Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4TNbDZeQg
― Tim, Friday, 31 August 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
ah thanks Tim. that's quite nice; the muted trumpet is a nice touch, don't think I've heard that much in reggae (maybe? cue 10 amazing tracks I've never heard lol)
that Ijahman Levi song is a trip and of course "Plant Up" is a modernist masterpiece. I'll have to come back to Nabozo's others! Οὖτις otm regarding the bottomless volume of this stuff
― rob, Friday, 31 August 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
bottomless volume from a poor country of 2 million people! (in 1975) and it was pretty much like, what, 25 musicians and 10 producers
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 31 August 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
then the amount of truly great singers, sheeeesh
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 31 August 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Most of that lot new to me! This mix of Rastaman Camp is magnificent.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 31 August 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
Christ, this Silvertones track is immense. The first half is almost proto-Jungle!
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 1 September 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
I had found a lot of those tracks while searching for this Hitrun label, and following a few raters on RYM, most notably TheRevivalist.A few more if you don't mind, in the vaguely defined deep roots / soulful vocals / spaced out prods.
Gregory Isaacs - Report to mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUY8jZFYNk
Broggs / Prince Far I - Higher Field Marshall / I and I the Chosen Oneshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjWtrEJvqaQ
Dr Alimantado - Born for a Purposehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6pIONWxTbs
Rhythm & Sound - Mash Down Babylonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Wkjy3UCIs
Danny Henry - African Goldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMg2taR8fLs
Love Joys - All I can sayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nL_hx0Gezk
Ranking Dread - Shut me Mouthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zceiA35_seY
And yes, it's endless. If we could also talk of early digital dancehall... another forgotten space diamond mine.Just one very famous onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVWJjDfUCI
― Nabozo, Saturday, 1 September 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
Yeah Hitrun is always worth looking for - I have a copy of this CD comp (it’s an ahem “unofficial release” but the fellow who does them takes great pride in his remastering and does a good job): https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Hit-Run-Singles-Collection-1978-79-Volume-1/release/7709902
― Tim, Saturday, 1 September 2018 10:34 (six years ago) link
My favourite Chosen Brothers/Rhythm & Sound is this monster (also featuring Bullwackie's All Stars):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVHPDuGtFTo
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
i have the basic channel reissue of that record and i have literally never played that side of it
but i have played the other side too many times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ytax95DanA
― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
listening to joe higgs' "life of contradiction" right now and it's very good.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/OeYFlie
Was behind this work of genius the other morning. Caption needed. Current thinking 'under heavy spanners' or 'call Jah for joists and joints'.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Well, that's irritating.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Saturday, 17 November 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Reminds me of a thread I’ve been meaning to start.
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
For the record, I was behind a van on the way to work that bore the magnificent name 'I and I Carpentry'.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
If I and I were a carpenter
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 November 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
Should have capitalized the last word
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 November 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
starting to think Prince Far I never made a bad record
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 August 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
I haven't heard a bad one, but they are fairly homogenous. I have 5 or so, but I really only listen to the Cry Tuff compilations and Voice of Thunder.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
Cry Tuff volumes are all topshelf, but sometimes I just wanna hear him read some bible psalms, you know?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
Just a quick revive to praise jah once more for the Silvertones 'Cheating and Lying' track upthread. Fire.
And I don't suppose this is new to anyone but was listening to Don Carlos on Friday night and this is just immense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi8m2gMvpA8
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
so good
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
I'm feeling this atm
https://youtu.be/FM9AGbJgTSI
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
Pass me the lazer beam
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Cornell Campbell on the same backing track as that Don (Mc?)Carlos track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67xXlDQTKU
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
Decent looking show on BBC4 tonight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00095ky
A treasure trove of tapes from the golden age of reggae has been salvaged and provides the soundtrack to the compelling story of the family behind the legendary Randy's Studio 17.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 11 October 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
This "Sound of Macka Dub" (apparently the only album credited solely to Carleton and Family Man) is dope as hellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaxpkW5WHYg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 October 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Barry Brown, "Mr. C.I.D."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHj97-qNI1I
― Pierre Delecto, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
^on this fantastic comp: https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Biggest-Dancehall-Anthems-1979-82-The-Birth-Of-Dancehall/release/527989
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
or maybe it isn't on that?? confusing it w/a diff comp I guess.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
Must've been confusing it with this comp: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Trojan-Dancehall-Roots-Box-Set/release/639850
Which is good too. All those 3 disc Trojan comps are good, if not the best sound quality.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
yeah those were a real gateway drug for me
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
wish I had the cash to scoop up more of them when they were being released
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
I need a proper run at some Dancehall stuff - feels like a hole I need to fill.
Meanwhile, these Strangeness of dub Morley Radio shows look pretty killer: https://www.morleyradio.co.uk/programmes/the-strangeness-of-dub-ep1/Midway through episode 1 and there's a *monstrous* Count Ossie nyabinghi jam.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
i was not familiar with ranking ann until hearing her on this recent nts special - https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-ranking-ann-21st-january-2019 - enjoy for a perfect mix of early dancehall, dub, 80s roots
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
?! nice find
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
this Errol Sly & Ranking Ann "Love In Your Heart / Moonlight Lover" track is dope
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
Digging this. Those crazy delay feedback chops on the second track <3 (I forget how to characterize that exact effect where the delay is feeding back on itself and you get these detuned pitch sweeps, but it's what the Crystallizer plugin is emulating, probably some Eventide thing originally?).
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
Topical, and cool to actually see a dub mix go down in real time (Scientist):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA8OBQMt9WY
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHT
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
bangerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD3ihdZFZiM
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
otm. The rest of that comp is dope too iirc
― rob, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
dang that's a good songthank you for posting! i am a dub/reggae idiot
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
it's a great comp, stuff was all new to me, had been previously unaware of the Jamaican expat reggae scene in Vancouver (iirc?)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
That sounds great. All I know about Summer records is the Noel Ellis LP, which is really good. Alton's lad - I thought that was Toronto-based but I could well be wrong.
― Tim, Friday, 3 April 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
Yeah its Toronto, my bad
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
This isn’t as good plus a lot of it’s more (eccentric) soul than reggae but if you’re curious about the TO history: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/45-jamaica-to-toronto-soul-funk-reggae-1967-1974
― rob, Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlL0q6Uv8Ls
New Zion Trio (Jamie Saft, Hamid Drake, Brad Jones), ДОМ, 05.02.20
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Sunday, 19 April 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
saft's beard is positively brahmsian
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Here's an unremarkable slice of lovers that turned out to be precisely what I wanted to listen to this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtOb1OuDt1w
I was looking through some records earlier and pulled this out; my copy has even less information on it than the copy photographed for Youtube! It just has "James" hand-written on the label. Thought I'd look up the catalogue number on discogs and here it is. Derrick Lara's one of those names that I feel I've always known was good but I've never really dug into. I wish I'd been more into lovers in the 80s when this stuff was really, really cheap.
― Tim, Monday, 20 April 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link