In a message dated 11/07/00 7:06:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Oh, and Rampe D records also has a strong dub influence.... > Frankfurt/Berlin seems to have a strong raggae and dub scene. I know that's > stating the obvious but I've been curious as to why this is so. Is there a > large immigrant population from Trinidad/Jamaica like there is in the UK? >
Yes I heard somewhere that the largest consumption of dub and reggae records outside of Jamaica is in Germany, esp Berlin and Frankfurt. What's the correlation actually - i) shared love of bass heavy and delayed fx music ii) extremely high quality herbals, iii) both or iv) other One can definitely hear the strong influences of Perry and Tubby in the records of Basic Channel, Chain Reaction, ~Scape, DIN, Rhythm &Sound/Tikiman/ Main St. Certainly I wouldn't go as far to say that Berlin has shared weather patterns with Jamaica- or is it some other unperceived metaphysical connection? That put forward, I can't recommend more the relatively new albm on Stefan Betke's (Pole) label Staedizm. Amazing new wave of dub textures from artists such as Vlad Delay, Modernist, Pole, Kit Clayton etc. A_Zed _________________________________________ Program Co-ordinator, Ambient Zone RTRFM 92.1 Sunday Electronic Listening [http://rtrfm.ii.net] Perth, W.Aust (WST) 23.00-01.00 Detroit (EST) 10.00-12.00 Frankfurt (CET)/ London(GMT)16.00-18.00
