Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

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I note Blood + Fire have an actual release in today's record store shenanigans. It'll be good to have them back.

is it a new blood & fire release, or just a repressing of an old blood & fire release?

really looking forward to blood & fire releasing new material.

new, from FACT magazine: dubbing is a must: a beginner's guide to jamaica's most influential genre.

"Mr Know It All" by Gregory, Ossie Hibbert production; think it's new, but it may be in a B&F release I've not heard.

It was an extra track on B&Fs version of mr. isaacs.

Or at least a version of that track is.

Ah ok, I've an old vinyl copy of that so I never paid it much mind.

anyone choose an album cover for these mixtapes. here are two i like for that purpose:

http://reggaealbumcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ranking.jpg

http://www.doncarlosreggae.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/suffering.jpg

two striking, classic covers.

Novelties, but I've been listening to the underrated (imo) Trojan Country and Beatles boxes. It's amazing how easily anything can be reggae-fied, but especially stuff with strong melodies. It's such great Sunday morning music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iDF6oZb4vo

jah jah go down a rome and throw one stone / it hit pope paul and babylon fall
pretty upbeat for a song about the apocalypse and throwing rocks at the pope

xp to daniel, i'm using this image as an album cover for mixtape vol. 1:

http://www.sixaxle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/u-brown-1024x688.jpg

other photos from the same shoot were used in a compilation of linval thompson productions i have called "jah jah dreader than dread"

am0n i'm digging that tune

linval thompson is emerging as my favorite artist in these comps (prince far i is a close second)

Love reggae mixes. Lends itself really well to that.

I just downloaded the two mixes, which are of course awesome. Should iTunes put them in order for me? I have a feeling the tracks are all scrambled up, a mixed-mix.

everything has track numbers, it should work out...?

First mix was more messed up for me, but I figured it out.

You should get Negrea Love Dub and Rocking Vibration by Linval Thompson.

wow bunny wailer's "blackheart man" is really really great

yeah! wish I could find copies of his other late 70s solo stuff

despite its nearly ubiquitous praise, i think i prefer other black ark stuff to heart of the congos? especially super ape. the production is amazing on HOTC but i think there are a few songs that are on the weaker side (children crying, can't come in). ark of the covenant is sublime though

ha you just knocked 2 of my favs and praised 1 of my least fav

i think i also like "roast fish collie weed and cornbread" more than HOTC

can't agree on heart of the congos, which i think is one of the greatest albums ever made, from any genre. but i agree about the general greatness of super ape, which is another near-perfect album.

Colombia Colly is my fav. Perry production. More enjoyable to me than HOTC.

columbia colly is great, i need more of it in my life

lol is there any reason why shanachie would replace the original album artwork of 'king tubby's meets rockers uptown' :
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e2/fc/6d2e828fd7a001dac4e30110.L.jpg
with this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61aDsmCPhML._SX300_.jpg
???

i got a used copy 10-11 years ago and i didn't know until pretty recently that there was an original, different album cover. i kept thinking "wow this album is great but why is the artwork so shitty?"

hahahaha waht is that

replacing fantastic, creative, evocative cover-art with more sterile, uninteresting, flat new covers is a longstanding tradition with reissues.

another example
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pPTXuUr%2BL._SY300_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JT5SDVTNL.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61PleQeqDZL._SY300_.jpg

the original marcus garvey artwork is fucking incredible. i don't get it.

oh yeah, that one is the worst example of this nonsense.

just d/ld this
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-2691593-1300495697.jpeg

that's a four-album box-set, iirc. how is it?

on first listen it's pretty solid, there are a handful of (presumably later, mid-80s maybe?) tracks that are kind of jarring. Already familiar with a smattering of other tracks from the other Dennis Brown comps I have. Don't really hear anything that betters the best of his stuff with Perry or Niney but like I said this is just first impressions

wait, did you just change your screen-name? i can't keep up nowadays.

shh its a secret

you're secret's safe with me.

anyone got any opinions on where to start with Mad Professor? I have the Massive Attack thing, and way back in the day I remember hearing some bits of his collabs with Scratch

The proper answer to that question is probably this link:

http://yrheartout.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/yho20-lovers-technology.html

I've always repped for Dub Me Crazy 5 (Who Knows The Secret of the Master Tapes) but I don't know that it's better than the others in the series. I do know it has some yodelling on it, courtesy of Champion Doug Veitch.

like this a lot: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/619XA1Cgj6L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Mad Professor is hit or miss but this comp served me well: http://www.discogs.com/Mad-Professor-The-Inspirational-Sounds-Of-Mad-Professor/release/375189

guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0gMQoc_4Q

I have a compilation of songs like this but I can't remember what it's called. They're all sexual innuendos and word play and generally not very good. I think there was a series of them actually.

that doesn't really surprise me. I like that one tho

Ah, here it is. Adults Only: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Adults-Only/master/143529

picked up this Pressure Sounds reissue/comp

http://www.pressure.co.uk/media/products/fullsize/604.jpg

this gregory isaacs tune was really hitting the spot this morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN_HYhPXqNE