Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
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Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad is a jam
reggae
band based in Rochester, NY. The group started touring nationally in 2006.
The bands debut album "Slow Down" was released in 2006 and received regular airplay on Sirius
] and XM Radio. The album was recorded, mixed, and engineered by Alex Perialas
at Pyramid Sound Studios in Ithaca, NY.
The band has been noted for their live shows, which are often recorded by tapers
and posted on Etree
and Internet Archive. The band's "Live At The Aggie Theatre" show on November 11, 2006 has been downloaded more than 52,000 times and collectively their concerts have been downloaded more than 150,000 times on Internet Archive
.
Jam band
-Ambiguity:By the late 1990s use of the term jam band also became ambiguous. An editorial at jamband.com suggested that any band of which a primary band such as Phish has done a cover of be included as jam band. The example was including New York post-punk band Talking Heads after Phish performed...
reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
band based in Rochester, NY. The group started touring nationally in 2006.
The bands debut album "Slow Down" was released in 2006 and received regular airplay on Sirius
Sirius
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek: Seirios . The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris...
] and XM Radio. The album was recorded, mixed, and engineered by Alex Perialas
Alex Perialas
Alex Perialas is an American audio engineer, mixer, and record producer, best known for his extensive work during the "golden age" of thrash metal in the mid–1980s to early–1990s...
at Pyramid Sound Studios in Ithaca, NY.
The band has been noted for their live shows, which are often recorded by tapers
Taper (concert)
A Taper is a person who records musical events often from standing microphones in the audience for the benefit of the musical group's fanbase. Such taping was popularized in the late 1960s and early 1970s by fans of the Grateful Dead. Audio recording was allowed at shows and fans would share their...
and posted on Etree
Etree
etree, or electronic tree, is a music community created in the summer of 1998 for the online trading of live concerts. etree pioneered the standards for distributing lossless audio on the net and only permits its users to distribute the music of artists that allow the free taping and trading of...
and Internet Archive. The band's "Live At The Aggie Theatre" show on November 11, 2006 has been downloaded more than 52,000 times and collectively their concerts have been downloaded more than 150,000 times on Internet Archive
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
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External links
- Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad Website
- Live Recordings from Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...