Early reggae sounds from Jamaica

Yeah there's a download link on that page.

haha glad you like it, hopefully gunna carry on Roots Guidance, planning a sound system build in the summer. You ever made one?

nope, good luck with it, although it is er, a week til midsummers eve...

YouTube- Scotty - Skank In Bed

Leava da studio man!!! big big tune.

YouTube- im not a substitute lover- Half Pint

just one from me tonight

YouTube- ✵ Two Face Rasta ✵ Cornell Campbell ✵ King Tubby DuB DuB DuB!!! ✵

YouTube- [138] LEAVING ROME (JO JO BUNNETT & MUDIES ALL STARS) - TBL 133 GROOVY JOE

YouTube- Harry Mudie - Loran's Dance

YouTube- 12 inch Carlton Livingston - chalice in hand - powerhouse records

big big tune from Carlton Livingston, heavy bass.

easy now reggae lovers - nice to see a reggae appreciation on the forum ;) Im selling a mini collection of landmark roots/dub albums and compilation including some nice King Tubby and lots of Lee Scratch Perry here:

http://www.gumtree.com/london/52/60728852.html

Some great albums there, unfortunately I don't have the money :( otherwise I would be all over that.

According to Bunny Lee, in an interview for a film about The Four Aces in Dalston, this song here was the birth of Reggae, when the Rocksteady beat was everywhere ...
YouTube- Bangarang - Lester Sterling

... god knows what the difference is though. Something about the jittery organ skank he described, using a funny hand jive gesticulation, as 'reggae-reggae-reggae' ...

Just sounds like rock steady to me....

Question for everyone, what was the first dub track you heard?

Mine: Augustus Pablo meets uptown rockers dub. Still probably one the heaviest dubs I know.
YouTube- King Tubby meets Rockers Uptown - Augustus Pablo

Well, rocksteady is much slower-feeling, I think Bunny was saying that 'reggae' comes from the sound of the shuffling syncopated riff that's doubled up under the regular offbeat skank... or something. That was what was new with that song Bangarang... ergo, the first reggae song. I think the same phonic-naming applies to ska, the chicachica noise I suppose sounds a bit like skaskaska ...

That^ is truly awesome. In the actual meaning of that word.

I can't remember which dub tunes I heard first ... cos I and I was 'igh ... heh. Tubby's, Prince Jammy, Scientist, Joe Gibbs, Scratch, Mad Professor, and On-U sound. I guess it was about five to ten years after all that exploded, mid 80s.

Had a little session diggging them all out the other night with my brother, it was great. I particularly loved hearing an LP called 'A Dub Experience' by Sly and Robbie, rather 80s styling and lots of syn-drums and spacey effects... amazing album.

http://www.mentomusic.com/
bruddas be talking about this roots,
working or would love to shoot the breeze,
first dub tune-- Skully played it to me! cant remember what is was though, cant imagine why...

That augustus Pablo tune was played off a phone to me first time, exactly the music I was looking for. Now I've got two phat bose speakers and a turntable.... a good transition I think.

What's that Mentomusic thing? It's not coming up for me

Ah i see now, Jamaican Folk... I'll have a listen.

A lot of people say there are different influences that lead to reggae, Dub Echoes a documentary explains how the first dub came about. Sir Coxsone was getting a dubplate pressed and they forgot to add in the vocals, they were about to stop and cut it again but he let it run. That night he played the original and then the version, he went on to play the version 10-20 times that night, birth of dub that is. I though Reggae would have originated from Nyabinghi?

I officially approve of this thread. Glad i'm not the only one who likes old skool ska and jump-up tunes from way back when. Is skinhead reggae allowed in this thread? I'm really enjoying Symarip at the moment... trojan skins oh yeah :)

YouTube- symarip skinhead moonstomp

Bless up!

Just back from Derrick Morgan, Ruff an' tuff!

And Symarip ripped him off with Skinhead Moonstomp.

Just sounds like rock steady to me....

Question for everyone, what was the first dub track you heard?

Mine: Augustus Pablo meets uptown rockers dub. Still probably one the heaviest dubs I know.
YouTube- King Tubby meets Rockers Uptown - Augustus Pablo

Lord I haven't heard this tune in quite a while. Brings back memories of the All Nations club in Hackney many years ago. This one still reaches my soul.

Just took a quick listen to some of the tracks posted here. Memory lane or what? The music of my childhood/teen years and still the most important/loved music to me. Glad to see the music remains appreciated these days.

Carry on :-)

top thread! truly the finest music EVER (well, apart from Northern Soul/Blue Note Mod Jazz/Hammond organ heavy 60s RnB...)

reggae/ska heads may well like one or all of the following club-nites:
*Set the Tone 67 - every last saturday of the month at The Social, little portland street - heavyweight original 60s skinhead reggae/ska/rocksteady...look em up on myspace/facebook
*Boom Shacka Lacka - again, top reggae sounds ("the sound of young jamaica") plus some motown/northern soul at the Sun and 13 Cantons, soho....2nd thursday of the month from memory - again, find em on facebook
*Wreck it Up! - 93 feet east, ist wednesday of the month (i think)...search facebook...you guessed it, more heavy heavy skinhead sounds

and heres my pennysworth...

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