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This weeks show starts off with classic music from Bob Marley & The Wailers, Peter Tosh, Michael Palmer & Aswad, Black Uhuru, Dennis Brown, Owen Grey, The Abyssinians, Mike Brooks, The Viceroys, Freddie McGregor, Israel Vibration, King Kong, Errol Flabba Holt, Learoy Green & Roots Massacre, and Leroy Smart. This week you will hear new music from The Co-Operators featuring Kitma, Benjammin and the 18th Parallel, Richie Culture, Taj Weekes & Zion Albert, Bunnington Judah and Don Fe, Akae Beka, Soul Medic, Jah Mason, Protoje with Jasshii, Capleton, Jhazahra, Bugle with Buju Banton and Damian Marley, Kumar Bent, Christopher Ellis, Manwel T, Pitch Black with Adrian Sherwood, Switchy Dub, Starlight and Med Dred, The Hempolics featuring Shumba Youth, Dr, Ring Ding, Twan Tee, Mykal Rose, and Olaf Blackwood with Shaggy. Enjoy! Bob Marley & The Wailers - Wake Up And Live - Survival - Tuff Gong Peter Tosh - Testify - No Nuclear War - EMI Michael Palmer & Aswad - Me Nah Run - Simba Black Uhuru - Shine Eye Gal/Shine Eye Gal Dub - Taxi Trax - Tabou1/Taxi Records Manwel T feat. Andres Cotter & Alberto Tarin - Dub Beach - Manwel T Music Dennis Brown feat. Dillinger - Here I Come/Flatfoot Hustling - Open The Gate: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 - Heartbeat Records Niney The Observer feat. - Dennis Brown - Come Dub - Dennis Brown In Dub - Heartbeat Records Owen Grey - Fire Fire (Love Fire) - The British Roots Rockas - Dennis Bovell The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana - Satta Massagana Deluxe Edition - Heartbeat Records Mike Brooks - Who Have Eyes To See - The Earth Is The Fullness - Moll-Selekta The Viceroys - Ain't Nobody Love Nobody - Brethren & Sistren - Thompson Sound Freddie McGregor - Rasta Have Faith - Mr. McGregor - VP Records Israel Vibration - Cool & Calm - Power Of The Trinity: Wiss Vibes - Ras Records King Kong - Come Down - Jah All Mighty 7” Sugar Minott - Love Of Jah/Love Of Jah Dub - Sugar & Spice - Ras Records Errol Flabba Holt - My Heart Is In Danger - Ohm Records Leroy Smart - Reggae Music - Wackies 7” The Co-Operators feat. Kitma - Nefarious - Sounds From The Fridge - Waggle Dance Records Benjammin & The 18th Parallel - Warmonger - Fruits Records Learoy Green & Roots Massacre - Fools Policy/Fools Policy Dub - Dub Addict Richie Culture & Floyd Afrika - Murder Dem/Dub Dem - Tuff Scout Records Taj Weekes & Zion Albert - Cornerstone - Eyes To See - Skank Productions/Jatta Records Mighty Joshua - Dreaducation - Dreaducation - Mighty Joshua Music Bunnington Judah & Don Fe - Jah Children Must Rise/Jah Children Must Dub - Jah Catalyst Akae Beka - Psalm 72 - The Akae Beka Srolls - Go A Chant/Trinity Farm Music Midnite - No Rest For The Weary - Live At Tremont Music Hall Charlotte NC Reemah - May Day - Breaking News - Feel Line Records Soul Medic - Firm & Militant - Firm And Militant - Jah Kebra Music Jah Mason w/ Paul Lupa & Dubatrix - What's The Dealin' (dub mix) - Paul Lupa Music Protoje & Jashii - Where We Come From - Ineffable Records Jhazahra - Tru Mi Bad - Trey Drumz Capleton - Jah Guide My Step - Brimstone Riddim Deluxe Edition - Dutty Rock Productions Bugle feat. Buju Banton & Damian Marley - Thank You Lord - Apex - An9ted Ent./Evidence Music Kumar & The 18th Parallel - World Wide Love/World Wide Dub - Fruits Records Wayne Smith - No More Will I Roam - Youthman Skanking - VP Records Christopher Ellis - Miss You - Ghetto Youths International Horace Andy - Mind Your Own - The Final Battle: Sly & Robbie Vs Roots Radics - DubShot Records Sly & Robbie feat. Don Camel & Horace Andy - Mind Your Dub (Don Camel Dub) - Sly & Robbie Vs Roots Radics: The Dub Battle - DubShot Records JA-13 - Rude Boy Gone - World Radio Dub (Chapter One - JA-13 Cooperative Mafia & Fluxy feat. The Pharmacist - Dub De Rights - Introducing The Pharmacist - Mafia & Fluxy The Rifffs - Modern Society Dub (Manwel T Mix) - Manwel T The Twinkle Brothers - Jah Kingdom Come - Countrymen - Virgin The Twinkle Brothers - Kingdom Dub - Dub Massacre Part 1 & Part 2 - Twinkle Music Scientist & Hempress Sativa - Heathen Wage Dub - Scientist Meets Hempress Sativa In Dub - Conquering Lion Records Pitch Black - 1000 Mile Drift (Adrian Sherwood Mix) - Echoes Of The Night: The Adrian Sherwood Remixes - Dubmission Records Johnny Clarke & Libertad Sound System - To Be Prayed/To Be Dub - Libertad Records Jah Warrior - Hot Steppers - Jah Warrior Showcase Vol. 2 - Jah Warrior Switchy Dub - All In One - Re-Birth - Culture Dub Records Vibronics feat. Vanya O - Mountain Call - Woman On A Mission 2 - Scoops The Hempolics feat. Shumba Youth - Rockin N' Sway/Rockin N' Sway Version - Hempolics Music Starlight & Med Dred - Resident/Resident Dub - Dubophonic Records Med Dred & Shaky Norman - Forward Melodicas - Forward Melodicas - Dubophonic Records Green Lion Crew feat. The Movement - Forward I Will Go - Extra Heavy Riddim - Green Lion Crew Green Lion Crew feat. Medisun - Extra Heavy - Extra Heavy Riddim - Green Lion Crew Green Lion Crew feat. Anthony B - Dem A Murderah - Extra Heavy Riddim - Green Lion Crew Dr. Ring Ding - Follow Dis Yah Sound - Bass Jam - Anaves Music OBF & Iration Steppas - Love Sound System - Revelation - Dubquake Records Twan Tee - Put It Pon Replay - Outrospection - Baco Records Olaf Blackwood feat. Shaggy - Selector Pull It - Badman Riddim - VP Records/Ranch Entertainment Mykal Rose & Subatomic Sound System feat. Hollie Cook - Rockin' Like A Champion - Rockin' Like A Champion - DubShot Records
Reggae legend King Kong, also known as Dennis Thomas, emerged in the early 1980s Jamaican music scene alongside other iconic artists like Tenor Saw and Nitty Gritty. His talent was quickly recognized by the legendary producer King Tubby, who brought him on board to record several singles for the Firehouse label, including "Step On Dem Corn," "Aids," and "Babylon."As digital music began to reshape the soundscape in 1985, King Kong collaborated with Anthony Red Rose on the hit song "Two Big Bull Ina One Pen." He later joined forces with producer King Jammy, churning out successive hits like "Legal We Legal," "Trouble Again," and "Mix Up" between 1985 and 1986. King Kong's versatility was further showcased during this period through his work with other labels including Black Scorpio, Bunny Lee, and Prince Jazzbo.In the late 1980s, King Kong's career took him beyond Jamaica to the United States and Canada, where he established his own label, Conscious Music.King Kong continued to make his mark in the late 1980s with a tribute song, "He Was A Friend," dedicated to the late reggae artist Tenor Saw. He then set his sights on new horizons, traveling to London in the early 1990s. There, he collaborated with several prominent figures in the reggae scene, including Mafia & Fluxy, Fashion Records, and Gussie P. He also linked up with the New York-based label Massive B.King Kong's creative spark remained evident in 1990 when he recorded a dubplate, a custom-made reggae record, titled "Call Mr. Madden." While initially unreleased, the song's potential was undeniable. Two years later, producer Bobby Konders decided to share "Call Mr. Madden" with the world, and it became a dancehall hit. Interestingly, the Fugees would later draw inspiration from this title for their smash hit "Fu-Gee-La" released in 1996.Despite these successes, King Kong's reggae career maintained a sporadic presence on the global stage.Reggae Reignited: Later Years and Continued SuccessAfter facing legal troubles in the mid-1990s, King Kong returned to Jamaica and reconnected with producer King Jammy, releasing tracks like "Seize All Guns" and "Break Down The Walls." However, it was the New York label Massive B who truly reignited his artistic fire. Collaborations with them produced inspirational songs like "Jah Is My Best Friend," "Earth Is The Lord," and "I Feel A Joy."King Kong's adventurous spirit then led him to Ethiopia in 2007. This new chapter culminated in the 2012 release of his 10th album, "Ethiopian Dream," a collaboration with the Dutch label King Shiloh. Singles like "Sweet Rub A Dub" and a cover of "Door Peeper" kept the momentum going. In 2017, he dropped an EP titled "In The Old Capital" featuring five tracks and their dub versions, produced by Old Capital Records.King Kong's artistic wellspring continued to flow in 2018 with the release of the acclaimed album "Repatriation" on the Irie Ites Records label. With a career spanning over 35 years and boasting an impressive discography of 12 albums and countless singles, King Kong remains a force to be reckoned with in the reggae world mark the minds of fans of the artist!https://www.irieites.net/https://www.facebook.com/irie.ites/https://soundcloud.com/irie-ites-recordshttps://www.youtube.com/user/IRIEITESMANAJAHhttps://twitter.com/IRIEITESRECORDSWho Needs a Superhero When You Have Whipped Body Butter?Dry, itchy skin? Frizz so wild it could conduct an orchestra? Fear not, weary warriors of self-care! Southside Beauty Care's whipped body butter is here to vanquish your woes with a luxurious 4 ounces of pure, pampering goodness.This all-natural wonder is crafted with a team of superstar ingredients like shea butter, sunflower oil, and avocado oil (or coconut oil, depending on your flavor). Together, they fight dryness like it's their archnemesis, leaving your skin feeling soft, supple, and worthy of its own red carpet moment.But wait, there's more! This versatile superhero doesn't discriminate. Dry, frizzy hair doesn't stand a chance against a dollop of whipped goodness. Tame those fly aways and add a touch of shine for a mane that would make Rapunzel jealous.Choose Your Whipped Weapon:Frankensense & Myrrh: For an air of mystical pampering.Regular, Orange, Rose: Classic scents to match your mood.Sea Moss: Because sometimes your skin needs a touch of the ocean (minus the sand).So ditch the sidekicks (expensive creams, harsh chemicals), Southside Beauty Care's whipped body butter is all you need to conquer dryness and leave your skin and hair feeling like a million bucks (or at least a very luxurious four ounces).www.southsidebeautycare.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reggae-hour--2646280/support.
Hosted by Dubmatix and showcasing the finest Sticky Icky Reggae tunes from around the globe — spanning dub to dancehall, rocksteady to roots, and every rhythm in between. Tune in weekly to experience the infectious beats that transcend borders. www.dubmatix.com https://www.mixcloud.com/dubmatix/ PLAYLIST Johnny Osbourne - Never Stop Fighting Pablo Moses - Give I Fe A Name Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus - None A Jah Jah Children No Cry Freddie McGregor - Chant It Down Horace Martin - Africa Is Calling Greg Even, Blackout JA & King Toppa - Inna Dancehall Style Senbei, Al'Tarba, Bella Blair - Not Ready Akae Beka & Protoje - Mek A Menshun Martin Campbell - Babylon Come Sylford Walker - Joh Golden Pen Tonto Irie - Ram Up Every Corner Pablo Gad - Blood Suckers Dougie Conscious & Artman - Artman meets Dougie Mafia & Fluxy & The Pharmacist - 1st Trumpet Reggae Regular - Ghetto Rock Johnny Clarke - African Roots Hempess Sativa - Boom (Wah Da Da Deng) Anthony B - (al)Low Di Herb
Uplifting Beats from Running Loving Something and Catching Flies. A classic from DJ Shadow. Hip Hop from Amy True, Snips feat Juno, Godfather Don feat Kool Keith. Soul from AOH, Thundercat & Tame Impala. A Drum & Bass version of Roy Ayers by Hi Fidel Cartel and the Pola & Bryson remix of Adam F. Reggae / Dub from Jah Shaka, Origin One, Mafia & Fluxy. Jazz from Yussef Dayes & JSPHYNX. Broken Beat from WheelUP. Plus plenty more music treats.
