For everyone who happens to be in or close to the Netherlands, Reggae Lake is this weekend, https://reggaelake.nl/
Sometimes I play concerts like this in the background while working. Had this one playing a few times this week. Can't help but watch the movie again after watching the concerts. Big Youth ina class of his own at this age and Horsemouth just looks older, same swag and vigor
Adrian Sherwood released reggae/dub record for 5 or 6 years before his first industrial production. I first saw him doing the mix for Creation Rebel a few years before he got into industrial.
And Italian. They took a reggae pop tune and made it incredibly political ie tune and title are the same but the lyrics are very different.
Much love and respect to the mighty King Tubby. This amazing short lil video manages to cover his massive influence on the sound of reggae music, on the equipment and impact on electronic music. Beautiful to see Roland acknowledge the king at the launch of the MX-1 mixer that places a massive range of what King Tubby came up with for music
Massive respects to King Tubby for being the man who made the move from PA to Reggae Soundsytem and with U-Roy set the scene for dub, dancehall, rap, hip-hop, EDM, techno
Massive respects to King Tubby for being the man who made the move from PA to Reggae Soundsytem and with U-Roy set the scene for dub, dancehall, rap, hip-hop, EDM, techno
1992, a not quite yet 18 Randy bwoy, Powercuts club under the Agincourt Hotel. Disco lights and swirling smokey atmosphere inside. cyclonic basslines
Few of my favorites from newer artists:
The Movement - Ways of the World
Iya Terra - Give Thanks
The Elovaters - Gardenia
Tribal Seeds - Moonlight
The Movement - Ways of the World
Iya Terra - Give Thanks
The Elovaters - Gardenia
Tribal Seeds - Moonlight
Respect to the language of the reggae bassline. It speaks and sings something in this language. First used with intent in 68 by Robbie Shakespeare, and it's so rare to see any outside of the originals on the scene show any awareness of it. The most successful songs are all version on these older riddims which have stayed evergreen with over 500 songs now recorded to some of those riddims and still going. Each one of these riddims has a pulse, and it's amazingly beautiful to follow them from the initial hollow sounding late 60s to the cyclonic tones of the early 90s. The originator is actually recognised as the most prolific recording artist of all time now, due to having done the original riddims and their newer versions which has now been tallied up to over 200k songs recorded on those
A while back, I had a life-changing experience when I had a sudden urge to learn to play the bass. At a very bad time in life, too, and I couldn't afford any time or money towards this. A couple of years later, one day I was at home and listening to some dub and a table opened up in my head placing every sound in the track like a sequencer screen and the knowledge of where and how every one of the bass sound was on the neck. Any scale neck and fretted or fretless. Even a bit of fishing leader tied to two nails, stretched over a hole ina box. I still don't know what notes these sounds are. Just where and how to depress the strings with my right and thumb with my left. Then a moment later, I had a feeling of massive shock and grief. I looked at my wife and said with knowing certainty that Robbie is dead. We looked up, and he had indeed passed away a day prior. I like to think that some of his energy found its way to me as being a worthy receptacle. Just enough to become aware of the language and say and sing things with the bass guitar
Here is U Roy's tribute to Robbie Shakespeare and the other bassists in that circle. I always find it sad that the person singing the largest component of the reggae song is never mentioned. Even in the song about his work and all the things like YouTube comments on the original song. Thank you U Roy for naming and celebrating all the Mr Bassies that made reggae and kept it reggae
A while back, I had a life-changing experience when I had a sudden urge to learn to play the bass. At a very bad time in life, too, and I couldn't afford any time or money towards this. A couple of years later, one day I was at home and listening to some dub and a table opened up in my head placing every sound in the track like a sequencer screen and the knowledge of where and how every one of the bass sound was on the neck. Any scale neck and fretted or fretless. Even a bit of fishing leader tied to two nails, stretched over a hole ina box. I still don't know what notes these sounds are. Just where and how to depress the strings with my right and thumb with my left. Then a moment later, I had a feeling of massive shock and grief. I looked at my wife and said with knowing certainty that Robbie is dead. We looked up, and he had indeed passed away a day prior. I like to think that some of his energy found its way to me as being a worthy receptacle. Just enough to become aware of the language and say and sing things with the bass guitar
Here is U Roy's tribute to Robbie Shakespeare and the other bassists in that circle. I always find it sad that the person singing the largest component of the reggae song is never mentioned. Even in the song about his work and all the things like YouTube comments on the original song. Thank you U Roy for naming and celebrating all the Mr Bassies that made reggae and kept it reggae
There is a song by Culture that I used to listen to a lot when I was some 30 to 40 years younger. I remember some of the lyrics, but have no clue what the title is and I also couldn't find it with duckduckgo.com. Do any of you happen to know the title?
Partial lyrics, probably with errors:
I, I, I, I, I say I and I, I, I, I and I, say I and I
Come on now, brothers and sisters,
Run a come, come hear what I have to say,
Listen and I will tell you,
Rather what the talk of the town today,
For in every corner that you will walk,
You will see a group of people talk
(...)
They are only talking about Ithiopia
Partial lyrics, probably with errors:
I, I, I, I, I say I and I, I, I, I and I, say I and I
Come on now, brothers and sisters,
Run a come, come hear what I have to say,
Listen and I will tell you,
Rather what the talk of the town today,
For in every corner that you will walk,
You will see a group of people talk
(...)
They are only talking about Ithiopia
not sure if to post this one in electronics or reggae but here it is. this is dubtempo va
https://cosmovisionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-dubtempo-va
https://cosmovisionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-dubtempo-va
Probably over a year ago I bought a Cyrus Stream and can recommend Roots Legacy and Roots Legacy Dub Internet radio, some duff stuff but mostly recommended... you can't please all the people all of the time.
