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Next up DJ Activator left the turntables to guest DJ Stoffel - who once ruled the east of the Netherlands as a member of the now revived Trancelators - who played a nice selection that kept the crowd moving before the stage was taken again. The name of Arnhem's Out Of Many has of course taken been from the Jamaican National anthem, 'Out Of Many, One People' and has only later been shortened to the current Out Of Many. Founded by hornsection the Wicked Horns
(trumpet, trombone and saxophone) in the late summer of 2001, a highly succesful
jamsession at the city's Reggae Roadblock led to powerfulsinger/toaster Stroll joining the band. A year later Smiley became their second leadsinger. The instrumental intro shows that the band is ready to provide some horn driven reggae, before doing one of only few not self penned songs, a fine take on Black Uhuru's "Guess Who's Coming
To Dinner", the other prominent cover being a version of Bob Marley and the
Wailers "Exodus". The horns are wicked, but anyone familiar with my concert and
party-impressions here knows how much pleasure a band playing with a good horn section
provides me in the crowd. Both vocalists did a very fine job, being able to sing and
DJ, and very much in control of the riddims (and maybe just a short critical note, not
as much in control of the melody near the end) that were backing conscious originals
with titles like "Jah In Control", "Rule Over Israel",
"Awareness", "Africa", "Give And Take", "Gift Of God" and
as an encore the by far strongest selection of the evening, the powerful "Bun
Dem". Both bands certainly have the potential to become mainstays in the Dutch
Rootsreggae scene.
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