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Written by Mitch SantellProducer, Co-Founder Big Reggae MixEach and every day at Big Reggae Mix we continue to discover and uncover amazing artists from around the world. You will find below a track called Cool Breeze that you can play below. Check it out:Ever since Sure Dread joined roots reggae band Jah Roots at the age of 14, he has been developing his talents on reggae-keyboards. With no other mentor but Jah, his talents and the albums he has heard, Sure Dread now has his own style of roots reggae. In Jah Roots, many times he needed to fill the music without the help of a guitarist or another keyboard player. 'You can definitly count Jah Roots among my major inpirators,' he says.

Sure Dread makes his own music with the PC as central point in his set-up, although you can not hear that so good. Where most artists that create reggae music with computers dwell in the realm of dancehall, Sure Dread chooses a totally different way.

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You can hear Culture, Steel Pulse and Jah Roots in his original music. He works together with Messian Dread Jah Roots and in the Dubroom, their award-winning reggae site where they both publish their original music in midi-format. Where Messian puts a clear emphasis on dub, Sure Dread has a more musical approach of his music and his skillfull roots reggae sounds would serve very nicely as backing tracks for those Jamaican artists such as Culture and the Mighty Diamonds.Link. Commentary and Analysis by Mitch SantellProducer and Co-Founder, Big Reggae MixSince launching Big Reggae Mix (KREG) on November 5, 2014 we have watched our little station grow organically.While my own background has been producing POP, Smooth Jazz, Alternative and Rock Music, you need to know from me as the Co-Founder of the station that I have learned about Reggae from our Founder Scott T. Brown whom I have known personally for over ten years.In looking at the spectrum of various music formats, I sincerely know in my heart that in 2015 - Reggae Music (and most of its sub-genres - no we don't play dance hall), has a profound impact on our world.The impact and the healing power of Reggae to 2015 is what the Folk and Rock Music Movements were in the 1960's.

Reggae Music is literally the one form of music that is still promoted, run and distributed for the most part by music people.Many of the artists that I now listen to I listen to because of Scott T. If Big Reggae Mix was more than just an online radio station - let's say we expanded and became a record label - I am now convinced that with Scott T. Brown's ears and Errol Brown (our partner and Executive Producer) we would have a slew of #1 hits.The music business continues as always to go through tremendous transition. As I learn more and more about Reggae, I am open and willing to share with you, our followers, listeners and fans some more about the depth and breadth of Reggae.So check this out. Reggae is the musical genre which revolutionized Jamaican music. When it emerged in the late 1960s, it came as a cultural bombshell not only to Jamaica but the whole world. Its slow jerky rhythm, its militant and spiritual lyrics as well as the rebellious appearance of its singers, among others, have influenced musical genres, cultures and societies throughout the world, contributing to the development of new counterculture movements, especially in Europe, in the USA and Africa.

Indeed, by the end of the 1960s, it participated in the birth of the skinhead movement in the UK. In the 1970s, it impacted on Western punk rock/ pop cultures, influencing artists like Eric Clapton and The Clash. During the same decade, it inspired the first rappers in the USA, giving rise to hip-hop culture. Finally, since the end of the 1970s, it has also influenced singers originating from Africa, the Ivorian singers Alpha Blondy and Tiken Jah Fakoly, and the South African Lucky Dube clearly illustrating this point.

Thus, my paper will examine the impact of reggae music on the worldwide cultural universe, focusing particularly on Europe, the USA and Africa. Reggae music not only influenced the skinhead movement, but it also strongly influenced the punk movement, partly thanks to Don Letts, a young black man born in London of Jamaican parents. In 1977, Don Letts was a DJ at the legendary nightclub The Roxy where he introduced reggae and dub to the burgeoning punk rock scene, thereby influencing British punk bands like The Clash and The Sex Pistols. In an interview that I conducted with Don Letts, he explained to me how he happened to play reggae in this famous punk-oriented club:.10“This was so early in the punk movement that there weren’t any punk record to play. So I played what I loved, dub reggae, and lucky for me the punks loved it too, although I did slip in a bit of New York Dolls, Iggy and the Stooges and the MC5 occasionally.

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They liked the bass lines and the anti-Establishment stance and the fact that the songs were about something (and they didn’t mind the weed either!).”The same year, The Clash started mixing punk and reggae rhythms together and they covered Junior Murvin’s reggae hit “Police And Thieves.” As for Bob Marley, whom was actually Don Letts’ friend and moreover had been introduced to the punk scene by the latter, he released “Punky Reggae Party,” a tune that became the anthem to the cultural exchange that Don Letts had created at the Roxy. Another song that deserves to be quoted is The Clash’s “The Guns Of Brixton” which evokes police repression in Brixton and echoes the subsequent riots in 1981:“When they kick out your front doorHow you gonna come?With your hands on your headOr on the trigger of your gunWhen the law break inHow you gonna go?Shot down on the pavementOr waiting in death rowYou can crush usYou can bruise usBut you’ll have to answer toOh, Guns of Brixton” (The Clash 1979).11This song clearly represents the anger of the people against a society which makes them live in misery, the police incarnating this society. Actually, punk rock and reggae music, though completely different from a musical perspective, shared some similarities, to begin with the fact that they both were counterculture musical movements, spreading a message of rebellion against the Establishment.

