ALPHA & OMEGA - REGGAE GEEL 08/2009

"I grew up on reggae music and I had been going to clubs since the age of twelve.

JEAN 'BINTA' BREEZE - REGGAE GEEL 08/2009

"My whole life revolves around dub poetry really.

GLEN WASHINGTON - REGGAE GEEL 07/2009

"I've known Downbeat for a long long time, but musically speaking we hooked up in or around 1996, when I had a certain tune playing on the radio that he liked and he contacted me to do a dub plate for his sound.

FREDY MASSAMBA - SFINKS 07/2009

"No, the river is really nothing more than a natural barrier.

GIPSY.CZ - SFINKS 07/2009

"We did that very intentionally, because we were looking for the easiest and shortest way to express that we are gipsies from the Czech Republic.

LA CHERGA - SFINKS 07/2009

"All members of La Cherga were involved in other projects in the past and with La Cherga we really wanted to do something new.

KASAI ALLSTARS - DIVANO PRODUCTION 06/2009

"Tony Van der Eeken and Vincent Kenis (Crammed Records, red.

KONONO N°1 - DIVANO PRODUCTION 06/2009

"The music that forms the basis for what we do with Konono I inherited from my parents.

THE SKATALITES (LLOYD KNIBB) - COULEUR CAFE 06/2009

"I learned to play burru (According to the History of Jamaica, the slaves brought a form of drumming from Africa called burru.

PAT KELLY - BAR MONDIAL 06/2009

"We used to do American rhythm and blues music, copying people like Curtis Mayfield, The Drifters, The Platters and so on.

ALBOROSIE - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"Reggae National Tickets was an Italian band playing reggae with some north-African influences.

BLICK BASSY - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"I'm from Cameroon, and rhythmically, Cameroonian and Brazilian music are quite similar.

MADERA LIMPIA - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"Guantanamo is a beautiful city and we really dislike the American presence in the area.

ROY PACI - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"In fact I started to play the piano even earlier; I think I must have been four or five years old.

ZULU 9.30 - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"I think that label was certainly applicable when we first started out, yes.

DENGUE FEVER - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"A few of us travelled to Cambodia a while ago and collected a bunch of tapes full of that music from the late sixties and early seventies you just mentioned, played by Cambodian musicians that were exposed to western psychedelic and garage rock.

FIGLI DI MADRE IGNOTA - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"We started about fifteen years ago.

ZIGGI - FESTIVAL MUNDIAL 06/2009

"Sint Eustatius is the second smallest island in the Dutch Antilles.

OI VA VOI - FNAC BRUSSELS 06/2009

"Originally when we started off in 2000, we started learning quite a lot of klezmer tunes and gipsy music from Eastern Europe.

DUANE STEPHENSON - SUN SPLASH JAMAICAN FESTIVAL 05/2009

"To-Isis was a six member singing group that really evolved out of a young people's performing arts core called The Cathy Levy Players, which was basically almost like a school for teenagers providing courses in dance, theatre, music, choir singing and so on.