MESSIAN DREAD - SOUNDS OF HIS IMPERIAL
DUBWISE
DUBROOM VIDEO RELEASE
WWW, August 24 2014 - The fifth Dubroom video of this year
has that other mix of the two-track release "His Imperial Dubwise".
This mix is completely different than the extended one also released at You Tube
and so is the video.
Making video's has a lot in common with making Dub. Well, "dub" is
also a movie term so yes the commonalities have been established before. Making
video's from a Dub track can be very challenging, especially when you want to go
a bit further than putting effects on screen.
Anyway, hopefully you like what you hear (and perhaps see).
SEAMUS - BABYLON SYSTEM (DISCOMIX)
DUBROOM VIDEO RELEASE
WWW, August 17-22 2014 - This is a special Dubroom video release of the yet unreleased extended track voiced by Seamus called "Babylon System". A Dub of the track can be downloaded for free at the following link: http://music.dubroom.org/netalbums-heavyweightdubwise.htm
The video deals with the recent murder of a young black man called Michael Brown by a white police man. Another bredda killed dead. Babylon system crushing down.
The video is livicated to all sufferers of racist brutality and murder
IN THE MEAN TIME...
MESSIAN DREAD UPDATE AUGUST 22 2014
WWW, August 22 2014 - Yesterday was the
conclusion of the official release of my album "Heavyweight
Dubwise". During the last twelve days, while one track was released per
day, I've been doing all kinds of things. Things, that not only justify this
update, but require them. Read about the midi files, about being accused of
stealing from a thief, about all my Creative Commons releases, and more.
the midi files
After kind of rising from my online slumber earlier this year, I discovered a
new feature at my web hosting provider. I can watch in real-time what happens on
the dubroom.org servers, and I do that a few times a week. This helped me
tremendously, because I learned that the Midi Files we've released during the
early years of this website back in 1997 were way more popular than I thought.
Truly, I thought it was more a thing people would go to for old times sake,
and an "occasional" producer/visitor of studio.dubroom.org.
How wrong I was.
I knew about "Skream", the Dub Step producer that has used our
material for his commercial releases without even crediting us. I knew about
some other people who used the midi files for non-commercial reasons, but I was
absolutely unaware of the enormous popularity. Yes, that page is visited 1000's
of times each week.
All these people who have been visiting that page, have been reading the
copyright notices. Notices which basically prevented honest people from
spreading the stuff. And so, thieves like Skream got away with it. If these
files would have been released in the Creative Commons domain, he would just
have been the next to use that particular file.
I discovered this year, that the Dubroom is visited every day by much (many?
dunno my inglish there) more producers than I previously thought. I really
thought that studio.dubroom.org got like a few visits a day but that is
absolutely not the case. From all over the world people are visiting the studio,
reading the tutorials. Even from places you don't expect.
Gradually, things dawned and I started to see connections.
And so I re-released all the midi files into the creative commons domain.
I pick my battles and ketching vampires like skream is much more of a worldly,
carnal thing than I care to deal with actually. I mean, this is a guy who works
in a scene very much comparable with Dancehall and Techno, meaning cokane and
dollars using immorality and pompous behavior. He's making his fortune doing
these things. To be honest I do not want to have one cent of that fortune. So
why am I putting so much energy in this whole dead-bury-dead culture, and why do
i not realize that of course vampires are there sucking from the source of life
by sucking from Jah people.
Yes, what's new? Hm.... It's not like stealing my Inspiration. It's showing lack
of contact with the Source of life.
I see that so many people visit the midi page. Skream is not the only one, I am
sure of that. None of them want anyone to know about the Midi file, obviously.
So this is the best way to counter these parasites without giving them one more
minute of the time that Jah gave me to do things.
you tube
While "everyone" was downloading and -hopefully- listening to my
new releases, myself I was diving deep back in the Dubroom's archives,
re-discovering some track I totally forgot about, recalling some precious
moments and just having a basic good time with these old tracks.
I wasn't playing the mp3's on my VLC player's play list, though. I was
uploading them all to You Tube, but not at the official Dubroom Channel.
You Tube has this nice feature called "Video Editor". Everyone can
make their own video using music that is published under Creative Commons on You
Tube, or use video material published at You Tube under Creative Commons. I used
the last possibility for the official Dubroom video releases I did in the last
time, and I thought it would be nice to give something back.
Throughout the years, people have uploaded some of my Creative Commons
releases to You Tube and this gave me the inspiration to open my own personal
You Tube channel (called "the Dubroom Dread") and start to upload all
music that the Dubroom released under Creative Commons. I've loaded each track
in Windows Movie Maker, added some information on the screen, and subsequently
uploaded the results to my You Tube Channel at www.youtube.com/dubroomdread.
In essence, I'm providing a complete catalogue of well over 300 tracks to the
You Tube community. Nicely sorted in play lists, each one with a download link
in the description. Music by Sure Dread, Heartical, Jah Roots, and myself,
everything nicely sorted with play lists. Yes, still under construction and
therefore not yet "officially anounced", but that will come later.