Thu, 26 May 2022 03:00:00 +0000 https://dasmorningbriefing.podigee.io/1555-neue-episode 508f79c04344cab24a760340e00f75ae Deutschland setzt auf Flüssiggas, um sich von Putins Diktat zu befreien, aber laufen wir in die nächste Abhängigkeit? Diese Woche im Tech Briefing: Aufzählungs-TextThema der Woche: Liquid Natural Gas bestimmt die dieser Tage die Schlagzeilen. Jeder hat eine vage Vorstellung davon. Doch wie funktioniert die Technik genau? Wie sicher, umweltverträglich und effizient ist sie? Auf welchem Wege wird Erdgas flüssig und dann wieder zu Gas? Was geschieht an Bord der riesigen Transportschiffe? Und bis wann sind schwimmende Terminals günstige als feste Anlagen? Alles, was Sie schon immer über LNG wissen wollten, aber einfach nicht dazu gekommen sind, einmal nachzufragen. Aufzählungs-TextPlus: In der vergangenen Woche beschloss der Bundestag das LNG-Beschleunigungsgesetz. Damit ist eine weitere Hürde genommen für das ehrgeizige Projekt, über das Robert Habeck unter anderen mit dem Emir von Katar, Scheich Tamim Al Thani, verhandelt: Deutschlands Abkehr von Russland in Sachen Gaslieferung. Aufzählungs-TextDazu: Die LNG-Lieferkette – von der Förderung bis zur Stromproduktion. Die Technik, die Probleme, die Lösungen. Im Interview der Woche: Arno Büx, Präsidenten der Vereinigung der europäischen LNG-Terminal-Betreiber sowie Chief Commercial Officer bei Fluxy und Sonja Neßhöver, Head of Business Development beim Hanseatic Energy Hub in Stade. Beide Experten erklären das LNG-System von innen. Aufzählungs-TextPlus: Die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der Welt der BigTech, Startups und Technologie. Ticket zum Tech Briefing Live am 2. Juni gibt es hier. Haben Sie Fragen? Schreiben Sie uns gerne eine Mail an kontakt@mediapioneer.com. Moderation: Christoph Keese und Lena Waltle 1555 full Deutschland setzt auf Flüssiggas, um sich von Putins Diktat zu befreien, aber laufen wir in die nächste Abhängigkeit? no Christoph Keese, Lena Waltle
Thema der Woche: Liquid Natural Gas bestimmt die dieser Tage die Schlagzeilen. Jeder hat eine vage Vorstellung davon. Doch wie funktioniert die Technik genau? Wie sicher, umweltverträglich und effizient ist sie? Auf welchem Wege wird Erdgas flüssig und dann wieder zu Gas? Was geschieht an Bord der riesigen Transportschiffe? Und bis wann sind schwimmende Terminals günstige als feste Anlagen? Alles, was Sie schon immer über LNG wissen wollten, aber einfach nicht dazu gekommen sind, einmal nachzufragen.Plus: In der vergangenen Woche beschloss der Bundestag das LNG-Beschleunigungsgesetz. Damit ist eine weitere Hürde genommen für das ehrgeizige Projekt, über das Robert Habeck unter anderen mit dem Emir von Katar, Scheich Tamim Al Thani, verhandelt: Deutschlands Abkehr von Russland in Sachen Gaslieferung.Dazu: Die LNG-Lieferkette – von der Förderung bis zur Stromproduktion. Die Technik, die Probleme, die Lösungen.Im Interview der Woche: Arno Büx, Präsidenten der Vereinigung der europäischen LNG-Terminal-Betreiber sowie Chief Commercial Officer bei Fluxy und Sonja Neßhöver, Head of Business Development beim Hanseatic Energy Hub in Stade. Beide Experten erklären das LNG-System von innen.Plus: Die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der Welt der BigTech, Startups und Technologie.Ticket zum Tech Briefing Live am 2. Juni gibt es hier.Sie wollen kostenlos das Tech Briefing testen? Hier können Sie jetzt den Newsletter kostenlos abonnieren.Ab sofort steht die neue ThePioneer Podcast App kostenlos im Apple App Store und im Google Playstore zum Download bereit.Haben Sie Fragen? Schreiben Sie uns gerne eine Mail an kontakt@mediapioneer.com.Moderation: Christoph Keese und Lena Waltle See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Big Love Reggae Radio Scotland - Presents ReggaeplatonicNew Podcast for 2022 some old some new - please enjoy the vibes - stay safe comradesFreddie McGregor - Perhaps 10” Vinyl + Stingray All Starts (Mafia & Fluxy, Greg, Javier Martin Boix & Marcos Crespo) Phyllisia Ross & Ky-Mani Marley - Kenbe La Riddim 2022Freddie McGregor - Here I Come - Night - In - Gale Riddim 2022Henry Matic - It MekEmeterians - Outta Babylon Ft KumarWinston Francis - Dry Your Tears - Prince Fatty (Mungo's HiFi Mix)Bunny Wailer, Manu Chao & Bushman - Soul RebelLuciano - Jah Is Stronger - Rising Riddim 2022Tarrus Riley - She's RoyalJohn Brown's Body - BadmanMaxi Priest - Bridge You BurnMafia & Fluxy feat Patrixxx Aba Ariginal - Solomonic RiseNo Alcohol or Tobacco Products Used In The Making Of This Production.All Tracks Picked by CepboiPodcast Mixed by Brian J McSheffery @ The Cave Home Studios©BLRR Scotland /BoooomTunes Productions - 2022#justbegoodtoeachother #biglove #boooomtunes #onelifetolive
MISTAKES WERE MADE | C1 TRAILER In the world of Asoria, all is not well. Worshippers of the Traveller, multiple gods, the Siblings of Valor and other heroes have and continue to go missing. With so many people going missing, there are little to no heroes to protect citizens from danger. When the world's heroes are in trouble, who will save those caught in the crossfire? Mistakes Were Made follows a group of newbie heroes desperate to make some coin, keep themselves safe and maybe even save the world in the process. | TRIGGER WARNINGS: flashing lights, blood & injury, violence & combat, swearing, moderate amounts of potty humor, mind control, amnesia, and betrayal/backstabbing SYSTEM: DND 5e + homebrew DM: Avery CAST: Stormy, Caleb, Fluxy, Soushi, Alicia, Cory + Hale |WHERE ELSE TO WATCH & LISTEN: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mothcat_gaming Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23CxKzMNso7vmWAO1EbgNv?si=6e794580ba6640de All other links/socials: https://linktr.ee/mwm_pod
By talking to Lizzie a halfling and Henry the half elf from the Forest Store, the party learn that a Remembrance Guild recruiter and may be able to answer some of their questions. Accepting a quest to meet undercover half-orc agent in the Dracoa Republic, the party takes a train ride to go find the missing recruiter. |TRIGGER WARNINGS: blood & injury, violence & combat, swearing, moderate amounts of potty humor, mind control, amnesia, and betrayal/backstabbing |EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0wxzzYkUuHQ1RBtq0j42DEB3mjeE95IzJSz579gmb8/edit?usp=sharing SETTING: 1800's Steampunk SYSTEM: DND 5e + homebrew DM: Avery CAST: Stormy, Caleb, Fluxy, Soushi, Alicia, Cory + Hale |WHERE ELSE TO WATCH & LISTEN: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mothcat_gaming Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5gdwXfcclg All other links/socials: https://linktr.ee/mwm_pod Become a hero, tell your friends about us!
By talking to Lizzie a halfling and Henry the half elf from the Forest Store, the party learn that a Remembrance Guild recruiter and may be able to answer some of their questions. Accepting a quest to meet undercover half-orc agent in the Dracoa Republic, the party takes a train ride to go find the missing recruiter. |TRIGGER WARNINGS: blood & injury, violence & combat, swearing, moderate amounts of potty humor, mind control, amnesia, and betrayal/backstabbing |EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UBL8dYg4ng8l0gijs3ywJoKJnfMufR6cp4_ThhiRspo/edit?usp=sharing SETTING: 1800's Steampunk SYSTEM: DND 5e + homebrew DM: Avery CAST: Stormy, Caleb, Fluxy, Soushi, Alicia, Cory + Hale |WHERE ELSE TO WATCH & LISTEN: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mothcat_gaming Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5gdwXfcclg All other links/socials: https://linktr.ee/mwm_pod Become a hero, tell your friends about us!
MISTAKES WERE MADE | CAMPAIGN 1: DEFYING ODDS & DEFINING GODS | EP 3 With the help of their newfound allies, the party continues their trip to meet with their undercover Remembrance Guild contact. The party learns more about their newfound allies and themselves along the way. | TRIGGER WARNINGS: blood & injury, violence & combat, swearing, moderate amounts of potty humor, mind control, amnesia, and betrayal/backstabbing |EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-1kOQN5g1kdcKWYNA7CHYqW3z2tdnIxVCZGTeZ0CZA/edit?usp=sharing SETTING: 1800's Steampunk SYSTEM: DND 5e + homebrew DM: Avery CAST: Stormy, Caleb, Fluxy, Soushi, Alicia, Cory + Hale |WHERE ELSE TO WATCH & LISTEN: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mothcat_gaming Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO3V0WJAxdM&t=295s All other links/socials: https://linktr.ee/mwm_pod Become a hero, tell your friends about us!
