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  • Audio illusions of Dub!!

    今の気分:よくやった!

    Audio illusions of Dub!!    Aricd / lp 225

     

    Mad Professor

     

     

    1. Kalimba dub  

    2. Slave trade  

    3. Rasta Kaos  

    4. Wari wari      

    5. Mek a tell yo 

     

    6. Fula girl   

    7. Echo Delusion 

    8. Miskito Dub 

    9. Dry wood Dub 

    10.On the Brink of feedback!

     

    11. Kingston 1972

    12. Hot Fever dub

    13. Cool & easy Dub

    14. Left Shot Dub

     

     

    Illusions is a funny word!

     

    Probably the most tricky word in the world of words.

    Optical illusions make a thirsty man think there is water ahead

    Too much mental illusions, and you will be described as schitzophrenic

     

    One of the greatest effects slavery had on black people is racism..

    Sometimes, just as the mirage, you see it, and as you get nearer it disappears.

    Sometimes it’s the opposite. Everything appears normal, as you get to know the scene better, you realise some serious under current exists.

    Described as a chip on the shoulder, by those who don’t experience it, As Bob sung, Who feels it, knows it!

     

    Audio illusions of Dub encapsulates the mood of this strange form of music exhales.

    In existence since the turn of the 1970’s when to satisfy the new breed of soundsystem talkers (Toasters, Mc’s etc), Jamaican producers and engineers took the part 2 ( version) idea as practiced by soul & R&B labels, a little further. These innovators (King Tubbys, Lee Perry, Niney, Bunny Lee, Errol Thompson)  and others reshaped the version, recolouring the sound and texture of the music by adding extreme doses of reverb and delays at certain points. 

    This is Dub Music, an original form of Jamaican Music, priestly ignored in it’s original country, hijacked, distorted, re-titled as Dub step!!

    In the beginning there was Dub!!!!

     

  • Lovers Rock Lounge!

    今の気分:幸福

    On last Wednesday I paid my second visit to the Lovers Rock Lounge in the West End of London, where I was thoroughly entertained!

    Hosted by the evergreen Carroll Thompson, this night has been running for about a year now, and it's on the first Wednesday in every month, at Ruby lee, off Oxford Street. This evening had performances from Audrey Scott (lead singer of the Sadonians), singing her early eighties hit, "goodbye my love " and Joy Mack, another singer from the same era, who had the almost full venue singing all the words to her biggie "You had your chance, you silly so & so!"

    The was also Omar, though not Lovers Rock, his hit "There's nothing like this" was adopted by the reggae masses, and by default of his Dad Byron, he is a descendant of the London reggae scene! As was expected, Omar was almost mobbed by female fans, who jostled each other to rub him up while he was singing, at one point he was rubbed simultaneously by two very hungry ladies, resulting in our hero screaming delightfully "Menage ala trois"!

    This highly entertaining evening was filmed by colourtv, and can be viewed at www.colourtelly.tv, dj for the night was the comical President (Back to the future!) Kennedy!

    I highly recommend this night. Next month, the first of 2009 will be held on January the 20th, and will also be a party to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obamba...So if you are not busy, I would reccomend this highly entertaining evening. 

     

  • Ariwa on Obama!

    今の気分:野心

    Ariwa on Obama!!

    November 6th 2008 I am on flight AA66 American Airlines just arrived in London from Dallas / Hawaii. "Welcome to London!" Greeted the air stewardess, "I am please to tell you that we have a new president of the United States, Barrack Obama"!

    It's hard to describe the feeling that engulfed my soul. Having spent the past 10 days on the East Coast of America, and the past week in Hawaii, I had read the signs. Though knowing Americans, I wasn't convinced that I was reading the correct signs. After all, this is a nation of people that has 2 faces, a public and a private face. The two white youths that picked me up in Buffalo were singing loud and proud Obama.

    In Hawaii, where Obama spent much of his childhood, old shopkeepers, taxi drivers, were all quite open about who they were voting in.

    The sad truth is that America's history of segregation and racial intolerance of the African descendants continued to have a negative effect on black people up to this day. Even beyond America, countries like Italy and Spain, continues to treat black people as if we are a species of lesser value!

    To me, the greatest aspect of Obama's success is the fact that he is clearly out of the Marcus Garvey school of thought that recommended in the early 20th century. Rules that were not taken very serious by many of Garveys' rivals.

    It's only when we consider that Obama did not even compromise in the changing of his name, a move that many a black "revolutionary" made to make things easier for the system.

    Can you imagine the teasing he would have got going to school in the US, the UK or even in the Caribbean!

    We must all use this historical moment as an example, and a reminder that we are who we are. If the system don't like it, they will have to get use to it!

                               Mad Professor

  • Mad Professor in Venezuela October 2008 ...Part 1

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    Venezuela is an interesting and intriguing country.
     
    It has the usual racial polarisation that you find in most countries in the world, with most businesses owned by Europeans, whilst most manual workers are from the Afro sector. 
    but suffers from some kind of isolation.
    I think on the whole, most countries in South America suffers a kind of isolation that makes you feel
    that you are on an island as oppose sharing with your neighbor.
    For years I assume Guyana was isolated by being the only English speaking country on the mainland,
    but after talking to Venezuelans, you realise that there is a similar isolation existing here, not just regarding Guyana and Brazil, but also Spanish speaking Columbia, with whom they share the Western border.
     
    On the streets, folks don't seems to see Hugo Chavez through the same hero worshipping eyes as many of us in Europe do, instead he seems to be viewed as an extremist, similar to Robert Mugabe.
    Frankly, on the surface Venezuelans have less to worry about than westerners. Where else in the world an you fill your tank for less than 2 pounds (4 dollars), where else can you get fresh fruit and vegetables that can feed a family of 6 for a weekly budget of 5 pounds.
     
    The people are quite proud, and like Brazilians and Mexicans, tend to see themselves racially as mixed, many with a multicultural background, with a wide diverse heritage.
    Sadly though, most well off folks tend to be nearer the "white" line, whist the darker folks are on the poorer side of town.
     
    Part 2....Mad Professor live presentatation in Venezuela.
     

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