DUTCH & BELGIAN REGGAE ARTISTS

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DUTCH & BELGIAN REGGAE BANDS, SINGERS and PLAYERS

ABLAS SOLO & EXILE VIBRATION Roots Reggae band from Amsterdam.
AMARA SHAIN KABBA Memorial
AWARENESS: Roots Reggae band from Amsterdam.
The BASHCREW: was a Roots Rock Reggae band from Amsterdam, now known as the STICKO XPERIENCE Band.
BARKA MOERI: Surinam reggae singer.
BEEF: Dutch reggae band from Eindhoven.
BLENDED CULTURE: Dutch reggae band.
BROTHER MARCUS AND THE IRIE CONNECTION: Dutch reggae band.
CALABASH: Antwerp based Roots and Ragga backing band, Belgium.
DADDY GREENTREE: Amsterdam reggae band.
DELIDEL TOUCH: reggae band from Rotterdam.
DIFFERENT CULTURE
DISAGREED: reggae, "punk", ska, pop en rock fusion from the north of Holland.
DOE MAAR, dutch-language (sort of) reggae. This (in Holland) legendary band has a reunion with concert series this year. ALLES: DOUBLE DISC SET WHICH INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS. KLAAR: their 2000 album.
DREAD & DREADLESS - reggae band from Holland.
DREAD LION reggae from Zoetermeer, now active as NICKY'S TRINITY.
DUB and DR. OVAR, Reggae Dub band from the Belgian coast region.
DUB COLLECTIVE, dub uit Leerdam.
DUBCREATOR Dub Dynamics Heaveyweight Roots Live on stage Feat. Lyrical Benjie.
EASTMAN SKANK (email Langenberg) Reggae band in Gelderland.
EASY CHANTING, Reggae band from Friesland.
ELIJAH & his ROOTS REGGAE TEAM, Holland based roots reggae singer from D.R. of Congo.
EQUAL.
ER WAS EENS...
FACTOR X Belgian Female Reggae (between Roots and Dancehall), with live band from Brussel.
FAYA CREW Rotterdam based reggae band.
FIVE FOR VIBES roots reggae from Groningen.
FOURTH ANGEL and STRAW, Afro-caribbean roots reggae band.
FULL COLORZ reggae band from Tilburg.
GLOBAL CARNIVAL belgian dub/roots/ska/funk band.
No longer active: GREEN FINANCE reggae band from Rotterdam and surroundings.
G.T. MOORE and the Roots - British reggae musician living in Belgium and his band.
HIGHER GROUND reggae-band from Deventer.
The HIGH VOLTAGE BAND, roots reggae backing band from Rotterdam.
HUMAN RITES doubledub and reggaeband from Utrecht and Breda, Netherlands.
HUMb, jazzy, funky hiphop with reggae-ska and salsa influences.
I STAR CONNECTION roots reggae from Nijmegen, Netherlands.
No longer active: ION - Instruments Of Nature, reggae band Delft/Den Haag regio
IBO JACOB reggae band from Amsterdam, Holland.
IONYOUTH Live band as well as soundsystem from Limburg, Belgium.
Not active anymore IYAH and the ZION REVELATION veteran reggae artists band derived from REBEL SOULS.
JAMAN Belgian reggaeband.
JAH STONEY Reggae artist and mercenary keyboardist.
JAH YLA, reggae band from Deventer.
JAHFREE AMOS, Belgium.
JAMPARA and the BATALION Dutch reggaeband.
JETLOX - Side project of New Sound Sistim singer Jay Lorou. From roots-reggae to dancehal.
JAY EAST AND DA WEST CASE CONNECTION Reggae band, Netherlands.
JOHNNY BABY Reggae band from Groningen, Netherlands.
JOIN STAR 8 Belgian jazzy/pop- reggae band.
KARMAKONGA, Reggae, Dub, Ska, from the Netherlands.
KENDREAD and the REVIVALS. Surinam singer and roots reggae band from Vlissingen.
KONGO BANGA and the IGZABEHER YIMASGAN, very talented singer from Zaire with a big international band, based in Amsterdam.
LION I LEVI, roots singer in Noord Brabant.
LITTLE MORE, dutch reggae band playing reggae music from Lovers rock to Dancehall.
MACAMBA, was active from 1995 thru 2000, now revived in 2008. Reggae, rocksteady, roots, ska, etc. band.
MARCUS and the REBELS, a reggae band from holland (Marcus is the former bassplayer/singer of Rebel Souls)
MERCIFULL VIBES (email Shanti) reggae band from Groningen.
MESSIAN DREAD, DUB artist from the northeast.
MIGHTY DREAD CONNECTION Reggae band.
MIGHTY PIRATES Belgian reggaeband.
SISTA MIKA multi-cultural reggae band with female singer in Belgium.
MITTY BEN WALKER, reggae singer from Jamaica, living in Holland.
MOON INVADERS, Belgian ska, rocksteady and reggae band.
MOPION, Den Haag.
MORE FIRE BAND, roots reggae band.
the MOVERS reggae band from Groningen, the Netherlands.
MYSTIC BAND reggae band from Dordrecht.
MYSTIC BREEZE reggae band from Belgium. NATURAL NATION, Reggaeband from Sliedrecht, Netherlands.
NAYANONKI belgian roots dub band.
NEW BORN CREATION - Dutch reggae band from Eindhoven
NEW SOUND SISTIM - Dutch reggae band with Ivorian singer/rapper Jay Lorou and drummer/producer Manolo Honkoop.
NICE TIME FREEDOM BAND Reggae band from Amsterdam. phone: 036-537 9356 (020 - 594 2091 office times)
NICKY'S TRINITY Reggae band in South Holland.
ORANGE GROVE Dutch/Caribbean Reggae, Ska & Hip-hop, Utrecht based.
OUTCRY, Reggaeband from Hilversum.
PANACHE CULTURE, great Belgian reggae band.
PAKHUIS, dutch-language reggae and rocksteady from Zaandam and Haarlem.
PLANETE BLEUE reggae band from Brussel, Belgium.
POOR MAN FRIEND - reggae band from Leiden and surroundings. Check out their great new CD featuring various irie cooperations at PMF site.
POSTMAN reggae/hiphop (the sequel on POSTMEN).
Prophet Jah Bless - Reggae Singer in Holland.
PROYECTO SECRETO Ska band from Gent, Belgium.