After completing their pumpkin patch quest, the party heads to The Forest Store located in the town of Woodhurst in the country of Alfos. Drawn in by the allure of helpful items and even more helpful info, the party heads there with the idea that the store may be more than what it appears. TRANSCRIPTION LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P0HCx26rysLS8mYPIgpF33NnLD7_LBMN2FAoZjmi7FM/edit?usp=sharing MWM Campaign 1 The Siblings of Valor is an international, extremely selective adventurer's/heroes guild. Although there are few members, the heroes within its ranks are famous for preventing coups and world ending scenarios. Despite such accomplishing such feats, the members of SOV are only mortal and flawed, capable of being kidnapped or killed. With multiple members of SOV going missing, along with multiple squads of soldiers and police officers, there are little to no people to protect citizens from danger. When the world's heroes are in trouble who will save the heroes and everyone caught in the crossfire? Mistakes were made follows a group of newbie heroes desperate to make some coin, keep themselves safe and save the world. Art by @TheLilChurro on twitter SETTING: 1800's Steampunk SYSTEM: DND 5e TOTAL EPISODES: tba START DATE: June 2021 END DATE: tba DM: Avery CAST: Stormy, Caleb, Fluxy, Soushi, Alicia, Cory + Hale WATCH LIVE: @mothcat_gaming WATCH ON YOUTUBE: mothcat gaming
Born the ninth of ten children, Hammond grew up listening to his father's collection of American soul and jazz music including Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. He was further influenced by the native musics of ska and rocksteady, in particular Alton Ellis. Hammond began participating in local talent contests from 1972 to 1973,which led to his first recording, of Ellis' "Wanderer". In 1975 he joined the band, Zap Pow, as lead singer,leading to the hit 1978 single, "The System" under the Aquarius Records label. However, he simultaneously sought a solo career, releasing his debut album, Soul Reggae, in 1976. His solo ballads "One Step Ahead" (1976) and Joe Gibbs produced "I'm in Love" (1978), were both hits in Jamaica. He left Zap Pow in 1979 to pursue his solo career, and recorded two more albums Let's Make A Song in 1980 and Red Light 1981. He formed Tuesday's Children, a harmony group that toured but never recorded. Hammond formed his own record label, Harmony Records, in 1985 for the release of his Make a Song album,which had two Jamaican chart-toppers that were influenced by the emerging dancehall style: "Groovy Little Thing" and "What One Dance Can Do".The latter, produced by Willie Lindo, began to break Hammond into the international market. He scored another hit in 1986 with "Settling Down" on his eponymous release. He left his fame in Jamaica for New York City in 1987,after being tied up as thieves ransacked his house during a home invasion. There he recorded the Have a Nice Weekend album and the duet single "How Can We Ease the Pain" with Maxi Priest. Hammond returned briefly to Jamaica to record Putting Up Resistance, which was significantly harder than his typical ballads, produced by Tappa Zukie, which spawned the hits "Putting Up Resistance" and "Strange". He signed with Penthouse Records in 1990 and returned to Jamaica permanently to record the dancehall smash "Tempted to Touch", with producer Donovan Germain. This is perhaps his best known song in the United States and United Kingdom, and set the foundation for the hits "Is This a Sign" and "Respect to You Baby" on the 1992 Love Affair album.Also in 1992, Beres released the single "Fire". The song received critical acclaim within the Reggae music industry and it was an extremely sought after 7" single. Now garnering interest from major studios such as Elektra Records, Hammond recorded five more albums in the 1990s as well as several compilations, establishing himself as one of the top lovers rock artists. His first album of the new millennium was 2001's Music Is Life, which featured an appearance by Wyclef Jean, and contributions from Earl "Chinna" Smith and Flourgon. The album spawned several hits, including "They Gonna Talk", "Rockaway" and "Ain't It Good To Know".The 2004 release Love Has No Boundaries, had guest spots by Buju Banton and Big Youth. He returned to Jamaica to perform at the Opening Ceremony for the Cricket World Cup 2007. He released yet another album in 2008, A Moment in Time, on VP Records, which featured the single "I Feel Good". His 2012 album One Love, One Life topped the Billboard Reggae Albums chart. In January 2014 it was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Jamaica by the Jamaican government in recognition of his "exceptional and dedicated contribution to the Jamaican music industry". In October 2018, he released his first album for almost six years, Never Ending, which features contributions from musicians including Errol Holt, Mafia & Fluxy, Dean Fraser, and Robbie Lyn. After its first week of release it topped the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart.
Big Love Reggae Radio Scotland - Presents DubJam Irie Vibes This is a side project started by my Twin Bro and myself many years ago - Keeping The Fire Alive for My Twin Bro - Place for or Dub and Extended Mixes - so here it is.. Enjoy Comrade #Biglove #justbegoodtoeachother #onelifetolive Mafia & Fluxy feat Patrixxx Aba Ariginal - None Of Dub Matisyahu - Fire & Dub Dubcup Ft Henry Matic - Lockdown Dub Bob Marley - Mr Brown Dub UB40 - You Haven’t Called Dub Dubkasm - Woodsman Dub Addis Pablo - Melodica FiYa Mungo's_Hifi_-_Mash_up_Jah_Dub. Kingston Express - Raggamuffin Business - Instrumental No Alcohol or Tobacco Products Used In The Making Of This Production. All Tracks Picked by Cepboi Podcast Mixed by Brian J McSheffery @ The Cave Home Studios ©BLRR Scotland /BoooomTunes Productions - 2020 BigLoveReggaeRadio support Love Music Hate Racism BigLoveReggaeRadio support Against Knife Crime #lionorder #biglove #boooomtunes #onelifetolive
Así lo bautizamos. A pesar de que este madrileño "le tira" bien a otros estilos, el Raggamuffin que despliega en su nuevo álbum "Raggamuffin Again. Old School Is Cool 2" es de un peso específico indudable gracias a las producciones de Mafia & Fluxy, Mista T, Cosme Deyah o Positive Vibz. Pero antes echaremos la vista atrás para repasar algunos de los Hits de este subgénero nacido a mediados de los años 80 y cuyos aromas sonoros siguen siendo reinterpretados y homenajeados en la actualidad. Una buena prueba es este versátil y singular artista. Escuchar audio
This weeks show starts in a classic style with music from Peter Tosh, Israel Vibration, Ijahman, Steel Pulse, Jacob Miller, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Edi Fitzroy, Don Carlos, Dennis Brown, Ranking Joe, and Horace Andy. New music this week comes from Buju Banton, Glen Washington, Freddie McGregor, Jah Sun, Akae Beka, Joshua Hales and Brizion, Etana, Eesah, Yaadcore, Peace Development Crew with Colah Colah, Captain Planet with Jesse Royal, and Toots and the Maytals. In the Dub Zone this week you will hear dubs from Addis Pablo, The Mighty Two, Gussie P and Mafia and Fluxy, Abassi All Stars, Dreadzone and Dubmatix, and The Drumweeds with Johnny Moore. Extended dub mixes feature Fitta Warri with Slimmah Sound, Johnny Osbourne with Junior Miller, Robert Dallas and Jam Tone, and Barry Brown with Mafia & Fluxy. Enjoy! Peter Tosh - Rastafari Is - Wanted Dread & Alive - EMI Israel Vibration - We A Di Rasta - Unconquered People - Ras Records Ijahman Levi - Jah Heavy Load - Island Presents: Roots 37 Essential Roots Anthems - Island Records Steel Pulse - Rally Round - Rastantholgy - Wise Man Doctrine Jacob Miller & Inner Circle - Standing Firm - Forward Jah Jah Children - Trojan Records Jacob Miller & The Fatman Riddim Section - The Black Spy - Island Presents: Dub 38 Hard & Heavy Dub Cuts - Island Records Dub Proof & Addis Pablo - Frozen Dub/Frozen Dub Melodica Version - Dub Proof - Dub Proof Music Buju Banton - 400 Years - Upside Down 2020 - Gargamel Music/Roc Nation Bob Marley & The Wailers - Forever Loving Jah - Uprising - Tuff Gong Bob Marley & The Wailers - Sun Is Shining - Kaya - Tuff Gong Edi Fitzroy - Work On Mr. Farmer - Youthman Penitentiary - Alligator Records Don Carlos & Gold - In Pieces - Raving Tonight - Ras Records Dennis Brown - Stop The Fussing & Fighting - Love & Hate - VP Records Dennis Brown - Slave Driver - Promised Land - Blood & Fire Ranking Joe - Slave Driver - Zion High - Blood & Fire Horace Andy - Youths Of Today/Jah Youths - Good Vibes - 1975-1979 - Blood & Fire I-Taweh - Danger Zone - Reload - Tap Nat Music Michael Palmer - Good Man - Strictly Yard Music 7” Michael Buckley - I Know The King - I Know The King - Stingray Records Glen Washington - Pressing On - I’m Livin’ Well - Heavybeat Records Freddie McGregor - Turn Up Di Sound - Jamaica Festival Songs 2020 Jah Sun - Hold A Vibe - Magic & Madness - More Love Productions Akae Beka & Zion I Kings - Heartbeat Of A Dub/Heartbeat Of A Dub (Digital Ancient Dub) - Lustre Kings Jah Cure - Life We Live - The Cure - VP Records Ginjah - I’m Alive - Survival - Young Veterans Music Joshua Hales & Brizion - Wish You The Best - New Kind Of Human - Dubstrand Music Delroy Wilson - I’m Not A King - Money Clocktower Johnny Clarke - Give Me A Love - Striker’s Jah Roots: Bunny Striker Lee’s 50th Anniversary - Gorgon Recordings Tappa Zukie - Chalis To Chalis - From The Archives - Ras Records The Mighty Diaminds - Pass The Kouchie - Music Works 12” Dub Zone featuring Strictly Dubwize & Extended Dub Mixes Addis Pablo - Narrow Road - Jah Solis Rock Joe Gibbs and The Professionals - Behind Iron Bars - African Dub All Mighty Chapter 3 & 4 - Joe Gibbs Music Gussie P Meets Mafia & Fluxy - Dub Zion Way - Roots and Dub Vol. 1 - Sip A Cup Abassi All Stars - Prophecy - Dub Showcase - Universal Egg Dreadzone & Dubmatix - Dread Lockdown - Dubwiser The Drumweeds feat. Johnny Moore - Mirage - Drumweed Fitta Warri & Slimmah Sound - Rasta Critics/Critical Dub - Roots Tribe Showcase Vol. 2 - Roots Tribe Johnny Osbourne & Junior Miller - First Trumpet/Look How Long - Pallo Robert Dallas & Jam Tone - Stabilise Your Life/Stabilising Dub - Showcase Vol. 1 - Jam Tone Papa Levi - In A Mi Yard/In A Mi Dub Caution - Mango 12” Barry Brown - Step It Up/Dub it Up - Reggae Heights - Mafia & Fluxy ====================================== Buju Banton - Rising Up - Upside Down 2020 - Gargamel Music/Roc Nation Etana feat. Bugle, No Maddz & Yasha - Jamaica - Gemini - Freemind Music Eesah - Move - Loud City Music Dre Island - Now I Rise - Now I Rise - Dubshot Records Yaadcore - The Calling - 12 Yaad Records/Delicious Vinyl Island Peace Development Crew feat. Colah Colah - Rasta Nation - Boomrush Productions Toots & The Maytals - Got To Be Tough - Got To Be Tough - Trojan Jamaica Richie Spice feat. Chronixx - Unity We Need - Together We Stand - VP Records Captain Planet & Jesse Royal - Fly Where You Want - No Visa - Bastard Jazz Recordings Luciano & Jesse Royal - The Music - Bambu Riddim - Oneness Records Gregory Isaacs & The Mighty Diaminds - Roughneck 12” Street Mix - Red Rose For Gregory - Ras Records Major Worries - Cowboy MC - The Reggae Curse - Nicole Shack Music Barrington Levy - Teach The Youth - Too Experienced The Best Of Barrington Levy - VP Records Early B - Bible Story - Henry Junjo Lawes: Volcano Eruption - VP Records Dandy Livingstone - Rootsman Party - They Call Us Legends - Par 3 Records Glen Washington - Play Mr. Music Play - I’m Livin’ Well - Heavybeat Records Aswad - Shine - The Next Frontier Dub - Atlantic
