For this post, I gotta give a big shout out to a friend, mentor & inspiration: Danny Holloway aka @smokinvinyl. I can only footnote it with the time I have, but from selling wax to Cut Chemist, the Beat Junkies, Peanut Butter Wolf, Madlib, etc, to having a young B+ (Mochilla) working as his early [...]
Some call him a genius, others claim he's certifiably insane, a madman. Truth is, he's both, but more importantly, Lee Perry is a towering figure in reggae — a producer, mixer, and songwriter who, along with King Tubby, helped shape the sound of dub and made reggae music such a powerful part of the pop [...]
I didn't really know much about Mr. Ronnie Butler when I bought this album, just had it handed to me and urged to buy it for the "Tired Pussy" track. Which was definitely worth what I paid for it. The cover is also worth a couple bucks, with some guy blacked-out drunk in what I [...]
Macaw – Children Of The Rainbow
Some more obscure weird greatness. I have no idea who "Macaw" is, nor can I find any history whatsoever on Kamau Records, or who the Hell plays on this record, but I will readily admit I love these songs. Simple-Caribbean sounding-peace and harmony songs. I dig it. A lot. Sound [...]
I didn't really know much about Mr. Ronnie Butler when I bought this album, just had it handed to me and urged to buy it for the "Tired Pussy" track. Which was definitely worth what I paid for it. The cover is also worth a couple bucks, with some guy blacked-out drunk in what I [...]
Copacetic was a South Florida/Miami based reggae band and the 1990 release Ghetto Rock was their 1st LP, produced by 23-year old Marc Buoniconti. Buoniconti was a football player at the Citadel in South Carolina until an injury left him paralyzed from the neck down when he was 18. Saying reggae music was vital in his recovery, due [...]
Burning Spear – Living Dub Vol. 2
A1 – Cry Africa
A2 – Telegram In Dub
A3 – Teacher
A4 – Offensive Dub
B1 – Majestic Dub
B2 – Pirate's Dub
B3 – Foggy
B4 – Marcus Dub
B5 – JAH See
Produced by Burning Spear Production
Arranged & Written by Winston Rodney
Burning Spear – Living Dub Vol. 2
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(photos by DJ Starchild, who stood in line for 2 hours to be in the front row, soooo…props for that!)
Nas – Made You Look: God's Son Live
This a bootleg/unofficial release from the "Made You Look: God's Son Live" DVD. I was lucky enough to get to see Nas and Damian Marley at the Wiltern on [...]
Here's a Wiki stub & a Youtube video for a lil' more background:
"Josey Wales, born Joseph Winston Sterling in St. Mary, Jamaica is an influential Jamaican dancehall deejay. He was considered, along with Brigadier Jerry, Yellowman and sound system partner Charlie Chaplin, one of the best deejays of the 1980s.[1] His career began in the [...]
Jimmy Cliff – Unlimited
Jimmy Cliff's best work was done under the wing of legendary Jamaican producer Leslie Kong in the late '60s and early '70s, and following Kong's death of a heart attack in 1971, that certain intangible spark from the Kong years seemed to dim in Cliff's subsequent recordings. Although he was too gifted [...]
