SCIENTIST-High Priest of Dub

[Jiffy Pop]

Yes d/l,u/l,everyone knows it cant be stopped,theres tons of places we all know where to go to get "free" music .Just spare the poor me cant buy it song and dance.
Have you ever been stopped on the street by a person who has this story that ultimatley leads to can you give me some money?
Those i ignore.The kind ones that dont try to convince me of anything,and just simply ask i always share what i can afford to.

[Rootsman]

Hey Someone else, well put.

I have made this point many times in the past about receiving music which is no longer readily available to buy.

I am no longer a collector of vinyl and haven`t been for some 10 years plus and these days only collect in CD format.

If an item is readily availble on CD then my preference would be to buy a legitimate release in the hope that some form of royalty from my purchase gets back to the artist (although I doubt that actually happens as it rarely did back in the days when the artists talents were openly exploited)

Anyway, back to the point. As I only collect on CD, I am constantly frustrated at the amount of great reggae music that has not found its way onto that format for whatever reason.

There are 100`s of great albums that I want to own and am aware they are not available on CD because they just have not been released in that format.

The only way to get them is through peoples willingness to share and downloads etc.

I have been very fortunate enough to meet a person on this site who is catering for all my musical needs.

If people, who have spent a lot of time and money to build their record collections, are happy to share their music in this way then I for one am grateful to receive and I don`t see that under these circumstances I am doing anyone any harm.

DreadcalKandi, believe me when I say that there are many good and generous people who use this site. Don`t be put of by the ignorant and thoughless comments of those few who are obviously in a more fortunate position.

Respect

Dave

[Javier]

I have the same problem, no credit card, and it's not fair to pay a CD the triple of its price through a internet store just because you live far far away...
Please, don't judge, enjoy music!

I'm sure most of us buy music whenever it's possible, and download whenever it's possible and share whenever it's possible and trade whenever it's possible and...

If I download an album and after that appears at the store, I buy it... who cannot prefer originals?

so...

High Priest of DUB

http://www.mediafire.com/?7ojmemyayhm

ENJOY

[leggo rocker]

Hey, I only asked a question. I didn't pass judgement.

I've shared LOADS of my music to people on this forum. Although generally NOT in public like this as I don't want some big record company lawyer slapping a cease and desist order on the Roots-Archive posse.

And I am actually PAYING MONEY to share my music with you guys via my Radio station. It earns me not one cent, instead it costs me hundreds of dollars a year to subscribe to broadcast. And hundreds of hours to record the stuff to upload it to the stream.

So please, NEVER accuse me of not sharing reggae music.

But if you wanna share, it's best to keep it quiet, not in open forum which endangers this site (and is against the site's T&Cs) but keep it underground, like in IMs and emails!

But always remember, without guys (and gals) who actually at some time paid for this stuff, and then took the time to record it and upload it, you wouldn't even get your free download.

And of course some producer risked his money to make the record, and some players took some time out to play it, and so on. So it ain't ever free, even if it seems to be so.

Not to mention whoever it is that is somehow footing the server bills for the downloading, etc etc.

And there's no such thing as luck or fortune, just Kharma.

Or as the Bible puts it:

"By the sweat of a man's brow, so shall he eat bread"

(ok, blue touch paper lit, now I'll stand back and watch it blow!)

[leggo rocker]

Just a little quote from the 'read me before posting' thread:

Read me before posting
Author : Roots Archives (moderator)
Date : November 29, 2004 12:01AM


"Welcome to the Roots Archives forums.

In order to keep the forum running well and to prevent problems, we ask you to follow these simple rules and guidelines :

No illegal content allowed
Discussion of illegal activities or links to illegal content are not allowed. This includes music piracy and any other intellectual property or copyright violations."

[Rootsman]

Hi Leggo,

I have read this thread again and I cannot see where anyone has accused you of not sharing music.

The people who use this forum are fully aware of the time and effort that you put into digitisig your records to get the music into a format to play on your radio link so that we can all SHARE in your listening enjoyment. This is very much appreciated by us users as you know from the feedback you have received.

