Reggae/Music Websites

Everald Brown, Ethiopian Apple (1970)



On this page, you should find a good source of links that you can go directly to and find Jamaican music and Jamaican music instead of throwing keywords into youtube and hoping for the best.
Please be aware alot of these site are the project of one person and sometimes disappear or suddenly stop getting updated according to their circumstances.



Jump TV
A regular program like this could be called reggae week, but reggae not weak, reggae strong.
http://reggae.jumptv.com





Yard Flex
A site aimed at middle aged Caribbean men, however a regularly updated site with some info. Don't browse this at work, calendar girls are everywhere.
http://www.yardflex.com/



Reggae Reviews
Complied by one man, seems like a very good site, lets hope he keeps it up!
http://www.reggae-reviews.com/


Muzic media
Very good site, constantly updated.
http://www.muzikmedia.com/



Out a Road
http://www.outaroad.com
For music and other good stuff



Reggae Fever
http://shop.reggaefever.ch/


Very good site, with samples. Only problem most samples can only be listened to in Quicktime, but with a bit of fiddling you can get it to play in real player.




Deadly Dragon Sound
http://deadlydragonsound.com/index.php



Reggae pictures

Sometimes you need these, but you can also resort to keyword searching on sites such as Photobucket and Picassa though.


Urban Image TV
http://www.urbanimage.tv/



Reggae Forums

Forums run by Jamaican institutions
They have a special place because so many are run by American Jamaicans or Jamericans or Canadians.


Reggae Roots Forum

Roots Reggae Forums


http://www.reggaemusicforum.com/

Roots Archive


http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/



Reggae Board
http://www.reggaeboard.com/reggaeforums.html



General Chat/ Community Forums



Dancehall Reggae Forums



Reggae Sites in Other languages

Reggae portugal

http://www.reggaeportugal.com/




Reggae France
http://forum.reggaefrance.com/index.php

Riddims

I love songs but Riddim databases are hard to find
Here are a few I have managed to dredge up.
I suspect there is some copy going on but I haven't had a chance to investigate this properly yet.


1)Jamrid.com , I am biased, I love this site, even though the design could do with a bit of an update.My favoutite aspect is that you can put your own sound effects over any track and you are rewarded for your puny efforts with a little pop up saying play it, selecta. How easily am I pleased?

http://www.jamrid.com/

2) Riddimguide.com It Morphed alot before becoming this. Lets see how long it will stay. Nice clean, fresh design, probably paid for by all the adverts at every corner.
http://www.riddimguide.com/ or http://www.riddimbase.org/

3) Reggae ID
http://www.reggaeid.co.uk/

4) Dancehall Music, based in Germany and so you get ocassional hitches with the laguage, they also have a soca riddim database which I haven't yet seen aywhere else.
http://www.dancehallmusic.de/


5)Reggae Riddims
http://www.reggae-riddims.com/


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A typical Jamaican Meal week

You would never believe it, but quite often Jamaicans have a kind of food rota with most people nationwide eating the same meal every week.
Saturday and Sunday especially.
I found this typical week on the internet and have copied here for your enjoyment.


SUNDAY
Breakfast
Boiled bananas, ackee & saltfish, hot cocoa made with cow's milk, bread Dinner
Rice & peas (1 pint peas, 1/2 coconut, 2 lbs. rice), steamed cho cho and carrots, Kool Aid
MONDAY
Breakfast
Green banana porridge, sardine (3 tins) and bread
Dinner
Kidney -- with spinners and carrots -- yam, green bananas
TUESDAY
Breakfast
Mint tea, steamed callaloo and bread
Dinner
1 tin corn beef with macaroni and 2 lbs. rice
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
Fried plantains, scrambled eggs mixed with 1 tin sausage
Dinner
Curried chicken back with cho cho and white rice
THURSDAY
Breakfast
Cornmeal porridge, cheese sandwich
Dinner
Salt fish with cho cho
yam, dumpling, green banana
FRIDAY
Breakfast
Fried overnight dumplings with cabbage and sausage
Dinner
Red peas soup
SATURDAY
Breakfast
Plantain porridge
boiled eggs
Dinner
Stewed beef with beans, rice and yam
Lunch (Tie a leaf is made on Saturday, sweet potato maybe roasted and fruits)
Note: For weekday lunches they pack cheese and lettuce sandwiches, mashed baked beans, peanut butter, left over chicken or muffins with cheese. Club Social biscuits or banana chips are sometimes added as snacks.

If you feeling Hungry after all that here is a recipe for cornmeal Porridge

Cornmeal Pudding

2 cans Coconut milk
1 lb. Cornmeal
1 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Flavoring
4 oz. Raisins or Currants
½ cup Flour
1 quart Water
Combine all other ingredients in a large mixing bowl and use a whisk to mix together.
Pour mixed ingredients into a greased cake pan and bake on 350-400 degrees fahrenheit.
Check pudding after 30-40 minutes to see if the top is solid. You can stick a knife in the center of the pudding to see if the inside is soft. If it is soft, allow the pudding to bake some more.
Wait for the cornmeal pudding to cool and serve it with ice cream or you can serve it warm just by itself.

Jamaican Industry Links

Just a list of random links that I expect to expand one day

Theatre and Filmmaking

http://bestofcaribbeantales.wordpress.com
The CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival is based in Toronto, Canada been going dfor 5 years and is a good place to find out who's who in the tiny Caribbean filmamking industry.
Features ans article on Ras Kassa who directed the Tic Toc video by Busy Signal


http://www.jamaicanlifestyle.com/davidpinto.htm (br>


http://www.utech.edu.jm/Centres/Arts/Services.htm

www.pramsinternational.comAll the good stuff you could enjoy if you visited


www.iriepeople.com more good stuff


http://www.islands.com/jamaica/ a touristity kind of site


http://www.top5jamaica.com/thearts.html I thought i knew this site.More good stuff right here


http://www.wcities.com/en/guide/gen_intro/158/guide.html a tourist guside to all the nice places


http://www.colin-f.com/jamaican_art/ This has all the modern artists like chong here

http://www.ayaso.com/naturaljamaica/ take a close look at the name


http://www.ayaso.com/naturaljamaica/ church site




Jamaican sports

http://jamaicamotorsports.com/mt/ My Brother would love this so much 

Obeah

Dihah MALLICA REYNOLDS (KAPO)


At work today, someone came and asked me a question about Obeah.

Before this man came up to me , my day had been dull, I had been checking my favourite bookmarks on the pc, seeing what they said, I had been wondering about men, death, and why.

Suddenly this question roused me from the depth of my slumbers, my mind became alive again.
I wondered briefly, fleetingly, if I had done Caribbean studies instead of Art studies, would I have gone further in my life?

Then I recollected a work, Voodoo by Wade Davis
His book, the Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of Haitian Zombie
My mind was awake again

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/index.htm#caribbean

I also had to ask myself about the whole of Obeah which just seemed tobe more an ide that a practice

Social Networking

My brother wants an iphone, so naturally, I am on the look out for one. I came across this article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/

on the BBC I was chuffed, its nearly £100 cheaper, so I was counting the days until it was released here, so I could get it for him.
Imagine my surprise when I clicked on something called friend feed and found this mirad of social networking sites!
http://friendfeed.com/about/

Where did they all come from? There is even a place called Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/
which seems to be a rival to youtube, are they mad?

What does wine mean?

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE-MJgcAnNQ


This video highlights this point perfectly.
A simple four letter one. Two different cultures, both influenced by each other still manage to find one word,very cherished and loved that mean two (well three) different things.
This video is of course a misinterpretation of a word, but surely that only serves to make it even more funny?