EVALUATING 2009 (14)

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.

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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:

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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EVALUATING 2009 (13)

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.

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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:

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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EVALUATING 2009 (12)

Dubroom Online, Edition December 13 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (12)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 13 2009 - In the summer of this year, I was at the edge of a nervous break-down. Couldn't eat or drink, would be worrying and doing things all day, and it all had to do with some very intense things going on in my private life.

It was so happy that even though I took a month off from Dubroom, I was unable to update the site even for a week after that and when I could, all I could was writing an update basically explained how I was unable to do a thing.

For two years, I had to deal with all kind of official people and organizations, in different countries and with different functions. The climax came in the summer as many delayed things came on my desktop together with things planned for that time as well...

Not to mention the things that came before they were 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:

AJ BROWN - REAL ROCK (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 13 2009 - The Real Rock riddim is often used, and in this one AJ Brown explains just why that is: it's one of "Jah's favorite weapons". Very atmospheric, kind of original, and definitely interesting!

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MIKEY DREAD - BLACK SUPREMACY FOR SOUTH AFRICA (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - Black Supremacy For Africa takes us back to the times we know as the 1980's: the system of Apartheid in South-Africa was still in it's political place and the Racist State still had Nelson Mandela in jail rather than in the president's office.

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Dubroom Online, Edition December 12 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (11)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 12 2009 - Quality is always better than quantity, this also goes for the Dubroom Message Boards. Something which I call "on-topicness" is in my idea a minimal quality requirement that needs no further explanation.

Currently, the membership-list of the Dubroom Message Boards is not big but overall the quality of postings are on-topic and on an interesting level.

Only a few threads turned out to be off-topic, even though at first this wasn't clear. Of course, not everyone who says "Lord, Lord" shall enter into Mount Zion and not everyone who says "Reggae" actually talks about the musical works and culture which is promoted on the Dubroom website.

So I stand corrected there.

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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:

KEN BOOTHE AND NO MORE BABYLON - ARTIBELLA (LIVE) (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 12 2009 - Experiencing a concert with veteran singer Ken Boothe is more than an experience, as he dances from place on stage to the other. In this concert, he teams up with his band whenever he tours in Europe: No More Babylon. Feel the energy!

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MIKEY DREAD - WOMANIZER DUBTRACT (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - A fat drum and bassline, accompanied by synthesizers and sound effects: this Dub of Rod Taylor's "My Complexion" shows a humoristic way of Dub in that unique Mikey Dread style!

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DJ'S AND PRODUCERS: DOWNLOAD FREE EDI FITZROY VOCALS (STUDIO DUBROOM WEB-TIP)

WWW, December 2009 - Having Edi Fitzroy spicing up your podcast or even Dub production? Producers and DJ's can now download a REGGAEDJ.com exclusive with several sound samples from Ras Edi's voice.

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Dubroom Online, Edition December 11 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (10)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 11 2009 - The fact one has to apply in order to be manually added to the Dubroom Message Boards membership-list, a lot of trolls and cyber bullies will be prevented from being able to mash up a thread or even complete fora.

It happened a number of times since the Dubroom Message Boards moved from Xsorbit to Yuku: One person was banned, two applications denied.

All three of these persons did make clear, in some way or another, that they would post off-topic material as the topic of the Dubroom is a positive attitude towards the promotion of (DUB) Reggae and Consciousness, preferably both. In normal language, they would deliberately and intentionally create trouble and expressed so...

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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:

WEBCAM HI-FI - WAR IN THE STREETS (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 11 2009 - French-based electronic Dub Producer Webcam Hi-Fi knows how to make a riddim in what is usually recognized as the UK DUB and ROOTS tradition. Listen and feel!

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MIKEY DREAD - DUB PARTY (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - Check out this invitation to yet another piece of niceness by the Dread at the Controls: Dub Party catches up with Mikey Dread in 1995 when digital technology and analogue were getting more combined than in the decade before. Digital Niceness in which the music does most of the talking.

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MIKEY DREAD - AFRICAN ANTHEM DELUXE: THE MIKEY DREAD SHOW DUBWISE (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW

WWW, December 2009 - If only because of African Anthem alone this album should be considered a clasic, but the fact that this is the Deluxe edition makes this another must-have for every self-respecting collector of the better (DUB) Reggae music.

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EVALUATING 2009 (9)

Dubroom Online, Edition December 10 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (9)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 10 2009 - Where on the old Dubroom Message Boards there were a lot of people who simply registered without ever posting a thing, this is no longer necessary or even possible on the new boards.

Because people are manually added to the membership list, they logically have to apply. Simply creating an account at Yuku is just step one in this two-step process. I see the very same phenomenon of people registering without posting, as I observe how people register but do not apply.

Anyway, there's a nice side-effect.

Even though the measure is there to prevent automatic registrations of "spam-bots", it does also prevent most "trolls" or cyber bullies from being able to mash up a thread or even complete fora with their dung.

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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:

RONNIE DAVIS - RAINDROPS (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 10 2009 - The tune is short, but nice: original Rockers from the 1970's, majestically sung by Ronnie Davis. Previously only released in Jamaica, now presented to you courtesy of President Records who hope you'll get the point, the point being the album!

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MIKEY DREAD - BACKSTAGE PASS (DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - Life as a touring artist is not always easy, especially not when people try to get a backstage pass for a photograph and an autograph. Or is it? Find out in this 2007 release by Mikey Dread and a whole host of the top of Jamaica's Reggae musicians.

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MIKEY DREAD - DREAD AT THE CONTROL/EVOLUTIONARY ROCKERS (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - Together with some crucial DUB versions, this 2005 two-albums-on-one-disc release contains the original 1979 Mikey Dread debut releases all mixed in King Tubby's Waterhouse Studio.

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EVALUATING 2009 (8)

Dubroom Online, Edition December 9 2009

"EVALUATING 2009 (8)" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, December 9 2009 - Where the ones who regularly posted on the old Dubroom Message Boards did find their way to the new one and the amount of postings is heading towards the "old level", well over 1100 members did not.

These ones were -for the most part- people who registered themselves but never posted a thing. Some did it to stay up-to-date with a particular thread, but not everyone. Especially not since it was no longer necessary to register at Xsorbit for people who wanted to subscribe to a mailing list.

The phenomenon doesn't take place at the new boards, simply because there is an application process in which the administrator (that would be me) has to manually add people to the membership list.

In other words: simply registering doesn't provide the possibility to post.

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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:

DENNIS BROWN - MOUNT ZION (ON BROADWAY) (DUBROOM ONLINE MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 9 2009 - Just niceness, seen? Dennis Brown's classic "Mount Zion (On Broadway)" will make the heart and souls of those that remember "the good old 1980's" more than warm. Doesn't need no introduction, just download!

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MIKEY DREAD - DESTINY(DUBROOM MP3 REVIEW)

WWW, December 2009 - A tight guitar, Jamaica's finest horn section, backing vocals, they serve as foundation for Mikey Dread while he shares his true feelings about hisd, and our, lifes. His legacy speaks for itself, as it keeps blessing people for decades and decades to come!

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NEW ZEALAND BANS BEENIE MAN (FROM THE DUBROOM MESSAGE BOARDS)

WWW, December 2009 - In yet another move in what has become a war against Dancehall waged by "gay rights activists", Dancehall star Beenie Man was banned from performing at a New Zealand festival for lyrics he wrote and performed before signing the "Reggae Compassion Act". A hot issue!

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