ZION TRAIN LIVE IN FRANCE (2007)

ZION TRAIN LIVE IN FRANCE (2007)
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WWW, December 2008 - A horn section, a vocalist and an engineer behind the mixing board: UK Dub collective Zion Train shows you don't need to have a band on-stage for a concert, especially not when it's all about DUB.

Zion Train has released a number of albums that incorporated Reggae Music with techno/trance, appealing to the New Age and Dance crowds of the 1990's.

None of that in this concert, though. Stricktly Roots Reggae in this century, UK style.

As they visit Tulle in France, Zion Train comes as a live horn section with pre-recorded music, everything mixed down in Dub vibe by the engineer as the vocalist chants it up from the top to the very last drop. Lot's of echo's, lots of sirens, and lot's of real horns.

Best enjoyed when your computer is connected to a subwoofer!

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SUMMERJAM REGGAE FESTIVAL 2008 (DUBROOM VIDEO REVIEW)

SUMMERJAM REGGAE FESTIVAL 2008
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WWW, December 2008 - The list of artists featured in this great documentary about one of Europe's biggest Reggae festivals is too big too mention. Just be aware, they they're all there!

Luciano, Queen Ifrica, Stephen Marley. Just three out of many artists who performed at Reggae Summerjam. This German festival is one of the biggest, of not the biggest Reggae festivals in Europe. People having a good time, artists are interviewed (German subtitles), and of course, lots of music.

An hour and 14 minutes of pure niceness, which will surely give you a good impression of the European Reggae scene.

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THE HARDER THEY COME (DUBROOM VIDEO REVIEW)

THE HARDER THEY COME
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WWW, December 2008 - Starring Jimmy Cliff as Rhygin, The Harder They Come tells the story of Jamaica's Robin Hood (or Al Capone) as he comes to Kingston and grows out to be the talk of the town.

This movie was shot in the 1970's, not quite the time where Rhygin troubled the police on Jamaica. But that doesn't matter, especially not since this movie does more than "just" telling Rhygin's story.

The Harder They Come gives a pretty good insight in Jamaica during the mid 1970's, even though the economical situation hasn't changed much throughout the decades.

Young Jimmy Cliff enters Kingston as his mother died, and get confronted with the high cost of living and huge unemployment. Music, often seen as the other way out of the ghetto, turns out to be inaccessible for talented people due to corruption.

After a long, long attempt to basically get a life, Jimmy Cliff becomes one of Jamaica's legends. Rhygin, seen by one as Robin Hood and by the other as Al Capone, was a pain in the neck for Jamaica's police until they shot him to death.

This great movie tells Rhygin's story, while giving a picture of Jamaica during the 1970's. Essential!

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