Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

i like wayne! he's nice. simon r. introduced me to him in seattle at one of the emp conferences. although he and simon were saying mean things about 3rd bass and i almost got into a fist fight with them.

i've had to physically stop myself from playing boneman connection lately. i will check out some of that other stuff.

i'm so stunned by this album. i can't get over how beautiful it is. seriously, one of the greatest albums i've heard in a very long time. of any genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6VAZSMHNc

So true.

yes

Dadawah is an alter ego of Ras Michael:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBxJ7DYO5U

yeah I've never seen it spelled that way before either
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, February 3, 2012 1:17 PM

i've seen that on something else by him, also "lival". its rampant in this genre, see also "cornel / cornell campbell" or "agrovators"

http://www.bigbankhank.com/media/images/aggrovators-meets-the-revolutioners-2.jpg

"revolutioners"

Been getting back into Junior Delahaye's Wackies tunes lately. Dadawah is untouchable.
http://youtu.be/ie4cf0hYRYc

"revolutioners"

classic

revolutionaires! that's my favorite spelling.

"denise brown"

j/k haven't seen that one... yet

some 45s i have to put up online this week:

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1QiqTzEPo

this has been up for a year but hadn't seen it til now, some good pix
http://www.bethlesser.com/photos/index.htm

some more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWoD3liUQYo

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

(love these two so much. i have clean copies of my own.)

these aren't on youtube. i might just keep them...

http://78.46.76.238/pix/20100417/270564185332.jpg

http://rootsvinylguide.com/images/pictures/271010_0.jpg

http://rootsvinylguide.com/images/pictures/319626_0.jpg

http://images.cloud.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/1/1110/02/1_d1a1a830e9f73cfcf5971da2e0db32a2.jpg

mix of music produced by uk dubmeister adrian sherwood -

http://soundcloud.com/twitch/optimo-podcast-12-adrian

i just got the mintiest copy of My Life in a Hole in the Ground! like, never played. took it home. sorry, record store patrons.

you're a very lucky man to get to immerse yourself in so much reggae with the original records.

you should blast it at Sound System levels and make it the unoffical sdtrk to Main St thie summer.

i think i just might...

put some speakers outside the door...

i find it to be a humbling experience. i learn something new every day. and i'm kinda old. so its nice to know that i still have a love of learning. and a love for good music. its just so endless. wish i had 3 or 4 lifetimes. its weird that my love for what people create is boundless. and yet my feelings for humanity itself...well, i have my good days and my bad days. on my bad days, i pray for a cylon attack. on my good days i just KNOW that the average person has the strength and fortitude of kara thrace inside of them somewhere...

i made a tape yesterday from 45s. i included the dubs too:

heptones - love without feeling/jungle feeling

donavan adams - them a mack jah/mack version

roberta sweed - something burning

dr. alimantado - president nyerere/irie version

winston dale - you'll never know/version

heptones - revolution/baba leslie - revolution

glen brown - you love me i love you/version

babby shakie - give my heart for sure/version

silvertones - african dub/version

u. black - stepping out a distress/progress dub

john earl - i need someone to love/version

gregory isaacs - i am alright/version

itals - ba-da-doo-ba-dey/version

carl dawkins - dreadful situation/dub

pablo moses - give i fe i name/dub

taped on a TDK SA90 High Bias IECII/Type II cassette. sounds good. no noise reduction. i can live with VG quality pressings if the drums and bass are loud enough. and for the most part, by oh boy are they. people who don't listen to 45s have no idea...

for that matter people who don't listen to 12 inches have no idea...

listening to some british heptones studio one comp on vinyl a while back and man the difference between that comp - and i imagine the cd version of it - and the 12 inch pressings of some of that stuff...so vast. some enterprising member of Blur should really make 45 rpm heavy vinyl reissues of old reggae stuff. (the more recent the comps the worse they sound. 70's trojan comps and greensleeves comps usually sound really nice. closer to the source i suppose. 70's trojan and greensleeves vinyl in general really nice.)

i find it to be a humbling experience. i learn something new every day. and i'm kinda old. so its nice to know that i still have a love of learning. and a love for good music. its just so endless. wish i had 3 or 4 lifetimes. its weird that my love for what people create is boundless. and yet my feelings for humanity itself...well, i have my good days and my bad days. on my bad days, i pray for a cylon attack. on my good days i just KNOW that the average person has the strength and fortitude of kara thrace inside of them somewhere...

