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Digikiller 12" Repress on 14 Karat Label
A repress on a 12" format is always good news, especially when it's on the Dub Organizer Riddim. After the fantastic reussie of Phillip Myer - Ghetto Struggle, Digikiller strikes again with this digital cut of the Dub Organizer Riddim. The whole serie...
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Focus on Heavenless Riddim
Heavenless riddim is my favorite riddim because it has a very long history and its evolution follows every reggae fashion since 1970. The original version is an instrumental track composed by Don Drummond for Studio One. This version is amazing, 6 minutes...
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Garance Reggae Festival Bagnols sur Cèze
First of all,a little bit of history about past reggae events in Bagnols. In 2005, Ja'Sound Festival moved from Lezan to Bagnols-sur-Cèze in South of France, close to Avignon. First Edition in 2005 was just amazing : Yabby You and Trinity, Twinkle Brothers,...
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War Series - Reggae-Dubstep Remixes
I recently discovered the War Series in a vinyl shop in Paris, which is specialised in all kind of electronic music. I was searching for reggae-dubstep, when I saw a white label 12" with Zion Gate War Series 13 written on it. The tune was exactly what...
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Maffi Label - Digital Reggae inna Danish Style
Maffi are digital riddim producer, its 2 members, Moog & Junior, are based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Maffi is also a label since they teamed up with their german friends of Jahtari. Maffi's sound is a combination of 8-bit sounds, cheap synth and heavyweight...
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Unity Sounds - UK's Digital at its peak
Unity Sounds was in the 80's one the of the biggest sound system in England with Saxon and Jah Tubby's. At this time Unity was directly connected with Jammy's and Striker Lee : Unity would get exclusive dubplates to play in London and Jamaicans producers...
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Bunny Wailer and Raggasonic at Garance Reggae in Bagnols
That's wright, the original Bunny Wailer is coming to Bagnols at the end of July. He already came in 2006 for the last editon of the festival. This year, Garance Reggae Festival will be huge with other reggae legends like John Holt (1st venue in France)...
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New Names for Garance Festival : Tarrus Riley & Toots And The Maytals
New names have been announced by Garance for this summer main event in South of France : - Jimmy Riley's son, Tarrus Riley, will be there to represent the nu roots movement. Although it is not my favorite branch in reggae, he is certainly the best of...
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Reggae Festivals 2010 in Europe
The purpose of this post is to bring you a selection of main festivals in Europe and interesting elements of their line up. I will keep it updated during the coming months. - 2nd July => 4th July : Summerjam in Cologne, Germany: - Bands and Singers: Nas...
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New Witty 7" Reissues by Gold Shop
Gold Shop goes on with Witty reissues, and my expectations were huge after the last one, that came out in february 2010: Little Kirk (cuss cuss riddim), Little John (screechie across the boarder riddim), Echo Minott, Nicodemus and Al Campbell (all 3 on...
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Roots Reggae Session - Mega Tape Vol 1 - Distillerz Selecta
We are glad to present you this Roots Selection, because we were collecting for a few month some tunes with the aim to play them together in one mix. Some tunes are original collectors, some were reissued, but the point here is too hear and feel fine...
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Big Belly Dance - Jammy's Dancehall
At the begining I only wanted to do a small mix on the China Town riddim, then after a few tunes on this crucial selection, I couldn't resist to play some sleng teng or duck dance. I hope you will like that unexpected mix recorded early in the morning....
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Rootikal Vibes HiFi meets Umoja HiFi and Livity Access Sound System
Once again, the Rootikal family from Besançon (France) is going mash up the Maquis Café/Concert right inthe heart of our beautiful city, on 13th July ! For this session, we have an authorization to play until 4/5 am, so it was the good opportunity to...
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Garance Reggae Festival 2011- Report - Day 4
Saturday 30th July : Although we camped in a peacefull and calm spot, I'm getting tired (too much skanking :) ). The line up was really diverse for this last day : some new roots signers (Lutan Fyah, Gyptian), dancehall legends like Tony Rebel and the...
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Computer Riddim
Computer Riddim is kind of a refix of King Jammy's Sleng Teng made by Harry J. The bass is slightly the same but faster. The first release was made in 1985 with the LP called Computer. My favorite tunes are : Carl Meeks - Red Eye Lover, C.Chaplin - Bionic...
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Reggae Festival in Europe 2011
Greetings and Love ! The purpose of this post is to bring you a selection of festivals in Europe and interesting elements of their line up. I will keep it updated during the coming months. You will notice that there was more events and details last year...
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Rootikal Vibes : Up Down Sound meets Archivist
Greetings and Love, The first edition of the Rootikal Vibes dance will take place in Besançon, east of France, at Le Maquis on May 6th. Up Down Sound Meets Archivist Selecta (Distilerz Sound) for a strictly Roots and Culture Session inna forward thinking...
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Garance Reggae Festival 2010 report
You have already noticed in my blog ( Garance Reggae Festival Bagnols sur Cèze ) that I am a big fan of this event. After 3 years of prohibition, the best french reggae festival took place at the end of July in Bagnols sur Cèze. The line up was awesome,...
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Rootikal Hi Fi Session Chapter 1
Greetings and Love ! As you might know, I am a member of Distilerz Sound System but from now I also take part in Rootikal Hi Fi from Besançon, France. As we are building a sound system together and started the monthly Rootikal Vibes dances here, it became...
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Rototom Sunsplash - 2012 Line Up
For the third time in Benicassim in Spain, after sixteen years in Italy, the Rototom Sunsplash will take place from august 16th till august 22nd. This festival is the longest in Europe and also the largest, with 230 000 people in the audience during the...
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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...
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Rootikal HiFi on BassCulture Radio Show 19/06/2012 - Rototom Sunsplah 2012 Special
Greeting to each and everyone, This is our last radio podcast,that one is partly dedicated to the biggest reggae festival in Europe,The Rototom Sunsplah 2012 that takes place in Spain between Valencia and Barcelona from 15th till 22th august. The second...
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Garance Reggae Festival 2011- Report - Day 1
As the line up for the next edition should be announced soon, I decided to do a review of last year Garance Reggae Festival, a special one, because it was the 20th birthday and the second one in Bagnols-sur-Ceze. In fact, before the last edition along...
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Garance Reggae Festival 2012 - Line Up
It is always a great pleasure to announce the line up of one of my favorite reggae festival. First thing, you can read my past reviews of the last Garance Reggae Festival editions here : Garance Reggae Festival . You will find here more details about...
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My top ten reggae reissues of 2012
2012 has been a year full of crucial roots and digital reissues. I can tell you which is my favorite) repress of last year, but it's quiet hard to do a ranking with the 9 remaining tunes.I simply hope that orinal producers, singers and/or players of instrument...