One love style, Rastafari sindicate, Roman Stewart Linval Thompson, Mafia and Fluxy, sip a cup Jah works, Winston Rose Cornell Campbell, Far East Nyabin sound, Zulu Vibes, Delroy Dayer the Disciples, Michael Palmer, Jah Warrior Kris Naphtali, Jah Equity Tena Stelin, RDK meet Disciples Sandeeno Natty P, Emperor far i King fly, Dubplate Rudd and Wood Youth Inity, Manutantion, Power Dread Dubplate, 3x Aba Shanti i 90's selections
RAGGA есть RAGGA , позитив!!!! Всегда интересное звучание и сведение. ПОЕХАЛИ!!! Original Format (Original Mix) D Double E, Diemantle & DJ Ran Dread (Original Mix) Blackout JA, Liondub & Jah Boo Blam Blam (Aries & Jacky Murda Remi Cheshire Cat Turn Down The Lights (VIP) Benny Page Hotel Babylonia (Bassflexx Remix) Hermano L & Dub Troubles Body Bang (Liondub & Jah Boogs Remix Navigator & Liondub & Junior D Down The Line Dub (Whiney & Inja Rem Mafia, Fluxy, Inja Wha Do Dem (Jamie Bostron Remix) Mystic Pulse & Daddy Freddy Stranger In Town (Original Mix) Riddim Punks feat Exco Levi Conquered (Original Mix) Lady Waks, Deekline & Freestyl Jahovia (Original Mix) Dubtime & BassFlexx That's Not True (Boombassbrothers Re Here I Come (Nu:Tone Remix) Barrington Levy Boom Selecta (Original Mix) Benny V & K-Warren feat MC Fea Real Junglists (Original Mix) Benny V & K-Warren feat Ragga Good Life (Drum n Bass Remix) Bazza Ranks Junglist Warrior (Original Mix) Lady Waks, Deekline & Freestyl Starlight (Original Mix) Sampla, Korrupt Remember The Words (Original Mix) Scott Allen Killing Sound (Mystic Pulse Remix) Timbali feat. Skarra Mucci Real Headz (Original Mix) Jinx In Dub & YT feat. Sweetie Siren (Serial Killaz Remix) Rumble & Suku Ward Clash (Serial Killaz Remix) Lion.UK, Papa G
This weeks show starts out with music from Danny Red, Nitty Gritty, Don Carlos, Junior Reid, Cocoa Tea, Tenor Saw, Half Pint, Everton Blender, Leroy Smart, Cornel Campbell, Mighty Diamonds, Lucky Dube, Barrington Levy, Gregory Isaacs, and Ronnie Davis. New music this week comes from Third World, Steel Pulse, Jahriffe, Mortimer, Wayne Wonder, Protoje, Kabaka Pyramid, Akae Beka, Lutan Fyah, Dami Knight, Buju Banton, and Prince Fatty with Big Youth and George Dekker. Also this week we ride the Carry Us Beyond Riddim and The Weary Man Riddim featuring artists like Perfect Giddimani, Fyah George, and Turbulance. In The Dub Zone this week you will hear dubs from Burning Spear, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby and Tommy McCook, Dub Proof featuring Addis Pablo, Dub Iration, Vibronics, and Mafia and Fluxy. Extended dub mixes feature Prince Malachi and Dub Defender, The Circle Of Confusion with Cornel Campbell, Anthony Johnson and Jah Thomas, Black Uhuru, and Horace Andy. Enjoy! Danny Red - Welcome - Mafia & Fluxy Presents Roots & Culture Vol. 5 - Mafia & Fluxy Nitty Gritty - Down In The Ghetto - More Jammy's From The Roots - VP Records Don Carlos - Them Say - Prison Oval Clash - Tamoki-Wambesi Junior Reid - Original Foreign Mind - Original Foreign Mind - Black Roots Cocoa Tea -Children Of The Ghetto - Cocoa Tea Remastered - Siri Records Tenor Saw - Lots of Sign/Lots Of Dub - Fever - Ras Records Black Uhuru - Puffed Out - The Dub Factor - Island Records Half Pint - Get Ready - Greetings - VP Records Everton Blender - Create A Sound - Lift Up Your Head - Heartbeat Records Mighty Randells - Love Rastafari & Live - Brownbeat Disc 7” Leroy Smart - Natty Dread I Strong - The Don Tells It Like It Is - Kingston Sounds Cornell Campbell - Jah Jah A Go Beat Them - I Man A The Stal-A-Watt - VP Records Mighty Diamonds - 4000 Years/4000 Years Dub - Deeper Roots Plus Dub - Virgin Lucky Dube - Crime & Corruption - Retrospective - Gallo Records Barrington Levy - Black Roses - Too Experienced: The Best Of Barrington Levy - VP Records Gregory Isaacs - The Sun Shines For Me - Mr. Isaacs - VP Records Ronnie Davis - Good News - Justice 7” Third World - Yim Mas Gan - More Work To Be Done - Ghetto Youths International Steel Pulse - Satan Side - Mass Manipulation - Wiseman Doctrine Max Romeo - The Farmer's Story - Words From The Brave - Baco Records Jahriffe - Conquer The Lion - Reflection - Jah N I Root Movement Perfect Giddimani - Official Visit Of The King Selassie - Carry Us Beyond Riddim - Giddimani Records Mortimer - Lightning - Easy Star Records Original Wailers - Nice Time - Tuff Gong 12” Barrington Levy - Please Jah Jah - Prison Oval Rock - VP Records Yellowman - Two To Six Super Mix - 20 Super Hits - Sonic Sounds Marcia Griffiths - What Kind Of World - Timeless - Tad's Records Wayne Wonder - I Am A King - Singso Music Michael Palmer - Good Man - Strictly Yard Music Bushman - Hear Wah Mi Ah Seh - Don Corleon Music Protoje - It Nuh Safe - Prime Time News Riddim - DJ Frass Records Kabaka Pyramid - Mr. Gunman - Prime Time News Riddim - DJ Frass Records Dub Zone featuring Strictly Dubwize & Extended Dub Mixes Burning Spear - Offensive Dub (Jah A Guh Raid) - Living Dub Volume 2 - Burning Music Augustus Pablo - Satta Dub - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown - Shanachie Tommy McCook - Plague Of Horn - Yabby You: Jesus Dread 1972-1977 - Blood & Fire Dub Proof feat. Addis Pablo - Irish Coffee Dub - Dub Proof - Dub Proof Music Dub Iration feat. Dub Caravan and Med Dred - Nuff Robber - The Lost Books Of Dub Chapter 3 - Dub Iration Vibronics - Fistful Of Dub - Uk Dub Story - Scoops Mafia & Fluxy - Leggo Jah Dub - Mafia & Fluxy Presents: Roots & Culture Vol. 3 - Mafia & Fluxy Prince Malachi & Dub Defender - Jah Love Come True/Jah Love Come True Version - Bababoom Hi-Fi 12” The Circle Of Confusion feat. Cornel Campbell - Hole In The Ceiling/Dub In The Ceiling - Rocafort Records Anthony Johnson - Africa - Strong Like Sampson: Linval Thompson Presents the 12” Mixes - Hot Milk Jah Thomas - Stereograph Style - Strong Like Sampson: Linval Thompson Presents the 12” Mixes - Hot Milk Black Uhuru - Convction Or A Fine - Brutal - Ras Records Black Uhuru - Conviction Or A Dub - Brutal Dub - Ras Records Horace Andy - Leave Rastaman Alone/Rasta Dub - In The Light/In The Light Dub - Blood & Fire =================================== Chronixx - Jah Is There - Dread & Terrible Project 5th Year Anniversary Edition - Soul Circle Music Fyah George - Jah Jah Rise I - Weary Man Riddim - Noadi Records Turbulance - Who Feels It Knows - Weary Man Riddim - Noadi Records Akae Beka - Under The Sun - Mek A Menshun - Zion High Productions Fikir Amlak - Walk With Jah - Akashic Records Jerone - Brothers Keeper - Buff Baff Riddim - Oneness Records Roots Radics feat. Freddie McGregor - Glory - Sly & Robbie vs Roots Radics: The Final Battle - Serious Reggae Lutan Fyah - Picture On The Wall - Earth Tones Riddim - All Spikes Production Dami Knight - Blue Skies - Island House Records Prince Fatty feat. Big Youth & George Dekker - Get Ready/Get Ready Dub Mix - Evergreen Recordings Buju Banton - Steppa - Gargamel Music Super Cat - Jamaica Jamaica - Super Cat and Nicodemus Remastered - Siri Records Junior Reid - Boom Shaka Lak - Big Timer - Artists Only Gregory Isaacs - Rumours 12” Mix - Red Rose For Gregory - Ras Records Cocoa Tea - Tune In - Cocoa Tea Remastered - Siri Records
Here on this episode of the Sunsplash Mix, we feature the new album 'Never Ending' from Beres Hammond. On his new album, Beres carries on the grand tradition of a romantic balladeer with sensitivity and swagger. “Never Ending” features 14 songs about love and life, in collaboration with longtime recording studio partners; Willie Lindo, Kirk Bennett, Handel Tucker, Errol ‘Flabba’ Carter, Leroy & David Heywood aka “Mafia & Fluxy,” Winston ‘Bopee’ Bowen, Dean Fraser and Robbie Lyn among others. “Never Ending” presents 21st-century classics from the master of romance and reggae. With the album debuting at No.1 on the U.S., UK and Japan iTunes Reggae Chart and a new video for "I'm Alive", its testimony that the album's title matches reality and his legacy is Never Ending.
Mo kalamity - Reggae vibration Mo Kalamity - Time to rise up Fred locks - good example Fred locks - Dont let use babylon use you Fred locks - weeping and moaning Fred locks - Weeping for dubwise fred locks - hungry Fred locks - Vision of Redemption Fred locks - Judgement Time Fari People - Tribal 84 Tribal 84 - I Jah Salomon - Yearning sax Jah tool - Dont you know Jah tool - Ah we good Jah tool - Good horns Jah tool - Isayah 52 Mafia and Fluxy feat. Aba Ariginals - 1st trumpet Mafia and Fluxy feat. Winston Rose - Marcus Salute Culture - chanting on
Jamaican born, Sheldon Senior debut his career as lead singer of his Primary School Choir. He was exposed to an array of musical genre Ska, Reggae, R&B, Jazz, Old Negro Spiritual, and of course, Gospel Music. Sheldon's strong influences came from artists like Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths and Bob Marley, Dennis Brown who revolutionized Reggae music on the International stage. Sheldon worked with producers/ musicians such as Danny Ray (Jet Star), Mafia ,Fluxy, Tony Tuff (Jet Star). Sheldon Performed live at the Stratford Rex in London and Reggae Festivals in multi-cultural London. Num H.S. Amun Tehu celebrates culture versatility, gift of ancestors.. Num plays Drums and Percussion instruments ranging from African, Latin, Caribbean, Asian, Classical, Jazz, R & B, Blues, Gospel. Funk, Rock, Reggae, Hip-Hop Spiritual Meditative Techniques; Native American Rhythms. Num performed sampled on Naughty by Natures, 2001 album “Icons,” TVT Records. Num was featured with Kanye West on Commons 2006 Grammy Nominated Album “Be,” Geffen/Good Music.. Num is featured on Burning Spears, 2006 Grammy nominated Album “Our Music,” Burning Music Records. In 2004 Num recorded with India Arie, Toni Braxton and Maci Gray, for the Childrens TV Show “Blues Clues,” episode “Bluestock” on Nickelodeon. Nums music is also featured in the movie, “King Leopalds Ghost,” Linden Productions winner of “Best Documentary” 2006 Santa Barbara Film Festival. While working with Comedian Tommy Davidsons Variety show “TOMEDY” Num performed with Gerald Albright, Al Jarreau, Cameo, Brian McKnight, Sheila E and Pete Escovedo, Stevie Wonder, Jamie Fox. Num is featured as a vocalist on the 2007, CONSEQUENCE album “Don't quit your day job” Num recorded with funk legends BOOTSY COLLINS AND BERNIE WORRELL on Reggae Artist Burning Spears upcoming album.