― scott seward, Monday, May 7, 2012 4:42 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beautiful post imo

heptones - revolution

that is a damn good song. I am completely swayed by your pro-vinyl stance scott, but I've always worried that getting into collecting reggae vinyl, especially 7"s and 12"s, would be a bit like "getting into" heroin. I'd probably sell my grandmother's television for that Glen Brown 12"

yeah, you got a point there. it can get expensive. i'm just always worried that people won't get the full effect if they don't here how things can really sound. on the other hand, there is tons of great 70's and 80's reggae on vinyl that doesn't cost a fortune.

^^^

Ernie B's yo

Oh, I love Ernie's. It's actually his email updates with all the new 7"s in stock that makes nervous--it's so easy to just add things to the cart.

culling my mp3 collection and came across this sweet lil tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7FXwuz7NKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6tL1zSy0s0

hey idiots u all need to own this

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aV61W09RVdc/TqrKMiRZe2I/AAAAAAAACSs/GBwAHDYN6NA/s400/Front.jpg

music 4 blunted summer

lol his pose in that cover shot took me a second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMz0wm6iuDA

"Fancy Make Up" is one of my favorite all-time songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXVy-nGefNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-r6ORp7CkU

I'm desperately looking for Sylford Walker + Welton Irie - Lambsbread International - Blood & Fire and Darker than Blue comp also on Blood & Fire without having to pay ridiculous internet prices. If anyone sees a copy in their local used racks, i'd gladly pay $10/disc + shipping.

Sorta amazed those discs are rare at this point. Where is Ernie's getting the "new" B&F CDs they have from?

I love this one. Harry Mudie feat. Lloyd Jones - Rome. There's a Roman Dub version which is wicked as well. Don't know if it's dub/reggae per se but would love to listen to more of this sort of thing if you can recommend any. The one I've got sounds lusher than this youtube... probably a remaster.

Guitar lick is pretty similar to Clarence Carter's Slip Away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMJODn8gzs

if you haven't already got it, the album this is from is essential:

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

thank you, scott. i am now haunted by the phrase "lice in a dread".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22bs6jyXHn0

the 3 Harry Mudie meets King Tubby dub albums are awesome

influenced by scott, i made my 1st vinyl order from ernie b's recently and am eagerly awaiting its arrival. the only reggae I have on vinyl is a Greensleeves thing w/Yellowman, Purpleman, and Sister Nancy I inherited from my uncle.

I bought the Keith Hudson 7" for Turn The Heater On off eBay this week. Can't wait for it to show up.

Bloody Eyes 12" is in my order, is Turn the Heater On a non-album track? Wanted to get some Wackies but it's all too pricey. Def am wary of falling into the vinyl heroin trap.

I really want to get into dubby Reggae but I find it hard to find an inroad. A lot of dubs are so noodly and recapitulated, and it's hard to find something to anchor it all together.

There are a few cuts on Trinity's 'Shanty Town Termination' that I really like. 'Congoman' by The Congos is one of the earliest examples I've found of a drum machine in reggae. This is a great track. Jackie Mittoo's got some pleasant stuff on 'Macka Fat'.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnIe1hEviBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeKghD6exeY

And right now I'm getting into Linton Qwesi Johnson, a 'dub poet'. I think it's more interesting to listen to than a lot of 'toasting' deejay records because there's more of a point to what he's saying. Then at the end of a lot of his record everything goes all dubby --- so it's the best of both worlds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU4T7lPna4