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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVoyWQSNr8I
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― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdix8ux1heohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKyyd29n3uc
Two new wave-ish Swedish efforts that were not entirely reggae:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWxXd7e8DTwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouMGsZ4_XMc
And finally, introducing Ruud Gullit! :Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDHiJqsQas
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:00 (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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-i0iLxpO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbfVaomhxuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h3fzPSFsdo
― ☆, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:18 (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
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