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[bronxie]

hello!

just wondering if anyone knows some good venues in seoul or busan where i can hear some reggae/funk/soul/dub etc. and also are there any websites in english with listings of music events and the like? what are the clubs like?

im busting for a boogy! im in the country, and i only have one bar in my town. needless to say, the tunes there are minimal. and i can't dance in my loungeroom anymore!

thanks!

[freebeerandchicken]

Hey,

There's verrrry little in the way of dub/reggae. Last Saturday night I was at Cargo in Hongdae for a night labeled as breakbeat/reggae and I'll be damned if I heard one drop of reggae all night!

Bar Nana in Itaewon has some of the tunes you're probably looking for. Good spot. DJ Conan plays there all the time. He's my favourite Korean dj -- he's got a good stash of funk, hip hop, breaks, fun dancin' tunes. He's part of a "crew" called Break Bakery, they're all worth checking out.

Theres a band called The Funk Ups, a tight 3-piece (or maybe 4, I forget) that plays funk in the same vein as The Meters, MMW, etc. They're good!

DJ Mark Farina (of mushroom jazz fame) is playing at the W Hotel (Walkerhill) on Friday August 25th.

Go to www.02pro.com and click on Boards > Parties In Korea.. Its a good resource for upcoming dj shows in Seoul.

SOULIVE will be here in September! They're playing at a jazz festival on an island somewhere in Korea. That will be awesome.. (though I won't be around anymore by then). I think Brad Mehldau (awesome jazz pianist) will be there too.. The rest of the lineup hasn't been announced yet.

Bands from the outside rarely come 'round.

Hope that helps!

[bronxie]

sweet as! thanks! i just might come up on the 25th for mark farina, so if your going, can i tag?

[AllOneK]

Disturbing news! No reggae or dub....I was out at a Vancouver club recently where I heard a great deejay spin a mix of hip hop and dub reggae.
Please don't tell me if I come to Korea I'll have to give up nights out dancing to dub...

[Smurfette]

Well i'm arriving in Seoul with a nice collection of reggae tunes, around 1500 songs, and I hope to find a place to enjoy them. Maybe we can come together and get somethin poppin......

[AllOneK]

Sounds good Smurf, I don't have a job yet and have just started looking in Korea so am still in the 'where do I want to live and work' stage...

[fruitcake]

[freebeerandchicken]

Right on, Fruity! If I don't end up going to that Mark Farina gig, I know where I'll be.

Re: reggae --- this past Friday night I ended up at Club Aura and it was all reggae. So, I guess there is reggae, sometimes, you just have to look hard and keep your fingers crossed. Or even better, as you mentioned, start your own reggae night. Good call!

[I_Am_Wrong]

mushroom jazz...wow, I haven't heard that stuff since the early days of napster.

It says mark farina is at the woobar? is that at the walkerton?

[Smurfette]

[RACETRAITOR]

Club Aura is tough to find. It's halfway between Hongik University and Sinchon. If you know where Ssamzie Space is, it's around there.

[gotte00]

check out the band Windy City. They just played the Pentaport Rock Festival and are playing the Jarasum Jazz Festival in September. They play funk and reggae, pretty good stuff.

[gartonator]

with all this talk of reggae, there's just not any smoke over there hmmm?

[RACETRAITOR]

It's never picked up much. I blame the lack of drugs.

[death from above]

aura is my favorite bar... they have reggae night from time to time.. like last saturday night. but the owner is selling it soon