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very nice, good picks
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I'm just going to add some random perhaps more obsucre shit that I enjoy. Im going to try to hit each subgenre. Here is some early dancehall/deejaying
Little Harry & Billy Boyo Clash
http://www.zshare.net/download/155094217ef130cd/
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Little Harry - Jessat Promotion
Billy Boyo - Jah Jah Made Me To Mc
Little Harry - Harry On The Go
Billy Boyo - Boyo In The Area
Little Harry - Leggo Mi Queen
Billy Boyo - Going Back To School
Little Harry - Wicked And Wild
Billy Boyo - Check In
Little Harry - Rougher Than Rough
Billy Boyo - Look How She Fat
To paraphrase a saying from a famous film, respectability comes with age. Hence the drive to make eighties sound system culture as exalted as that of the seventies, which continues with Greensleeves' CD reissue of their Junjo Lawes produced face-off between Little Harry and Billy Boyo, DJ Clash 2.

Little Harry takes the mic over a series of vintage rhythms: opening track Jessat Promotion (on Silhouettes), Harry On The Go (on Stop That Train) and Leggo Mi Queen (Artibella). He also chats over lesser known foundations for Wicked & Wild and Rougher Than Rough, and his clean sounding voice and smiling delivery make for an uplifting performance every time.

The less tuneful Billy Boyo (brother in law to Junjo), despite being of similarly young age to Harry when these recordings were made, has an eerily detached, slightly sad voice that makes him sound wise beyond his years. He likes to namecheck his fellow Volcano Sound MCs (and others) on both on Jah Jah Made Me To Be An MC and Boyo In The Area (the latter on a remake of Glen Browns' Dirty Harry rhythm), and is on stellar form for Going Back To School (on Operation Eradication), Check In and Look How She Fat (on the perennially popular I Can't Hide and Weatherman Skank respectively).

So don't be put off by the unusual tracklisting. This is a fine example of vintage deejaying, from an era that has only lately been understood by outsiders as a new dawn for reggae rather than its twilight years. Anyone wishing to acquire the Toyan tracks will find them as Bonus tracks on Greensleeves' reissue of Toyan's How The West Was Won.

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Big Youth- Dread Locks Dread
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Train To Rhodesia
House Of Dread Locks
Lightning Flash (Weak Heart Drop)
Natty Dread She Want
Some Like It Dread
Marcus Garvey Dread
Big Youth Special
Dread Organ
Black Man Message
Moving On
You Dont Care
Manley Augustus Buchanen was born in February 1955 to a preacher mother and a policeman father, as one of five children. He left school at 14, and started work in his teens as a cab driver and hotel mechanic at the Skyline and Sheraton hotels in Kingston. From singing at work, he gradually worked his way up to become the top deejay of the Lord Tippertone sound.

His first recording, the Gregory Isaacs produced "Movie Man" didn't really do much, but further ventures increased his profile, and by the time Youth worked with producer Keith Hudson, he was at his peak. His "S.90 Skank" went gold, (& red & green) just like the jewels he had sometime dentist Hudson place in his front teeth. In between he cut some killer material with Gussie Clarke which resulted in the fabulous "Screaming TargBig Youthet" LP.

In 1973, Youth formed his own labels, Negusa Negast and Augustus Buchanen, and these quickly saw some quality releases, but Mr. Buchanen still found time to work with other producers, such as Prince Buster, Joe Gibbs, Derrick Harriott and Winston Riley. Due to his phenomenal output at this time, Jah Youth at one stage had 5 of the top 10 singles in Jamaica.

Jah Youth cut a version of The Wailers "Keep On Moving" with Lee Perry, "Mooving Version" in 1972, as well as two version's of Bunny Wailer's song "Bide Up", ("Bide", and "Black On Black"). Youth kept up the pace through the mid-1970's with other great tracks, such as "House Of DreadLocks", "All Nations Bow", "Wolf In Sheeps Clothing", "Mosiah Garvey" and too many more to mention.