Here is what Wikipedia had to say:Barry Brown (c. 1962, — 29 May 2004) was a Jamaican, initially coming to prominence in the 1970s with his work with, but remaining popular throughout his career.Barry Brown was one of a number of singers to find success in the 1970s under Bunny Lee. After forming a short-lived group called with and Johnny Lee, Brown went solo.

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Although his first release, 'Girl You're Always On My Mind', had little impact, his vocal style soon found popularity, with his first coming with 1979's 'Step It Up Youthman', which led to an of the same name on Paradise Records. One of the most successful artists of the early era, Brown worked with some of Jamaica's top producers of the time, including, and, as well as releasing self-produced material. He recorded for in 1983, including 'Far East'. After releasing eleven albums between 1979 and 1984, Brown's releases became more sporadic, although his work continued to feature prominently on such as those of.In the 1990s, Brown's health deteriorated, suffering with and substance abuse problems, and he died in May 2004 in Sone Waves in, after falling and hitting his head. Reggae On The River the non-profit festival that acts as the primary fundraiser for the local Mateel Community Center, is this year extending its services to the people of West Africa, namely the rural community of Zao in Burkina Faso, as well as other destinations around the globe by asking people to donate old tools, bikes, sewing machines, etc. For their Tools For Change program.Organizers said “The response so far has been so incredible that we've already collected a full container of tools and are now seeking funds to help with shipping costs. Written by Mitch SantellFor many years I have heard Scott T.

Brown speak of Reggae On The River. It is interesting to note that in researching this venue I found out that it is a non-profit festival that does great work in the world. This morning I was visiting a very cool web site called United Reggae.

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Here is what I found out about the web site and magazine:is an online magazine created in October 2007 and dedicated to reggae music. It has the intention of offering a real international platform of information on this rich and healthy music.

Our aim is to promote and spread the inspiring and healing vibrations of Reggae music and culture.The magazine features 6 sections: News, Articles, Artists, Videos, Books and Movies. Artists, Books and Movies are three original databases updated daily. Written by Mitch SantellWe are very excited to announce that our numbers are growing since we launched Big Reggae Mix at TuneIn dot com.As of this morning, we have over 700+ listeners from TuneIn. This does not include our iTunes listeners, our web site listeners and visitors and our stream licensing feed.Music, especially Reggae Music is all the passion and the community behind the music.

You will never meet a more dedicated audience than Reggae fans.Make it a wonderful day, tune in often and do not hesitate to use our contact form on the home page to write to us. If you are not familiar with Easy Star All-Star's they are simply so much fun. Here is what others have said about them:After their full coverage of classic albums from both and, the collective known as go way back to the band and the album that pretty much changed everything. The accent, as always, is on the part of the band's name, meaning this easy-skanking tribute to flows effortlessly, never getting caught up in overly ambitious detours or ridiculously huge arrangements. Tracks like 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' with guest vocalist and 'Within You Without You' with natural mystic have slick studio touches, but the heavy lifting is left up to the performances, and both guest vocalists are perfect choices who simply nail it.

Having been on the road frequently the previous two years pays off, as the players are suitably loose, creating grooves that feel natural and alive. The ever growing importance of the horn section comes to fruition as they shrink some of the original album's elaborate arrangements into smaller packages, ones that could be imagined in a live setting or - in the case of 's 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite' - at some wicked ska-fueled pool party.

The warm voice of closes the set on a dubby 'A Day in the Life,' a cover version drenched in reverb with a clever imitation of the locked groove gibberish found at the end of the original LP.Read the rest of what David Jeffries had to say. Okay onto the track listing.1. Natural Mystic2. Punky Reggae Party3. Easy Skanking5. Slave Driver7.

Burnin' And Lootin'8. The Heathen9.

Three Little Birds10.Crazy Baldhead11.Small Axe12.Duppy Conqueror13.Midnight Ravers14.I Shot The Sheriff15.Smile Jamaica16.One Love17.Exodus18.Who the Cap Fit19.Coming In From The Cold20.Buffalo Soldier21.Zimbabwe22.Bad Card23.Give Thanks & Praises24.One Drop25.Could You Be Loved26.Ambush In The Night27.Redemption Song (Band Version).