(Non UK) European reggae

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These guys were big when I was studying in Germany:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYK-NfOo7b4

Carthusian Product (seandalai), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Some good local dancehall too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9AKe-INuHE

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link

My ex GF loved this song when it came out. It's about how girls need a "gentle stallion" ("hellä ori"), not just a "fuck bunny":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPkOYbiJlPQ

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Man, that Seeed song is actually really good!

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link

In contrast to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYM4cv9w6DY

Carthusian Product (seandalai), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link

The Germaican label was actually really good in the early 00s.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link

This video was shot at the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki. Sadly, the place burned down just a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnyTFD2uK-w

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link

Some good recent stuff from Sweden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PPWoRkXbs

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link

I love Seeed! This is another banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yWU0lFghxU

Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link

There's loads of good German dancehall though isn't there?

Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link

xp - And obv the very serious Rhythm & Sound axis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezM3FCnX--w

Carthusian Product (seandalai), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X0Jeg1IwXY

Jamaica Papa Curvin

Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/stephen-malkmus/album-stephen-malkmus.jpg

69, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iFkZxjwzYk&feature=related

The Vision - from Germany.. pretty obscure, but pretty good.

Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Seeed is pretty hot

fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link

These are probably among the more famous examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPjIC0TRstY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4wY4POauvE

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ0QB38GxFY

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Synth/dance reggae from the 90s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXXRHpVed3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiFzCXZs7bE

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link

There was also a lot of skapunk made in Norway and Sweden in the early 80s, would that count?

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Alania were almost like an early incarnation of Röyksopp as it featured both future Röyksopp members:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChIblGn6t7w&feature=related

Also, there was Papa Dee of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnMU4zVXfgw

Dr. Alban I guess may have been more of a novelty case, but oh!, did he sell!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny43zFochi8

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link

The worst kind of nonsense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbKmJQy6Eh4

Stars of the Lidl (seandalai), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link

rather at the other end of the scale from Dr Alban are Hypnotix, from the Czech Republic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcIB24Jum0g

Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxaxO3vQo_0&feature=related

sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link

"Materialtretthet" by The Aller Værste - an early 80s ska punk band - is frequently voted among the best Norwegian albums ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2O4Hu_ps7I

A more commercial, pop oriented and catchy take on the ska thing from The Monroes, who hit #1 in the Norwgian singles lists with the very Madness-influenced "Sunday People" in 1983:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3OUUl9ttTM

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Dutch, although as there's a huge caribbean community it's kinda cheating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwxeB8xaZ8

Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

As much as I like Seeed, I kinda wish Peter Fox had followed the line and made more solo records, Stadtaffe is so great and the live show looks like a ton of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfkYjlWe38

MaresNest, Sunday, 13 May 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link


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