Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

Okay then. Well it's out there.

These are almost all top-notch, thanks:

Here are a few good'uns:

The Viceroys - Can't Stop Us Now
Black Uhuru - Plastic Smile
The Gladiators - Mix Up
Burning Spear - African Teacher
Ini Kamoze - World A Music
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution

― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:13 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wasn't so impressed with the Black Uhuru, they can be kind of hit and miss for me. But checking that out did lead me to Puff She Puff which is quality.

Been hanging out with some folks from other countries and it's funny that we all like reggae but our reference points are so disparate. Morgan Heritage? Never really heard of him but it ain't bad. I could also use some dancehall recommendations but I'm not sure if this is the place for that.

Just heard him for the first time today I think! I listen to the satellite radio reggae station and it plays a lot of stuff, especially more contemporary stuff, that I have never heard or heard of. Admittedly, some of it is relatively hard to identify as reggae, in that a lot of pop music borrows from reggae anyway.

hanging out with some folks from other countries and it's funny that we all like reggae

this has always been really interesting to me - how traveling anywhere in the world, reggae is a common musical currency, way more so than, say, rock or house or whatever.

I found Veal's dub book much less dry than his book on Fela. I'm enjoying it.

"Basically what slow it down is that … a man like for a more relaxed stage of movement. The foot movement and the jigglin,’ it nice but it tired you out … you want to feel good and you and your queen just a move steady—you no want a whole heap of foot movement like you get on the dance floor and just create a mash. You just go there and lock and position yourself and rub-a-dub and sip your beer or your spliff or whatever. The whole mood of it—you just cool, you just mellow."

i've listened to shakey's blood gonna run mixtape far more than any other album this year. it's so great. i've even come to love some of the toasters, and that's not normally my thing at all. the big-youth tracks crackle with revolutionary energy. i wish shakey would put together a vol. 2, if there's enough tracks to make it work.

Is there any chance anyone could put up these mixes again? The Dropbox links above don't work any more :-(

yeah I think I moved those awhile ago, will re-post if I can find them but I'm not sure

found 'em

Vol 1: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wlku2kpjjifbs7a/AACBeaEm8pyJhMVk4BJY2rM-a?dl=0
Vol 2: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/517kscvshytylke/AAAs2F_P5WUYzxgYQiyFHjl7a?dl=0

I could probably do a volume 3 if people are interested

Thanks! V much looking forward to these. Judging from the reaction upthread I'm sure a third volume would be popular...

Message to the Ungodly: Dreader Than Dread Dub Sounds Vol 3

Tracklisting:

1. Dreada Dread - Jacob Miller (Tenement Yard)
2. Simpleton Badness - Tappa Zukie (Man ah Warrior)
3. Message to the Ungodly - Niney the Observer (Sing It Wicked Style)
4. Valley of Joeasephat - Smith and the Prophets (Yabby You: Deeper Roots)
5. Blackman Land - Prince Far I (Message from the King)
6. None of Jah Jah Children No Cry - Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus (Rastafari)
7. Holy Mount Zion - Wayne Jarrett (Showcase Vol. 1)
8. Free Black People - Burning Spear (Spear Burning 1975-1979)
9. The Great Psalms - U-Roy (Dread in a Babylon)
10. Sufferation - Tyrone Taylor (Sufferation: The Deeper Roots of Niney the Observer)
11. Revolution (Total Destruction) - The Heptones (Party Time Deluxe Edition)
12. Chant Down Babylon - Sylford Walker (Lamb's Bread)
13. Africa Must Be Free by 1983 - Hugh Mundell (Africa Must Be Free by 1983)
14. Lion Dub - Linval Thompson (Negrea Love Dub)
15. Open the Gate - Dennis Brown (So Long Rastafari)
16. Only Jah - Earl Zero (Only Jah Can Ease the Pressure)
17. I'm Gonna Hold On - Sugar Minott (Black Roots)
18. Oil in a Babylon - General Echo (Teacher Fi Di Class 1979-1980)
19. Robin Hood - Barrington Levy (Robin Hood)
20. Don't Touch I Dread - Barrington Spence (Yabby You: Deeper Roots)
21. Rastaman Dub - Horsemouth Wallace (Original Armageddon Dub)
22. On That Day - Philip Fullwood (Spear Burning 1975-1979)
23. Judgment On the Land - Tappa Zukie (The Man From Bozrah)

sweet, thanks again outic

I'm a huge fan of these mixes

thx - my pleasure!

awesome! thx for the links

full disclosure this mix is heavier on the roots and less so on the dub side, I wasn't too strict about style, was going more for consistent tone and content etc

Love these mixes too. Thanks for sharing. Don't think I had Vol.3.

A few years back I made a little fade in/fade out mix of some dub/roots tunes. I may have posted it before but since folks are digging this vibe I thought I would toss it out again.

http://biznotic.com/music/badcompany.mp3

Thanks Οὖτις and brotherlovesdub -- these mixes are great!

i have a mix from awhile back and accompanying dub version
mix
mix dub

huh did not know that Junior Ross & the Spears track/album thx amon!

its from this comp

Both albums on that comp are amazing.

Add mine to the voices eagerly anticipating checking these mixes out. Thanks to both of you for those.

In the meantime just wanted to say I was really touched by Beres Hammond's Rockaway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-E-YnyLK4

Maybe kind of corny but I feel like that message really resonates right now.

my first reggae 45 purchase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW3mCOO83g4

a good one!

love most of the jah stitch stuff ive heard

I only have that single and Dread Inna Jamdown but yeah he seems p reliably great

meant to post this last week, i heard this eek a mouse tune during a reggae program on one of my local college radio stations, i was impressed esp not being very familiar w/ eek a mouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dmxg3nEQIs

produced by linval thompson, roots radics are backing band

dude is a legend obviously but ... tbh that goofy name has always put me off

ha me too, then i heard this and in search of that starker, sparser post-roots early dancehall sound i started to get really intrigued

Wa Do Dem is a classic, especially of that particular sound. check out "Ganja Smuggling"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRb7mprbj54

good footage! what's the year?

good number of white hippies in the audience

no idea what year this is, late 70s by the look of it

Think that footage is from the undercard of the One Love Peace Concert from '78, most famous for this:

http://jamaicans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Bob-Marley-joins-the-hands-of-Michael-Manley-Edward-Seaga.jpg

hmm yeah looks like it

It passed me by when it was announced, but VP has reissued Pick A Dub by Keith Hudson, with the original artwork and a second LP of the vocal versions.

Trenchtown Mix-Up by the Gladiators has to be one of the best reggae albums in history. Literally no bad songs on it at all. How can I lobby for a reissue?

It's still available isn't it? On CD at least. It's a good one for sure.

I see that "Madness" by the Maytones is being reissued soon, that's a belter.

yeah i meant on record. it's just brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vFeWqVTnY

wtf @ munchkin voice chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPO6yFXrIWo

haha

I can't think of any other reggae song I've heard that uses that particular trick, it really jumped out at me. got a few more 45s recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZUxRWt-wK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqD4r1-opc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2s-qeTqXM

don't think I have ever been so bummed about a website going black for months on end as I am about roots-archives

anyone know where this footage is from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGf7gr_dmyU

this, I think: https://www.discogs.com/Augustus-Pablo-Various-The-Mystic-World-Of-Augustus-Pablo-The-Rockers-Story/release/1491449

longer version of same Pablo footage iwth live concert footage. great find :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyxGr53lIo