These songs helped make Big Youth a superstar in Jamaica, and he soon travelled to England with a young Dennis Brown, to stage some spectacular live shows. The Youth Man was backed by The Ark Angels, and Brown by Joe Gibbs and The Professionals, giving English audiences a first hand taste of what was hot in Jamaica.

The London Rainbow show (1977) must have had an effect on the watching Johhny Rotten (Lyndon), as soon after he was photographed in the music press sharing a huge spliff with Mr Youth.

Big Youth still records and plays live, and is still greatly respected. From rebel youth to elder statesman of reggae, he still inspires today, almost 30 years after he began singing and rapping. One of the the founders of conscious music, Big Youth still makes righteous songs aimed at the education of the youth, and the principles of Zion.

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Big Youth- Screaming Target
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Screaming Target
Pride And Joy Rock
Be Careful
Tippertong Rock
One Of These Fine Days
Screaming Targets (Vers 2) *
The Killer
Solomon A Gunday
Honesty
I Am Alright
Lee A Low
Concrete Jungle *
Crucial Seventies reggae riddims in the early 1970s, Big Youth -- the resident DJ for Lord Tipperton's hi-fi sound system -- ruled Kingston, Jamaica. Toasting over bass-driven versions of early reggae hits, he slayed rival DJs with his pointed cultural and religious commentary and his trademark James Brown-ish shrieks and yells. "Screaming Target," the killer title track of his debut album, is the perfect illustration of the complicated genealogy of DJ music: The rhythm, played by Big Youth's Kingston studio band, is a dubbed-out version of the late-Sixties reggae hit "No, No, No," which was itself based on an obscure American R&B song. The fourteen bonus tracks help clarify the relationship between the toaster and the track: Most are alternate versions of the same songs (using the same musicians and producer) by reggae legends such as Augustus Pablo and Gregory Isaacs. Listen for Pablo's "K.G.'s Half Way Tree," an instrumental version of "Screaming Target," on which a demented-sounding gypsy violin rides over metallic echo-chamber drums.

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im already on addict mode about this thread- - ice!


since we're here does anyone know of a reggae/dubbesque joint where homies singing about his



"beatbox" ????
i fucked up and didn't find out when i heard it
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raheem is doing big things in this thread, good shit

roy that second batch is pretty damn clutch, from those i only have the ones that are on Kung Fu Meets the Dragon
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drizzle wrote:raheem is doing big things in this thread, good shit

roy that second batch is pretty damn clutch, from those i only have the ones that are on Kung Fu Meets the Dragon
7 of the tracks from the 1973-1975 batch came from this album:

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Lee Perry & Tommy McCook - Musical Bones (1975)
A1 Coco-Macca
A2 Fly Away
A3 The Message
A4 Licky-Licky
A5 Labrish
B1 Quinge-Up
B2 Raw-Chaw
B3 5 Cardiff Crescent
B4 Four Of A Kind
B5 Voodoo Man
Tommy McCook is a fucking madman on those Lee Perry productions. I thought that his dub albums w/ The Aggrovators and King Tubby were kind of weak, although he had his moments:

Tommy McCook & Aggrovators - A Loving Melody
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15542361c1cdc077/

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oh snap, i don't have that one

I do have two Tommy McCook + Bobby Ellis albums, produced by Prince Jammy I think. Give me a few mins, they're fucking rocking

If you like Tommy McCook i know you go to like Rico Rodriguez too
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i got some shit to throw up in this thread later. not sure i know how to upload shit but i'm sure y'all will let me know if the links aren't working.

got lots of live stuff to add to the thread.

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drizzle wrote:If you like Tommy McCook i know you go to like Rico Rodriguez too
I like Rico Rodriguez, but I gotta tell you; I don't like much vocal reggae. What do you have from Rico in terms of versions, dubs, etc from between the years of 1967 and 1975?

Did he play with Lee Perry, King Tubby, Bunny Lee, etc? I have some shit from Joe's All Stars, the Rudies, Toots & Maytals, etc. It's mostly vocal stuff, so I haven't really revisited any of it in quite some time.

