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MESSIAN DREAD
NEWS AND UPDATES 2004 |
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| December
30, 2004 |
| In
these last two days of 2004, I'm working
over-time to get stuff done before the end
of the year. Obviously, and of course, this
includes looking back and forward in this
update.
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| LOOKING
AT 2004 |
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| Since
the website started in 1997, there
hasn't been a year with so little updating
and releasing of material as the year
2004.
Financial problems almost caused the
website to go off-line. Not once, but
several times! Fortunately, this is all over
now.
Even stronger: the threat has been
reversed and now there are more perspectives
then there were before. So the year 2004
really was crucial in the story of the
Dubroom. And the month of October marked the
turning point.
Behind-the-scenes, I was working on the
new lay-out of the website. Something which
could only be done off-line, as it wasn't
only the lay-out (look) of the Dubroom. The
whole navigation through the website has
been changed, and is simply incompatible
with the previous navigation. |
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| MORE
ON THE SUBJECT |
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| LOOKING
AT 2005 |
| For
2005, the plan is to double the contents of
the website. More reviews, more links, more
of everything! And that obviously includes
music coming straight out of the Dubroom
Studio.
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| LOOKING
AT THE MUSIC |
| Reggae
Music can't dead, and will be spreading the
good vibes all over in 2005 as well.
The Dubroom will be actively taking part
in this tradition too. And not only by
reviewing the good works of artists. We'll
be putting loads of new material online:
words and sounds!
And we keep looking the whole spectrum of
Reggae Music. Not only the known names, not
only a specific group with a specific
religion or ideology, not only the online
artists, but everything which has to do with
High Quality (DUB) Reggae.
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| LOOKING
AT THE ONLINE ARTISTS AND THEIR LISTENERS |
| When
MP3.com ceased to exist, the online artist
community lost it's central point. But,
maybe scattered, the movement isn't
dead.
The Dubroom has always scanned the
Internet for the gems from the online
artists and will continue to do so. We
attempt to gather the music that the
Industry scattered over the many sites.
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| LOOKING
AT VERSIONIST |
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| There
is another site which also aims at this , albeit
in a very different way. And in this update,
I would like to give them extra respect for
this.
There are still a lot of artists putting
their music online, and for the Reggae
community there's a very active website
called VERSIONIST. The website is created by
a visitor of the Dubroom and is actively
promoted from here as well.
Why? Simple. VERSIONIST is the only
website on the Internet that deals with the
online (DUB) Reggae Music community and
nothing but the online (DUB) Reggae Music
community.
According to the site's front page,
Versionist is "a website dedicated to
the development of progressive Reggae music.
But more importantly, this is a project that
aims to encourage everyone to make Reggae
music."
VERSIONIST.com is dynamic and has a
strong community of participants and
visitors. Their forum contains discussions
about a wide variety of topics.
The Dubroom will continue to promote
VERSIONIST, which isn't so hard when you
know that there are some true gems to be
found there, some really original material
as well. |
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| VISIT
THE WEBSITE |
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| LOOKING
AT RADIO DUBROOM |
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| Radio
Dubroom will move to a next phase as well.
Not only good music, but also sounds which
have been reviewed on the website will be
played. And we have obtained permission to
use professional journalistic works as well.
We hope to proof our slogan: "If you
like the Dubroom, you will love Radio
Dubroom". |
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| MORE
ON THE SUBJECT |
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| LOOKING
AT VIDEOS |
| As
the internet and Computer Technology moves
forward, the year 2005 will most likely mark
the start of a video portal in the tradition
of mp3.dubroom.org but this is absolutely
not in any final stage!
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| LOOKING
AT CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Ever
since the Dubroom was established, in 1997,
there has been a mix of Music and
Consciousness on the website. In 2004, it's
been made official in the website's
description: "The Dubroom is an independent
visitor supported website promoting Reggae
and Consciousness."
Reggae Music is music with a Conscious
Message. So in a way, promotion of Reggae
brings Consciousness along as a matter of
natural fact.
But we take it several steps further and
provide information which proofs the truthfulness
of the many Conscious claims you can find in
Rasta (or related) Reggae.
And we do it in the Rastaman tradition.
Not in no Church or Babylon tradition.
Rastaman says: "Word, Sound and
Power"!
We simply provide the information, which
we hope you check out for yourself. Don't
take anything for granted!
Truth speaks for itself. The minute you
apply manipulation or other marketing
technologies, you're hurting the truth!
Truth can only speak in truth. So we present
material which promotes Consciousness
without telling you to look at it or believe
it.
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| LOOKING
AT CHRISTAFARI BOOK |
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| Together
with the major site-update, came a book I
wrote about the organization
"Christafari". In it, I questioned
methods and other aspects of the
organization. This has caused quite an
uproar in "Gospel Reggae Land",
and even outside of it.
Originally, I only wanted to release the
book and debate about it on the Christafari message boards.
However, Christafari didn't agree with that.
The developments followed rapidly and now
there's a "Great
Controversy".
I am writing as follow-up for the book,
which will be released in February the
latest. Until then, there is a website on
the Dubroom (crc.dubroom.org) where the
developments are covered and research
material is presented. Later in 2005, that
website will change and will no longer have
Christafari as the main subject. But until
then, crc.dubroom.org is the website that
accompanies the books on Christafari. |
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| MORE
ON THE SUBJECT |
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| LOOKING
FORWARD |
| All
in all, we here at the Dubroom are exited
about the new plans and challenges we have
to face in 2005. As time progresses and the
events around (DUB) Reggae and the message
it brings follow each other rapidly, we'll
keep documenting this for the now and
-hopefully- then generation.
I hope, that DUBROOM.com will be of
assistance to you, somewhere and sometime.
Whether you are a (DUB) Reggae enthusiast or
into Consciousness or both (or none...).
In name of the entire DUBROOM POSSE: we
wish to you a JAHFULL 2005 and an
ever-growing collection of music reviewed
and/or provided by I and I.
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| ONE
LOVE,
MESSIAN DREAD |
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