QUEST FOR FIRE Reggae from Groningen.
REALITY
No longer active: REBEL SOULS reggae roots from Rotterdam
REDEMPTION, Dutch-tongue Reggae band.
REJOYCE 5-men reggae roots band from Terneuzen, Zeeland, the Netherlands.
REMISSION - roots reggae band from Winterswijk, many old REALITY members.
REVELATION TIME
ROHAN LEE Holland-based Jamaican singer. Check out his album FOR THE POOR
ROJAH LAO (email Rojah) Roots reggae band in Belgium.
ROOTICAL TRANSFORMATION - reggae band from The Hague and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
ROOTS 86 - reggae band from Hilversum and Amsterdam.
ROOTS I
No longer active: ROOTS CONNECTION, reggae band from Leiden.
ROOTS ENCOUNTER Dutch reggae/ska/dub band from Emmen.
ROOTSTRAINROCKERS, Belgian reggae band.
ROTTERDAM SKA JAZZ FOUNDATION - reggae/ska band from Rotterdam.
SCREAMING ABDUBS, Lowland Reggae for da 90s, from Amsterdam.
SJOE POLLISJ, reggae "with an eye blink";-), Netherlands.
SOLID - roots reggae band from Hoorn, Netherlands.
STEP FORWARD reggae from Groningen, Netherlands.
STENCHTOWN, Reggae/Ska band from Rotterdam/Vlaardingen.
Sticko Xperience Band - Roots Reggae band from Amsterdam.
STRAWL and OUT OF MANY, Arnhem based reggae band, the Netherlands.
STRAWL, reggae artist, the Netherlands.
SUNSCAPE, 7 man roots-reggae-dub formation from St-Niklaas, Belgium.
THE BOUNCERS, ska and rocksteady from Haarlem.
THABAZZCO - reggae dub from Ypres, Belgium.
THE DUB MEDITATION (TDM)- reggae fusion band from Nijmegen.
THE MASTERS, plays combination of dancehall, roots, ragga, ska, lovers rock, info Leon 010-2760389.
THE MOVEMENTS, reggae by 3 dutch lady singers.
THE RECIPE, dutch reggae band.
THE ROOSTERZ, Reggae band from Emmen, the Netherlands.
THE SOLUTION, German-Dutch Reggae Band.
THE SPIRITS O'VE JAH Roots Rasta Reggae Band from Zaandam.
THE SUNDANCE KID.
TOP RANKIN' Reggae band from Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
TWILIGHT CIRCUS DUB SOUND SYSTEM 8 full length hardcore dub albums released. Canadian artist living in Nijmegen. Check out these albums (incl samples and reviews in international press): Volcanic Dub, Horsie, Dub Voyage, Other Worlds of Dub, Dub Plate Selection, Dub Plates #2, Vol. 1-In Dub, Bin Shaker Dub.
TWOROOTS, reggae band from Dordrecht / Utrecht, Netherlands.
UNIVIBES, Belgian reggae band.
the UPSESSIONS, Dutch early reggae band.
No longer active: VINEYARD - reggae band from Eindhoven and Tilburg.
WAZA ROOTS, a multicultural group of Belgium who brings Reggae-Afro-Highlife music.
YOUNGBLOOD dutch hip-hop, afro-latin, soul and reggae fusion. Winner of Grand Prix of South Holland, 2002.
YOUTHS OF SPIRIT Reggae band from Belgium.
ZEBRA, NederReggae band from the far north.
ZWIT Reggae/Ska band.

