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Reggae is in many ways an extra-ordinary
form of music. The people who are producing
and listening to the music, often have a
deep love for it. And that surely shows when
you look to the many great websites
livicated to Reggae Music.
Among these websites, there is one that
really strikes out: VERSIONIST.com, the
Riddim Community. It's a progressive website
which significantly contributes to the
promotion of Reggae Music.
VERSIONIST.com started off as a
"Reggae Version" of OMD's*,
which in itself made the site unique. (DUB)
Reggae Artists uploaded their music, other
people would place reviews and ratings. A
practice which continues until this very day
(december 2006).
But that's not all. The website developed
itself significantly, and just recently made
some courageous steps towards to what seems
to be a deeper interpretation of the word
"community".
Not only are artists able to upload their
own music, non-artists and listeners can
also join the site and place reviews. An
impressive list of different message boards
enables the visitors to talk about
everything related to the music and the
message.
Non-artists can also add links to
websites and even multi-media files to the
site's database. Visitors can also create
their own Blog, which they can use for just
about anything.
A small webstore is recently added as
well. Artists can make deals with
VERSIONIST.com in order to have their music
sold through the website.
So whether you're an artist, or a
reviewer, or a lover of Reggae Music, you
will definitely find the possibilities of
the website to be quite interesting and
usefull!
But it goes further...
It's not only the possibilities, in fact
the website is really well-visited and the
number of participants surely reaches into
the 100's.
So yes, VERSIONIST.com may definitely be
called an "Riddim Community". We
here at the Dubroom even think, that the
website may very well turn out to become a
"Reggae MySpace". Check it out,
register and start commenting on the many
fascinatring things comming to you from the
Riddim Community!
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