FREEDOM OF SPEECH (2)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 13 2009

"FREEDOM OF SPEECH (2)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 13 2009 - Currently, there is a lot of talking in high and low places about putting "limits" to freedom of speech. And not just talking, though...

Recently, the Babylon Observer how the UK's Home Secretary published a list of people she had banned from entering the UK because of these people's opinions. She herself recently got into problems, by the way, because she had filed porno purchases of her husband as expenses.

It's surely a sign of the time, when on one hand the lust for sexual activity of about just any kind is widely considered normal but the freedom of speech is banned more and more and more.

Just why is Freedom of Speech so important?

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

CAS TAFARI (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Hailing from Boston Massachutes, Jamaican born Cas Tafari blesses the lover of Roots Nicenesswith crucial productions from his own studio. Versatile, full of vibes, can't afford to miss him out!

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MAD PROFESSOR - THE LOST SCROLLS OF MOSES (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - This 11 track album from the year 1993 has it all: Bible Readings, Middle Eastern melodies, and of course the massive drum and basslines we're used to hear from Ariwa Studio's.

Mad Professor rides a number of riddims, gives it different treatments, but all of them contain a healthy combination of programmed and played material.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH (1)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 12 2009

"FREEDOM OF SPEECH (1)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 12 2009 - Currently, I'm working on a double interview with a fellow online artist concerning a whole lot of topics, ranging from mp3 sales to world events and a lot of things concerning the online (DUB) Reggae Artist community.

It's gonna be in-depth, obviously. One of the issues we talk about is "Freedom of Speech".

Or maybe more explicitly, the right to that freedom.

A JAH-given right, that is.

As many of our JAH-given rights are being stolen because Babylon cannot afford too much Truth Exposure, I do think it is time for conscious people to meditate a little bit deeper on the need for that freedom of speech.

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

DAWA HIFI - ANTIK THINGS (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Brand New, Good For You: at least for us as listeners and searchers for the better online DUB. Antik Things refers to the fact that the five tracks on Dawa Hi-Fi's début EP are produced one or two years ago. Does it matter?

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MAD PROFESSOR - DUB YOU CRAZY WITH LOVE (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - It's not just, that he is known for his original and creative DUB mixes. A thing, for which he stands at a lonely height when it comes to the Art of DUB.

His originality includes original concepts, too. What about this 16 track collection of superb Dubs from original Lover's Rock tunes produced by Neil Fraser, aka Mad Professor, in his Ariwa Sound Studio's?

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OBAMA NATION (10)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 11 2009

"OBAMA NATION (10)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 11 2009 - Certainly, the facts show no justification of the multitude of praises to Barack Obama, and even more there is no justification for the lack of protests in "Reggae Land", so to speak.

Hardly any artist or website is critical, where there used to be quite a lot of chanting down of Babylon going on. In the meantime, Hip-Hop artists are more vocal in their critique and so it comes that we've arrived in a time where a Hip-Hop artist is quoted on the Dubroom.

I would love to see at least the start of a reasoning, of people in mediation and even debates on Reggae sites and other places concerning this matter.

In all of this, we should consider how Jah is not partial and Barack Obama perpetuates, even accelerates the policy of his predecessor George W. Bush.

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

PANDA DUB - SUBCONTRAIRE (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Four riddims, five titles: introducing the French based DUB producer Panda DUB. Straight from Lyon, this Dub Stepper comes with some serious Digital Niceness for the DUB Lovers worldwide.

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MAD PROFESSOR - SCIENCE AND THE WITCH DOCTOR (DUB ME CRAZY CHAPTER EIGHT) (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - The year is 1989. Nuff and nuff things are going on in the world as communism seemed to collapse and the last decade of the 20th century is dawning at the horizon.

Mad Professor is working on yet another superb album in his DUB ME CRAZY series. He's been doing it for the last seven years and he's not about to stop either.

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OBAMA NATION (9)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 10 2009

"OBAMA NATION (9)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 10 2009 - The video "The Obama Deception" revealed, how Barack Obama was selected to be the successor of George W. Bush at a Bilderberg Conference.

These annual conferences are highly secretive. They have to be: this is where bankers come together with members of the press and politicians of past present and future to discuss matters "outside of the public's eye".

Increasingly, thanks to people who chant down Babylon, the Bilderbergers are exposed. The Internet has shown to be a marvelous way for the information to spread and so it has come to pass that even mainstream media have to report on the not-so-secretive-anymore conference.

Why did the Bilderbergers choose to put Barack Obama at the front?

