redirecting.love

one rudeboy is back to the roots coming throughout times of some difficult living, long distance loving, nature travelling, and meeting some amazing people. rediscovering oneself and taking the time to really understand the place you are stepping on is like being born again and i'd like to try and keep on being conscious of why i am here. burn politics and capitalist ways! burn their cruel animal entertainment, their non-sustainable ways of living!!! more fire! more love!

as we need to be more creative, i'd like to say enough respect for philip jordan and his bears. this guy shows his work through a wonderful interactive site that makes you feel almost like when you played with/around carton boxes as a kid. great concept and animation, wonderful paintings and artwork. let you surf the mind of someone else and become inspired to create art, love, consciousness and freedom!!

teddies in space

extra link for having one more reason not to go out

biggest up for the people that have walked with me these past days.
may all the love i get go straight to grandfather in times of weakness and help him against this.

neblinasound

things and plans have changed here and now the rudeblog is probably staying in this same domain, however a new project is developing for a collective site where different digital ideas can be mixed, gathered and transformed by everyone involved... you will probably hear some news on the rudetribe soon!!

but now the spotlight comes down on a great independent soundsystem i have gotten to know. neblina sound have become a real underground institution in the spanish reggae scene and they're certainly getting more and more attention and respect from those wonderful underground reggae lovers.
u-rie, one of the singjays and producers is moving around in several other productions and he's working now with the triple-r radio station along with raspinu and other selectahs and artists from some other soundsystems and these projects surely deserve your attention too! check neblinasound website where you can download some mixtapes, shows and read some of their history; biggest up for people trying to make real music and keep it blazin!!

neblinasound website
neblinastation
me mueves a mi (u-rie)
neblina sound inna reggae style

also check out these other sounds:
rootsandvibes
rockersound
irielionsound
leoneshumildes

morefire!/still onelove believah!

miromi

well, all the necessary arrangements are being made for the new and improved rudeblog... the new domain name will be www.rudeblog.net and will probably run on wordpress or jaws, please be patient 'cause the waiting will be worth it!!

meanwhile, here's a great link to romy ilano's site. she's a graphic artist from germany and she has released some artzines with beautiful illustrations. interesting use of digital painting and wonderful moods evoked with her unique style. i find some of the pieces kind of twisted, which is actually what i like the most, but i like the non obvious approach... just check it!

miromi.org
softtween comic

persistance through severance... onelove!

morefiyah!

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i haven't got much time left to keep up with the posting, it's been over a month and no fresh news in the rudeblog. fans are starting to get pissed and the stocks are not raising anymore. but hold on tight to your dreads 'cause the rudeblog is coming back soon with fresh new image, new domain name and ridiculously interesting information!!!

big up for the greatest love ever known,

onelove/morefire

unpredictable

birthday boy today, i've been here a while and still the path never ceases to amaze me and give me much more reasons to keep on walking. blessings to all of you sharing this moment in history with me... more fire!

and in these times of reinventing and looking back, i came across the groundbreaking site of the jahtari collective. interesting, fresh, and brilliant proposals for approaching digital music creation. they are merely centered in dub creation but based in the real roots and the new ways offered by computers and music software nowadays.

check out the concept and design and click on the audio player where you can listen to mostly everything they've done; great sounds, composition and ideas! plus you can check some interesting facts of reggae and dub history as well as the theory behind jahtari.org

big up for all jah people trying to make some real soul-based fresh music!!

jahtari.org
jahtari.org player!!!
notes on the jahtaris @ sonic heart digizine

onelove/morefire!

bus.ride

i didn't really like the g.i. joe cartoons they showed on tv when i was a kid. the toys however, were a completely different thing... almost every kid in my neighborhood had one or a car or something related. but i do remember that every time the show ended, there was a small sketch in which one of the stars of the show gave some advice for kids.

a while ago, eric fensler redubbed 25 of these "public service announcements" and they're simply hillarious... i think you can't check them anymore at fenslerfilm but ebaumsworld has got a pretty nice collection. check them out!

reggae
pork chop sandwiches
psa's at ebaumsworld

sunsplash

it's official finally! the woodstock of reggae music is back. reggae sunsplash festival will be held in 2006 in ocho rios. if the right artists are to perform, this might actually be an apotheosic moment for reggae fans across the world, at least it seems that way for me.

sunsplash was the revival of live music and the gathering point for all major reggae artists like jacob miller, eek a mouse, third word, burning spear and bob marley. from 1978 to 1997 the event proved to be an unforgettable experience but in the latter years the show kept bringing less people. 9 years have passed and the jamaican music scene has grown a lot, i'm sure that a legendary mega show is the best way to get many artists worldwide attention and reggae fans a couple of memories that will be there forever... imagine the scene! jamaica, beach, coconut rum (if no bacardi), cristal clear yet extremely loud reggae, dancing, the agony!, my empress, locks, more reggae!, more rum, more dancing, more of her... and mi chalice, mi sweet little chalice.

sunsplash has toured all over the world in it's past editions, let just hope they do it this time in case, just in case, we don't happen to go to jamaica.

watch some videos from some artists performing at sunsplash!!!

eek a mouse
the twinkle brothers
toots and the maytals

** the clips are in real audio, i'm terribly sorry, honestly, but you can play them with the amazing jetaudio, which should be your ONLY media player, uninstall your windowsmedia... now!!!

onelove/morefire