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STEAMPUNK DUB
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Inspiré par les musiques underground et la culture steampunk, Kandee forge depuis 2015 un dub électrique et puissant.
En live, Kandee invite au voyage multisensoriel grâce à un subtil mélange d’infrabasses et de mélodies vibrantes, où sonorités aériennes viennent se heurter à des rythmiques profondes voire brutales. 
Oscillant entre dub traditionnel et expérimental, le producteur et chanteur n’a de cesse de rechercher la surprise de son public. Une expérience qui ne laissera personne indemne !
Kandee a su, au fil des années, se faire une place dans le paysage du dub français en signant chez des labels tels que Blackboard jungle, Skank Lab ou encore Moonshine recording avec des morceaux qui résonnent à travers le monde.

Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976.  As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century. 

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy. 

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.  His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles.  This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. 
While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking.  He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.  

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. Damian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.” 
Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damian’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010’s much lauded album “Distant Relatives” – a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. USA Today referred to the album as a “potent and often provocative collaboration” and by Rolling Stone as “an Afrocentric winner.” The album debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and Number 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Rap Albums and Reggae Albums charts, with Billboard heralding the album as “a dynamic hybrid.”    

The Distant Relatives Tour kicked off in 2011 and saw Damian traveling and performing for thousands of fans all over the world, including South America, Europe, The United Kingdom, The Caribbean and North America.  

Damian continued to cross musical boundaries in 2012, as he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem”, which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall” and has led to several remixes of the original version.  Damian recently released two other singles; “Set Up Shop” and  “Affairs of the Heart” which both received widespread airplay. 

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music.  

Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album.

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Salmonella Dub began in 1992 crafting their name from the “bad-taste” dub cover versions of songs they used to break the ice amongst their original tracks in their early sets. In ’90s New Zealand, dub/roots/reggae freak-outs weren’t entirely in vogue — grunge and dance music held sway — so Salmonella Dub would use lighthearted covers of Nancy Sinatra, The Orb’s Little fluffy Clouds, plus Public Enemy and Fred Dagg’s “Larry Loves Barry” to win over skeptical audiences.

In the early ’90s, New Zealand’s liquor licensing laws changed, allowing pubs and clubs to stay open late and revitalizing the country’s live music scene. Members of the band then called Golf Course Alligators seized this opportunity and, in late 1992, Andrew Penman (guitar), Mark Tyler (bass), and Dave Deakins (drums) became Salmonella Dub. In the early days they lacked money for a sampler and used DIY solutions by hooking up an on/off foot pedal to the motor of a cassette player in order to drop samples by foot in real time from tape on stage. These samples would come from whatever was on the TV at the time, whether it was the news or a Cheech & Chong movie. Lacking the funds for cassettes, they raided the bins of a record store and found discarded copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles albums that served as their early tape stock.

To prepare for their first, self-titled album in 1994, Peter Wood (trumpet, keyboard) and Conan Wilcox (saxophone, percussion) were invited to join the band. Salmonella Dub was released through the independent label Curious Records. Following quickly from this album the band released Dub Tomfoolery a 7 track EP with mixing contributions from Mike Hodgson of Pitchblack.

Soon afterwards, Wood left the band, moving to Auckland and getting a job to pay his student overdraft. Around this time Penman made contact with David Harrow (ONU sound) through Grant Fell of the Headless Chickens. Harrow was employed to work on their next EP THC Winter the band’s first foray into Jungle and DnB in 1995.

More here: http://salmonelladub.com/history/

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Elu par les internautes "Artiste Révélation de l'Année" lors des victoires du Reggae 2014 sur le site Reggae.fr, Papa Style a fait de la scène son meilleur terrain de jeu et a su s'imposer rapidement et sans complexe sur cette bouillonnante nouvelle scène reggae Française.

Actif depuis plus de 7 ans au sein du duo Papa Style et Baldas, il revient avec son nouveau projet solo "Alma de guerrero", âme de guerrier, sorti le 4 Novembre dernier sur le label Baco Records.

«Pas de chichi au niveau des riddims 100 % énergiques et efficaces ainsi que  des textes toujours aussi acérés, militants et engagés.Papa Style ne fait aucune concession et envoie les mots à toute vitesse  pour nous les exploser en pleine tête.» La Grosse Radio

Papa Style en quelques mots c'est déjà plus de 700 dates de concert, 4 albums , des milliers de kilomètres parcourus, bref, une carrière à grande vitesse!! 

Quelques mois après la sortie de ce nouveau projet Papa Style continue à faire parler de lui avec déjà 2 clips bien remarqués sur la toile ( La France fume et Yes papa! ) cumulant à eux deux un peu plus de 470 000 vues.

Les mots, les rimes, Papa Style les maîtrise avec une rare efficacité ,toujours prêt à déverser son flow si caractéristique alliant sans complexe le "fast style/sing jay/rub a dub style/hip hop" pour le plus grand plaisir de ses fans toujours plus nombreux.


«Un esprit protestataire et anti-conformiste, distribué par d'excellentes instrumentales et des textes bien sentis, traverse donc tout l'opus» Reggae.fr

"Round System pourrait être le résumé de cet album dans lequel Papa Style décoche les mots avec une précision d’orfèvre (et une rapidité tout en maîtrise) qui font définitivement sa marque de fabrique. Il n’a rien perdu de sa révolte et monte d’un cran dans les tours comme pour nous réveiller un peu plus. Avec une plume toujours aussi efficace et prolifique, la tchatche de Papa Style n'est pas prête de se tarir."  La Grosse Radio.

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