Jahtari is a

netlabel A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet. While similar to tradition ...

, founded in 2004 by Jan Gleichmar aka "disrupt". Unlike most netlabels,Georg Gruber:
Musikalische Visitenkarte im Netz
Deutschlandradio, August 14, 2006 (in German) it focuses on the dub and

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...

music genres, with an

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...

approach which it calls "digital laptop reggae". According to The List, "the name is an amalgam of ‘ Jah’ and ‘ Atari’, and a similar lo-fi 8-bit aesthetic informs their branding and design." From their site: :''"We are a small record label based in

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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

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 MurkaAndre Fenwick
German musician Disrupt spins his laptop dub reggae

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August 28, 2008 (a veteran of 1980s digital reggae).

References

External links

Jahtari.org
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(a collection of articles about the history of Reggae music, also run by the Netlabel)
solipsistic NATION No. 24: Jahtari
Podcast. Interview with Jahtari founder Jan Gleichmar, plus music from the label. February 9, 2007
The Jah of 8-Bit-Chip-Dub-Digital-Laptop-Reggae-Music
Portrait of Jahtari on Phlow-Magazine.com German record labels Netlabels Electronic music record labels Reggae record labels Online music stores of Germany {{Germany-record-label-stub