DanceCrasher

February 7, 2010, at 7:51 pm

Mungo's Business

Mungo’s Hifi have been big news for sometime now running a sound in Glasgow and building rhythms which though unmistakably modern manage to have a great retro feel without sounding naff. Their latest rhythm; Bad From is up with the very best of their work to date and features an impressive rosta of artists including Daddy Freddy and Mikey Murka but the best is first on the rhythm mix below with Earl Sixteen – International Roots, a bad bad tune – wait for the bass to drop.

Bad From megamix 320kbps .mp3 by mungoshifi

February 6, 2010, at 9:08 pm

Midnight Rockers

Out now on Roots records is a compilation of early 80’s Jah Thomas productions most of which originally came out on Midnight Rock 12″s or 7″s or on Greensleeves 12″s. The productions of Jah Thomas are often overlooked when the days of classic dancehall are discussed, this CD shows that whilst Junjo may have been king Jah Thomas was no slouch.

Roots aren’t huge players on the reissue market but their stuff is always well presented and this release looks like it will keep up that tradition.

Midnight Rock

Phillip Frazer – “Morning Mr Officer”
Michael Palmer – “Robbery”
Toyan – “Praise Him”
Jah Thomas – “Midnight Blue”
Early B – “Pedestrian”
Phillip Frazer – “Them A Gun Man”
Singie Singie – “Respect The Elder”
Barry Brown – “Girlfriend”
Al Campbell – “Dancehall Style”
Anthony Johnson – “Loving A Woman”
Triston Palmer – “Entertainment”
Bobby Melody – “Ram The Session”
Michael Palmer – “Ghetto Dance”
Early B – “Read Up Your Bible”
Jah Thomas & Toyan – “Black A Feh Me Beauty”
Johnny Osbourne – “Bring The Sensie”

January 30, 2010, at 3:26 pm

60's to 80's sevens

Coals to Newcastle style, three Lesley Knog titles have recently been pressed up on an exact copy of the old UK Pyramid label in Jamaica, I don’t know the source of these so I’ve no idea if they are legit or not. There is some nice Rocksteady either way, pick of the bunch being a couple of tough instrumentals from Roland Alphonso. All three presses have the same A and B sides as the original Pyramid issues.

Derrick Morgan – “Want More”/Roland Alphonso & Beverley All Stars – “Goodnight My Love”

Roland Alphonso & The Beverley’’s All Stars – “Sock It To Me”/The Spanishtonians – “Rudie Gets Plenty”

Desmond Dekker & The Aces – “Unity”/Austin Faithful & The Hippies – “Ain’t That Peculiar”

Meanwhile over in New York the people at Deadly Dragon have done some business with Bunny Lee and the result is a couple of nice 7″s on the Striker Lee label featuring Simple Simon.

Simple Simon – Hey Bad Boy/Christopher Columbus

Simple Simon – Revolution Fighter/Version

All three tunes are tough though I was under the impression that Christopher Columbus was cut for Channel One (it came out on Hitbound), maybe this is a next cut or it was pressed by Channel One for Bunny?

Last but definitely not least two 12″ of crucial mid 80’s Mikey Jarrett productions all on the same rhythm from the Digikiller crew, also out of New York. The Madoo on this is previously unreleased. Digikiller are relative unknowns but they are steadily building up a catalouge of quite superb re-issues so don’t sleep on their stuff.

Scion Success – Settle Them a Settle / Dub B/W Madoo – Lose Respect / Dub

Kevin ‘Skie’ Warrington – It a Road Block / Road Block Dub B/W Mikey Jarrett – Vicey Verse / Satta George – Watch The Woman Them a Fight Fe Man

Madoo:

Scion Success:

January 25, 2010, at 10:27 pm

Steve Barrow chats Pt 2.

I recently gave a mention to the first part of an interview with Steve Barrow on Bigmikeydread Reggaeradio. Part 2 is up now and if anything is even better than part 1.