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Rub A Dub Soldiers
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Toyan - Posse Ready
Captain Sinbad - Eyes Of The Tiger
Lui Lepkie - Positive Conversation
Ranking Joe - Sheperdג€™s Bush
Little John & Billy Boyo - Bushman Connection
Lee Van Cliff - Water Gone
Brigadier Jerry - Roots Man Skank
Nicodemus - Five A Dem Trax
Yellowman & Fathead - Operation Eradication
Lui Lepkie - Walter Rodney
Nicodemus - Bone Connection
Trinity - Safe Sail
Ranking Joe - River Jordan
Toyan - Hot Reggae Music
Nicodemus - Nicko Dread
U Brown - Strictly Reggae Music
Brigadier Jerry - Fight For Your Rights

http://www.zshare.net/download/155768160a8ffc68/

17 tracks recorded at channel one studio between 1980 & 1983 using the roots radics band.

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Roy Johnson wrote:
drizzle wrote:If you like Tommy McCook i know you go to like Rico Rodriguez too
I like Rico Rodriguez, but I gotta tell you; I don't like much vocal reggae. What do you have from Rico in terms of versions, dubs, etc from between the years of 1967 and 1975?

Did he play with Lee Perry, King Tubby, Bunny Lee, etc? I have some shit from Joe's All Stars, the Rudies, Toots & Maytals, etc. It's mostly vocal stuff, so I haven't really revisited any of it in quite some time.
All his solo stuff is 99% instrumental and dubs of instrumentals. He played with tons of people, The Rudies were his own band I think, and he became famous from playing with the Specials - A message to Rudy is a cover of one of his own records. He's also the dude who plays that famous horn solo on Ghost Town.

My favorite of his is the dub version of his biggest album, Man from Wareika. I'll up it for you in a sec
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Here it is, the elusive Wareika Dub. Only a few copies were pressed originally, it was reissued a few times after

http://www.mediafire.com/?ximwgz21et2

a little sample:
04 lumumba dub.mp3 - 5.52MB

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much cooler japanese reissue cover

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the original album is classic, but i like this one a bit more
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Thanks, drizzle. I look forward to listening to this stuff.

Who produced the tracks on his solo albums?

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all appreciated - thanks

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Roy Johnson wrote:Thanks, drizzle. I look forward to listening to this stuff.

Who produced the tracks on his solo albums?
the one I upped was recorded at Joe Gibb's studio, I know that for a fact. The producer credits on all lp versions list Karl Pitterson, who's got some serious heat to his name - Raiders Of the Lost Dub that I upped before is one of his as well.
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Good shit, Drizzle. I thought that I had hit a wall with mid-70s dub back in 2002/2003. I haven't really looked for anything new since then, but that Rico Rodriguez stuff is quality.

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glad you like it

let me see what else i got for good 70s dub

i'm assuming you're all up on the King Tubby Meets teh Rockers Uptown, but have you ever listened to any of the Rockers stuff that goes along with it? there's tons of versions and whatnot
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drizzle wrote:glad you like it

let me see what else i got for good 70s dub

i'm assuming you're all up on the King Tubby Meets teh Rockers Uptown, but have you ever listened to any of the Rockers stuff that goes along with it? there's tons of versions and whatnot
King Tubby is my personal favorite, so I think I'm up on just about everything. We should do a Tubby-thon this week.

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Okay, I'm gonna test the waters a little bit:

King Tubby & Augustus Pablo - Zion Is A Home
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15772249c5a87a55/

King Tubby & Augustus Pablo - More Warning
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1577216541ffec2b/

King Tubby - Woman Love To Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/157720861b219f78/

King Tubby - Steel Bottom Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1577182400d80b91/

King Tubby - Iron Pipe Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15771153a7ee23aa/

King Tubby - African Roots
http://www.zshare.net/audio/157718382c4aa4f1/

King Tubby - Rasta Locks
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1577150726866241/

King Tubby - Short Man Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1577152891f2e6a2/

King Tubby - 91 Orange Street
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15771152c6dcd2cf/

King Tubby - Riding In A Dub Groove
http://www.zshare.net/audio/157718653be85944/

King Tubby - Dancing Mood Of Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/157710507fdbff38/

King Tubby & Scientist - Dub Of Ethiopia
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15772537f73f9cc5/

All tracks produced within the years of 1973 and 1975.