Jamaican born, Sheldon Anthony Senior debut his career as the lead singer of his Primary School Choir. He was exposed to an array of musical genre Ska, Reggae, R&B, Jazz, Old Negro Spiritual, and of course, Gospel Music. Sheldon's strong influences came from artists like Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths and Bob Marley, Dennis Brown who revolutionized Reggae music on the International stage. Sheldon worked with producers/ musicians such as Danny Ray (Jet Star), Mafia ,Fluxy, Tony Tuff (Jet Star). Performed live at the Stratford Rex in London and Reggae Festivals in multi-cultural London. Caribbeabradioshow@gmail.com www.caribbeanradioshow.com
"Here's a 62-track/66-minute live decks & theremin mix I made of early digidub/bashment/dub/Firehouse Crew type stuff. Converted into ones & zeros by thee mighty Gutta (thanks mate!)" Bass Clef Tracklisting: King Tubby — Rude Boy Version Sly & Lenky — Lock The City Dave Lindsay — Life Over Death Worries & Beeper — Black Ice Jazzwad — Version Outlaw Candy — Rolling Thunder Classical People — Star Wars Riddim Demolition Man — Salvation Riddim Lenky 2010 — Riddim Salaam Remi — Metric Riddim Genus— Thief Version Artwork — Rolex Riddim Togetherness Crew — Timebomb The Bug — Boom Version Mafia & fluxy — Version Suku — Riot Version Cameron & Malvo — Hypie Typie Lenky — Bubble Up Rooche — Tundra Riddim Frenchie — Fire Version Shocking Vibes Crew — Version Razor Sound — Rumours Version Simple Simon & Wayne Hussey— Let The Weed Grow Bushman — Light It Up Delly Ranks — Gimme Di Weed Powerman — Chronic Mountain Bertlan Caster — High Grad Azolade & Hollow — Under Mi Sensi Delly Ranks — Drain Food South Rakkas Crew — Clappas Version Yellowman — Sensemilia Crime Stoppa — Don’t Touch Crack Sinbad — Gallery Version Reggaemuffin — Version Mafia & Fluxy — Version Leroy Smart — Rockfort Version Noel Davy — Sleng Version Victor Lindsay — Chicken Dub King Jammy — Cellular Riddim Bunny Lee — Badman Version P Burrell — Version Andre “Suku” Gray — Sign Rhythm The Bug — Fire Version Frenchie — The Ice Harvel Hart — Human Version S Johnson — Sim Card Firehouse Crew — Success Riddim Left Side — Martial Arts Rhythm Noel Parks — Outer Space Hot Ice Crew — Dangerbuss Riddim Roy Francis — Highway 95 Rhythm Colin Fatta — Penicillin M Campbell — Freak Side Riddim Mafia & Fluxy — Manslaughter Shocking Vibes Crew — Version Beetlejuice Chesse Roots — Rambo Gun Salute Admiral Tibet — We A Go Wang Them Doggie — Rude Boy Business Cocoa T — Asking For Clash Conroy Smith — Original Sound Gregory Peck — Pack Up Your Sound Antony “Red” Rose — Tempa Stereophonic — Version Black Panther Basque Dub Foundation — Melodica Fire King Tubby — Harder Dub ^ Listen to Bass Clef's Son of Echo Chamber mix ^ Read Spannered's interview with Bass Clef
Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes 00:00:00 - Speaker 1: You want to achieve mastery in some sense in your life. So all these things come together and for some people, community becomes very addictive. I’ve certainly been in communities about products and games, where the game or product became a. And the importance because the community in itself just became my main driver to come back to this group of people nerding out about something that I wasn’t even using or playing all that much, but I love the ideas about it. 00:00:35 - Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Meta Muse. Muse is a tool for deep work on iPad and Mac, but this podcast isn’t about Muse the product. It’s about the small team and the big ideas behind it. I’m Adam Wiggins, joined by my colleague Mark McGranaghan. Hey, Adam. And our guest today, Ramsey Out of LogSeek. 00:00:54 - Speaker 1: Hi, Adam, I’m Mark. Great to be here. Thank you for having me. 00:00:57 - Speaker 2: And I understand you started your professional life as a Spanish teacher. 00:01:02 - Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s correct. When I finished my associate degree, I was about 16 years old here in the Netherlands. You’d leave high school very early, so 16 years old, I started my associate degree and then finished when I was 18. So I enrolled in college, did a double degree in Spanish language and culture, and then also teaching it, and that is basically what, yeah, triggered. The obsession with learning and specifically learning languages, so both natural languages and computer languages. That is how it all started, all the sleepless nights trying to figure out why something is not working or why I don’t understand something. 00:01:43 - Speaker 2: Can I assume you probably fell down the space repetition on key rabbit hole at some point. 00:01:49 - Speaker 1: I’m still hooked 15 years after discovering it, so I just finished before we started this call, I just finished my 100+ Italian repetitions, which I’m now doing, so I’m learning Italian through immersion, flashcards, and a lot of TV shows, so, yeah. 00:02:07 - Speaker 2: Netflix has definitely been a very big boon to language learners, particularly with their very solid audio and subtitle selections and the ability to rewind and relisten when you didn’t quite catch something, and so on. 00:02:19 - Speaker 1: And the tools build on top of that, so there are actually tools that will let you capture subtitles with a screenshot. I think there’s even options to capture the audio, like a piece of audio with it. So, yeah, definitely the tools in the last decade have definitely made language learning easier. Obviously the flashcard tools, but also note taking tools, obviously, as you dive deeper into a language, really make it a study project. That is basically, I started with the flashcards and then I moved more and more towards the personal knowledge management nerding out over the more intricate parts of the languages that I was learning. 00:03:01 - Speaker 2: I guess I can see the path there. This is the part where I’d normally ask what was the path that brought you to lugs seek, but I think that almost answered the question a little bit, especially when you talk about the, is it the Think stack Club is your kind of online learning platform that maybe bridge the gap between those two endpoints. 00:03:18 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so in like very quickly run through my curriculum, so basically after graduating as a Spanish teacher and teaching for several thousands of hours because internships are very early in the Netherlands, I couldn’t find a job as a teacher. Teacher. So I ended up actually as a telemarketer for 2 years on the phone with IT managers, mostly decision makers or stakeholders in IT departments trying to get appointments like physical appointments for colleagues of mine. And I would just cold call people each and every day. That’s where my hunger for learning came in very handy because I had to learn a lot about the IT space so what companies operate, what technologies are there, so not just from a software perspective, like I knew obviously operating systems, but also servers, networks, complex systems, so I had to learn a lot. So note taking became more of a focus for me as I was on the phone, taking lots of notes. Finding basically little rabbit holes to go down to as someone would mention something like a technology on the phone, I would just say, oh yeah, oh yeah, sure, sure, and and the meanwhile I would write down some terms and then spend half an hour researching that, taking some notes, like we had an internal wiki as well because there were more guys like me who didn’t know anything. Too much about the IT like certain parts of the IT ecosystem, like the corporate IT ecosystem, and we’re eager to learn, so we’re just a bunch of guys eager to learn and practicing our skills and that ended up laying the groundwork for me becoming more and more technical, advancing through the corporate IT letter, basically joining Oracle, becoming a customer success manager. And that helped me listen more and more to customers, figure out what are the issues they run into, so obviously, interviewing skills, note taking again, very important, came into play, and that’s how in the end, I ended up with Lux seek as I was doing more and more online with Community just because it’s a passion of mine. I like it and I got into community when I started with language learning. And I just kept at it, learning through community as I progressed in my career. I, again, found my way back to community and then see, OK, what have I learned in all these years? What have I see. Not work like communities that I’ve been a part of that went like south that became very toxic, and what are the communities that still thrive now that I look back 15 years later, there’s some language learning communities that have become super toxic, nobody is there anymore and other communities thrive and there’s some clear markers I would say that show, OK, this will. More or less predict if a community will thrive in the future or if it continues on this path, if it’s going to basically die out at some point. 00:06:24 - Speaker 2: Yeah, I think language learning is uniquely suited or perhaps I should say tends to be something that really benefits from community. I think a lot of things do, many different interesting skills and career things and so on, but maybe language we’re learning can be just so continuously frustrating. And you just need this, of course you need the internal motivation, but there’s something about others going through it at the same time. As you, I continue to think that the community aspect, almost the like group therapy aspect of Y Combinator is actually one of the things that makes it successful in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship world is just being around some other people who are going through the same thing as you experiencing the same struggles, and then when the going gets tough, as it always does, you can kind of find strength in the others who are going through it with you. So yeah, I could see where language learning would be just ideal for that in some sense. 00:07:16 - Speaker 1: Yeah, it’s both for learners, so there’s a lot of knowledge in the language learning community. Obviously, there’s also drama like in any other nerdy niche, there are people very contentious about flashcards versus no flashcards or grammar focused study over just watching TV shows. There’s always some reason to have discussions, but it’s not just useful for learners, but I’ve also found it useful as a teacher and I think that’s how I got into community in the first place. I as a teacher, most language teachers that I know and also myself included, we don’t really do rigorous academic research into what works and doesn’t work in class. We work off a lot of anecdotal evidence, so trying stuff out in the classroom, sharing that with colleagues within the school, but then there’s also, especially here in the Netherlands, there are many programs to connect through universities, connect teachers and have teachers share experiences. And then also connecting them online. So there’s a lot of useful work happening there, that’s also how you see innovation happening in language learning products. So, Duolingo is a very simple example of making something like space repetition. Mainstream, even though before people would never mess with Aki, it can offer a way for teachers to say to their students, hey, use these different tools to get more input. And then as learners become more fanatical, hopefully they will discover unki other methods that are more suited to their style of learning and how they like to get fluent in the language. 00:08:59 - Speaker 2: And why don’t you tell our listeners what is Loseek? 00:09:03 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so LogSeek is a tool that helps you organize knowledge and make that knowledge your own. So what does that mean? Let’s unpack it a little bit. So when you open Loxy for the first time, it looks like just another outliner tool. So just a tool that you write in bullet points and you can in dense or out dense blocks. 00:09:24 - Speaker 2: And the classic outliners here would be Emacs, or mode or workflowy maybe. 00:09:29 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so the less technical ones would be dynalyst, work flowy, on the more technical spectrum you would have Emacs, for example, that are well known example I think for many listeners would be Rome research. And then in the spirit of Rome research, Lexi is an open source outliner, but it’s built like Rome and some other tools like Obsidian, it’s built on top of a database. So even though you work with just plain text, it’s all stored in a database as well, so all your data is also stored in a database. So there’s a lot of data about the data, a lot of metadata about the individual blocks, like the outlines. And that including the data that you add yourselves, that yourself, for example, through links or tags or some other simple database structure that you create, which we call property. So if you use properties, you can basically give information about the data and that will help you. Build processes, so basically pipeline systems you can use Lexi, which is very popular for project managers who take many notes and then want to reservice those notes in a single dashboard or students who want to reservice all the notes related to a class and then easily turn them into flashcards. So here again, the flashcard thing is coming back, so many students use. Logs seek, also because it’s free, it’s very easy to write just your notes in the outline as you’re sitting in class and then add a few simple hashtags to turn something into flashcard. And that is, I think the true power of Luxeek is that obviously it’s free, which for many people is a plus. It’s open source, so it’s very hackable, but also it for many people it breeds some trust that even if we decide to stop with the company or go into a direction that our user base doesn’t like that then they can continue with the app and continue developing it themselves if they want. And then obviously, also the ease of use because it’s in the end just an outliner, I think that has attracted many people to logs seek to use it, at least as a scratch pad for stuff that’s on their mind that they don’t want to forget and that they want to have an easy way to find back their notes. 00:12:01 - Speaker 2: And it’s interesting that you sort of lead with the outliner, the indented bullet points, and then you mention links, you know, when I think of Rome, which obviously is a source of inspiration, it makes me think of almost the category I think they sort of invented, which is what I call, would usually call a knowledge graph. Now obviously there’s a history, a much deeper and longer history of linked. Databases, the web with hyperlinks is sort of the ultimate of that, but also something like a team wiki, like you mentioned using in your previous career steps, but also, obviously something like notion, how important do you think of linking as being in sort of the logseek product? 