Tag: reggae
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RIP Rico
Sad to hear about the death of Rico Rodriguez at a grand old age of 80. This statesman of ska and trombonist had a long career coming from Cuba to Jamaica, been taught by Don Drummond, working with producers Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid and Vincent Chin and then leaving for the UK and working with…
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RIP Erroll Brown
An ever-present force in the 1970’s, redeemed by Full Monty, but way before that I always loved You Sexy Thing. But not many know their first record was on Apple, a reggae cover of Give Peace A Chance that John Lennon liked. Sadly Erroll Brown died of cancer yesterday. On the eve of the election,…
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The Squire of Alsatia
A new uptempo mix from me, like the previous mix, Tabula Rasa which was an existential psych mix without many psych tunes, it’s far from just some tunes thrown together, there are layers and multiple themes. It’s deep, yes this mix has a sort of manifesto, a journey which spans from xylophone jazz to electro…
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Worst Music Videos Of All Time
I’ve posted quite a few over the years – IceJJFish, Christian music videos, various Musical Car Crashes which are in this list but I won’t repost them. A recent Facebook thread added some more to this stack, like the Candlemass track above. This was the first video by Jonas Åkerlund famous for that Ray of…
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Rastatroll Battyboy Sound System
I don’t know who Rastatroll Battyboy Sound System are, but I LOVE YOU. Very funny, very rude, very NSFW, making a queer dub reggay cutup dancehall mashups. Years ago I downloaded some dancehall acapellas with the idea of taking the piss out of them, I could never get anything that worked, but glad someone else…
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Me got me Oystah Card…
LOVE. Mark Professor, production by WrongTom (he’s doing reggae now? Got one of his first LP in my collection) waxing lyrical about public transport! And on David Rodigan’s show too – soon to be released on new Reggae/Dancehall label RongoRock. WANT!