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I took this picture of Mikey a few years ago, and got to meet him briefly afterwards. An amazing performer & producer and a brilliant broadcaster, Mikeys influence stems way beyond reggae into many other forms of music.

He’ll be missed.

Reggae musician Mikey Dread died Saturday, March 15th 2008 at 4:30 pm EST in Connecticut. Michael Campbell better known as Mikey Dread, was a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster.
worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/mikey_dread_dies

Remembering a Dread who took control
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080318/ent/ent4.html

Mikey Dread: Renaissance man of reggae
www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mikey-dread-renaiss…

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Roots Archives Awards 2007 - Results are in

The good people over at Roots Archives have ~~opened the voting for~~ posted their annual awards results

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

and the best dub album….

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rare dub lp

One of our guilty pleasures here at dub.com is checking out what rare dub lps sell for on ebay.

Granted some of these are truly rare items, but is it just us or has the price of dub vinyl gotten a little extreme lately? Though some of these you’d just have to have right?
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dubcast #11

echo_tm - treepee
brilliantes del vuelo - i know (now available directly from snocap) - album available on itunes
high tone - wobble / do not panic
Modeselektor- happy birthday
Jah shaka - rise and shine
dub trees - a way of being free
high tone - driving fast
dub trees - return of the native
matty g - one step forward

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open source dub - The Open Dub Foundation

KoCha from Almighty-Dub writes us to tell us about a new Open Source Dub project

http://www.reggae-dub.com/open

This project is the ‘Open Dub Foundation’ a place to enable dubmaster to remix each other

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Hype Dub

One of our favorite not-strictly dub websites to listen to is the hype machine, a very clever website that looks at other music blogs and links all the mp3s together. Its worth checking out even if the music you think you might find there isn’t your thing, because you might find other sites and blogs worth reading, like the excellent Burning Dervish blog, and their recent post on Jah Lloyd’s Final Judgement LP

The Hype Machine search for “dub”

And Burning Dervish comments led us to: http://www.dubandreggae.com/ which looks like its well on its way to becoming a great community site for dub and reggae fans.

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