Dread & Alive #6 (comic book and music compilation) set to drop May 17
by Tomas Palermo for United Reggae /click here to read more
With both a love of Jamaica’s rocksteady sounds and modern international music of all sorts, Courtney John balances a career based on quality over quantity. He spoke to United Reggae about his recent recordings and how to be a successful artist in 2011. The singer and producer formerly known as Yogi whose uncles Boya and Beres Hammond introduced him to the music business now has a solid international following. One of those global links is with California’s Itation Records who are promoting Courtney John’s new single Never Keep You Waiting, which features sparkling music arrangement by the Tune In Crew. /click here to read more
Tasha Rozez and iFrogz are pleased to announce the beginning of a sponsorship relationship based around iFrogz™ digital audio accessories. click here to read more…
“Tasha was an active user of our Facebook fan site when she caught our attention,” said J. Rebecca Smith, Sponsorships and Events Coordinator at iFrogz. “Her upbeat Jamaican swank really caught our ear, so we took a closer look, and discovered a passionate, talented artist with whom we desired a professional relationship.”
iFrogz’ quest is to create innovative products that are hip and handy, trendy and tough, earning a myriad of awards and accolades with loads of ingenuity and panache.
Tasha Rozez is a longtime fan of iFrogz. “I am so honored to be a part of the iFrogz team,” says Tasha.”I love the uniqueness and quality of the products.”
Check out the details after the jump…
“The series’ secret weapon is its accompanying musical compilation.” – Exclaim! read more
1. Glen Washington – “All The Love” featuring Jhaytea
2. Courtney John – “Love Is”
3. Soulo – “Breeze”
4. Dynamq – “Reggae Feeling”
5. Natural Black – “Forgiveness”
6. Bill Blast – “Long Story”
7. Cocoa Tea – “Dem Start The War Again”
8. Louie Culture – “Jah Is The Way Out”
9. Yvad – “Higher Meditation”
10. Dubmatix – “Mousetrap Dub” featuring Eek A Mouse
11. Ginjah – “Walking Store”
12. Jahdan Blakkamoore – “All Comes Back To One”
13. Deh Deh – “Would A Know”
14. Mr Vegas – “Mi Believe”
15. Beenie Man – “Hardest Way”
16. Crookers – “Arena” featuring Poirier and Face T
17. Buju Banton – “See Dem A Come Deh”
Bonus Track (iTunes only): Crookers – “Arena” featuring Poirier and Face T (Warbox Radio Edit)
Lustre Kings productions is a reggae record label based in Oakland, California, Brooklyn, NY, and Kingston, Jamaica. Lustre Kings has been releasing music in Jamaica, United States and Europe steadily since 1998. Started by Corrin Haskell and Andrew Bain, LK is dedicated to producing quality cultural music with a message.
Having worked with every big name in the Rastafarian music scene today; Capleton, Sizzla, Luciano, Midnite, Anthony B.,Lutan Fyah , Yami Bolo, Jah Mason, Turbulence, Norrisman, Pressure, Determine, Natural Black, Natty King, and more have recorded on riddims like “African Charm” (’02), “Credential” (’02), “Fortune Teller” (’03), “Black Mystic” (’02), “Alarm Clock” (’04), “No Politics” (’04), “Talking Drum” (’05),”New Day” (’06), “Red Razor” (’07) and “The Shining” (’08), now all availble in digital format.
Over the past ten years LK has sold tens of thousands singles worldwide in the 7” vinyl format, through distributors like Jet Star (UK / USA), One Love Jamaica (JA/ Italy), VP Records (USA), Ernie B (USA), Penthouse (JA), Music Ambassador (USA), Dub Vendor (UK), and Soundquake (Germany), Cap Calcini (JA/EU). In addition to the 7” singles, we have a growing catalogue of cd releases. A full-length compilation album, “Culture Dem”, solo artist album, Turbulence “The Future”, which was signed to a licensing deal with Jet Star Phonographics, the flagship reggae label in the UK. The groundbreaking various artists’ compilation “Calling All Jah Children” that used a selection of our catalogue put into a legal mixtape format. The solo artist album Lutan Fyah, “Time and Place” and the second compilation Culture Dem 2, another various artist release that features the best reggae and dancehall has to offer. In 2006, “Royal Muzik: Best of LK” was liscensed to Diamond Edge Records for exclusive release in Japan and the Far East. 2007 was marked by the epic release of “Infinite Quality”, a LK/Midnite collaboration featuring Vaughn Benjamin’s lyrical powerful alongside Digital Ancient’s masterful production.
LK finished 2008 with a fury releasing several titles including: Al Pancho’s “Joy Bells Ringing”; Noble Society’s “Take Charge” which was voted Best Reggae Album of 2008″ by Itunes; “Infinite Dub”, the dub/instrumental accompaniment to the “Infinite Quality” release; and the classic release “Know the Road” from Norris Man. In 2009, Culture Dem 3 sealed the trinity of a landmark compilation series.
All of our projects have received extensive press world-wide, appearing in several publications like “The Beat” (USA), Riddim Magazine (Germany), XNews (Jamaica), Murder Dog (USA), Rove Magazine (japan), Riddim (Japan), Rasta Snob (Italy), Melody Maker (UK), Natty Dread (France), Ireggae.com (internet), Jahworks.org (internet), and Amazon.com (internet), Bassment (Italy), United Reggae (France), Reggae-Vibes (Netherlands), CORE (USVI), and The Fader (USA). With a host of up and coming releases slated for the next year, the Lustre Kings extensive catalogue is ready to be awaiting discovery by the world. Nearly all of the artists that Lustre Kings began working with from its inception have gone on to claim number one song titles in the Jamaican market, bridging those artists towards international success.