00:12:39 - Speaker 1: I think linking and indentation, so basically the Document as a mind map, so instead of having a text document or just a paper where you have a linear piece of text, you have more like in a mind map structure in computer talk, call it a tree-like structure, you know, and programming language. So That I think is the root also of the web. So those are two things that are root of the web. So if you look at a normal web page, HTML page, the documents that you look at, the code is structured in a tree-like structure, so it’s basically an outline. Every web document is basically an outline. So, that is one principle that many people are not aware of, but that I think once you rock that idea. Then you can become much more flexible with your knowledge. You don’t have to flesh out an arguments linearly. You can just choose to upload your thinking and then branch out. So just like as you would design a web document, you would first maybe start with some headings, then you start filling those headings in the same way in an outliner, you would start with the top level blocks. And then as you become more and more nuanced, you add more and more blocks underneath and then linking helps to link to any data that is not part of that same block of information, so that same tree like branch, you can then link to other branches basically. So that will allow you to hop from branch to branch. So that’s why I lead with the idea of an outline structure because Understanding a graph database, like graph databases were around before Rome existed, like far before, so it’s not a new concept, but many people are not familiar with it. Whereas if you say there’s no taking tool, it’s like a mind map, you just create a collection of mind maps and the outline is nothing more than a mind map. For many people it’s much easier to understand, even though I still use terms like tree-like structure and traversing the tree, for example, or branches. I still think you should learn that as a user, if you’re serious about knowledge work, then you should definitely become more familiar with the language. But the first principles of it being a branch, your notes being just a bunch of branches, I think that’s the most important thing. And then obviously there’s nowadays also the meme, oh, I will just use Apple notes, why do I need a complex note taking tool? I think if you think that way, probably Apple Notes is good for you, but if you want to think very thoroughly over time, if you want to refine your thinking, you need to have some tools to support that. So if you don’t have some deep intellectual projects that you’re working on, Maybe designing a product or mastering a language, for example, that in itself I would count as an intellectual endeavor that takes a long time. If you don’t have that, just use Apple notes to scribble down your grocery lists and stuff that you don’t want to forget, but don’t overcomplicate things. So I’m really focusing on the people who are not familiar with this, but who have some kind of yearning to organize their knowledge and are willing to put some time in it to learn the basic principles of a tool to help their thinking. 00:16:09 - Speaker 2: The term note taking in some sense is overloaded and even we pushed back in the muse kind of positioning, messaging basically what goes on our homepage describing what it is. I always pushed back against the note taking or didn’t love that because it does make you first think of scribbling down a grocery list in the default notes app on your phone. And I do that, and I think it is correct to call that note taking, but it’s also correct to call it note taking that you’re developing a large body of work over a long time in the process of a deep intellectual process like learning a language, writing a book, developing a software project, building a business strategy. So it’s a little tricky that both of those use the exact same word. 00:16:53 - Speaker 1: It’s not taking the act of taking notes. I think that is correct, even if you do, if you work on a super deep project trying to figure out a piece of software that will help people unlock a way of thinking, for example, in the case of Muse. You want to help people think through something, right? But the act of writing something down, that is taking note, but then what do you do with it? How do you process that knowledge? How do you connect with it? What is your inner dialogue? And then obviously a tool can help you have that inner dialogue, but then obviously you first need to set up the tool in a way that it can fire up the inner dialogue. So very concrete example. In Oy would be you can create templates and many users create templates for maybe a project there that they are running. So they have just a bunch of headings, maybe a query that automatically picks up some kind of data from a graph, but in the end, it’s just a piece of text that is structured. But first you have to think through that structure. You first need to know how will my way of thinking lead to something like how can I make it more likely that I gain insight. It’s not about taking notes, it’s about getting to an insight. It’s about solving a problem, then exposing yourself to ideas and think through a problem to then come to a solution. And taking notes in that process is part of the process. So you’re collecting maybe potential solutions. And then you structure those notes in a way that it becomes more likely that you come to a solution because you process those notes, you don’t just Write them down, you then also prompt yourself to look for other related nodes or for contradictory points. And in the case of, for example, a software project, you would look for a solution for a problem, but then you would also look at what other problems with the solution cause, like what would break and what are the trade-offs in, for example, UI decision and do we have to rework in the back end. That in itself, you take notes, but you come to an insight through those notes and you need to have some kind of process to get to that insight. It’s not enough to just note something down and then I see also many people mention, if only I had some kind of AI reservice notes for me as I’m writing something, then I can just automatically link all those notes. Like, no, you are here to do the creative work, you’re revisiting your notes to feed that brain of yours. It’s basically almost a black box. At some point something comes out and let you know down again, and that becomes basically the entire cycle until you come to that insight that will help you, that solution to a problem. 00:19:48 - Speaker 2: Completely agree. 00:19:49 - Speaker 1: Well, I think this could be a segue into community because at some point, so let’s talk about this from the standpoint of a tool creator. Like you are more builders than I am. I’m just the community manager. Like I use Loxik myself, but I am not technical. I’m not an engineer. I’m not a designer, I’m not a products person at all. So I have to distill. Learnings from the community in some way because I want to use Loxy in a specific way. Obviously I’m interested in the feedback on the products, but I’m way more interested in how people use the products and then distill patterns from users because that’s in my position, the best thing I can do. So you were talking about what is it that our user base wants to get done using our tool. Then you can discover that in many ways. You can do one on one user interviews, which often are a little bit more artificial. Like I see the best things in office hours where people are sharing their screens and like I’m trying to get this working and then they share the screen and you see the structure of their notes and you ask why have you structured it that way, what does it help you with? and then you get insights into how people use it. You see YouTube videos where people share it. And that’s basically the beginnings of a user community where people are starting to share how they use a tool, and then an outsider may ask, why would you create a video about how you use a tool. Well, can be many reasons, maybe you’re just very nerdy, you want to share how you use something and because it makes you happy. Like I’ve done that, certainly, but I see also many users who create a video about the workflow and say, well, this is what I’m trying to achieve. This is the compromise I’ve made so far because I couldn’t get this to work, and then you get other users to chime in and say, oh, maybe you can use this, or here’s a plugin to do that, or in our case, here’s a proposal for a feature request and the more votes something gets, the more buzz there is about a feature request, the more we learn. About what workflows people are using. So it’s very valuable. We as developers learn about our user base, how they use the product and how we can improve it, and then users learn from each other and create a network where knowledge is going around about this tool. So that’s outside of basically the tool creators control, like me as a community manager for Lexi, I try to capture stuff like I try to curate stuff from the community. I try to encourage people by meeting regularly by having events and stuff like that, little mini courses that we do with the community, but in the end, the community is just doing what it does, it’s like trying to get stuff done for themselves and then sharing knowledge how to do it, asking questions. And then I think the job for us as a tool creator to listen, to see how is our tool used, like we can basically hear from our community, what is our user archetype or archetypes and then how can we better serve those user archetypes? Like what features do we need to add or what UI improvements, UX improvements do we need to do? To better facilitate this group of users and then maybe as your features improve, have more people from that niche, from that type of user come in, and then obviously your feedback becomes better and more refined over time. So you’re not trying to create a tool for everyone, you’re really trying to look, who do we resonate with, and then we focus on those user group first, like to serve the community as well. 00:23:38 - Speaker 2: Yeah, a good segue and good kind of context for I think how a product company, especially a tool creator, would use community. So yeah, our topic today is community and why one reason I thought you would be a great guest to talk about this is first of all, LogSeek has a great community, very vibrant, and part of that’s the open source element, but part of that is just, yeah, that sharing of workflows and so on, but also of course your background as you said with the language communities. We were also in the Rome community for a while and I think in the kind of tools for thought world generally, so you have experience with a number of those and maybe a good place to start here is I think you’ve teased it a little bit, but it’s sort of better defining what we mean by community. It could be a group chat or it could be a forum, but I think that probably is a little too mechanical. I’d be curious to hear for both Uam and Umar, what to you is the core of what makes a community or a good community might be a way to put it. 00:24:37 - Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think there are different types of communities, but when I think of community in the context of tools and companies and interests, it’s often just a group that shares an interest and it sort of grows from there, and there are all sorts of emergent behaviors and patterns that we tend to see that we can talk about, but to my mind, it’s the foundation is having a shared interest in acting on it together. 00:25:01 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so shared interest, to start that as a starting point, I fully agree. So there’s a shared interest, but there’s also a need for each individual. So what you see happen nowadays is especially as community is seen as a moat for products like, oh yeah, this will guard us against our competition. I’m a little bit skeptical of that because especially if you talk about the tools for thought space. The hardcore first adopter group, they will go from tool to tool and like rip it apart and say what they like and don’t like. So those are very vocal minority. And then often as a product matures and a community matures, you have a few people that derive a lot of value from a tool and they have a reason to show up in that community. So if I look at Luxy, Luxe is not the easiest tool to use. We don’t ship with a nice polished handbook like Muse ships with. So just our feature overview for that, you would need to have a community. Obviously, you can use blockseek just as an outliner, you don’t need much to get started with that. There are some YouTube videos that will show you exactly how to get started, but then to get deeper into a tool. So once you derive some value from a tool and you think, I want to master this, I want to see what else is possible. I think that for people is a strong driver to join a community and keep showing up. And then like in social psychology, it’s over time valuing what’s yours and uh part of your identity will be that community, so you start to value it more over time and that’s also tied in with another thing from social psychology. Is this need for mastery. You want to achieve mastery in some sense in your life. So all these things come together and for some people, community becomes very addictive. I’ve certainly been in communities about products and games, where the game or product became. Of second importance because the community in itself just became my main driver to come back to this group of people nerding out about something that I wasn’t even using or playing all that much, but I love the ideas about it and I always try to learn things from communities that would then benefit me in other parts of life, like bringing my learning obsession for languages to note taking. And then thinking what other skills can I learn using the tools that I’ve already learned. So I think for community to thrive, you need to have an influx obviously of fresh insights of people coming in. So it needs to be a welcoming, friendly place, doesn’t scare off people or people check out your product and then they see a bunch of toxicity on Reddit or Twitter or wherever, so I think that is important. And then obviously, also, can you make your product stick in some ways, so can you deliver value from a community about your product and maybe some users, they will get to a point where they know how to use your product and that’s all they need, they will use your product but not go to the community because they don’t need to learn more. They don’t need to figure out more how to use the product. So there’s less of a need for them to keep showing up to the community. So even these people, they will still be connected to your products. They have not abandoned you, but they may have become dormant in the community because there’s just not a need for them. They don’t need to achieve more mastery. They are already busy, they already have some connection in other parts of their life. They don’t need to come back to the community and that’s fine. So community changes and I think that it’s fine, and it’s an illusion to think, oh, people keep the same interests, will keep the same needs, yeah, and the rent. 00:28:57 - Speaker 2: Yeah, I certainly think when you think of a community connected to a product, which obviously not all and even most communities are that, but in that specific case, now you have a kind of a Venn diagram of people who currently use the product and get value from it, and then there’s people who are in the community and then there’s overlap, but actually you have people who are in each group, that’s certainly the case for Muse. I know we have folks who either listen to this podcast or Follow us on Twitter or otherwise in our sphere of discussion that just feel like we share values or like to follow along or we’re just friends with somehow, but they just don’t happen to have an iPad or don’t happen to have a specific use for the product or maybe they did in the past, but they don’t at the moment, but they’re still sort of interested in the people and the culture. Around it and you certainly have the other way around as well, but I think certainly most products and tools will always have a much bigger user base who are just more transactional. They just have a problem to solve. The product solves a problem for them. Maybe they pop into the forum or whatever the community location is just to get some information, but again it’s very transactional. 00:30:02 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and I still think there is for these types of users, there’s still a reason to come back to the community every now and then and maybe another segue because we prep like a few points and also you ask what are communities that I see as a successful example of a community, like as an aspiring example. One community I keep coming back to is Reed Wi, so Rewise. It’s a niche tool, I would say not everyone takes highlights from books and wants to revisit them. So it’s definitely for a specific type of person, like person who wants to, you know, the more PTM person. But in the end, it’s not a very complex tool, it helps you achieve a few very important things, and then that’s it, so you can get started with rate wise in the afternoon and then have it give value to you for years, whereas you don’t even dive deeper into the tool, you just use it. 00:31:02 - Speaker 2: And I do wonder if there’s often a connection between communities and more complex or customizable or challenging to use. You mentioned for logseek, I think this was true for Rome in the beginning, lack of documentation in a way can actually create a stronger community in a way because you’re helping each other figure this thing out, but Even putting that aside, even with good documentation, if something is complex and customizable, then that naturally leads you to want to talk to others about what they are doing with it and see their setups and so on, whereas a product that’s kind of only used in one way or a tool that’s very simple and can only be used in one way, probably not that much to talk about. 