DON'T YU RIDE LIKE LIGHTNING!!!

The Dreadlocks Dread himself just passed thru Sao Paulo and blessed the massive with a wiiiiicked show! Now, mi nuh know how many candles pon di cake di man have but yu can forget all about it because him BUSS !!! Monday afternoon he called me telling me he was going to stay til tuesday... so dub session affi gwaan! hehe.
We then took him to eat and chat bout di golden years and some funny stories a fling!
Tuesday came and picked him up at the hotel and brought him to our tuesday night dance where he raaaaaaaaamed up di place with a couple chunes before we had to take him to the airport. Let's Hit The Road Jack!

HARD RUB-A-DUB MIX

Since StranJah has been living in Brazil he wanted to build another "local" sound so that Moa Anbessa would be exclusively an international attraction when the 3 selectors would spar. He then created a sound in Sao Paulo which focuses mainly on the Rub-A-Dub era dubbed Reggaematic Sound; This is the first mixtape released to the public as Reggaematic.

Hope you enjoy it!

download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B7XG28D0

4500 WATTS!!!

We are proud to have been invited to be part of this event from the upcoming MEGATON DUB from Brasilia, Brazil. The event marks the official launch of Mega's soundsystem & speaker boxes in an amazing cultural location. Check the few but STRONG dubplates they have up on their MySpace. Can't wait to hear ours buss on those boxes this weekend.

A TASTE OF BRAZIL!

MENINA VENENO

GUARANISUPER ITAMARATYSOUNDCLASH STYLE

CLEMENT "COXSONE" DODD TRIBUTE

For the first time ever in Brazil, Moa Anbessa Intl. & Jurassic Sound join their vast and deep Studio 1 boxes for an homage at the one true pioneer that set the blue print of what reggae has become today! PERIOD.

PRESSURE DROP!

A new night has emmerged in Sao Paulo with one of Moa Anbessa's frontline soldiers: StranJah. The free weekly event counts on the presence of other sound selectors from Boom Shot, Zion Brothers, and even recently Fepa from Muamba Sound. The Happy Hour like event goes only from 6pm to 11pm and opens its turntables to new upcoming selectors from 6-7:30pm that wish to experience juggling rather than the traditional one turntable + echo box style omnipresent in Brazil. From Rocksteady to today's jams, we fill the rest of the timeline with boom tunes from every era with a tad of Scotch Bonnet Peppa!

PUT IT DOWN!

In August 2008, Welton Irie spent a few days in Sao Paulo - Brazil, performing for the 1st time ever in South America. Thanks to the collaboration between Moa Anbessa Sounds & Dubversao, we were able to offer the Brazilian massive 3 successful events. In this (dark) video you get a hint of Welton's vibe during the 1st night. Although he admitted being a little rusty since he last performed in Europe two years ago, Welton Irie still managed to kick up rumpus!

The next day was a cold one, even for Brazil, and an afternoon show that still manages to attract 200 people or so bubbling to the wicked rub-a-dub versions of Irie's style. You can hear the full session (along with Dubversao selecting before, during and after) at this following link: http://dubversao.com.br/som/sescWelton.mp3

On the last event, alongside Moa Anbessa Sounds selector StranJah, the vibe was ripe with 500+ in the crowd cheering the veteran deejay as he performed a bag ful-a-lyrics over Studio1, Channel One and Dynamite riddims. After 3 days performing Welton Irie was feeling the vibe back on the mic. As soon as we get the recording in hand.. it will be posted.

CHANCES ARE!

This is CB from the original Randy's crew at 17 N. Parade, Kingston. A few years back, after I had moved to Brazil, CB told me that he once had met a brazilian that came in the shop in the 80's and that they had built a pretty strong relationship. In fact, the relationship was strong enough that the brazilian gave CB a necklace that he still wears to this day. They somehow lost touch, probably lost phone numbers or changed digits and on my last visit to the island he had asked me to take a picture of the necklace and carry it back with me in case I ever ran into the man or heard anything on his whereabouts.

So I did so and told myself: "what are the chances of that ever happening??". I mean Brazil is a huge country and most of the Sounds are concentrated in Sao Luis, Maranhao, in the northeast part of the splendid land while I dwell in Sao Paulo, just a few thousand miles south of that.

Well it's saturday night and I've had a long week, called a few friends over to listen to some tunes, drink a few geladas (ice cold beers), and have some laughters. Suddenly the question came up; "Anything going on tonight? any sounds anywhere?". None of us had any idea so I decided to jump on the net and check a few local sites for something worth checking out when I eventually came accross this flyer!

It really took me a few minutes to realize: "waiiiiiit a minute... I've seen that name before!" and then it hit me. I started digging thru a box of photos as I was telling friends about this exact story searching for the ones posted above. Since I had made a promise to CB and this was our chance to meet, we packed up and gwaan!

When we reached the dance there was a line outside the venue of about 200 people and you could feel the low ends vibrating on the concrete. After a half hour wait we finally made it in, and SUPER MUSICAL JAH was at the controls claiming that tonight there would be no repeats and that the arsenal was large. However, I don't know if he got lost in his speech or distracted by the folks getting on stage to chat his ears out, but he DID manage to play a chune twice at a 20mins interval and the tunes where pretty "soft", to put it lightely. Then it was the turn of FM NATTY NAYFSON, the 3 times Champion of Maranhao, and what people call the Prince Of Reggae. Just from the very first tune he played it was a Boom! The bass was super criss as the rocksteady chunes flew off his sleeve and that was really key due to the size of the speaker boxes.

Natty Nayfson pulled some dubplates like I've had never heard before, or could have even dreamed of hearing! He did a session with strictly exclusives from Jamaica & the UK that made me think about what rocksteady clashes could have been in the early years. And if that was not enough, he played a special that asked the people to vote for him as best Radiola (Sound) selector with a catchy "punch 4-4-2-2-2!!" (digita quatro, quatro, dois, dois, doiiiiis).

As I was on my way out I complimented Natty and flashed the photo with the necklace on it. He flipped! just as I had predicted he had lost all his contacts and did not know how to go about reaching CB ever again. I blessed him with the number and drove home feeling pretty amazed about the whole evening I must say. This world, is truly small and wonderful. Cherish it!

FRESH FOUNDATION!

After many years of sharing nothing but vibes the Moa Anbessa crew has released one of their strictly Dubplate mixes to the dedicated massives. This one compiles 35 tuff & wicked Dubs with artists from around the globe including countries such as Jamaica, UK, Burkina Faso and even Brazil. The line up is ruff with veteran artists such as Badoo, Kojak, Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell , Welton Irie, Rod Taylor and the ribbiiiiiiiitt master himself, The Lone Ranger. These, however, are not all considered by the masses "ordinary" Dubs. There are definitely more than a few surprises in this dub box that will make you want to mash up your tin pan. Riddims from the vaults of the infamous Studio1, Treasure Isle, Channel One, and King Jammy$ stables will most certainly make a one foot jam down jump up!!!

For information and details on how to get your very own copy of the FOUNDATION DUBPLATES MIX please forward an email with the title "Special Request" to the crew.