Bikstok Røgsystem
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Bikstok Røgsystem is a Danish
dancehall
band consisting of Eaggerman (Dwayne McFarlane), Pharfar
(Søren Schou) and Blæs B (Lasse Bavngaard). The band is one of the first to perform reggae
and dancehall in Danish
.
Their debut album Over stok og sten
was very successful, received very favourable reviews, and entered the Danish album chart as number one in February and made Gold by June 2005.
So far they have released only one album, Over stok og sten.
Since 2006, the group have been more or less disbanded, but it still occasionally reunites for one-off performances.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
dancehall
Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...
band consisting of Eaggerman (Dwayne McFarlane), Pharfar
Pharfar
Pharhar is a danish reggae/dancehall-musician and most known of as a part of Bikstok Røgsystem.He is a self-taught drummer, DJ, producer, singer with roots in the reggaecommunity of Copenhagen....
(Søren Schou) and Blæs B (Lasse Bavngaard). The band is one of the first to perform 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...
and dancehall in Danish
Danish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
.
Their debut album Over stok og sten
Over stok og sten
Over stok og sten is the debut album by the Danish dancehall act Bikstok Røgsystem and it contains 16 tracks with a total running time of 59:53.It was released in 2005 under the "Copenhagen Records" label, received very favourable reviews, and entered the...
was very successful, received very favourable reviews, and entered the Danish album chart as number one in February and made Gold by June 2005.
So far they have released only one album, Over stok og sten.
Since 2006, the group have been more or less disbanded, but it still occasionally reunites for one-off performances.