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March 9, 2010, at 9:43 am
We’ve been busy “borrowing” from Limonius’s work for Trash And Ready recently so when I saw this on youtube recently I had to give it a mention: There are a couple of websites that feature lots of Limonius work including Wilfred Limonius – the archive and art-jahguidance both are good but unfortunately alot of the graphics on these are not the best quality or are quite small. Hopefully we’ll see a true web tribute to the man sometime soon. March 9, 2010, at 9:19 am
With all the talk of a Sleng Teng silver jubilee it would be easy to sideline the productions Lloyd James was responsible for prior to 1985. Well neglect at your peril – Jammy may not have been as prolific as some but in the late 70’s and early 80’s he was responsible for many truly great tunes. The latest effort to present these for the discerning public is a double CD/LP effort (yes – and download!) from Greensleeves/VP as part of their Most Wanted series titled Jammy’s From The Roots (1977-1985). There will be plenty of familiar tunes here but even some of the obvious ones are not easily available at the moment so this release is definitely welcome. The only duplication of note is with some releases on the Pressue Sounds catalogue but there isn’t a huge amount and hopefully what there is will encourage further investigation and not put people off buying. Jammy’s From The Roots is released on 30 March. Track list: March 7, 2010, at 2:17 pm
Mel Cooke profiles Freddie McGregor’s 1982 smash hit Big Ship in the Gleaner today. Regular readers of DanceCrasher will know that I’m a bit of a fan of these short articles from Cooke, this one live’s up to his usual high standards and as always the only complaint is that your left wanting more. March 7, 2010, at 10:15 am
Andrew and Jayman of the The Who Cork The Dance website do a great job in making available old soundtapes to download, their commentries on the sounds and deejays really help to put the recordings into context too. They’ve gone a step further with their recent focus on Killamanjaro which has an exclusive interview with the founder of the sound Noel “Papa Jaro” Harper. Though the interview is all too short he does talk about founding the sound in 1969 and it’s heyday in the 1980’s and is a fine read. The feature concludes with a whole heap of classic Jaro tapes to download. Go there. March 3, 2010, at 10:51 pm
Here is the audio and some pictures of the last Rewind Mi selectah! (see below for some videclips). This was a superb night – many thanks to the guest selectors Alan McKay and Ras Digby who both put in faultless sets and made for a night that those who raved with us won’t forget in a hurry. The audio is in two parts. Part one is Tim P followed by Alan McKay, part two is Ras Digby. The minidisc gave up after around an hour of Ras Digby’s set which was a bit of a disaster as the Ras played one of the best sets we’ve ever heard from him, still, something is better than nothing… Many thanks to the mighty Chris Platts for the pictures. Part 1: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Part 2: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. 
March 2, 2010, at 11:17 am
There is a nice but all too brief mention of Junior Lincoln of Bamboo records fame in The Gleaner today, this relates to Lincoln’s suggestion that Jamaican emigrants to the UK were a major force in the development of the music back home. It would be great if it’s writer, Mel Cooke, could give Junior a proper feature sometime. March 1, 2010, at 10:41 pm
Many thanks to Ash for these clips from the last Rewind Mi Selectah! Check his youtube page for more. For details of Rewind… nights check here or here for our other night Trash & Ready. February 25, 2010, at 1:12 am
Kudos to Heatwave for pointing out that it’s 25 years this week since Sleng Teng was played out in a dance. The story goes that on February 23 1985 Jammy’s Super Power met Black Scorpio at Waltham Park Road, Jammy’s dropped the Sleng Teng rhythm, the crowd went wild, and the rest is history. Even if Noel Davey and Wayne Smith hadn’t found a pre-set rhythm on a Casio MT-40 keyboard and taken it to Jammy’s, digital sounds would have eventually dominated Jamaican music. The technology existed and it’s inconceiveable that enterprising producers and musicians wouldn’t have made use of it. Way before Sleng Teng Sly and Robbie were already building partially computerised rhythms, drum machines were all over many tunes by 1984 and in the same year the almost fully digital Every Posse Get Flat by Paul Blake And The Bloodfire Possie was creating waves. The truth is that Wayne Smith’s Under My Sleng Teng and the rhythm it gave a name to were far more than a step on the road. Sleng Teng didn’t just influence a music, it revolutionised it, and things could never be the same again.
Sleng Teng played on a Casio MT-40. Thanks to blingdjango on Youtube. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Every Posse Get Flat by Paul Blake And The Bloodfire Possie from 1984 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Postscript: Thanks also to the Chatty Mouth message board who actually picked up on the anniversary over a week ago, I really should pay more attention… February 24, 2010, at 8:30 pm
Hot on the heals of their first release, a King Kong 12″ from 1988, Dug Out records jump back a full 14 years for their next release; the stunning Observe Life by Michael Rose on the Upsetter label. Mark Ainley and Mark Ernestus of Dug Out know their tunes for sure (either that or they are systematically going to reissue all the tunes with the highest values according to ebay monitoring site Popsike!) and this is likely to be a popular release. It comes complete with a replica of the original Upsetter label complete with the typo that came on the original issue (Obserb instead of Observe). At around £6 a poke it’s not cheap but when it’s good as this it’s hard to complain.
February 24, 2010, at 9:47 am
Pressure Sounds records will re-issue two seven inches on 21 March:
Both are in demand 70’s tunes and will come with picture sleeves etc etc. Rock A Bye Woman has been released on several CD’s by Trojan over the years but this looks like the first time the Attaras tune, a Joe Higgs production on the Elevation label, has been re-issued. |
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So happy 25th Sleng Teng – love it or hate it, you can’t fight it.
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