"Zion Is A Home" is my favorite reggae track of all time. Wait until you get about 30 seconds in. Shit is hypnotic as fuck.

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niiiice

let's start with the basics though, KTMRU coming up first
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AUGUSTUS PABLO ON TEH PIANO BONG YO!!!!

This is King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown. This is a definitive dub album of the 70s. If I had to delete all my other reggae albums except one, this would probably be the one I keep (well, it'd be a HARD toss up between this and SuperApe). Essential doesn't even begin to describe this.

Upping the deluxe edition that adds 4 more tracks

So far there has been maybe 3 albums in here that are absolutely 'must own', this is one of them

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http://rapidshare.com/files/131691242/A ... n.zip.html

1. Keep On Dubbing
2. Stop them Jah
3. Young Generation Dub
4. Each One Dub
5. 555 Dub St.
6. Brace's Tower Dub
7. King Tubby Meets rockers Uptown
8. Brace's Tower Dub No. 2
9. Corner Crew Dub
10. Skanking Dub
11. Frozen Dub
12. Satta Dub
13. Black Gunn
14. 1 Ruthland Close
15. 1-2-3 Version
16. Silent Satta
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Round Two

King Tubby & Yabby U - Conquering Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/158317915f365152/

King Tubby & Augustus Pablo - Frozen Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15831412cbabb997/

King Tubby - Rockers Meet King Tubby
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15831061f6347a02/

King Tubby - The Dub Conqueror
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15831390c899600c/

King Tubby - Dub Lover
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15832424d0699c70/

King Tubby - Casanova Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1582966370ee0885/

King Tubby - Iyahta Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15830644b7a20b96/

King Tubby - Hijack The Barber
http://www.zshare.net/audio/158302038ba63023/

King Tubby - Dub Seven
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1583017506f35ca3/

King Tubby - King Tubby Invasion
http://www.zshare.net/audio/158307323c730811/

King Tubby - Rebel Dance
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15831010ebbe869c/

King Tubby - Dub From The Roots
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15832504eba37e15/

King Tubby & Lee Perry - East Man Dub
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15831743b9279a91/

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shit i only have a few of those, nice

Dub Master vol 1 coming up
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Dub Master vol 1 - the exact date comes up different depending on the listing, but generally 75 seems to be a good guess. While not necessarily the best thing I've heard from Tubby, it's a solid collection that fits in really well with what Roy posted above. If you like any of that stuff, you will probably like this as well

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http://rapidshare.com/files/131929209/K ... 1.zip.html

Playlist :
Watch This Version
Going Version
Dub You Can Feel
Stalwart Version
Real Gone Crazy Dub
Better Version
Roots Of Dub
Version Of Class
Life Time Of Dub
Dancing Version
Gorgon Speaks Version
This Ya Version Ya Red
The Immortal Dub
King Tubbys In Fine Style

Mixing Engineer : King Tubby

Producer : Bunny Lee

Backing Band : The Aggrovators
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Yep, it's a dope album.

There's so much stuff from the mid-70s dub scene that wasn't properly catalogued. Those guys were disorganized as fuck. :lol:

Shit, at www.upsetter.net , they have close to 40 bogus Lee Perry albums listed. Motherfuckers are being misled precisely because reggae artists didn't see the point in actually cataloguing shit. There's no fucking record to consult.

You got like 20+ King Tubby albums that are dated 1973-1975. It's pretty ridiculous if you think about it, but then again, if you're smoking like 30 blunts per day, who has time to write shit down?

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It is pretty damned rediculous, but kinda understandable in light of a. the weed like you said yourself and b. the fact that at the time the focus was mainly on singles. It seems a lot of these were compiled from various sides and versions as somewhat of an after thought.

In light of all that, and the fact that it's kind of a pain to upload albums, I think i'll switch gears for a bit and just start upping random tracks i enjoy
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