Pam and Ramona Africa continue to speak out about the atrocities in Philly, Mumia’s freedom and how to maintain a strong grassroots community activism for a lifetime. We were lucky enough to be in the same room with the lovely ladies as they spoke and they seemed entertained by our skills as well. Check it [...]
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Pam & Ramona Africa Speak/Party In SF [Photos]
Featuring: activism · dancehall · diaspora · fotos · grassroots · hip hop · history · MC · MOVE · Pam Africa · politics · Ramona Africa · US
From Dancehalls To Teknivals – A Short History
Musikal Resistance: A Short History (I) This paper was originally presented as an informal talk at the Rebelstar Activist Retreat, Crescent Beach, BC, Canada on November 26th, 2001. Musikal Resistance: A Short History (I) History. Rave Culture began at the juncture of several political social movements. i) Jamaican Dub Soundsystem Culture of the 70s/80s ii) [...]
Featuring: electronic music · history · Jamaican · rave · soundsystem culture · TAZ · UK · US
Dirty Harry, Negusa Negast + Steve Bedlam Forward The Reggae Revolution
Dirty Harry drops some history on us, via the KingBeatSound website. He talks about how he got into soundsystem culture, how Steve Bedlam and Negusa Negast brought the reggae/dancehall/jungle ting to the London party scene and how he established KingBeatSoundsystem in ’99 and found his niche alongside raging teknivals…. DIRTY HISTORY… KINGBEATSOUNDSYSTEM’s owner/ production manager [...]
Featuring: Bedlam Sound · Dirty Harry · history · KingBeat · Negusa Negast · RDK Hi-Fi · soundsystem culture · teknival · UK
Bristol’s Shady Past And Dark Arts
Excerpt from Wiki about Bristol’s underground: History of the Bristol Underground scene Bristol has long been a multicultural city. In the 1950s and 1960s there were waves of immigration that made Bristol one of the most racially diverse cities in the UK. This mix included greater access to new strands of music such as reggae. [...]
Featuring: Bristol · history · immigration-emmigration · Massive Attack · racism · riots · underground
The Birth Of Jungle Inna Babylon Circa 1990
So far, the earliest release of jungle tunes on vinyl are the first Ragga Twins singles in 1990. Here are additional perspectives from around the way… A likkle history of jungle music, as told by Carlos Soul Slinger: In the early 1990s, MCs who were predominately Black and from the ragga scene, began to add [...]
Featuring: history · jungle · old school · US