Thursday, December 25, 2008

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

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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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