Just to hit back on with what guillaume stated about real rastas not having electronic stuff, that`s absolutely ludacris.
Im a rastaman and have electronic equipment and know that most rastas have electronic equipment.This makes life easier and most important to listen to the rasta sound.
The spread of the message via audio equipment is the best thing that could happen to reggae sounds.I know a one or two people who converted to rastafarians through listening to rasta sounds in the beginning.
Even the rastaman i know that live up in the mountains and live of the land, they make sure that they have sound systems that runs of car batteries.This community all live very basic of the land but heavily rastafarian life style, they make sure thay got the system to chant and play JAH music.
This statement that guillaume made has got me hot up because the sound system broadcasts rasta music from east/west/north/south all across the globe so the message is out there.And people who would have never come across this genre has now got the opportunity to with thanks to electronic equipment ,even if it is one out of a thousand does not matter least it`s global.
I`m rasta and as long as your rightious,positive and give praise and no iniquity settle then electronics,technology is there to make life easier and entertaining.This is not 400 A.D and rastas are not like the Taliban from Afghanistan.
And to add to my point about 'active museum'. A museum should be open to all to check out the artifacts. That's why I am always anxious to play my records to anyone who will listen, either via my radio feed (see below) or at home or in the dance.
These records are not here to sit on shelves unplayed and gather dust.
And if, like many of us here, you were listening to these sounds in the 60s - 70s and 80s then playing these tunes really does act as a time transporter. I am so often flung back to some scene from my youth when a record starts playing.