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that. on the call. so based on these rules is the name under which our record and play reggae music in india. reggae music is really kind of shipboard life from. a very young age you know. and youou know it it may come fm jamaica a but i feel that. it talks about justice equality it talks about colonialism. reggae music has a message that's that's deeply relevant in today's world and especially for the i think. when does this kind of all out right wing assault on our freedom? to ask questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being targeted like students teachers activists filmmakers
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[inaudible] right. to i've been so good to know so the committed this form of arrested. and people out on the streets. the protest is reached our doorstep. so in whichever way you know i'd like i'd like to attempt to contribute something to this [inaudible] leave. ififou can't be a part of the struggles of john happening in the country. what what the meaning of culture and artistic production meaning is to kind of brining people together to be a voice organ? off off the people .
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if you're playing the people's music. you have to find a way to take it to the people then and if that's always what a gentleman i was frustrated doing what i'mm dodoing always. i i dreamt of that i know what s something you c can do when i i don't want to dance can do a lo. these are thingss we should not ononly happen it's like i need music venue this should. i would in in in my jeanans this is something whichch i w want te able to contribute to our middle of a gathering of protest space that i think there is a space with this s could be a value. we first to o address the restrictions. was to go back to the hard already knows it which is something called.
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and softness and i'm not just a stack of speakers. some systems traditionally have en a way t to take thingngs in your own handsds andind ways too take m music straitt peoplee.. i mean literally i mean one thing with the sound system ever since i started playing reggae music is most of my life. some systems i expensive and you can buy the ready made you have to build it yourself. so with a mix of crowd funding and our own money me and my partner some other sort of building all one system. andd experience to build its own system you're lucky to find solace. sound engineer to help us build always. we'll see what it's like. and if you can. name that woululd sort of thahat this is the this is the real deal. and i'm getting a big run on so we can to get across. it's having some way to play it that's's the biggestst.. that's the bigiggest thing is finding some way to actually
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turn it on is this. land with a this would be the easiest way to say this is sam. and then the other. one what channel brings a why do you feelel the need to stay home with the fly is important to understand that. because if the string out wrong things will go back [inaudible] my day. course menu can can somebody with this man. it doesn't't help. reload studentsnly. somethg that start as an idea. suddenly becomes a realityty and
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the down physical system that you're on totop of imagine thisa green seven different places. setting it up people coming ago it's this no. i meant changeges from number fr a any -- ever this is s sports and writes and singers whoo are the four ad there. was the m mie simply select the most thrhreatened becauause ther wordsave found when the supreme e liquids and i i'm notn sure i wanted to be a success because if it is then backing me more troubles. as a mother as williams read consumer.
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alright bubut isn'tt all. apolologies to everyone trying o sleep. i mean is that right. this is the final ten more minutes all music. it goes like this. i don't remember who shot over from indndia offer talk arouound the world. the main channel that lies before us is. where are we going to ban all people going to react? you know how are people going to react if i take the system to a protestt space or to a street corner. and now people going. to let loose and dance with us and and get i it or people going to be like yo. you know. be dismissive and black who's this privileged.
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we continue to test it and i know how to operate the system. and we played a gig t to launch. i'mot too long after i i i'm goining to call from my old university and s screams were askiking us to comee. d bring the s system then to support their c comrades were on hunger stree [inaudible] onene this is the andnd so it doesn'tt
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look like this. you get it in order. i thought that it. no you nervous man i mean the golf is nervous because you want to be relevant and you want to be ablble to communicicate a and create meaning and allll. set to inindoor you n never knou know like w what sometimeses the wonder likike.. can you do that things a are making music and i kind of been doing this whole life i love it but t you stillll have a havevea dodon't you knowow. for this re. the king o on the revenues and f there's no music in the convention if the condensed wit. and w what this is supposed to e also fun with. so then it's s important for the kind of things -- these kind of medium he's been about business kind of music do you have any of the reporting party and they do a lot in the living.
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in the in the beginning when i started playiying. that actually y off everyone too sit d down. ich i didn't want to put like so. i'm playing records. and i have a scene of peoplee lili sitting on the ground looking atat me expectantly. which madade me vevery uncomfore nine hours it wasn't working in quite the way that i want because the whole idea is that people.. don'tt look at me look at each other and join us at rigight. you don't have to watch them on here. i want you guys. to each other. you know what i mean. jump at least [ [inaudible] one
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the music is all but on the june was confidence that our do good work. and after that we were invivited to plalayed other proroteins and other vevenues in. reading the itching to take the system. and then finally what a johnston students from fda which is india's leading finance us to turn on the campus important. we are is all to see major protests against the government. and we'll we'll bring. on the struggle. and hopefully ought to be able to contribute some energy to their arm ran for mayor.
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supposed to do a show at fifty eight and welll the director of the institute from what i gather the first time i met them what's a what's a people's organization the veryry much kind of pushing for change. shin is exactly the kind of people that i want to work with. theyey've never reaeally heard reggae music before that never really experienced based on sound system before. so you you don't know all this thing is going to go. can. hello hello. hi how are youou. yeah [inaudible] i don't. is the biggest music actuaually may be of assistance in order. get it to want to want me. he still water maybe so but to
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make a living the walkways and i think leah i saw a musical play unitech musical dial.. you basically double does go [inaudible] yeah. we use maiail app.. how can music amici leak on the hotel uniform a medical? company with that at all yeah they give musical people being missional tomatoes is it going to go on the block. no he doesn't need to make a music it was saying. at two hundred two today could you hear them between the americans are not --
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communicate the music's message the audience. and with that in mind i i suggested to look at that you also get these rap was down because what they see. the the rap in hindi and marath. they have revolutionary songs and we felt that this would help the audience to connect to the show. it. mark. to mark this audition butt if such you bought. ll man thihis is rough. the work thisis- i think k it's empowerining the. it's important for the m. c. and it's importing falling for t the people here it because look i mean a l l of the times. culture that's imported from abroad. is english culture in there sometimes is asassociated with t needs you know but this is not what this music is this is geget
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the music you know. so i think -- for people to hear things from from here e 's like. it makes it makes everything of everything more meaningful and rough i for you not. job needle and smashed the place apartment people feel as i if it was printed in the in thehe bods are moved but so much and i'm saying [inaudible] check. and i'm not. best phone there's not seven and i can. ththe w woman k known t to do ts show definitely it't's kind of a test for us to see all four things can cross over. how far people will connect to what we're doing and i hope that the singles from local out then? and and and the rappers and stuff when it kind of element
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[inaudible] thank you. no no no . to see everybody energized in this way and dancing in this way with so much freedom. gives me a lot of joy it also gives me a lot of that. for me this is just the beginning that that shows the potential now our task is to find ways. to build on this find ways to make it more poignant [inaudible] more important. the journey ahead. for that much is clear ♪
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