His wisdom. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly but has his delight in the law of JAH, written in the hearts of His children.

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HEARTICAL - JOIE DE VIVRE

HEARTICAL - JOIE DE VIVRE
HEARTICAL - JOIE DE VIVRE NET ALBUM - TRACK 23

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Joie de Vivre makes us praise JAH with some heavy drum and bass driven dUb, a joyful theme and upfull chord progression. That’s exactly what’s going on in the title track of this 2010 double album by Heartical in which the life of Jah Children inna Babylon is sonically painted.

Joie de Vivre is full of sudden effects and changes; echo’s of echoes and filters on the bass, flangers and other unidentifiable filtering objects showing the heart-work of a conscious, heart-working Dread.

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HEARTICAL - DUB IN THE SOUL

HEARTICAL - DUB IN THE SOUL
HEARTICAL - JOIE DE VIVRE NET ALBUM - TRACK 22

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Deep Roots and digital technology don’t go together according to some. Using contemporary possibilities of course work very well when it comes from the soul. Of course there is Dub In The Soul, the soul from where it all happens in our personalities.

Deep thoughts for another deep, deep dUb.

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HEARTICAL - LIVING WATER

HEARTICAL - LIVING WATER
HEARTICAL - JOIE DE VIVRE NET ALBUM - TRACK 21

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In this meditative dUb with deep bass line and bass drum, Heartical takes us to the Source from where Rivers of Living Waters spring forth so that fruit is given in due season. It’s a dUb full of peace, yet with some very lively elements in both the musical aspect as well as the dUb mixing.

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