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LA
FAMILLE MUSIC
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MP3 NET LABEL REVIEW |
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April 2014 - With releases from Hot
Drop, the Emeterians and the Bass Culture
Players, Spanish based La Famille Music is a
top ranking Net Label in the field of (DUB)
Reggae Music. Full albums and EP's, most in
Showcase style, featuring both old and new
skool Roots Reggae and Dub.
Which is
actually the least you can say about the
musical family. The Spanish net label
actually knows their Reggae Music well
enough to be able to consider themselves as
leading. Their releases are massive and lack
all so-called "experimentation"
which usually serves as an uinderstatement
for incapability. None of that ina this
family.
Stricktly
Roots and Culture for the young and old!
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Bass
Culture Players - Temple Riddim EP
DUBROOM
MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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August 2013 - Two (Spanish) Vocal tracks,
one instrumental (with horns) and one hard
hitting DUB: here is the full contents of
the excellent Temple Riddim EP by the
Spanish based Bass Culture Players.
Heavyweight Steppers of the excellent kind
fe true!
Originally
released in 2012 through Creative Commons,
this hard-hitting steppers tune can not be
absent in the collection of the self
respecting collector of the better quality
(online) DUB. It can't be absent in the
Dubroom's online collection of CC-released
material either. This is pure EuroDub and
Roots: electronic, analogue, full of vibes
and consciousness.
The two
spanish vocal tracks may not be understood
by non-Spanish speaking folks like your's
truly but it is immideatly overstood
how the lyrics have to do with upright
stuff. The horn version vaguelly resembles a
Vibronics track but not really. Gotta hear
it to experience!
If only for
the heavyweight, hard-hitting DUB of this
militant Steppers riddim called
"Temple", the Bass Culture Players
deserve more than our respect. They deserve
our support!
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HOT
DROP - READY
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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July 2010 - The recordings for this
CRUCIAL EXCELLENT MASSIVE albums went all
over the world before they were released to
the online Reggae and DUB Massive: Hotdrop's
"Ready" is yet another MASTERPIECE
by the Spanish based Roots Rock Reggae band.
There's
hardly a way to exxagerate positivity when
it comes to this release by Hotdrop. The
band plays the music in the original,
orthodox way of recording everything on
analogue equipment before it's voiced and
dubbed.
Vocals, DUB
Versions, vibes galore. We truly hope that
Hotdrop is not "ready" in the
sense that they won't release nothing
anymore even though they're already having
quite a few crucial releases on their name.
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HOT
DROP - IT'S A REMIX THING
DUBROOM
MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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June 2010 - Get six different Dub
engineers from all over the world to each do
a track created by the Spanish based Roots
Rock Reggae band Hot Drop and you get some
very surprising material. After all, It's A
Remix Thing.
The
surprising element is of course the fact
that the Spanish band has made a name with
some more than crucial Roots Reggae releases
in true Old Skool style from instruments to
recording to mixing. That is something which
you should not expect on this one, at least
not from the top to the very last drop.
The Remix
thing basically shows what can be done with
old skool material when it is processed
using contemporary techniques and styles.
Styles such as Dubstep and Hip Hop. There's
definitely material there for the Dub
purists but It's A Remix Thing predominantly
features Dub Fruits rather than Roots. Which
isn't bad: It's A Remix Thing, after all...
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HOT
DROP - SUGAR AND SPICE
DUBROOM
MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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January 2021 - The first thing that should
be said about this Showcase album by the
Spanish band Hot Drop and Puppa Shan at the
controls, is this: when you love your
1970's/80's Reggae, when you love your
better Reggae band in analogue fashion, when
you love your better Dub you simply cannot
afford to not have Sugar and Spice in your
collection.
The title
of the album is well-chosen. Even though
everything is mixed exactly the way it was
done in pre-digital times, there's a wide
variety of different Reggae styles. Smooth
Lover's Rock, Hard Roots, pre-digital UK
Roots: good vibes all over the place, that's
for sure. We can only be thankful to both
Hot Drop and the excellent Net Label La
Famille!