00:31:44 - Speaker 1: True. And at first sight, you would think, oh, read wise, why would they have a community? Their community is pretty young. They started with a discord and the way they used it was they would approach people who were in the community for a long time who had spoken about Loseek at some points. Obviously they had to find some way to identify people. A good example of how Readise uses community, even though at the service, the product doesn’t look so complex, is how they test drive new features. So one thing they do really well, I think with their community, which is still quite young, but already very thriving is because they reach out to users, ask them if they want to test drive new features. The way they use community is by first onboarding a batch of testers themselves, so they bring them into Discord, they bring them into an audio or video room, showcase the new functionality. Tell people how to get access to that functionality, the basics, and then they use that group of testers to onboard other users. So they basically say if you want to have access to this new feature, you have to onboard one other tester, and that way they have little cohorts of people using the same functionality, they have a reason to come back to the community to give feedback, but also to ask questions from other users, so that’s how you see. Little cohorts of like community cohorts exist to test drive functionality and you see them. You meet these testers in different other little cohorts as you’re test driving maybe feature A but not feature B, and then you have some time to test feature C. So you come in again, you see people you already know, and like, hey, weren’t you working on a dissertation? Yeah, yeah, I finished and then now I use Readwise for this, like my use has changed and like, oh, interesting. I’ve just started learning X, Y or Z. Interesting to hear how you use Readwise, so that’s how people connect even though in the beginning. They might not show up to ask something or to share something, but there’s a reason for them to show up in the community again, that is to test something out. And I think that is a very nice way to reach out to your veterans in your user base of people who may not come into the community every day because they’re just busy using your tool, but then because they know your tool so well, because they know already what’s possible with it. You ask them to test drive new functionality and that brings them in contact with other people from your community. So there are several ways you can still activate community. Even when your documentation is awesome, like the product is relatively simple, your feature set may on the service look like it’s locked. There’s still reasons for people to show up, even veterans, I think, in the community. 00:34:43 - Speaker 2: Mark, what are some examples of great communities in your experience? 00:34:48 - Speaker 3: So I keep going back to this more network oriented community. I think as a proprietor of a business or employee of a business, we often initially think of a community as like the space that we bless for people to talk to each other about our thing. And that has an important place and for some companies it’s a very big deal. But to my mind, a lot of the most interesting communities and a place we can learn a lot is more network-oriented ones. So let me give you two examples. One that’s sort of halfway in between would be the communities that form around specific games. And these are huge, you know, there are millions of people, a bunch of people who make their full-time living in them, for many people it’s their main hobby, and so on. And these have varying degrees of support and guidance from the central commercial entity, but a huge piece. of it is just people talking to other people about their interests. At the base of it, that’s what a community is, is people talking to other people about stuff they think is cool. And then you can go kind of fully networked, and I would give the example of econ Twitter. So this is the group of people on Twitter who talk about economic topics, and obviously that’s not blessed or controlled by anyone. It’s just people talking about stuff, but it has these incredible emergent properties where people find all kinds of new interesting ideas and data and theories and find cool people to follow and it’s kind of its own whole thing. 00:35:59 - Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, communities, at least my favorites that I’ve been a part of over the years, and many, most of them actually are technical or entrepreneurship oriented. I was part of the Linux world kind of late 90s, early 2000s. Ruby on Rails was a big one I was part of later on. Silicon Valley, you could argue. A type of community. It’s also an industry and a field which has its own qualities, but also on a smaller scale things like, you know, when I adopted a dog going into the kind of subreddits for raising a puppy and you have people who are again going through that same struggle as you, you’re trying to learn from each other and trying to get empathy for your challenges, but also find solutions. So each of those in their own way contributed to my life, but for again solving problems I have personal growth, that sort of thing. But also then yeah, you make connections with people that can turn into lifelong friendships or just be very rewarding in and of themselves, almost kind of separate or removed from that core shared interest. 00:37:00 - Speaker 3: I think the puppy Reddit is actually a really good example of how, to my mind, the two fundamental driving forces of community on which all of our stuff is based is searching and sharing. So searching is, I have a problem, which is a new puppy, I need help. So what you do is you go into T. go and you type puppy Reddit and you go on YouTube and you type puppies. 00:37:18 - Speaker 2: Well, realistically, it’s probably even more specific than that. It’s, you type in puppy won’t stop barking or something to that effect, you know, I’m at my wits end and then you suddenly find this place where all these knowledgeable people are gathering and sharing their stories and sharing their solutions and suddenly you have this sense of, oh, I’m not alone in the world in this challenge. 00:37:41 - Speaker 3: Yes, and eventually you get there, but that emerges from these two. In the end, it’s just individual people doing individual stuff. They’re searching for stuff and they’re sharing that’s the other fundamental urge, which is I’ve accomplished something, I have some insight. I want to share it, you know, I’m the puppy whisperer, so I make a YouTube video or whatever. And then from that you get all these emergent properties up to it, including people who make their full-time living supporting these communities. 00:38:03 - Speaker 2: Yeah, the pet example also shows how you have people who contribute to the community who are Call them like gurus or they’re just professionals. So for example, professional dog trainers, there are some fantastic YouTube channels where people do this stuff for a living. I think for them it’s probably a, you know, a lead source for their business or they’re selling a book or something like that, but they’re very genuinely making these videos showing them, teaching about a specific thing you might train a dog or a specific thing you might need to deal with, showing it with. Real dog talking about it, you know, in this live way and in doing so providing you some value and then of course you can follow them and maybe that leads to their business. So they’re a very knowledgeable person sharing because that benefits what they’re doing in their career, but then another category is often someone who just solved the problem and they’re so relieved and they want to go and share that maybe in some cases with the of the community, right? You see these posts where it’s update this problem I wrote about that was destroying my life. We found the solution. It was, you know, I combined a few ideas that you folks shared. Here’s where I landed, they share their solution and in that moment of breakthrough, as you said, they want to share, they feel excited and compelled to share with others, not because they think, yeah, just because I think it’s a natural desire when you’ve had that moment to want to pass that knowledge on somehow. 00:39:24 - Speaker 1: This is interesting also, Mark, that you say most communities are made up of searching and sharing. 00:39:33 - Speaker 3: It’s my argument is that that’s where they start. And then you get like higher order behavior that we would more typically associate with community like, you know, collaboration and real-time discussion and belonging and leadership and you know, all these things, but I like to study the emergence of these phenomenon, that’s all. 00:39:49 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that is also to maybe segue into the platform discussion because I think for many community builders, the perennial platform discussion is very interesting. What is better is a Facebook group better than a subreddit or a proprietary forum like that I host myself better than Discord? I think first the discussion is what kind of medium do you want to facilitate, so. Obviously, there are emergent communities where there is no driving force from a brand, and you see those often pop up on social media. So Twitter, now Twitter also has community, so you see users create in the case of loxy an unofficial loxy community. We obviously as a company started a Discord, which we promoted. We started a subreddit which we promoted, but that’s not always how it goes for many projects, especially open source projects. Like it’s almost as if the community sneaks up on the creator. I’ve spoken to open source creators who said, I didn’t expect this project to blow up. I don’t have time to manage it. I hope to just pass it off to someone as soon as possible, so we have other maintainers, so that can happen. 00:41:09 - Speaker 2: And a canonical example of that one is the notion TikTok. I think this was a couple of years ago. Notion actually was having some scaling problems because I think it was mostly students that were sharing their personal dashboards and how they would put it together and it was a lot about aesthetics and things like that. The overlap of the sort of people that work at Ocean and the people who are on TikTok, especially a couple of years ago, was not big and so they were totally caught by. Surprise, where is all this new usage coming from, but that’s a good thing. You want to invest in that or double down on it or support it because community that emerges is even better than when you’ve seeded yourself, but you may also be in a position, I think I suspect they were, where they go, wait, what is this weird new way of communicating? We need to learn the language of this platform that’s TikTok, where we see that our users have emergently chosen to gather. 00:42:01 - Speaker 1: Yes, and I think it’s very important as a brand, once you see that there are communities about your products that you tap into that and that you support those existing communities instead of saying, oh, we’re going to start a competitive platform and then siphon off all the members. I think that that will not do you a lot of good in the community, especially not as people put in time and effort into cultivating those early communities outside of the brand. At some point, I think you’ll have to. Manage it a little bit as you see needs pop up within the community. So very concrete example within Loxy that our Discord is now growing towards 20,000 people, so 200, and it’s becoming a wild west because you see people ask questions all day every day, and many of the questions have already been answered. So what Mark pointed out, so many communities, they come by because people are searching. If I look at Discord communities, it’s often the default is asking instead of searching, and that is I think because searching in Discord communities is so like search and discord is not good, it’s flawed in many ways, and then also how it organizes discussions unless people say, oh, I’m going to open a thread now, it will be like scattered around, other discussions will be going through. So as long as a community is small, I think chat. And basically the scattered nature of a community are fine because people like little packets of people, they are finding each other and they’re small enough that there can be real time communication and people can benefit real time from each other. But as the repository of knowledge grows, you want to have some way to capture that knowledge so that people don’t have to ask the same question over and over again. So that is a conundrum that we are in now. Where we have a wealth of knowledge in Discord, it’s almost impossible to search and to avoid more knowledge from leaking basically through, we are trying to direct more and more people to our forum, and it’s a little bit of a confusing name, but discourse is a very good forum software, so not Discord with a D, but discourse is really good forum software that has Many of the principles that also the modern note taking apps have built in like bidirectional linking, they have built in and mentions and stuff like that, so I can link to a post and the creator of that post will get a notification that someone has linked to their post and at the bottom of that post will appear all the other posts that have linked to that one post, so you have a sense of bi-directional linking. It has wiki functionality. So what we are now trying to do is encourage more people to write on the forum and then that our moderators curate as much as possible, moving, finished and answered posts to a section of the forum where they’re easier to find, helping people search the forum. So that’s where the knowledge in the community becomes. Like you’re creating a canon of all the knowledge in your community by providing a platform where it becomes easier to sort through that knowledge. So in the beginning, I think you want to make it very easy for people to ask and to share. Chat is a great way, but then at some point you will see that people are asking the same questions over and over again. And then I think that will become a very Good impetus to look into other platforms that will help you manage or at least make knowledge searchable instead of having that big mess on social media, like Facebook groups, Reddit, Discord, and then have it centralized and indexed by search engines, preferably. 