Chinese reggae ?

[Alhazred]

Hello everyone,

I'm pretty new to this forum, and to learning mandarin too (6 months), 25 years old and living in France.

That was for the short first-post-introduction.

Now, to my question: does any of you know whether there are chinese bands playing reggae ?

[Vellu]

Don't know much about this.. I think there is (or has been) a group by the name "Beijing reggae all stars".. I think a project by ADO (Eddie Randriamampionona, Liu Yuan, Zhang Yongguang..) .. But I can't really say, would like to know myself

[TSkillet]

Well, Sean Paul is half-Chinese. . . does that count?

[Alhazred]

Thanks Vellu, I have found this link about Beijing Reggae All-Stars:

http://www.yaogun.com/omnibus/yiban/reggae.htm

What's left to me now is to get my hands on a cd/lp, won't be that easy though.

And as to Sean Paul, well, his culture is really Jamaican, so let's say he doesn't count ;)

[roddy]

Good article about Chinese people in the reggae scene in Jamaica.

[Alhazred]

I still haven't found any chinese reggae band, but at least I've found a picture of a reggae bar in Chengdu:

[Alhazred]

Reviving an old topic:

Legendary drum and bass duo/producers Sly & Robbie have recorded with a mainland China singer, Jiang Liang, check the result at: http://www.myspace.com/slyandrobbie

Jiang Liang's MySpace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=280468406

[Saturday]

The reggae bar in Chengdu! Hemp-house, gotta love that place!

[DaoistGate]

Google 龙神道。 It's 国囝， the bass player from 冷血动物 's new project.

[zhuhao]

I don't know much about the reggae scene, but here's what I got after searching my site's database for "reggae". I weeded out the stuff without music links.

龙神道 has been around for more than a year now and put on a rocking show.

Mr. Chenolian is a fusion reggae/ska/South American group.

Mr. Turtle is a reggae/ska band in Chengdu.

螺旋桨乐队 is a Beijing reggae band that's still pretty new. They don't play much but they're around.

[Flying Pigeon]

I'm a rocksteady and reggae snob, so I tend to not like stuff after 1979. One of my favorite dub albums is Forward The Bass: Dub From Randy's, 1972-1975 produced by Clive Chin at Randy's Studio 17 (the studio founded by his father Vincent "Randy" Chin.

As far as reggae/dub being played in China, I liked the track by 3Step I heard on Dragon Radio.