That was never the issue. The issue was a guy ask a question (or more a request) if someone could provide him with some music.

I just thought the response he initially got was not very hospitable and was bordering sarcasm.

I have asked for help to obtain music on several occasions and would have been rather upset if I had got a similar response to my request.

In respect to sharing the music, we would all rather own ligitimate releases of all the music that is currently unavailable whether it be on re-release vinyl or CD.

We also know that the chances are much of the music we want is going to remain unavailable other than to the few people who are fortunate enough to have the time, money and resources to track down and purchase the original / initial re-releases of these rare gems.

I give just one example, Al Campbell, a superb vocalist who has got a fantastic catalogue of albums from 77 - 85, but see how many of those albums have been issued on CD in the original vinyl format and you will find NONE is the answer.

Do a search and you will find a couple of thrown together compilations that are no where near representative of his work.

I could go on and list artist after artist who`s music has suffered the same fate.

Yet other artists, Burning Spear to name one, seem to have almost their entire catalogue available to buy in whatever format you wish to own.

I would love to know why this is the case and can only assume it comes down to ownership rights of the music etc etc.

Until this situation is rectified and more music is made available again then business of people sharing downloads etc will not change.

Whether it is right or wrong is another discussion which again has been hit upon many times on other threads.

I personally have always been against downloading and thought it was wrong. But I have got to be honest and say that the frustration of spending hours searching online and scouring records stores for music only to come away empty handed as made me change my opinion.

I have been fortunate enough that I have found someone who has a massive collection of reggae.
This person has spent many hours putting this music onto digitised files and has been generous in the extreme in sharing this music with me.

Not being IT literate I was amazed at the ease of accessing the files to download the music. Its so much less frustrating than looking forlornly at site after site and not finding the music I want.

Today I have been listening to "Man from Wareika Dub" "357 Magnam Dub" "Satta Dub Strictly Roots" "Flowers in the Desert" and I am now listening to "Wagon Dub".

This is great music that I would not be listening to now if it wasn`t for downloads. So I guess for me the enjoyment of hearing this music far out weighs the sense of any wrong doing.

One last thing, very basic IT equipment is used in the process of creating and sending file to download.

Correct me if I an wrong but I believe it goes from turntable to computer where it is converted to a compressed file. The compressed file is then sent via a link. I then access the link to download the file. I then unzip the file and burn it to CD.

On the whole, the sound quality of these CD`s which I have created is fantastic.

If I can get such good quality sound recordings using basic equipment. Then how can the record companies with all their high tech equipment justify putting out so much badly re-mastered music and expect people to pay good money for the privilege of owning such shit.

I know this is not the norm, and that their are lots of high quality releases on the market, but poor recordings certainly appear more often than you would like.

Anyway Leggo, sorry if I disrespected you in any way. That was not the intention. I was just putting across a point of view.

Your efforts in bringing the music into my home is much appreciated and I always enjoy listening to your shows.

Regards

Dave

[ranking trevor]

One love on the thread, easy misunderstanding..

bless all..

rootsman dave i-man must agree with you,

i have transfered some LP's with my turntable to digital files and then burnt to CD, the result being excellent.. but it makes my also wonder why some of these lables with much more advanced technology fail to re-release quility material...

especially rhino and some vp releases.....

i guess anyway we look at it not eveyone on the forum and outa road will not see eye to eye on the subject of downloading, so its best kept on the "down-low", seen.

much love to dreadcalkandi, leggo, rootsman and all of the RA posse...

Just keep the music ALIVE, whether digitally or analogally (if thats is a word)

Guidence..

[leggo rocker]

Sorry if I've been firing off the hip in this thread.

Maybe because I'v been working too hard, sleeping to little and my collie man's been away now for a very long long time



Respect to all the bredren and sistren here, rich or poor, downloaders or vinylmen.

(but I still think that for the sake of the Roots-Archives mods we should keep this sharing stuff a little more private!)

[sean]

sciantis in DUBWISE!!!!! .. oh yeah, what a tremendous dub artist this boy is..sciantis in dubwise!!!!!

[Rootsman]

Sean, what are you on tonight, I could do wuth some

Dave