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| stevebutabi |
Do any of you listen to reggae? I enjoy it once and a while and would like to pick up a couple of good albums. Marley & Tosh aside, can someone throw out some recommendations?
Cheers |
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| johnson258 |
1. alpha blondy - live au zenith
2. groundation - hebron gate
3. dezarie - gracious mama africa
4. steel pulse - smash hits |
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| montana |
| i listen to it and i like it but i can't list any albums since my knees aren't that deep into the music. but i think dropping some names might helpt. Dennis brown, gregory isaacs, black uhuru, cocoa tee, sister nancy. |
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| nefardec |
| i listen to/collect dub reggae, if you're interested in that. a bit different |
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| Sykonee |
| I'm mostly into the dub reggae side of things. King Tubby, Sly & Robbie, Cottonbelly, G-Corp (Groove Corporation), Thievery Corporation, not to mention a butt-load of compilations over the years. The Dub Selector series from Quango Records is a good primer of sorts. |
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| stevebutabi |
Thanks guys :)
So something like Theivery Corp is called Dub Reggae? If so top Dub Reggae albums would be appreciated as well, love that stuff! |
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| Sykonee |
| Well, Thievery ended up skewing more towards lounge-chill and nu-jazz in later releases. However, their first album -Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi- is some mighty fine dub music. Perhaps a little more on the hip-hop side than reggae tho'. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by stevebutabi
Thanks guys :)
So something like Theivery Corp is called Dub Reggae? If so top Dub Reggae albums would be appreciated as well, love that stuff! |
Yeah not really exclusively dub reggae. Thievery corp has a ton of influences and artistic leanings.
To start, check out Augustus Pablo and his band El Rockers, King Tubby, Scientist, King Jammy, Mad Professor, Sly & Robbie, Mikey Dread..
Dub music pioneered many studio techniques (at least in popular music) that are now taken for granted in electronic music production. The remix, the tape edit, effecting (with reverb, delay, lots of eq), and increased status of the producer are all developments of dub music in the 60s that found their way into other dance music like disco, hip hop, techno and house. I think because of this it still feels really contemporary and I like dub for a lot of the same reasons I like techno and house. |
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| stevebutabi |
Awesome. Picked up:
groundation - herbon gate
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king tubby meets rockers uptown
Very excited to run through both. |
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| Domesticated |
| I find it funny that in a lot of cases you can predict a song's genre by the artist name and title. This thread reiterates that. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I find it funny that in a lot of cases you can predict a song's genre by the artist name and title. This thread reiterates that. |
many would argue that genre encapsulates things like artists names and track names. |
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