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Two-Albums-On-One-CD gives you the first two Dillinger
albums for the price of one, re-mastered in 2004 for maximum listening
pleasure.
With contemporary digital technology,
it's possible to present what used to be two
albums on one disc. Great material, superb
sound and a great quantity as well.
And that's one of the nicest thing about
Reggae Music. It doesn't really matter
whether an album is old or new. The music,
even though continually contemporary, is
timeless.
The two albums on this disc will
proof that to the fullness.
Dillinger was "discovered" by
Roland Alphonso in the early 1970's. Many people consider the best of
Dillinger's work to have been created in the
last half of the 1970's. A period widely
covered in the huge amount of well
appriciloved re-releases. It was the time of
the Aggrovators, Tappa Zukie and King Tubby.
Rockers Reggae was on the rise, and rub a
dub had not yet come.
Sound Systems were very popular. These
mobile dancehalls had their own MC's, while
the selector played the B-sides to let the
MC's chant all kinds of things through the
microphone. It was U Roy who is widely
regarded as the godfather of
"Toasting". He was (one of the?)
first to chant over the instrumental B-side
of a 7 inch single.
But the time in which B-sides were simply
instrumentals was gone too. DUBwise had been
through some serious development, and when
the DJ's began to voice over DUB, they were
definitely giving Reggae Music yet another
sound.
Dillinger was at the fore-front of this
development. His voice matched exactly with
the sound of Roots Rockers in
Dub. And he released his first two
length albums for a world wide audience in
this time as well: the incredible CB 200 and
BIONIC DREAD. Albums filled with some heavy
duty Rockers DJ tracks, with one exception
on his "debute" CB 200.
An exception called "Cokane In My
Brain", which brought Dillinger a world
hit. The music was a kind of soul,
and could hardly be called Reggae. But it
sounds kind of nice, between the superb
Roots Reggae tracks on CB 200 and BIONIC
DREAD.
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