The latest issue of Wire magazine (the August one with Tricky on the front) has an interesting article on 80’s digital reggae. This is written by David Stelfox who is a bit of a rising star in reggae journalism having previously published decent articles in the Guardian, which in the past has been hostle and ignorant in it’s Jamaican music coverage.
The article gives a background (the usual Sleng Teng story) before looking at diffent production houses; Ujama, Jammy’s, Redman, Tubby’s, Steely & Cleevie, Music Works, Digital B, Penthouse. You can’t fault his selections though it’s a bit strange that LP’s are mentioned for some and 7″s for others.
All in all worth a look. While your checking it remind yourself what is great about the late 80’s with these DanceCrasher mixes:
Update. I’ve run out of bandwidth on the site I host the downloads on so these won’t be available till after the 11 August… sorry.
Redman Pt 1
[audio:http://dancecrasher.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-03-24T02_06_25-07_00.mp3]
Redman Pt 2
[audio:http://dancecrasher.podomatic.com/enclosure/2007-03-24T01_43_23-07_00.mp3]
Jammy’s Pt 1
[audio:http://dancecrasher.podomatic.com/enclosure/2006-11-04T02_25_01-08_00.mp3]
Jammy’s Pt 2
[audio:http://dancecrasher.podomatic.com/enclosure/2006-11-16T11_56_36-08_00.mp3]
Tubby’s
[audio:http://dancecrasher.podomatic.com/enclosure/2006-08-05T04_44_18-07_00.mp3]
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