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Nice Up (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... school'DD: I attended Saint Aloysius Catholic School, which was on the corner of Sutton Street and Duke Street in Kingston and LCH: How and when did you first become involved in music'DD: I was singing from the age of three. Yes, I grew up with music all around me – used to hear to the music on the wind-up gramophone and in 1959 I had a TK-24 Grundig [reel to reel tape machine] that I was...
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Dissensus (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Interested to hear your thoughts on this, hopefully you'll like some of it :D http://www.divshare.com/download/4457832-f84 01. DJ Ordeal - ??? [Asparagus Audio] 02. Arthur "Duke" Reid - Prisoner Dub [Jamaican Recordings] 03. Sven Weisemann - Ojui [House Cafe Music] 04. Sven Weisemann - Slices...
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Apathy and Empathy (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Today's acquisitions: James Brown - 20 All-Time Greatest Hits Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan The Beatles - Rubber Soul Jimmy Cliff - Struggling Man Duke Reid's Treasure Chest The Beat Generation The Jack Kerouac Collection Hows, Raps & Roars - Recordings from the San Francisco Poetry Reaissance The Clash - Live on Broadway James Brown - Star Time Bob Dylan - No Direction Home [...]...
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Nice Up (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
... He then bumped into Ken Khouri of Federal fame, and it wasn't long before sound system men like Duke Reid and Coxson Dodd employed him to get the local talents on tape. This is a serious slice of musical history now. In Goodall's tracks we got people like Sylvan Morris at Studio One and Byron Smith at Treasure Isle to step up and engineer some of the most memorable recordings ever...
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Consul-At-Arms (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
... sound system became involved in creating history when King Tubby, who was the master cutter for Duke Reid's Trojan sound system, turned off the vocals momentarily on some records while in play, allowing the beat and instrumentals only to be heard. The crowds loved it. Dub music was born.
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Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
. Duke Reid (born Arthur S. Reid ca. 1915, Jamaica, died in 1974) was one of the initial producers in Kingston who developed Jamaican music. He started in the early 1960s with ska productions, developed the rock steady style and took part in the early days of reggae music. This is the original, 41-track, double CD collection, with all the classic rock steady hits by the great groups...
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You & Me on a Jamboree! (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
Tesouros da Ilha........ The Royals - We Are In The Mood The Melodians - Come On Little Girl The Jamaicans - Things You Say You Love The Paragons - Tide Is High The Melodians - You Don't Need Me Phyllis Dillon - Rock Steady The Duke Reid Group - Soul Style Alton Ellis & Lloyd Williams - Can't Stand It The Techniques - Queen Majesty Vic Taylor - Heartaches The Silvertones - Midnight Hour...
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Landcroft House (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
... This Sensations track was released 40 years ago. It was probably knocked up in half a day in Duke Reid's studio, yet it feels as magical and new, as supremely poppy, yet refreshingly odd as it must have done then. I don't understand how this sort of spontaneous genius works, really. But I'm endlessly appreciative of the fact it does.
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
Duke Reid's All Stars... The Rude Boy (.mp3 audio 02:47).
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The Urban Shop (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
... The Maytals and The Inner Circle. Trojan have also worked with legendary producers such as Arthur ‘Duke’ Reid, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd and Leslie Kong. The Universal Zulu Nation The Zulu Nation is an "international hip hop awareness" group formed and headed by hip hop godfather Afrika Bambaataa. Originally formed in the 1970s from reformed New York City gang members...
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du Nord (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
From the Seattle Times: The MLS competition committee is going to allow the new Seattle team to protect some of the players currently on the Sounders roster, "which will hopefully help us move into MLS with a few of those really key players," part owner Adrian Hanauer said. MLS Cup Finals Sunday November 18 at High Noon in Washington DC's RFK Stadium New England v Houston ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Rich Thompson of...
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Jamaia Star (Free subscription) | 10/16/2007
... for contribution to the development of Jamaican theatre and for public service. Arthur Stanley 'Duke' Reid also received a post-humous award for service to the Jamaican music industry. Shaggy spoke to The STAR following the awards. "Me is a man wey nuh normally get nervous pon nutt'n, but mi get nervous dis morning. An jus fi get recognise fi what yuh do ... is probably one of the...
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Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 09/02/2007
... Blackwell and Lee Gopthal, as an Island Records subsidiary. The first releases were licensed from Duke Reid's Treasure Isle label, and the company took its name from Reid's sound system - The Trojan. In the 60s and 70s Trojan did a major effort in spreading Reggae over the UK, licensing Jamaican releases as well as pushing their own UK acts. . King Size Ska - Original Jamaican...
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Soul Sides (Free subscription) | 08/31/2007
... Sky Down by Dave Tompkins Nora Dean: Angie-La-La From 7” single , B-side of U-Roy's "Tom Drunk" (Duke Reid, 1970s) “And then I started making extinct bird calls.” (The Rubbles usually answer on the third ring.) Nora also executes one of the best weees on record, with respect to Digital Underground's pool party “weeee!” I suspect a supernatural agency at work here, more than a fat...
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Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 08/16/2007
. It was in Jamaica, in the 1950´s, that the world´s first “Sound Systems” began with a few brightly painted speaker boxes blasting out american Rhythm´n´Blues to enthusiastic crowds who soon flocked to the likes of Sir Coxone´s Downbeat, King Edwards, Duke Reid, Tom The Sebastian and V Rocket. It is this story that this wonderful collection tells. Jamaica has had links with the Southern...
