Garance Reggae Festival 2011- Report - Day 2

Thursday July 28th :

After last night, I felt happy to wake up in my garden of eden, along the Ceze river and to be able to sleep until 11am under the shadow of trees all over our campsite !

After another barbecue and a good rest in the afternoon we decided to go early to the festival  to enjoy the Dub Station area while it is not overcrowded. Until the begining of Jahtari's set, Blackboard Jungle and OBF played some of their best dubplates (like a recut of the cuss cuss riddim by OBF or the great roots tune by Rockers Disciples & Echo Ranks that has been pressed on vinyl since the festival). As always the selection are complementary, roots versus digital reggae !

Then Jahtari came  with his 8-bit digital reggae selection with many recuts of some reggae classics with dubplates by singers like Soom T, Solo Banton, El Fata ...

The digital style was highly represented tonight with one of the wickedest singer from the 80's, Carl Meeks backed by OBF selectors ! So many classics like : Haul & Pull,Weh Dem Fa, Danger, Tuff Scout ...

 

There was also two concerts I didn't wanted to miss, Junior Reid feat Sly and Robbie and Midnite.
Junior Reid is one of the main jamaican living singer, with big tunes like : One Blood, Jail House, Original Foreign Mind, Hunts Bay... Sadly, Junior Reid came on stage for only 30 minutes. I was so disapointede that I came back to the Dub Station area to enjoy the heavyweight bass sound system until the end of the night.