For the last few years, the Paiwan reggae artist Red- I has been tearing up Japan with his signature reggae with a bit of local Taiwanese Aboriginal Flavor...

Now he's come home for the holidays to rock it at the [brickyard]
with The Combobulators!!!

Who is Red-I?

Here's an excerpt from a Taipei Times article by Ron Brownlow...

Why reggae? “It’s the music of oppressed people everywhere, and there’s a lot of oppression in Taiwan — people just don’t realize it because they have money,” said Red-I, who speaks English with an Afro-Caribbean accent. “People have to break themselves from that and open up their world. Reggae is oppressed third-world music, and that’s what the people want to hear.”

Reggae in Taiwan? Not much right now. You can count the country’s reggae bands and sound systems on one or two hands, and they’re nearly all foreigners. But Red-I’s mix of music and cultures isn’t as strange as it would seem. From Hawaii to New Zealand, reggae has emerged over the past 20 years as a dominant form of popular music in the Pacific. It incorporates local instruments, has a modern sound that fits the rhythms of island life, and its messages appeal to populations dealing with the legacies of colonialism.

Red-I — “Red” means “feeling good” in Creole and “I” means “myself” — grew up Patrick Chen in Canada, son of a minister who moved his family out of Taiwan during the 1970s. The family also lived in Central America, and Red-I spent time in Belize as a young adult.

Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.therealtaiwan.com/music/red-i-and-the-riddim-outlawz/

Then check out their Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/reditheriddimoutlawz

Rock & Roll, Beer Pong,  and Drunken Madness... 

• liger attack

• dog eat dog

• and dj Jon (South Africa) 

sky's last weekend in taiwan will produce a saturday to remember. 

it's too bad you probably won't be able to.

crazy bands, crazy drink specials and general debauchery on a scale not seen very often in this hemisphere...

skyfest...

the end of an era.

The corner of Cingnian and Jhongshan 2nd Rd

Kaohsiung City Cianjin District 507 Jhongshan 2nd Rd B1 Taiwan ROC

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