{"id":264,"date":"2006-04-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/04\/their-socalled-life-after-mati.html"},"modified":"2006-04-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T12:00:00","slug":"their-socalled-life-after-mati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/04\/their-socalled-life-after-mati.html","title":{"rendered":"Their So-Called Life After Matisyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/Harris.jpg\" style=\"margin-right: 8px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Two key players at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasidicreggae.com\/\" target=\"_new\">J-Dub Records<\/a>, the label that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/idolchatter\/2006\/03\/matisyahu-too-big-for-gratitude.html\" target=\"_new\">summarily dissed<\/a> and dismissed by the Hasidic hipster Matisyahu last month, appeared on \u201cSoundcheck,\u201d on New York City\u2019s public radio station, yesterday to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/soundcheck\/episodes\/2006\/04\/11\" target=\"_new\">the label\u2019s future<\/a>. Aaron Bisman and Jacob Harris (left) sounded more world-weary than bitter about the split with Matisyahu (though they were sure to point out which of the reggae-reb\u2019s hits from his gold album, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000AA3SAE\/sr=8-2\/qid=1144862891\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/102-6083647-6306508?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"_new\">Live at Stubbs<\/a>,\u201d were written by Ben Hesse, Bisman\u2019s co-founder). While they were proud to be giving young Jews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/187\/story_18735_1.html\" target=\"_new\">a modern, modish way to build community<\/a>, the pair made clear that they didn\u2019t see the Jewish market as even the primary audience for their artists.<\/p>\n<p>Noted, but it\u2019s hard to imagine lightning like Matisyahu striking twice. The label\u2019s latest signings&#8211;including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0009VI5MA\/ref=pd_bxgy_text_b\/102-6083647-6306508?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"_new\">SoCalled<\/a>, a \u201cdorky white Jewish kid\u201d from Montreal who taught himself Yiddish to make klezmer hip-hop; Golem, who count among their influences The Pogues, They Might Be Giants, and gypsies from the Ukraine; and the multinational collective Balkan Beatbox&#8211;all lack the rush of weird wailings of the bearded, black-clad Matisyahu.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two key players at J-Dub Records, the label that was summarily dissed and dismissed by the Hasidic hipster Matisyahu last month, appeared on \u201cSoundcheck,\u201d on New York City\u2019s public radio station, yesterday to discuss the label\u2019s future. 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