It's not even the reason why I write this update, even though it can be quite
an interesting piece of information for some. Everyone with a You Tube account
should be able to click on the "remix this video" button and start
using the music on their own account.
an incredible engagement
Then, when I was uploading my tunes, I saw that one of them was flagged with
a copyright notice.
I pressed play and, yes, that was my music. It was during a
rather dubbed out piece where I use a specific effect.
There was a button that enabled me to respond to this really
bizarre claim. And so I wrote them about the track and showed them the proof
that if in fact the recording was used by the claimer, that claimer had violated
mine.
I went on to search for this particular artist and the track he
released. I discovered it was all over the Internet, at Itunes, Amazon, all the
big names had the track for sale.
Time to actually listen to the track, I pressed play at
Amazon.com and to my utmost surprise I discover that this was my tune indeed. It
even had my voice, it was the Dub that I released and here and there a little
thing was added. Even Skream had done more work than this particular individual.
I wrote a review that basically said what the track was and my advice not to buy
it. The comment was approved by Amazon within an hour.
During that hour, I had discovered that this particular artist
was trying to make a name for himself in that industry which I have exposed in
two books and countless of other publications. Yes, the Christian Industry. His
particular track was released a few years back. I discovered a trail wherein
this person, year after year, pretended to have produced this track and received
one compliment after the other. He was all over the Internet receiving good
comments about "his" track, compliments which he responded to with
"Thank you".
A righteous anger awoke.
This was no longer a copyright issue caused by a notice of one
of my tracks at You Tube.
This was Jah showing me what these blasphemers had done, once
again. Stealing the real thing, "sanctifying" it by totally renaming
the track and not giving any indication whatsoever about any other source than
their own "inspiration", offering it for sale to an audience that is
trained into believing that the Most High orders them to only listen to
"sanctified" music. Yes indeed, I have seen that before.
Just like the money changers in the temple, just like the one
Peter described in the following scripture:
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their
damnation slumbereth not. (source)
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight
thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a
ready mind; (source)
This guy made merchandise of not just me, but especially his
audience. An audience, that believes they should turn to self proclaimed
"Gospel Reggae" artists in order to get a blessing from Jesus. A paid
blessing. Feigned words, saying he produced this thing. Feeding the flock of
Jah, his audience, for filthy lucre.
What a shame.
What a blasphemy!
Blasphemy? Yes. I didn't mention how this particular artist's
name included the Name of the Almighty. Everything he does, he does in the Name
of the Most High. The stealing, the misleading, putting the thieved material up
for sale, everything.
Of course that is not why I had made the track. That is not why
I released it online for free, many years ago.
I didn't make it to get accused of being a thief, either.
After all, that was the factual situation. The thief, who stole
that track from me, had officially registered his stolen good as his own
intellectual property when he put it up for sale. When I then wanted to upload
"his" intellectual property to You Tube I got accused for stealing his
stolen good. A total reversal of the truth.
Even though everything was easily proven, the situation was far
more serious and so I contacted the guy. What followed was a truly bizarre
exchange of communication which I would like to share with you.
I confronted him with the spiritual truth that I just painted in
previous paragraphs. Frankly, I asked him how he could maintain such a thing for
years in a row and not be confronted with the law written in the hearts of all
those that are truly born again. How can you claim to be born again and not be
convicted in your heart? I advised him very strongly to consider the words in
John 3:16, that quote our Lord saying everyone that believeth in Yesus shall
have eternal life.
Initially, my worst fear seemed to materialize in front of my
eyes.
He totally ignored everything, and was only interested in a
practical work-out. Yes, he would write to all the sites and have them remove
the track. Could he still offer it for free, though?
After pointing out to these specific, very serious things that
the apostle Peter wrote about, after my plea for him to check out his position
in Christ (if any!), my strong advise to go to the Father with this thing, all
he wanted was to hold on to what he got. He could not let go of his stolen good.
It was truly, truly painful to witness.
However, not all hope was lost. It took a while before he told
me that he had prayed over it and it was his idea that the Lord indeed wanted
him to remove everything. I hope he will do what Jah says. That's so much more
important than anything else!
in the mean time
I updated the Net Label website and my Ifficial home as well.
There are a lot new artist pages and several of them now include You Tube
embed's. My Ifficial home now has the right copyright notice with every track,
the one page from where you can download all my music is heavily updated as
well. Things should absolutely be more clear.
LONE RANGER - ROCK AND COME IN DUBWISE
DUBROOM NET LABEL RELEASE
WWW, August 21 2014 - This is the official release date of the 12th and final
track of the album "Messian Dread Presents A Heavyweight Dubwise Selection
Without Objection". Here is: Lone Ranger - Rock And Come In Dubwise.
