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Dubroom Online, Edition December 20 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (19)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 20 2009 - Not only did the MP3 portal get a huge clean-up, not only did the new section of the Dubroom Artist Pages come into existence, and not only did this year give birth to the Dubroom Message Boards 2.0, there's a lot of work to be done which surely will not take place before the end of this year.

Take the video reviews.

They're in the same state that mp3.dubroom.org saw itself in before the clean-up.

I simply did not have or find the time to check out every review to see if the actual video's were still online.

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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:

EARL 16 AND WEBCAM HI-FI - STARLIGHTS (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 20 2009 - Nuff French vibes, nuff Roots and DUB vibes: another superb production by the French based producer, this time with Jamaican singer Earl 16 at the microphone stand spreading Roots and Culture in yet another conscious lyrical work!

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MIKEY DREAD - ORIGINAL GENERAL (DISCOMIX) (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - The Roots Radics, Earl 16 and Mikey Dread come together in this extended Discomix. The rock 'n' roll guitar follows the bassline who in it's turn serves as foundation for an energetic Rub a Dub Reggae track, and as we're taken from the top to the very last drop, we're being treated with nuff niceness, DUBWISE included!

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Dubroom Online, Edition December 19 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (18)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 19 2009 - The Dubroom looks back at a good year, this year. Three successful projects, that's something to be grateful about and so I give thanks.

There were also things that didn't went the way I planned them. Especially in my personal life, that is.

I even wrote an article about it called "Making Jah Laugh" in a variation on Woody Allen who once said: "You want to make Jah laugh? Tell Him about your plans".

Plans concerning the Dubroom Studio, for example, didn't go the way we planned it. Jah had other things for us to do, but we still work on getting the studio fit for recording musicians and mixing Dub old-skool style.

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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:

ALTON ELLIS - LONELY (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 19 2009 - In this historical recording, we know just why Alton Ellis is considered to be one of the most soulful singers that Reggae knows, which says a lot. Lonely is a typical 1980's digital dancehall riddim, from the times that the music between Rub a Dub and Dancehall was called Ragga.

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MIKEY DREAD - HOMELESS PEOPLE (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - In this Year-2000 release, we catch up with Mikey Dread whose own label Dread At The Control basically re-purchased his own works so that he could share it with the people of the world. Homeless People contains a heartical cry as Mikey Dread shows he can do more things with his voice than talking and toasting!

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Dubroom Online, Edition December 18 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (17)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 18 2009 - The moving of the Dubroom Message Boards, the clean-up of the Dubroom's MP3 Portal and the introduction of the Dubroom Artist Pages are three successful projects.

We started a series called "Dubroom Online MP3 Reviews", where from August 16 until December 31 there was at least one MP3 review in our daily editions of Dubroom Online.

On top of that series, we showcased a number of artists, ones like Jah Free, Edit Fitzroy, No More Babylon, Nucleus Roots and of course Mikey Dread.

However, there were also things which didn't went as planned.

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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:

DUBDADDA - GIVE LOVE (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 18 2009 - Heartical and Soulfull UK DUB and Roots in one of it's purest forms: Dubdadda knows what he's doing: after all, he's been doing it for a long time. Give Love is a massive Steppers that will appeal to you when you're into UK DUB and ROOTS and why should you not be?

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MIKEY DREAD - THEME SIGNAL (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - The theme in Theme Signal is Rub a Dub. The theme is instrumental, with sound effects and Dub mixing to complete this piece of Rub a Dub niceness played by some of Jamaica's finest musicians.

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Dubroom Online, Edition December 17 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (16)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 17 2009 - Where no less than 111 pages were moved to the MP3 museum, already there are about 50 new artists at mp3.dubroom.org, all recently added. In the time I write this, there are a lot to come, still, too!

Together with the introduction of the brand new section of Dubroom Artist Pages, the clean-up of the MP3 Portal was by far the biggest project of 2009, when it comes to the Dubroom.

Perhaps there is another one too.

The demise of Xsorbit, the former hosting company for the Dubroom Message Boards, and the subsequent move to Yuku, was indeed another project.

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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:

D.A.T.C. STABLE - FREEZING (EXTENDED DUB) (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 17 2009 - In "Freezing", we meet up with the complete posse behind Michael "Dread At The Controls" Campbell, aka Mikey Dread. Rub a Dub style, Party style, over 7 minutes of pure niceness, both instumentally and dubically!

