02 - Arrested Development - UNSTOPPABLE (Ft. Omar Perry)

As a Brussels-based music journalist, global sounds activist, radiomaker, DJ and also curator of Groovalizacion Radio. I’ve been specializing in music from around the globe since 2005 for several Belgian and Dutch newspapers and magazines. I’ve got a clear penchant for African music, from the mother continent and the Diaspora.
I write about world music & cultures, always looking for artists who have interesting things to say. That’s why afrobeat is my favorite music: it’s outspoken and very danceable.
I like to call myself a mestizo (half-breed >> double-breed!!) having a Flemish mother and French-speaking father from Brussels, making me a half-Nordic, half-Latin hybrid.
My weekly program Radio Mukambo immerses you in Afro grooves and the pulsation of our cities where sounds get mixed up to create music without borders. Afrobeat, Afro-Latin & Afro-Brazilian, Lusafrican, soukouss, ethiogrooves, Arab beats, reggae/dub/dancehall & hip-hop with an ethnic/regional flavor, tropical bass. www.mukambo.be
DJ Mukambo is africanizing and groovalizing nightlife with great Afro stuff that will make y'all dance the whole nite round! www.facebook.com/DJ.Mukambo/

I'm also resident DJ of Groove Kilombo in Brussels and organize Vk Afro-Groove at Vk concerts in Brussels >>> www.mukambo.be

Lee Fry is the artistic name from behind which producer Roberto Orde Casetta
operates. Originally from Italy, Orde became passionate about reggae music as 
a child thanks to his sisters' Bob Marley cassette, and from that moment he 
embarked on a musical journey of personal research and promotion of reggae 
in his region.
Since 2000, he has not only organized events and concerts with the Rootz Flava 
crew, but also formed a band, Malaweeda, with whom he released three albums 
and performed in several concerts. Later he also explored electronic music and 
folk / indie with two other bands, VIP Veniamo in pace and Los Refusè.
In 2015 he decided to give life to the Lee Fry Music project, dedicating himself 
to the organization of events. These include the ETnICamente festival, of which 
he is the creator and artistic director, and collaborations with various theatrical 
companies where he supplies soundtracks and music production, showcasing 
his musical experiences "without borders" , with particular attention to reggae 
and black music.
Lee Fry Music has participated in the production of numerous albums and 
singles by other artists. He has four works of his own: three EPs, Mooga 
Sessions (2018), Andale (2019), and Dubitude (2021), and one album, Kalipè
(2020).

AlvinLIE

Producer | Guitarist | Percussionist

alvin.lienenklaus@gmail.com

PERRY, a name that resonates like a legend, that of a wizard who shook up reggae by giving birth to dub. Yes, we are talking about LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY! But this genius and possessed producer also gave birth to something unique, or rather someone, a son and no less talented: OMAR PERRY. 

From his family heritage, OMAR PERRY recovers the extravagant caps of his father, but not only! He spent his early childhood in the mythical Black Ark Studio, punctuated by his father's recording sessions with Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, and Max Romeo. What to take inspiration from the greatest! No wonder then that at the dawn of the 80s, the teenager decided to leave school to launch his own musical career. This creative and musical instinct is in his genes! However, OMAR PERRY does not rest on the fame of his father and prefers to trace his own path. Over the years and encounters, he will release 4 studio albums between 2007 and 2019, supported among others by producer and musician GUILLAUME "STEPPER" BRIARD. The two men met in 2005 behind the scenes of Horace Andy's tour for whom OMAR PERRY worked. Very quickly, the magic happens. OMAR PERRY wows crowds project after project, tour after tour. This enthusiasm, he owes it to his most singular vocal power, subtly tuned to reggae and dancehall sounds. Like this new generation of Jamaican artists, for OMAR PERRY, it's no longer just about roots reggae but about opening up to more recent musical genres, to more modern aesthetics too and it was in a world at a standstill, in the spring of 2021, that he was contacted by BENWAH, producer, composer and musician who had already worked on his very first album "Man Free". The latter sends him his last two, three reggae productions. OMAR PERRY immediately catches on. But BENWAH, inspired by the brothers Damian and Stephen Marley, among others, wishes to bring the project into a more urban dimension. The tracks are reworked, remodeled with codes more rooted in hip-hop. The bet is successful, OMAR PERRY is seduced. What was supposed to be a collaboration on a simple single will quickly turn into a joint album project, as the connection between the two artists is so natural, instinctive, spontaneous. At the crossroads of hip-hop and reggae, this new album places OMAR PERRY in a new musical dimension that suits him perfectly! 

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