WWW,
October 3 1014 - In a very informative, but
partly disturbing interview the Midnight
Raver recently held with well known Reggae
Singer Willi Williams, the Ammagideon Man
was quoted about a release called "One
Love". As the album was reviewed and
promoted by the Dubroom, it was shocking to
hear what the brethren had to say about this
release. In short: it's pirated, don't buy!
Ask Bunny
Wailer about the early Wailers Black Ark
recordings you can find almost everywhere.
Ask Scientist about his well-known
Greensleeves Dub Series. Ask Willi Williams
about "One Love. Not the concept, but
the album. Released by UK-based Smugg
Records. Who were so kind to send the
Dubroom a promo copy years back when it was
released. Which was subsequently reviewed
and promoted from this very website.
This is
what he has to say:
“The
ONE LOVE record is a
pirated record. These guys been releasing
my records for years and no matter how you
try to get to them to let them know that
it is not legal they insist on doing it. I
send plenty letters from my lawyers and
every ‘ting but they are shady. Its a
shadowy business but Smugg Records is one
of the pirates, they just using that name
to sell the records. Especially this new
record was pirated by them at whoever is
behind this Smugg Records. I even got to
one of the guys one time and he was very
shadowy and could not tell me how he got
it because I have no agreement with them.
You know I did some tracks way back with
an individual named Steven King out of the
UK – him have a label called Uptempo –
I did a couple of tracks with him as
producer and he went and took my tracks
from these sessions along with some others
and I suspect that is how they release
these pirated records.”
source
The Book of
life teaches us how "The Love For Money
Is The Root Of All Evil". That's not
the One Love Willi Williams sings about,
that's not the definition of One Love over
here in the Dubroom, either. That's the love
for pounds, euros, dollars. The kind of love
that brings people to make wars and kill
millions.
Needless to
say that from this place we offer our
apologizes -without any objection- to Willi
Williams for having promoted something that
did not provide him with the daily bread
that he works for so hard.
Equally, we
gladly extend this piece of information from
Willi Williams aka The Messenger Man to
everyone who considers buying or promoting
the album.
One Love
(yes!),
Messian Dread (editor, dubroom.org)
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