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MIKEY DREAD - STAR CHASE (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - Star Chase is a fine instrumental, recorded in Jamaica during a time wherein Rub a Dub was yet to go digital with riddims like Sleng-Teng. None of that is noticeable in this upfull and Ire instrumental track with a slice of DUB from 1984.

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A WHO TRAP BUJU? (BABYLON OBSERVER REPORT)

WWW, December 2009 - The news that Buju Banton was arrested in Florida (USA) for the bizarre claim of "conspiracy to posses more than five kilo of cocaine" caused waves of responses all over Babylon. From the "Gay Rights Activists" to Idrens in the Movement of Rastafari, everybody agrees that this has to do with his musical works rather than the alleged claims.

A report.

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(with apologies for the delay)

Dubroom Online, Edition December 16 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (15)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 16 2009 - The MP3 portal is growing into a more than interesting place for people looking for free and legal (DUB) Reggae Mp3 files. I think one can even say that it has never been so interesting as it became in these last months of 2009.

Labels with promo-tracks, Net Labels with complete albums, and of course the artists themselves who put their music online, they're all represented and reviewed and the end is not yet in sight.

Our access to this huge collection of free and legal tunes brought us not just music which the labels already decided to give away as promo-tracks, the Dubroom also successfully requested for a Scientist tune released by the Auralux label to be available as free download.

For which we give thanks.

More Tomorrow...

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:

EARL 16 AND NO MORE BABYLON - GROOVY SITUATION (LIVE) (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 16 2009 - Not only do they release some very crucial material of their own, No More Babylon knows very well how to back up Jamaican singers like Ken Boothe and Earl 16, also when he's singing a brand new release from himself. Raspect!

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MIKEY DREAD - JUNGLE SIGNAL (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - This is not just the DUB Counterpart of Mikey Dread's track "Roots and Culture", it is actually an extended track of it's own, reserved for some crucial horn playing from Rico and others that will blow away every bad vibe in the area!

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Dubroom Online, Edition December 15 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (14)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 15 2009 - By getting the possibility to put so many crucial music on-site, the Dubroom's MP3 portal had the biggest clean-up in it's history.

I had to move the pages of around 100 artists into the MP3 Museum. The musical works that were reviewed were no longer online, mostly because they had their music on an OMD like download.com or mp3.com and these sites went offline.

Fortunately, in the same time, the portal was rebuild and now you can find names there like Sugar Minott, Scientist, Frankie Paul, and many more. Mind you: the portal is still under construction and will remain to be very interesting to visit.

Jah Willing, that is.

More Tomorrow...

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:

CARLTON LIVINGSTON - HERE I STAND (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 15 2009 - Classic Rub A Dub style from the man who gave us 100LBS Of Collie Weed: this recording from the 1980's will still make nuff people move and groove, and not just for memory's sake!

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MIKEY DREAD - STEREO DUB (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - Taken from the sublime album DUB Catalogue featuring the Roots Radics and Scientist at the Control Towers, Stereo Dub is Rub a Dub DUB at it's finest in every aspect you can think of!

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BUJU BANTON ARRESTED (FROM THE BABYLON OBSERVER MESSAGEBOARD)

WWW, December 14 2009 - Charged with the bizarre claim that he's guilty of "conspiracy to posess" kilo's of coke, Buju Banton seems to be currently in a Florida prison after being caught on a surveillance camera together with an unknown person. Framed? Read more on the Babylon Observer Message Board.

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Dubroom Online, Edition December 14 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (13)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 14 2009 - After a hiatus and a close-to-nervous- breakdown situation in the summer of 2009, in which the Dubroom was hardly updated, August saw the beginning of what would become the major theme of the Dubroom until the end of this year: free and legal MP3's, loads and loads and even more loads of free and legal (DUB) Reggae MP3's.

First of all, we discovered EZTRACKS which is nice, but more important: the Dubroom acquired access to a large collection of free and legal mp3's, under which hundreds of Reggae tunes.

From the middle of August to the end of December, the Dubroom featured several MP3's on a daily basis.

More Tomorrow...

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:

TOP CAT - PASS THE CHALICE FOR ME (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 14 2009 - Barrington Levy made the riddim popular with the incredible "Under Mi Sensi". Top Cat does it all over again as he asks the ganja smokers to Smoke A Chalice for him. Crucially Crucial!

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MIKEY DREAD - RAVING STYLE (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - The Roots Radics and Mikey Dread did a lot of things together. The band played at it's best, the Dub engineer did more than his part, and the result blessed many lovers of Dub throughout the whole wide world. Raving Style is "just" one example, and what an example it is!

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