January 24, 2010, at 8:58 am

Soul Jazz Inna Dancehall Style

Soul Jazz Records have just released a 2nd instalment of Dancehall tunes, this is a follow up to the original release which was issued in conjunction with the great book of 80’s Dancehall pictures by Beth Lesser in late 2008. This new release is available on double CD or double LP and has 24 tracks. This has been compiled and has sleeve notes by Steve Barrow (formerly of Blood & Fire Records).
Soul Jazz CD
CD1
1. Lone Ranger – Barnabas Collins (3.09)
2. Nicodemus – Dog Better Than Gun (3.13)
3. Johnny Osbourne and Pappa Tullo – Rock And Come On Ya (7.00)
4. Ini Kamoze – Trouble You A Trouble Me (3.49)
5. Half Pint – One Big Ghetto (3.10)
6. Yellowman – Sensemilla (6.36)
7. Shabba Ranks – Respect (3.57)
8. Trinity – Vampire (4.02)
9. Barry Brown – Two House Department (3.11)
10. Madoo – Have You Ever Been To Heaven (3.45)
11. Early B – History Of Jamaica (5.43)
12. Papa San – Money A Fe Circle (3.47)

CD2
1. Tiger – When (3.37)
2. Welton Irie – Bill Fold Wa You Fa (3.31)
3. General Trees – Everything So So So So (3.46)
4. Johnny Osbourne – Trench Town School (3.14)
5. Edi Fitzroy – The Gun (3.56)
6. Anthony Johnson – Strictly Rub A Dub (3.43)
7. Jah Thomas & Radics – Saying Dub (3.27)
8. Professor Nuts – Ina De Bus (3.50)
9. Errol Scorcher – Roach In De Corner (8.50)
10. Triston Palma – Collie Man (3.34)
11. Barry Brown – Tourist Season (3.55)
12. Buju Banton – Massa God World A Run (3.56)

January 21, 2010, at 8:57 am

Lynn Taitt RIP

Another legend of Jamaican music has passed. Lynn Taitt died of blood cancer on January 20 in Montreal Canada, aged 74. RIP.

January 19, 2010, at 10:22 pm

A thing called Trash And Ready

This Sunday just gone the Tighten Up Crew hosted a new night called Trash And Ready at Catch in East London showcasing 80’s Dancehall and early Digital styles. For the first time in a long time I managed to get a proper recording of the session. The following is the last couple of hours – plenty of MC’s passing through, Champian (of course!) plus his old spar from Jamdown Rockers, GT, and man like Ragga T, Clappers Priest and King Rahtid etc.

This was a proper 80’s style session – tough as you like – so don’t mind the bad language! There was a bit of stuttering on the recording, this has been cleaned up but you will hear the odd jump.

Part 1

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Part 2

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If you want to check the next session we’re back on the 14 February – more details here (soon!)

January 16, 2010, at 9:25 am

That was then... the Uncarved overview

John Eden has a fair bit of Reggae content on his Uncarved blog but I can’t help wishing he’d write more sometimes as he’s usually spot on when he does.

As we head into the 2010’s he’s just put up a two part best 20 of the previous decade. It’s great to be reminded of many great tunes and the commentary is excellent as always.

Part 1
Part 2

Taking a break from this check the “grump intermission”; 10 worst things about reggae in the noughties which is funny and oh so true in equal measure.

January 16, 2010, at 8:29 am

A movie called Rockers

Augustus Pablo in America Vice website has an interview with Ted Bafaloukos, the man behind Rockers about the ground breaking film, and some quality unpublished photo’s of his from the time.

The picture on the right is one he took of Augustus Pablo in New York in 1974.

Thanks to Inyaki on the Pama Foum for the heads up.

January 14, 2010, at 7:46 pm

No More Heartaches

Peter I interviews Trevor Shields of the Beltones on the Reggae-Vibes website. Trevor needed some prompting to remember things but there is some decent stuff there when he gets going.