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEP 4 I (PART 5) (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - The fifth and last (for now?) episode in the line of DUB compilations by the French Net Label Original Dub Gathering gives us no less than 15 top shots from the DUB Underground. You might not want to miss out this great legal and free album, when you're a DUB connoisseur, that is.

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MAD PROFESSOR - EXPERIMENTS OF THE AURAL KIND (DUB ME CRAZY CHAPTER EIGHT) (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - After the introduction by Macka B, the 8th chapter in the DUB ME CRAZY series opens up with a very hard hitting steppers riddim.

The tone is set for yet another collection of DUB tracks by one of the masters in the discipline and his mysterious set of effect devices.

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OBAMA NATION (8)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 9 2009

"OBAMA NATION (8)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 9 2009 - A few days ago, the Babylon Observer posted a review of the video "The Obama Deception" on the website, weblogs and the forum. In it, we found two interviews with well-known Hip-Hop artists KRS-ONE and Professor Griff.

I don't know anything about Hip-Hop, to be frank. At least, not worth anything most people already know. I know that Reggae Music stood at the birth of Hip-Hop in several ways, though.

Of course there are a lot of Hip-Hop artists who've joined the ranks into praising Barack Obama into high heaven just for who he is and not for what he stands for, especially not the group of men behind him.

But is definitely was noteworthy, striking, that there seemed to be not one Reggae artist of any significance critical of Obama. It's even more striking, that this extends to the Internet where the Dubroom is really one of the few sites containing critique.

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEP 4 I (PART 4) (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Another impressive DUB compilation by the French Original DUB Gathering Net Label. Ah, well, let's be more precise: the fourth episode of the Step 4 I series doesn't carry the subtitle "Serious Dub Makers" for nothing.

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MAD PROFESSOR - ADVENTURES OF A DUB SAMPLER (DUB ME CRAZY CHAPTER SEVEN) (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Throughout the 1980's, Mad Professor set the High Standards for DUB with his DUB ME CRAZY series which started in 1982.

In times when the Jamaican studio's lost their interest and turned to Dancehall, Ariwa Sound kept on releasing one massive document of DUB after the other. This is the 7th chapter, catching up with the Mad Professor in 1987.

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OBAMA NATION (7)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 8 2009

"OBAMA NATION (7)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 8 2009 - It's scary to hear, or better: not hear many of the voices within Reggae that used to protest, chant down, and expose the works of Babylon through the Bush administration.

Like many, the voices have not only silenced, but turned into voices of praise for a man who perpetuastes and accelerates that very same policy.

It can't be, that Barack Obama is the first not-completely-white president of the USA. After all, the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes.

And a look to the men behind Barack Obama doesn't reveal a group of freedom fighters, who chant down Babylon.

Quite the contrary...

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEP 4 I (PART 3) (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - In part three of their excellent line of DUB compilations, the French based Original DUB Gathering goes outernational and gathers ten Ire DUB tunes from the Online DUB Underground.

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MAD PROFESSOR - DUB ME CRAZY (CHAPTER ONE) (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Mad Professor's more than excellent DUB series which started in the 1980's definitely opened up the Art of DUB to a wider audience while also putting himself among the small group of top DUB engineers.

This is the original album that started it all: Dub Me Crazy Part One. Plus two bonus tracks, that is.

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OBAMA NATION (6)

Dubroom Online, Edition June 7 2009

"OBAMA NATION (6)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, June 7 2009 - The wars in Afghanistan and especially in Iraq are widely criticized throughout the last 8 years. The Red, White and Blue invasions in the Middle-East and subsequent brutal occupation have been exposed for what they are.

On top of that, Guantanamo Bay has become the symbol of torture, euphemistically named "enhanced interrogation techniques". Then there is the secret kidnap program, when people are taken to their tortures and possible even worse, in unknown countries.

It's strange, to say the least, how all these things were rightly criticized throughout the last eight years, but when Barack Obama perpetuates the whole thing, even accelerates some, many voices of protest remain silent.

Now why would that be?

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

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEP 4 I (PART 2) (DUBROOM NET ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - From France, With DUB: Four Massive Steppers in the second compilation EP from the Original DUB Gathering Net Label. Get ready for some serious Drum and Bass niceness in 21st Century Style!

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THE MEN BEHIND BARACK OBAMA (BABYLON OBSERVER VIDEO REVIEW)

WWW, June 2009 - Meet Webster Tarpley, historian and author. He wrote the widely acclaimed, Unauthorized Biography Of George Bush, one of the most downloaded books on the Internet. He also wrote the Unauthorized Biography Of Barack Obama.

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