Archive for February, 2011

We’ve been planning to do a dubplate mix for years but it seems there’s always been something more important or urgent to do. In fact, last year just before our JA trip I recorded one but didn’t check the condition of the recording cables and due to some electronic interference it wasn’t really good enough [...]

If you’re around the Lake Constance Area tonight, make sure to line up at the Douala in Ravensburg, cause its gonna be a real mad bashment, for sure.    

From what I’ve read on dancehallmusic.de, Yardbeat took the title in last nights Modern Warfare Clash against City Lock in Berlin. Seems like it was a deserved win, trough City Lock only took the first round and Yardbeat the other rounds plus DfD.

Reggae star Buju Banton was found guilty on three charges by a 12-member panel of jurors a short while ago at the United States Sam M Gibbons Federal Court here in Tampa. The artiste was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilogrammes of cocaine, of possession of a [...]

Going down on the 18th of March, at Sottotetto, Bologna, Italy.  

Great BBC documentary about Reggae in the UK. Showing how it came from Jamaica in the 1960s to influence, over the next 20 years, both British music and society, the programme includes major artists and performances from that era, including Big Youth, Max Romeo, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jerry Dammers and the Specials, the Police, UB40, [...]