Nice Up (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
After a debut album released in 2007, the Jamaican duo Conrad Crystal and Suga Roy has decided to pay tribute to some serious Reggae legends through their new album.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The lovingly conceived, brilliantly executed, multi-platform Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae aims to achieve the same sort of museum piece-to-modernity transformation for Jamaican rocksteady that Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit, 1996) created for Cuban music of an earlier era. As with Buena Vista, there's a CD, a movie and a package tour. The CD features eight surviving rocksteady vocal stars...
Montecito Heights, Above the City (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Two story fire the other day. Down on Griffin. Something with the electric wires sparking and overloading transformers. But really just look how close this structure is to the wires. This fire was only a matter of time. Multiple fire engines. Utility trucks. And a parking officer to make all of us use the back road to our hill. The firemen knocked it down quick style as always. Only downfall, other...
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Jerk is a method of cooking meats that comes from the original inhabitants of Jamaica, the Arawaks. They roasted meats over fires of pimento wood from the allspice tree. Pimento wood gave a distinctive flavor to the meat and is still used for jerk grilling in Jamaica. Jerk marinades and rubs are often quite spicy [...]
the echo and echoplex (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
[ September 30, 2009; 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm. ] Ranking Joe Backed by Echodelic Soundsystem So, Who Is Ranking Joe? Born Joseph Jackson, in Kingston, Jamaica , July 1, 1959, he was introduced in the music business at Tarrant Junior Secondary School in Kingston. Joe performed at school concerts and won local talent contest in the mid-70's. At age 15, he went to the legendary [...]
You & Me on a Jamboree! (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Classic! 01.Boom Shacka Lacka -Hopeton Lewis 02.On The Beach -The Paragons 03.Come On Little Girl -The Melodians 04.Rocking Soul -Tommy and Roy 05.Girl I've Got A Date -Alton Ellis 06.Musical Date -Winston Wright 07.Wake The Town(take 2) -U Roy 08.Ali Baba -John Holt(original version,unreleased on cd) 09.I Cant Hide -Ken Parker 10.Its Raining -The Three Tops 11.Wear You To The Ball -The Paragons 12.You...
Riddimjamaica (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
‘Play I some music, is this reggae [music]?’ Early Sunday morning, as the curtains closed on the 2009 [Reggae] Sumfest, two main questions tugged at me demanding an answer: Is reggae music dying a slow death, and if so, what is the likely cause? Where can I buy a Red Stripe?…
The In Crowd (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
Featuring Hopeton Lewis, Judy Mowatt, Ken Boothe,...
Me Inna Fever (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Worked with King Tubby. U-Roy’s success continued throughout the 1970s, most famously with the album Dread in a Babylon with its iconic picture of him disappearing in a cloud of cannabis smoke while holding an enormous pipe, and a song called Chalice in the Palace, fantasising about smoking with Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace. Rebel Reggae - U-Roy Uploaded by BonitaJamaica . - Music...
Me Inna Fever (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
Disc: 1 1. Tighten Up - Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Untouchables 2. Kansas City - Joya Landis 3. Spanish Harlem - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Val Bennett 4. A Place In The Sun - David Isaacs , Lee "Scratch" Perry 5. Win Your Love For Me - George A. Penny, Lynford Anderson 6. Fat Man - Derrick Morgan, Lynford Anderson 7. Angel Of The Morning - Joya Landis 8. Watch This Sound (For...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
Really only beginning to find out more about the contribution of New Cross and surrounding area to the history of reggae. I've mentioned before Eve Records in Upper Brockley Road , birthplace of Lovers Rock in the 1970s. Another important record shop/record label was Fay Music. According to the Reggaepedia 'Fay Music was the label of Winston Edwards . It was set up from Jah Shaka's house in Alpha Road,...
Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 07/12/2009
http://rapidshare.com/files/254843235/Big_Youth_Natty__Cultural_Dread.zip Big Youth is mostly known for his work during the 1970s. Influenced by U-Roy, he started singing with Lord Tippertone's sound system in 1970. His first LP Chi Chi Run was produced by Prince Buster in 1971. By the time he released this album Big Youth was one of the leading artist in Jamaica
Nice Up (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The 'world's Greatest Reggae Festival', Reggae Sumfest, has come a long way from that memorable night on August 11, 1993 when a group of Montego Bay business and entertainment moguls launched the first in the series of annual concerts at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex in the city.
ERBAN MOOSIK (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Trojan X-Rated Box Set Society has traditionally frowned upon songs about sex although there are some that would say standards are slipping. Perhaps - dem nah get a slam , check it ... Birth Control Lloydie & The Lowbites Wet Dream Max Romeo - Wreck A Buddy The Soul Sisters Rub And Squeeze Lee Perry & The Soulettes Barbwire Nora Dean Bedroom Mazurka Augustus Pablo & Fay Open Up Clancy Eccles...
Chewing Pine (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
You can see King Stitt’s teeth and one of U-Roy’s hats in addition to finding out what a real deejay is…Check out some more Echodelic Soundsystem work HERE .
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