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HOT
DROP - THE SECRET DUBS
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MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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June 2010 - Hot Drop is one of the
hottest Reggae Bands in Europe, especially
when it comes to Net Label releases. In
"The Secret Dubs", we're
remembered on the fact once again.
Unfortunately,
there are only six titles in this release
from the "A Quiet Bump" Net Label.
Six very impressive tracks, that is. The
mini album closes of with a digital remix by
Jambassa, but that's only after we've
experienced five crucially mixed and played
DUB tracks in true Old Skool style.
After the
tracks were recorded, they have gone all
over the world from Brazil to Italy where
they were mixed into the crucial tracks that
we can hear after downloading the album for
free. This is stuff you can't refuse and
still maintain you love DUB Reggae.
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HOT
DROP - DISCOVER SHOWCASE
DUBROOM
MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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June 2010 - In this free 2010 release,
we meet up with the Madrid-based Hotdrop
Band who went into the studio to play,
record and mix some very upright
stricktly old skool style Reggae straight
into the 8-track tape recorder.
You simply
can't afford to miss out on this album:
soulful, vibeful, and definitely more than
just giving a retro-sound even though the
tracks could have been all recorded
"back then".
"Back
then", when other versions of these
very same songs were released. The title
says it: This is a Cover Showcase with every
track perfectly played in Hotdrop Style.
Played, and mixed: crucial Dub versions
follow the vocal parts in what can only be
described as already one of the hottest
releases of the year in Reggae Net Label
Land.
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YEYO
PEREZ AND BASS CULTURE PLAYERS - JAH JAH
HAVE NO COLOUR PLUS DUB
DUBROOM
MP3 REVIEW |
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June 16 2014 - Yesterday was a day of
protest against the "Foreigner
Internment Centers", prisons where
people are kept for being born in a certain
place with a certain colour of their skin.
It's all part of the spirit of racism that
haunts Europe since times of memory. To
contribute to the protest, LaFamille has
released an excellent Anti-Racist track with
vocals by Yeyo Perez and music by the Bass
Culture Players.
A steppers track serves as the foundation
for this weapon in the struggle against
racism. Recorded in Spain, mastered in the
UK and originally released for twelve inch
by an Italian label, the recording has come
a long way before it lands in your heart and
soul. And, hopefully, touch the hearts of
someone in your neighborhood who might have
a problem with someone havin a different
colour.
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YEYO
PEREZ AND BASS CULTURE PLAYERS - SEND THEM
TO PRISON PLUS DUB
DUBROOM
MP3 REVIEW |
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January 2021 - Well, who must be sent to
prison? You got to listen to this track to
find out. But not before you read this
little review of yet another massive release
by the Spanish La Famille Net Label.
Both the
vocal track as well as the Dub are massive.
Massive, as we're getting spoiled by La
Famille and don't even realize the value of
the music they release. This steppers track,
based on a classic riddim, is such a
release. This is great music, not just for
DJ's and selectors, but for every self
respecting collector of the better free and
legal Reggae MP3's.
Get them
now!
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THE
EMETERIANS - CHANGE THE MOOD
DUBROOM
MP3 ALBUM REVIEW |
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August 2010 - Eleven musicians who formerly
played in other bands, some of them well
known in their own might, gathered
themselves to create Roots Rock Reggae in
the orthodox, Jamaican tradition made
popular so many decades ago: analogue
recording and mixing with on top conscious
lyrics. Presenting the Emeterians: Roots and
Culture DUB and vocals in the orthodox way!
When you
include the introduction tune, "Change
the Mood" contains 12 titles, wherein
the whole traditional line-up is present,
from the riddim section to the horns and
from the backing vocals to lead voice. It's
clear, though, and not just by reading the
liner notes, that the band does include a
Dub engineer as a member, a thing which did
not used to be so when Reggae Bands
predominantly were studio bands. It's just a
thing which makes it clear that this is not
a recording for what some preterists would
call "golden age of Reggae", a
term which is rejected as a whole here in
the Dubroom.
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