Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

hahaha wtf
before i cleaned it up i had like 5 different artist entries in my itunes for cornell campbell (cornell, there's another great jamaican name, also british right?). cornel campbel, cornell campbell, cornell campbel, etc

i highly recommend this album. played it so many times over the last couple of months:

http://rasdans.rootsware.de/wp-content/uploads/derrick-lara.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_fTXE7oIQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-84XR6XhU4&feature=related

Linval Thompson is so rad

xp
have felt genuinely torn trying to decide between Yabby You and Yabby U

never heard of that scott, but I see on discogs that he's in the Tamlins, very interested...

this album was killing me the other day. every song on it is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHk6RjvCXU

yabby you! i mean his record label is yabby you too. so that's good enough for me. probably just easier to call him vivian jackson.

oh Junior Byles is great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjUbPUsPzo

vivian jackson is a great name. maybe I'll file him under Jesus Dread.

file under fuck yeah

XD

okay, one killer early 80's album before i go. roots radics band. scientist mix. junjo lawes production. very very cool.

http://download.feiyr.com/cover/65/26/8180029705_1000.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIWrWpxVRUo

damn that's huge sorry...

you know I'm thinking "Ungreatful" is probably inentional. hard to tell with patois sometimes, so much of it is founded on a mix of literalism and a love of puns (downpressor, for example)

<3 Wayne Jarrett! especially his Showcase on Wackies. there's a sax skronk on there that's one of my favorite moments in all music

btw, that's "intentional" not some obscure patois term like i-nentional

spelled Wayne Jarret on my ipod

okay, i can't resist, two tracks that knocked me on my butt this week. so much so that i don't know if i can part with the 12 inches despite the fact that i am supposedly a record dealer. but they are both so epic. guitar at the end of the earl zero track kills me every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nEi1vOSD1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqbzrvWFWIc

er, does anybody have that jonny5 mix upthread sitting around? the download link has passed on.

this guy on youtube put up some really nice old stuff recently. sounds good too. for youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQxZb5ulqD8&feature=endscreen&NR=1

hey scott, you might enjoy this blogpost: http://wayneandwax.com/?page_id=20

this too: http://wayneandwax.com/?p=137

i like wayne! he's nice. simon r. introduced me to him in seattle at one of the emp conferences. although he and simon were saying mean things about 3rd bass and i almost got into a fist fight with them.

i've had to physically stop myself from playing boneman connection lately. i will check out some of that other stuff.

i'm so stunned by this album. i can't get over how beautiful it is. seriously, one of the greatest albums i've heard in a very long time. of any genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6VAZSMHNc

So true.

yes

Dadawah is an alter ego of Ras Michael:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBxJ7DYO5U

yeah I've never seen it spelled that way before either
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 3, 2012 1:17 PM

i've seen that on something else by him, also "lival". its rampant in this genre, see also "cornel / cornell campbell" or "agrovators"

http://www.bigbankhank.com/media/images/aggrovators-meets-the-revolutioners-2.jpg

"revolutioners"

Been getting back into Junior Delahaye's Wackies tunes lately. Dadawah is untouchable.
http://youtu.be/ie4cf0hYRYc

"revolutioners"

classic

revolutionaires! that's my favorite spelling.

"denise brown"

j/k haven't seen that one... yet

some 45s i have to put up online this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAdv_hMzELc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUogagVebE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1QiqTzEPo

this has been up for a year but hadn't seen it til now, some good pix
http://www.bethlesser.com/photos/index.htm

some more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWoD3liUQYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_racyGJhwc

(love these two so much. i have clean copies of my own.)

these aren't on youtube. i might just keep them...

http://78.46.76.238/pix/20100417/270564185332.jpg

http://rootsvinylguide.com/images/pictures/271010_0.jpg

http://rootsvinylguide.com/images/pictures/319626_0.jpg

http://images.cloud.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/1/1110/02/1_d1a1a830e9f73cfcf5971da2e0db32a2.jpg

mix of music produced by uk dubmeister adrian sherwood -

http://soundcloud.com/twitch/optimo-podcast-12-adrian

i just got the mintiest copy of My Life in a Hole in the Ground! like, never played. took it home. sorry, record store patrons.

you're a very lucky man to get to immerse yourself in so much reggae with the original records.

you should blast it at Sound System levels and make it the unoffical sdtrk to Main St thie summer.

i think i just might...

put some speakers outside the door...

i find it to be a humbling experience. i learn something new every day. and i'm kinda old. so its nice to know that i still have a love of learning. and a love for good music. its just so endless. wish i had 3 or 4 lifetimes. its weird that my love for what people create is boundless. and yet my feelings for humanity itself...well, i have my good days and my bad days. on my bad days, i pray for a cylon attack. on my good days i just KNOW that the average person has the strength and fortitude of kara thrace inside of them somewhere...

i made a tape yesterday from 45s. i included the dubs too:

heptones - love without feeling/jungle feeling

donavan adams - them a mack jah/mack version

roberta sweed - something burning

dr. alimantado - president nyerere/irie version

winston dale - you'll never know/version

heptones - revolution/baba leslie - revolution

glen brown - you love me i love you/version

babby shakie - give my heart for sure/version

silvertones - african dub/version

u. black - stepping out a distress/progress dub

john earl - i need someone to love/version

gregory isaacs - i am alright/version

itals - ba-da-doo-ba-dey/version

carl dawkins - dreadful situation/dub

pablo moses - give i fe i name/dub

taped on a TDK SA90 High Bias IECII/Type II cassette. sounds good. no noise reduction. i can live with VG quality pressings if the drums and bass are loud enough. and for the most part, by oh boy are they. people who don't listen to 45s have no idea...

for that matter people who don't listen to 12 inches have no idea...

listening to some british heptones studio one comp on vinyl a while back and man the difference between that comp - and i imagine the cd version of it - and the 12 inch pressings of some of that stuff...so vast. some enterprising member of Blur should really make 45 rpm heavy vinyl reissues of old reggae stuff. (the more recent the comps the worse they sound. 70's trojan comps and greensleeves comps usually sound really nice. closer to the source i suppose. 70's trojan and greensleeves vinyl in general really nice.)

i find it to be a humbling experience. i learn something new every day. and i'm kinda old. so its nice to know that i still have a love of learning. and a love for good music. its just so endless. wish i had 3 or 4 lifetimes. its weird that my love for what people create is boundless. and yet my feelings for humanity itself...well, i have my good days and my bad days. on my bad days, i pray for a cylon attack. on my good days i just KNOW that the average person has the strength and fortitude of kara thrace inside of them somewhere...

― scott seward, Monday, May 7, 2012 4:42 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beautiful post imo

heptones - revolution

that is a damn good song. I am completely swayed by your pro-vinyl stance scott, but I've always worried that getting into collecting reggae vinyl, especially 7"s and 12"s, would be a bit like "getting into" heroin. I'd probably sell my grandmother's television for that Glen Brown 12"