Reggae! Reggae! Reggae!!!!!, Reading, Swimming and any excuse to smile
Music
U Havin' a Bubble???? - I also like a bit of Hip Hop, RnB and Hip Life (Ghanaian Hip Hop)
Television
I was hooked on the wire. Did I tell you I met Clarke Peters (Lester Freeman) @ The Press Night for The Harder They Come's West End run?
Books
Just read Unforgiveable Blackness - The Rise & Fall Of Jack Johnson. I look at the man in a totally different light now.
Heroes
Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Saxon Sound system (especially Papa Levi & Tippa Irie), Nelson George, Dr Carolyn Cooper and My Mum - spot the odd one out
About me: It's all about da goodah Reggae Music mate!!!
We start from the dancehall then work our way all the way back to the beginning. If you don't understand me you need to check out one ah de blogs. I am a journalist and DJ and music publisher working in most forms of print and broadcast media. I came into the music industry back in 1990 with the weekly reggae column, ‘Ragazine’, for The Voice Newspaper in London. I’ve also written for most of the Music press in Britain including the likes of New Nation, Billboard, Pride, Music Week, NME, Untold and Music Business International. I also edited a number of titles like Ticketmania, Nexxus and On Air, and contributed to radio and TV stations in London, Gambia, Ghana, Italy and Jamaica as a pundit and DJ. I also compered parties in London, Paris and Athens for the Jamaican Athletics team in association with Puma.
In 2000 I became a Reggae Specialist for the publishers, Westbury Music ltd. By 2000 and "great" (2008) I was manager of the Reggae Catalogues and head of Copyright at the company. Their clientele includes living Legends the likes of John Holt, Bunny Lee, Winston Riley, Max Romeo and U Roy as well as current name brands like Wayne Wonder,Shaggy, T.O.K., Turbulence, Jah Cure & Kiprich. Whilst there I signed the likes of Mad Cobra, Jah Mason, Harry Toddler and Delly Ranx. I also hold down a weekly London West End DJ residency @ Moonlighting as well as Lovers Live @ D'Eclipse and am resident @ the monthly Lovers Rock Lounge (Ruby Lo's) and Labadi Nights (Manjaro). I still freelance for various publications/organisations and was recently Associate Producer on an entertainment programme called Access which broadcast on OBE TV. I also contributed a weekly feature on BBC London with Dotun Adebayo called 'Back 2 Da Future' which is where the blog and company name came from.
Who I'd like to meet: The greater Reggae community
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here we provide you with some info about our new release, the brandnew ASPIRE RIDDIM which is OUT ON THE STREETS NOW!!!
For this release we teamed up with top producer Jr. Blender and created a classical dancehall reggae riddim that is a link between the apart drifting genres Dancehall and Reggae.
The production has 14 Tracks and features some household names such as Gentleman, Luciano, Louie Culture, Lady G as well as newcomers as Nkulee Dube, the daughter of Reggae legend Lucky Dube, who performs her first Reggaesong on the Aspire riddim.
The Riddim Selection is available digitally at Itunes, Finetunes and all other relevant platforms. The limited 7“ Vinyls are distributed by Soundquake.com.
And here the links to purchase the highquality MP3s from Itunes:
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Check out the brand new album playing now on the player below.
David's new album "Music is the Food of
Love" is due for digital release in the UK
and USA on 31st August 2009 and will be available on
iTunes, Amazon and all good download
stores through VME Records. You can also order
the CD from CD Baby.
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Just recorded a new version of a classic by The Jets, You Got It All... (one of my favorite songs of all times) Would love for you to come by to check it out or click the link below to download it for free. Hope you enjoy my friend. :)
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