To close of this twelve-track presentation of heavyweight Dubwise selections
introducing an equal number of original Dubroom riddims fresh from the studio in
August 2014, another legendary MC. It's amazing how the Lone Ranger, just like
all these other legends featured on this album, is still strong after all these
decades of really hard, hard labor in the world of Reggae Music and Sound
Systems everywhere.
The Dub starts of with Don Goliath singing that well known phrase which gave
the title to this track. Don't think this is a remake of anything, though. It's
not. What it is, is an original "Riddim of respect" if you will.
Respect to all those vocalists riding the musical productions and especially
those that can and should be considered legends.
Yes, in 2014 everything looks like as if everything happened in one time.
There's the mid-late 1960's U Roy became founding father of the Reggae DJ's,
followed by Dennis Alcapone. Then came the 1970's, when Dillinger and Trinity
became two of the leading voices in the militant Roots Reggae DJ era and Kojak
& Liza was formed. Soon after that, the 1980's when Horseman started in the
1980's recording for Greensleeves Records.
And in fact, it is.
During the introduction, Lone Ranger says: "Later, will be greater.
That's what the farmer said to the potato without planting the
manipulator". Now, this 2014, could be that later. We've had all kinds of
manipulated potatoes in the form of hybridized forms of music taking everything
but the true soul of Reggae Music and turn it into whatever it is since these
1960's when the "potato" was planted.
One thing still stands strong: (DUB) Reggae Music with that soul of Reggae
Music firmly in charge. With respect for the Most High, chanting down Babylon
with her ism's and schisms. Built on a solid foundation of drum and bass, making
responsible use of the freedom that the Most High wants for His children.
Yes, indeed: just a little meditation to close the first full length Messian
Dread album since almost a decade.
MESSIAN DREAD - CRAZY BUT DUBWISE
DUBROOM NET LABEL RELEASE
WWW, August 20 2014 - This is the official release date of the 11th track of
the album "Messian Dread Presents A Heavyweight Dubwise Selection Without
Objection". Here is: Messian Dread - Crazy But Dubwise.
This is Dub! Undeniably and unmistakably Dub. This is Dub, from the top to
the very last drop. Featuring Assante and US based MC Razaman being dropped into
another dimension by an echo machine that tears all the frequencies apart and
puts them back again in another galaxy. That's before the very same thing
happens with the skanks. Things get so weird that Dillinger drops in and gives
the title to this Dub. Which is then subsequently confirmed once again.
Think it's crazy? Well, yes, it is. But it is Dubwise too. And it's an
obvious Messian Dread track. The Horn section (recorded
in Mad Professor's Ariwa studio) plays a theme very similar to
"Ethiopian Dub" (released way back then in the previous century on the
debut album "One"),
where the drum and bass line are pretty identifiable as well. This is a Dub
produced with the love for crazy effects that every Dub Head has.
HORSEMAN AND DAN MAN - ROBBER DUBWISE
DUBROOM NET LABEL RELEASE
WWW, August 19 2014 - This is the official release date of the 10th track of
the album "Messian Dread Presents A Heavyweight Dubwise Selection Without
Objection". Here is: Horseman And Dan Man - Robber Dubwise.
This is a track for all the rude boys and hooligans. Horseman chants
"Riddim", the skanks drop in and the Fire
Face Music Horn Section starts to play. The drum and bass drop in, the
skanks echo out and the horns get the Dub treatment. Dan Man steps in with a
little singing line and when someone calls the police because of yet the next
robbery, it's over for the rude boy. "Whatcha gonna do? Him hold you"
Yes, a serious thing yet the track should also be seen as a bit of a lighter
one when it comes to, let's say, spiritual contents. After all, this is a track
that's part of a full length Dub album, following up a rather serious and
spiritual track and predecessing the next one, where the effect machine gets no
rest at all. That's not to say that this one is a "filler", though.
Not at all, especially not when you like your "dubbing with horns".
U ROY - MASH DOWN SATAN DUBWISE
DUBROOM NET LABEL RELEASE
WWW, August 18 2014 - This is the official release date of the 9th track of
the album "Messian Dread Presents A Heavyweight Dubwise Selection Without
Objection". Here is: U Roy - Mash Down Satan Dubwise.
Of Course, Daddy U Roy himself does not need an introduction. It simply is an
honor for the Dubroom to be able to legally present the founding father of (not
just) Reggae MC-ing riding an original Dubroom riddim. Mash Down Satan Dubwise
has more than enough lyrics to make it absolutely clear that U Roy is absolutely
not intending to take it easy at his old day. He praises the Most High and
chants down Babylon continually, morning noon or night.
Producing the full lyrical track from which this Dub is taken was quite an
experience as well, where his enormous experience most definitely was guiding
the process even though it came in the form of recorded material. The result is
a very carefully dubbed track, that sometimes remincenses King Tubby's style and
at other places makes heavy use of effects that weren't around during these
early years of Dubwise. This one is a Dub of Raspect.
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