Great new book: Reggae Island: Jamaican Music in the Digital Age. Irie interviews and photography galore

Recommended book: Reggae Island: Jamaican Music in the Digital Age Many of the hot, famous, influential, and other Jamaican reggae artists tell their story on what a gwaan. Irie interviews and photography galore.

DUTCH and BELGIAN SKA BANDS, SINGERS and PLAYERS:

88MATE ANTIFA SKA Skaband of 9 from Antwerp.
the BEATBUSTERS.
the BOUNCERS.
THE DILL BROTHERS Belgian ska band.
DE HARDHEID Dutch Ska band.
JAMMAH TAMMAH Dutch eleven-piece skagroove band from Groningen with lots of rocksteady/reggae influences.
LET'S QUIT, Dutch ska band, Eindhoven.
Lord B and the Sensationals. Old skool Jamaican Ska from Purmerend.
Lord B and the Sensationals. Old skool Jamaican Ska from Purmerend.
MARK FOGGO dutch ska.
THE MALARIANS (Belgium).
the PALOOKAS Ska band.
the REGULATORS, former old skool Jamaican Ska from Purmerend. Now active as Lord B and the Sensationals.
RUDE RICH and the HIGH NOTES Dutch ska, rock steady, early reggae band.
SKARIBIAN SKWAD, 10 piece Ska-reggae band from Belgium.
SON OF BLOB Ska, Reggae, rocksteady, roots, etc. band uit Leiden.
UMUPOP dutch-language Ska/Reggaeband.
VENUS HILL is an eleven piece ska-"crossover" band from amsterdam; three girls on vocals, 2xTrumpet, Trombone, sax, bass, drum, guitar & keyboard.

Great book: The Rough Guide Reggae : 100 Essential Cds by Steve Barrow.

Recommended book: The Rough Guide Reggae : 100 Essential Cds by Steve Barrow.

STUDIOS, LABELS, PROMOTORS, AGENCIES, ETC.:

BLACK STAR FOUNDATION, allround organization for reggae, dancehall, and african music.
MUSIC MOVEMENTS, Eindhoven.
The DUBCELLAR Music & Sound Consultancy, studio The Dubcellar, Amsterdam, specialized in reggae and related styles, mixing (24 tracks!), live sound, also records on (your favourite) location (even living room, practicing room, etc.), run by Robert Curiel (drummer, drum teacher, soundengineer, dubmaster), phone: 020-6902129 (31-20-6902129 outside of Holland) or email: info@dubcellar.nl.
PANIC productions, Eindhoven. Organizer of a.o. the yearly REGGAE SUNDANCE Festival in Eindhoven, The NETHERLANDS.
GULLY BANK STUDIO, Amsterdam. Recorded Artists: Derrick Morgan, Dennis Alcapone, Winston Francis, Ernest Ranglin, Winston Reedy and many more!
EXODUS Productions Brussel, Belgium.
JAHREBEL, organizer of reggaenights, Belgium.
RUNN Netherlands, Reggae Label in NL
TOUT DREAD Productions, email: David Smans, or call tel: 0486/215.231. Belgium.
NEW BORN ARTISTS - reggae artists promotion.

Irielion Reggae Recommendations:
Dancehall Reggae: Buju Banton, Sizzla, Anthony B.,
Roots Reggae: Luciano, Garnett Silk, Mykal Rose, Morgan Heritage and LMS,
Reggae Dub: Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry,
Various: Reggae Books, Reggae T-shirts, Bob Marley T-shirts, Reggae Posters.

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