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ALBUM REVIEWS 151 - 160 |
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BURNING SPEAR - ORIGINAL LIVING DUB VOLUME
TWO (HAIL H.I.M. IN DUB) |
| Many
would consider Burning Spear's album
"Hail H.I.M." to be (among) his
best ones. Living Dub Volume 2 is the Dub
counterpart of that excellent album, and
arguably even better than the vocals.
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JOHN HOLT - POLICE IN HELICOPTERS |
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former member of the vocal group The
Paragons in the 1960's, John Holt was
commonly known as a skillful vocalist when
it comes to soulful Reggae love songs.
Police in Helicopters completely breaks
with that tradition, and introduces John
Holt as a Rootsman who has some things to
say that could also be seen as interesting
for more people than just his girlfriend.
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BURNING SPEAR - ORIGINAL LIVING DUB 1 |
| Winston
Rodney's majestic voice appears on quite a
number of occasions, while skillful use of
the effect devices (phasers, reverbs,
echo's) will impress the listener with an
exposure of a dimension in Burning Spear's
music that is unheard of in his non-dub
releases.
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SCIENTIST ENCOUNTERS PAC-MAN |
| Ten
outstanding Dub mixes, wherein the Scientist
shows his ability to completely transform a
danceable Rub a Dub riddim into a totally
spaced out trip into realms where no one had
gone before.
Every knob on the mixing board is
touched. Every instrument is treated with
layers of effects, even the bass guitar.
There were only two hands mixing, but it
surely sounds like the Scientist was mixing
with 20 hands.
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MORWELL UNLIMITED MEETS KING TUBBY'S - DUB
ME |
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Aggrovators and the Roots Radics. Two names
that aren't really that unknown within
circles Reggae Music enthusiasts. They were
both studio bands that played the riddims
into the multi track recorder at the Channel
One Studio's.
Morwell Unlimited can be seen as a
fore-runner of both bands. Originally formed
in the early seventies, the musical group
had members like Bingy Bunny and Errol
"Flabba" Holt, who would later be
a part of said session bands.
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MORWELL UNLIMITED MEETS KING TUBBY'S - DUB
ME |
| The
Aggrovators and the Roots Radics. Two names
that aren't really that unknown within
circles Reggae Music enthusiasts. They were
both studio bands that played the riddims
into the multi track recorder at the Channel
One Studio's.
Morwell Unlimited can be seen as a
fore-runner of both bands. Originally formed
in the early seventies, the musical group
had members like Bingy Bunny and Errol
"Flabba" Holt, who would later be
a part of said session bands.
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GLEN BROWN & KING TUBBY'S IN TERMINATION
DUB |
| When
you research the history of Reggae, you will
find that many of the originators were kind
of versatile: one could be a vocalist but in
the same time have his own label and produce
a number of other artists as well.
Glen Brown is also such a versatile
worker in the Reggae Industry, developing it
in a variety of ways. A vocalist, an
instrumentalist, and a producer in one
person. If you ever wondered about the
Trinity, well, here's a small example of
such a possibility.
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MICHAEL PROPHET - CEASE AND SETTLE |
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since he was discovered by Yabby You, in the
1970's, Michael Prophet (Michael George
Haynes, 1952) has gone strong as a vocalist
with a very wide reach.
Singing Conscious lyrics over Roots Music
for Yabby You therefore was only the
beginning of his carrier. Michael Prophet
went on to sing for a number of other
producers, which he keeps doing until this
day (February 2007).
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MESSIAN DREAD - SHOWCASE |
| Fifteen
tracks in just over 72 minutes, as the title
suggest all in "Discomix" style:
full lyrics and full length Dub in one mix.
The album takes the listener into the
different styles of Messian Dread's music,
using a sequence of tracks that would go
very well in a concert.
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TAPPER ZUKIE - PEACE AND LOVE IN THE GHETTO |
| David
Sinclair was born in 1951 in Kingston,
Jamaica. We came to know him under the name
Tappa or Tapper Zukie, one of the most
militant DJ's from the era of the Punky
Reggae Party.
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