Global Reggae Charts - Issue #18 / November 2018
Inside you can find the latest reggae album, single, and riddim charts based on votes by radio DJs and music directors from around the world.
Inside you can find the latest reggae album, single, and riddim charts based on votes by radio DJs and music directors from around the world.
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WEB<br />
RADIO<br />
Mexico<br />
global reggae charts<br />
featured voter<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
This month we feature two of our voters. First we have<br />
Misachael J. Solis, who is the director of a reggae webradio<br />
station in Mexico called Cabina420 RADIO.<br />
<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Reggae</strong> <strong>Charts</strong>: Please introduce yourself<br />
and your radio show to our readers!<br />
Misachael J. Solis: Hi, I‘m Misachael J. Solis from<br />
Mexico City; I‘m the director of the radio station<br />
Cabina420 RADIO, a station that has more than 30<br />
radio programs and has radio shows from Argentina,<br />
Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.<br />
GRC: What made you fall in love with reggae?<br />
MJS: At an early age I felt a great attraction to<br />
music. I took guitar lessons creating my first band at<br />
the age of 16. Years later, I got involved with the DJ<br />
culture, which I have continued until today, having<br />
that musical restlessness and the constant search. It<br />
came to my hands, rather, to my ears – music from<br />
Marley – which opened the way for me to investigate<br />
more about that cadenced sound, which created in<br />
me an insatiable thirst to know more of that music<br />
called reggae.<br />
The way to balance my thoughts and ‘align my chakras’<br />
is what makes reggae music a fundamental part<br />
of my life.<br />
GRC: Could you give a little insight into the<br />
Mexican reggae scene?<br />
The reggae scene in Mexico has grown exponentially<br />
in recent years – it was long thought that in my<br />
country there was not a reggae scene as such, now<br />
that idea is totally false. There is a whole movement<br />
that includes bands, DJs, soundsystems, media,<br />
MCs, producers, promoters, and graphic artists that<br />
make the reggae scene in Mexico be in constant, but<br />
mainly healthy, growth.<br />
GRC: How did you get into radio and what is your<br />
motivation?<br />
MJS: My desire to know music and a natural interest<br />
in technical issues related to music led me to<br />
study Audio Engineering, concluding the race I was<br />
invited to produce a radio program on FM called<br />
“Sonic Fluid.” Many years after that project ended,<br />
the record label Tropic-All Disco invited the Sound<br />
Fire On System – a crew to which I belong – to produce<br />
a radio program specializing in reggae music<br />
that we call “Cabina420 Radio Show.” The station<br />
Tropic-All disappeared and an Internet radio project<br />
called „Rastamania Radio“ invited us to be part of its<br />
programming; after a couple of years, Rastamania<br />
disappeared giving way to the creation of “Cabina420<br />
RADIO.” Always, my motivation is to spread<br />
the reggae music, either as a DJ, broadcaster, or<br />
programmer on the radio.<br />
GRC: What spectrum of music do you play in your<br />
show, and which artists have you found most inspiring<br />
lately?<br />
global reggae charts | issue 18 / nov <strong>2018</strong><br />
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