Jahtari

Jahtari is a Netlabel, founded in 2004 by Jan Gleichmar aka "disrupt" [Moritz Sauer: [http://zuender.zeit.de/2006/38/interview-disrupt-Wizard-of-OS Leipziger Laptop Reggae] Die Zeit online, 2006 (in German)] . Unlike most netlabelsGeorg Gruber: [http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/ewelten/530127/ Musikalische Visitenkarte im Netz] Deutschlandradio, August 14, 2006 (in German)] , it focuses on the dub and reggae music genres, with an electronic music approach which it calls "digital laptop reggae".

From their site::"We are a small record label based in Leipzig/Germany and we produce a kind of music here which we call - for the lack of a better term - DIGITAL LAPTOP REGGAE (DLR).This means nothing else but that we produce first and above all REGGAE music (or DUB) in its classical sense, which in itself is nothing new, but since we're having a background of mostly electronic music we're doing this with the only tool that is obvious to use for that purpose - a COMPUTER, and a computer only."

Jan Gleichmar has been working as a camera assistant. By 2006, Jahtari had started to offer a release on CD in addition to the free downloads, and later produced vinyl releases too. As of 2008, it had signed more than 20 artists, among them London-based Mikey Murka [Andre Fenwick: [http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?CLUB:_German_musician_Disrupt_spins_his_laptop_dub_reggae&in_article_id=285721&in_page_id=255&in_a_source= German musician Disrupt spins his laptop dub reggae]
Metro August 28, 2008] (a veteran of 1980s digital reggae).

ee also

*Dubmood

References

External links

* [http://www.jahtari.org/magazine.htm Jahtari Magazine] is a collection of articles about the history of Reggae music, also run by the Netlabel.
* [http://jahtari.org Jahtari.org]
* [http://solipsisticnation.com/?p=69 solipsistic NATION No. 24: Jahtari] Podcast. Interviews with Jahtari founder, Jan Gleichmar, plus music from the label.