On newsstands Jan 13, 2011…
#4: Dread and Alive
“Comic books featuring music first came to light in 2007 with the digital release of Nicholas Da Silva’s HITLESS series (#143). He’s now taking it to a whole new level with the introduction of QR and AR technology by creating a virtual playlist on the inside cover of issue #5 for fans to experience and download. There’s also an iPad and RIA version to watch out for in 2011…”
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Nicholas Da Silva, ZOOLOOK / www.zoolook.com
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COMIC BOOK AVAILABLE FEB 6, 2011… AND COMING FEB 1, 2011…
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An excerpt from Eddie ‘Stats’ Houghton’s post on Tasha Rozez in the Ghetto Palms blog over at Fader Magazine. Download Tasha Rozez’ mix and get the full story at the link below…
Click here for music and videos performed by Million Styles.
Kenshin Iryo more known as Million Stylez was born the first of june 1981 in Stockholm Sweden. He grew up in a suburb called Sollentuna. He is half japanese and half french and grew up mainly with immagrents from every corner of the world. In that way he says he can relate to people worlwide. Million started experimenting with Hip Hop at the young age of nine, writing and recording rap tunes in Swedish on his casette-player. After a couple of years he started to write lyrics in english but it was not until he turned 18 that he moved on to singing and deejaying. He is one out of a few out there that can master so many different styles such as singing, deejaying and rapping. He never had any schooling but still he feels that nothing can put any boundaries on him musically.
In the summer of 2005 Million Stylez went to the finals in “Big Break” arranged by Irie FM (Jamaicas nr 1 radiostation) and red stripe. It is an annual talent competition for upcoming artists in Jamaica with more than 1200 talented applicants. After liveshows (in St. Elizabeth, Montego Bay and Kingston), TV and radio-interviews he ended up in a honourable fourth place. He was also the first non-jamaican that had ever participated in the competition.
2006 March 1st saw the release of his first single “Miss Fatty” through German distributor Soundquake, and was their number one selling song during a long period of time. “Miss Fatty” was also recieved very well by radiostations like Hot97, Shade 45 (eminems sattelite radio) BBC1Xtra, Kiss FM, NRJ, Voice, P3 etc. It has also been the number one track on Trace TV/radio that covers over 50 countries around the world. Not to mention all the sound systems and Djs all over the world. The video for this huge hit was shot in Cuba and has over 13 million views on youtube so far. It was actually this particular tune that opened up all the doors for him careerwise.
Million Stylez released his debut album “From A Far” 2007 with KBC music and it includes everything from roots, dancehall and Hip Hop to some R&B influenced songs. Just to mention a couple of songs that made this launcher was of course “Miss Fatty”, very concious “Brighter Day”, “Give me the strength” and then “Fade Away” that had a huge impact on Europe especially and even became no1 on the german reggae charts.
It wasn´t until three years after in may 2010 that he released his second album entitled “Everyday” this time through his own label Adonai Music. This musical masterpiece feature hits like: “Everyday” (everyday riddim), “Love we deal with” and the cross-over smash hit “Supastar”. This time around he decided to have a couple of guest appearances, but not just any artsists. He linked up with none other than Gentleman and recorded a song called “Help Is On The Way”. He says that it was an honour for him to do “World crisis” with the living legend Don Carlos for this album. From the old to the new, “As mi forward” is a massive street anthem alongside the dancehall superstar Busy Signal. “Everyday” is more of a compilation of the latest and greatest songs he recorded at the time. He says that there is no thought behind his music making, just feeling and emotions. Overall its a more mature and evolved album than his first one.
Just to mention a few of the artists that Million has worked with over the years, there are big stars like Beyoncé, Gentleman, Peetah Morgan (Morgan Heritage), Don Carlos, Loon (Bad Boy), Smif N Wessun, Mr Vegas, Busy Signal, Wayne Marshall, Bunji Garlin, Lukie D and Cecile but the list goes on and on. He has also been opening up for huge stars like Sean Paul, Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Ne-Yo, Fabolous, Nina Sky, Ryan Leslie, Fatman Scoop, Wayne Wonder, Mr Vegas, TOK, among others. We can also add to the list that he has recorded thousands of dubplates for big soundsystems and selectors worldwide like David Rodigan (UK´s most known selector), Mighty Crown (former world clash champions), Massive B (Hot 97), Sentinel (former world clash champions), Robbo Ranx (BBC 1extra) plus several several more…
Million Stylez has now been performing in every continent independently and the touring continues. He is constantly working on new material and his third album will be coming out early 2013. What more is there to say? Million has a million tings a gwaan.
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Preview “Mountains To Climb”
Lustre Kings Productions proudly presents the first single off of Jahdan Blakkamoore’s up and coming release Babylon Nightmare on the Lustre Kings label and showcases this veteran artists melodic intelligence and diverse influences. Jahdan has long been making the connection between reggae, hip-hop, pop, dubstep and acoustic music. Babylon Nightmare follows his trend of giving you the real while exuding a seductive melodic structure.
“…varying styles with each track, from ragga to one-drop roots,
soft soul reggae to more hip hop inclined tunes…where a sparse hip-hop rhythm shows the way
to achieve maximum effect with a minimally structured mix.” – Wire Magazine (UK)
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