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ZonaReGGae 07th October 2009 - Roots,Dub & Revival Selections!

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October 11, 2009 12:26 PM PDT

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Past Wednesday ZonaReGGae radioshow, available for podcast listening pleasure

-The new month arriving wid the usual presentation of BEST of 2009 monthly Choices. Another 5 entries forward into our TOP, to listen pon di show and check all the updates @

ZonaReGGae BEST of 2009 – September TOP Choices

-Rockers and instrumental Dubs coming strong in dis week roots Jamaican selection! Blessed tunes and productions from: Ranking Dread, Tappa Zukie, Niney the Observer, King Tubby or Roy Shirley!

-BIG BIG Steppers and UK Dub sequence, recovering sounds from: Nucleus Roots, Mungus Hi-Fi, Vibronics, Kanka, Mikey Murka or Ras Zacharri, and presenting new tunes and pre-releases from: Dub Factory, Ashtech or AmP Outernational!

Highlight going also to:

-Roots Garden Records latest release: the ‘People Rhythm’. Another eighties Digi-dancehall revival, mixed and produced by pioneer Nick Manasseh, and presenting 3 powerful and hearthical versions from veterans Kenny Knots, Bob Skeng and Dark Angel.

Two new 7 inchs, from the top Brighton Roots Garden crew, bringing back the oldscholl dance floor days in superb style!

Check more @ ROOTS GARDEN RECORDS

-First taster from Solo Banton’s debut album, ‘Walk Like Rasta’, also featuring today, wid the tune ‘Old Time Something’.

This one comes attached to our new DOWNLOAD of the Month suggestion, bringing also the very interesting competition promoted by Reality Shock Records crew: Reggae Got Talent Competition!

Check more about the competition at RealityShockRecords website

Download of the Month#2–Solo Banton ‘Old Time Something’ & REGGAE GOT TALENT competition!

-Over the weekly highlight to new albums, we anticipate Analog’s Fakir, CELT ISLAM, debut album, DERVISH!

Scheduled for next 16^th October by the hands of fair-trade label, Urban Sedated Records, Dervish presents the unique Dub, Electro, Drum’n’Bass combination, wid Islam soundscapes!

A musical art created by Muhammad Abdullah Hamzah a.k.a. Celt Islam, English convert to Islam, more specifically to it's the mystic and inner dimension, Sufism.

Sufi mysticism, traditional Asian and Arabic musicality, together wid powerful and dance driven bass lines, make Celt Islam music something of unique, derived from the sub-genre he introduced, the Sufi-Dub!

Almost a loner, on the dissemination of this style, his work is best known in alternative circuits, mainly through his collaborations wid British collectives ‘Nine Invisibles’ and ‘Analogue Fakir’.

Partnerships wid respected names like Inder Goldfinger (Stone Roses, Ian Brown’s Band, Natacha Atlas) or Dawoud Kringle, provided a bigger exposure in latest times, being dis two names also among the guests featuring in Dervish.

The adaptation and understanding of various styles and genres into his own Sufi-Dub, is clearly audible all over dis debut album, with UK Dub and Electro Dub present all over, in fine style wid the tunes Halaqa, Resonate, Fakir, Mevlana or Revolution Inside me, one of the tune in collaboration, which presents a very interesting Polish band, Masala.

This Dervish journey takes us to the East and Middle East, with the enigmatic Tablas trance providing the expedition, in a constant Universal Groove fusion, where the messengers arise also in tunes like, Warrior featuring Bongo Chilli; and Dan Man (Iration Steppas) wid Justice, a good example of Reggae world's presence in Celt Islam’s very own universe.

Worth of mention are the World Beat tune, Uprising, Dubstep approaches Haq Ui Yakin and Gaza; or the 3 distinct Drum’n’Bass trends presented in Bloodstain (alongside Kenzie), Illumination (featuring Adbalwahid Mursaleen) and Accelerator (wid vocals from D.Bo General), definitely the genre where Celt Islam will surprise many!

If conceptually Celt Islam work is original and in itself practically unique, Dervish (a Sufi seeker) demonstrates a search for something new, in terms of merging electronic wid instrumental, something superbly achieved with a perfect balance between musical mysticism and dance beats.

A meditative journey, that will certainly expand the horizons of electronic subsequently creations!