00:45:56 - Speaker 2: Another company that went through a similar transition just recently is Kraft, and they also had a Discord or a Slack, maybe I think it was, got quite busy, and they recently set up on Circle, which is another kind of, yeah, forum style product, and yeah, same thing where they can curate it much more and you come in and you have A help section, but also an inspiration section. Here’s some workflows. Here’s where you post feature requests. There’s a lot of curation beyond just the very most basic, like let me pin a thing to the top and that it’s just a, you know, a flowing feed of, you know, real time information that is sort of very hard to sort through if you’re new to it. 00:46:40 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and that knowledge, I think also when it comes to a platform because you’d mentioned Circle, I’m not too much into the loop of Circle in recent months. But I know for example, Discourse, it does really well in combination with Google, so the posts are really well indexed so when people search online, it’s very likely they will end up on a forum post on the official Lexi for. So I think that is also an important consideration. So Google or Dotao or any other search engine, obviously, but I think for Taking your user base into consideration, like what are the tools that people use to find knowledge? Are they inclined to look in your app, so not go on any search engine, but just look in your app for guidance on how to use the tool. If they do, then you can, for example, say you want to connect with our community, here’s a link to our form and then you send them to circle. So in that case, even though if The platform is not indexed by search engines. If the majority of your users access your knowledge anyway outside of search engines, just by going to it directly, that may be a good choice. In the case of LogSeek, we have a very big subcommunity of programmers, coders. What do programmers do? They use search engines. They’re not going to, oh, I go into this menu in the app and then click on help and then scroll down and oh, here’s a link to commute. They don’t do that. They just search like problem, help log seek, and then they find a forum post, and that could be their entry into the community. So, I think it really depends on what kind of user do you have and what are their behaviors. So again, coming to the user archetypes, what are the behaviors of your users outside of Your products, like how do they interact with technology in general? Are they independent curious people? Maybe in that case you want to create a different type of documentation or community or knowledge repository than you would for maybe a less tech minded person who likes to scroll through windows and visual menus instead of searching for something, for example, using text. 00:49:04 - Speaker 3: It’s interesting to me that video hasn’t come up yet, because I feel like increasingly, the default behavior for people looking for stuff is to type it into YouTube, because a lot of the search engine results that we get now is just algorithmically generated trash. But on YouTube, for whatever reason, the results still are pretty good. I think that has to do with, it’s kind of hard to fake a video and there’s a certain proof of work that comes with highly produced video. And obviously video is very high bandwidth. So I’m just kind of curious how that resonates with your experience with the logs to community is video and YouTube is that a big part of it or people are just all text all the time? 00:49:39 - Speaker 1: I think it depends on the type of user. So our early user base, we’re definitely mostly programmers hanging out on GitHub, reading read me files, just testing stuff out. I think now that we’re slowly attracting so adventurous users, but maybe not the coder types, I think that has spurred the creation of videos. So obviously we ourselves are producing videos by recording our sessions. They’re long sessions, so again, it attracts a specific type of user who is willing to sit through a one hour demo of Fluxy queries. Some users just want to have a 2 minute video, but that’s generally not our user base. And then obviously you see more and more users just create videos themselves, I think, as Adam pointed out, it’s also experts who have maybe some business adjacent to Lockek, so maybe they don’t sell Loxy courses, but they help professionals or teams, small teams, manage knowledge. That is definitely something I did when I was freelancing, so before joining Oxy, I was helping small teams. And I think that is an excellent marketing material for those individuals to provide value to individuals, get to know a tool, and then what we do as a company is to really give those creators a platform. So we have a weekly newsletter, which is a curated newsletter, contains plug-ins and themes created by our users, but also videos and other walkthroughs. And there I definitely see 90% of user generated content are videos, and I think also because it’s the nature of the tool. It’s a text-based tool, obviously, but the way you use it is very much obviously tied to an interface. You’re not just working with text, you’re working with text in a specific interface in an outline format. So it’s much easier to just show how you do something than to create screenshots of different steps that you take. It’s much easier to just show it in a video. So I think that is really something that has boosted the energy in the community where people are just sharing off the cuff videos, like many people just, they don’t put too much. Thought into it, they just show, oh, this is how I annotate PDFs and then turn them into flash cards, for example. And then other people respond to that. It’s like, oh, interesting. I have now created a plugin that supports this workflow of yours better and that’s how you see the energy started to become more and more as people are learning from each other and spotting opportunities to make things easier. And the video is definitely one of the most driving factors in that. 00:52:26 - Speaker 2: And Mark, I think the point you made about the proof of work where it is more effort to make a video, even a pretty off the cuff one like you just mentioned thesis, which is, you know, a quick screen recording or something like that. Still, the bar there is much, much higher than typing some text into a real-time chat or even a forum. And so for me, I guess you could say there are YouTube communities, but I feel like there’s more like YouTube channels. And I like to subscribe to certain channels and maybe I read the comments sometimes, but not usually. I’m not sure if it gives me the sense of that’s where I go to meet other people with similar interests, the same way that I would for something like a Reddit or a discourse or a Discord. 00:53:12 - Speaker 1: I think one interesting development is maybe not people posting stuff to YouTube, but answering for posts or chat posts using a loom video. That’s what I see a lot. Obviously those are not easy to find as a YouTube video because they’re not indexed, and I think as a community manager, I see it as my job to reservice that knowledge, so I see maybe a loom video mentioned or posted in the Discord. I will save that video and then mention it in a newsletter. So that’s how I resurface it because the newsletters also posted to our blog, then that video suddenly becomes indexed by search engines. The way I see it, it often starts by answering chat. Maybe then in a forum, you get people who are maybe not an expert yet, but they are growing expertise and then they think, oh, I’ve seen this question 5 times already. I’ll just quickly record a Loom video without me in the screen, just my screen, and then I talked to the screen basically for 5 minutes, show my workflow, very unpublished because, you know, Loom doesn’t have any editing features in the free version, and then you just post it. For many people, I think that is. Like an entry to content creation, so it becomes more likely the people that do this at some point they will then post something to YouTube. But in the intermediate, in the meanwhile, you can already help and facilitate people because maybe. The community is not even aware of something called loom, and you just have a one page here where you say, hey, you want to answer a question, instead of typing it out, here’s a cool tool. These are 3 steps to use it and then just paste the link to the chat to the forum and it will show the video itself, like a very quick walkthrough. To help your community share knowledge by helping them understand how they can share knowledge, because maybe they want to share, but they have no idea how they can share and then nobody has to become a YouTuber, they can already create videos very easily. 00:55:20 - Speaker 2: Yeah, screen recordings are great because maybe you want to tidy up your desktop a little bit or something or tuck away some information you don’t necessarily want to share publicly, but by comparison, filming yourself and or your room, which creates a much higher sense of, I don’t know, production value or a better comb my hair or better like tidy up my background a screen recording so it feels much more within reach at a casual level or for someone who’s not already a creator. 00:55:50 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I’ve once attempted doing YouTube videos where I would talk into a camera and then I found that so nerve wracking. I just kept editing the video that I thought, how can I still do this without having that anxiety on me? And weirdly enough, for me, I know it’s not for everyone, but for me doing live sessions and then just really framing it it’s a live session, stuff can go wrong and then do no editing, except for maybe cut off the beginning and the end. And then just post that, that somehow took away, that sounds very weird, but took away social anxiety because I thought I frame it as something that can go wrong and I’m still putting out the contents and I’ve noticed also with people who may not be recorded, we facilitate that as well by having office hour sessions where we just come together in Zoom and then I ask people just share something that doesn’t work. And then they share their screen, maybe not even their camera, and them knowing that it’s not being recorded, will not end up on the web, that already takes away some anxiety from people to share their stumbling blocks or what they’re stuck with. So they’re not even sharing their knowledge, they’re taking a first step by stepping up and saying, I have a problem, please help me. And then I noticed that over time, the more someone does that, next time you see them in office hours, they have their camera on. Next time they’re in the office hours, they’re maybe answering stuff in the chat. And I’ve seen people that were super shy end up in YouTube videos where they’re being interviewed by other people. So it’s a journey that people go through. Some people are just very outgoing and they’re comfortable on camera. And they just do this without a problem, but for many people who are on the internet and want to participate on the web, want to become part of a community, at some point for many communities, it’s normal that you show your face or that you at least some people like you dox yourself, quote unquote, and you are putting yourself out there. I remember for me it was super scary because once I started to record some videos online about language learning. Some colleagues found my videos and they were making fun of me. I was like, oh yeah, I’m putting my face on the internet, and now it’s so normal, and I think for many people, the more you do it, the easier it will become to ask stuff, so starting by asking stuff and then just sharing what you know. And some people made their careers out of it. And even if not their careers, I’ve definitely heard of people who have become active in communities, on forums, on chat, in live sessions, and now they have made a promotion because they have become more assertive, they’ve become more comfortable presenting. So it has all these secondary effects that you may not go into a community with because you go into a community because you have a need or because you want to bond with people who are interested in the same things you are interested in, but it has secondary effects as you hang out with people and talk about something you become better at articulating your ideas or explaining things to people or asking questions to clarify things. That really becomes a valuable skill in itself. Which many people I think also for but especially in this digital economy where people will have to turn on their cameras and explain things via the internet, this will become an invaluable skill and most communities are safe spaces to practice this skill. 00:59:27 - Speaker 3: This reminds me of a pattern that I often see in communities, which is like power levels or character progressions or skill trees. No, no one starts being a Keystone member of the community. You start by logging in for the first time and saying hi, and then there’s typically a progression. Maybe you ask a question, maybe you answer a question, maybe you’d be someone who becomes recognized as providing good answers. Often with the communities and people get promoted to become moderators where you have additional enumerated powers. And then often in big enough communities, people can get, you know, further promoted to becoming a paid contractor and eventually full-time paid staff of the kind of lead content creator. In the same way that we do hiring with, I really like that model of there’s this kind of gradual ramp where you have increasing levels of responsibility and commitment and demonstratability that kind of ramps over time. 01:00:17 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it’s interesting that this has become an opportunity in recent years where you come up through community and then join the projects that you’ve been a fan of for maybe years. Because before, like when I look at community, I’ve been part of communities for almost two decades, again, from video games to note taking tools. And I never had the intention or the expectation that I would make my career out of that, that I would hang out in forums and life Zoom sessions with people just nerding out about my favorite tools for a living. But now, in recent years, that has become a possibility. For me personally, that possibility opened when pandemic started and we went into lockdown in the Netherlands and my whole company. We basically went remote from one day to the other, and then after 6 months, I thought I am still tied to this one place where I work, even though the stuff that I do, I could do anywhere. So why not branch out on my own? Why not dedicate my time to stuff that I really enjoy talking about and then see if I can make a difference there. And that’s how I in the end landed this this job at at Loxic and I’ve seen this more. Where people, maybe not even with the companies that they are fans of or that they’re writing about, but other companies that see, hey, the way you write, and it can be just on Twitter, or the way you explain this products on video, we want to talk to you because we’re looking for maybe educational content creator or we’re looking for a support person because obviously people coming from the community. For companies, it has so many advantages to hire someone from the community. Obviously, it also has some downsides, especially if there’s drama in the community, obviously with that baggage that can be negative. But then on the other hand, you have people who know everything about your tool and they’re passionate about it. We have started hiring people from the community. I am an example. We’re now having several contributors who are basically a part-time contractors because we support them every month. We have a commitment to them that we pay them a certain amount from the community fund because we have donations. That we pay them to create specific pieces of functionality, and maybe they have a gig with us for 6 months, and then they move on to another project that they’re passionate about. But in the meanwhile, they’re really sharing their knowledge, they’re interacting with the community, and then after. Even if after they have finished that project, they are part of the community, so they keep getting that feedback. I think that is very valuable and it’s really changing how people work, and I think more people, especially with technical capabilities, will find their way into professional work through these communities and maybe not even set out with that idea because I think like you said, Adam, you need to show your worth and you cannot. Just come in and claim your stake. You have to prove yourself, you have to help people, and then at some point you will get noticed. I really believe that this will, for many people replace their CV. They will get offers from companies who are impressed by the work that they’re doing online already. 01:03:46 - Speaker 2: Well, certainly we see this in the open source world or if you work on open source projects or side projects or things like that, that can be absolutely a path to employment and yeah, you’re building career capital essentially. That leads me to actually another question that I think is specific to your company, but I’ve seen in plenty of other places you mentioned plugin developers and there’s obviously the developers who are working on the code itself and I know something that’s common in many open source communities, you really need to bifurcate. A community or a discussion place for users of the product from developers of the product because they have very different interests, concerns, maybe even the ways that the developers talk about the inside of it doesn’t even make sense to users in particular and it becomes clutter and again if you have plug-ins that almost becomes a third. category there I think you mentioned or maybe at some point we mentioned obsidian. They have I think a pretty strong kind of plug-in ecosystem and community around that. How do you think about the segregation or integration of those three classes of people involved with the product? 01:04:52 - Speaker 1: Hm, yeah, that’s a good question. This is something I’m struggling with and that is a constant discussion. And it actually just gave me an insight through that question because now I realized why Tencent, our CEO is so ada
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