Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

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

I lol'd

http://www.whydoyoulikeit.com/2017/10/reggae-albums-that-look-like-heavy.html?m=1

hah, i bought Blackheart Man back in the day especially because I liked the metalness of the cover

solid album

blackheart man is excellent, i tend to go to that one more than the actual wailers albums

the Wailers' collective discography (early rocksteady stuff, Lee Perry era, the two with Bob, and then Bob, Peter and Bunny's solo albums) represents a pretty weird cross-section of reggae when you think about it. I'm not sure what I like the best, but it's probably Catch a Fire and Burnin'.

god i love that Massive Dread sleeve

I've never heard/seen that one!

not dub-related per se but since this seems to be the general vintage reggae repository thread of late, I just got this book: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/dancehall-book-the-rise-of-jamaican-dancehall-culture which is p fantastic. (I have the comp too, which is a p good general overview of the biggest/canonical stuff)

was reminded of marcos' interest in that early dancehall/Roots Radics sorta sound but I can't remember if that was mentioned on this thread or some other one. anyway... good stuff!

this album's pretty great, super-spacey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP0eOtZ0Q9M

xp that's definitely a blind spot for me. would love to know more about 80s dancehall

that book looks rad xp

and yea that sound has continued to be really intriguing to me

i love the vocals on that sister spliff tune!

there's an intermediary period between '79, when the roots and heavy dub stuff starts to get less popular, and the release of Under Mi Sleng Teng. So like from '80 - '85 or so you have the stirrings of dancehall but the deejays are still backed by bands like the Radics, with this real tight, dry sound. Then once Sleng Teng hits sounds change dramatically.

guys like General Echo, Lone Ranger, Trinity, Sugar Minott, and esp Barrington Levy are all at their peak around that time

the Beth Lesser book is fantastic. tbh I don't remember the writing particularly well (a lot of that history would have been pretty familiar to me by the time I read that), but even apart from that it works as a thick coffeetable book with amazing photography.

that pre-Sleng Teng era is indeed great. Shakey is otm and I'd add Yellowman and Eek-a-Mouse too.
dog latin, the Greensleeves 12" Rulers comp for Junjo Lawes could be a nice place to start listening (79-83).

That’s a great recommendation. The run of Scientist Dub LPs off that era of Junjo rhythms are some of the best too (think the recent expanded versions give some good context with added vocal / DJ versions but I haven’t picked any up yet).

I wasn't sure which thread to revive! Anyway...

Warding off the end of summer listening to a) lots of Blood and Fire (Horace Andy In The Light/In the Light Dub, Darker than Blue, Glen Brown, Impact All Stars) and, most recently, the Noel Ellis album, which is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxXRQgCoz9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptW6foThQrw&start_radio=1&list=RDptW6foThQrw

Last embed: Noel Ellis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbjizpAR6QM

Noel Ellis is dope, that one's new to me!

yea that noel ellis tune really is. he had that reissue release on light in the attic a while back, maybe 10 or 12 years ago? it's all good but that one is probably the best on it. iirc he was a toronto dude?

Alton Ellis' son? Was previously unaware of him.

Yes. Really good LP, a highpoint of Canadian reggae!

I've been listening obsessively to side 2 of "Bobby Bobylon" as usual.