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Fusty Gusset

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Any idea of the password for the rapidshare link there Fusty?

I don't really know my arse from my elbow with a lot of reggae/dub but I knows what I likes and I likes the Soul Jazz Dynamite compilations. I have all six of them and they're on constant rotation during the summer.

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U2031

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I've been trying without success to get hold of Scientist rids the world of the evil curse of the vampires. I've got shedloads of scientist, but it's the only thing I ever listened to on GTA3 and I'd love a copy of the whole album.

Can anyone point me at somewhere that sells it? Amazon have been putting the date back that they'll get it for three weeks now :-(

Play.com have it as a cheap download, but I'm worried about drm. Anyone know if play mp3's are drm?

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Fusty Gusset

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Reggae Britannia: How reggae dug its British roots

11th Feb 2011, 21:00 - BBC Four

The acclaimed BBC4 Britannia series moves into the world of British reggae. Showing how it came from Jamaica in the 1960s to influence, over the next 20 years, both British music and society, the programme includes major artists and performances from that era, including Big Youth, Max Romeo, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jerry Dammers and the Specials, the Police, UB40, Dennis Bovell, lovers rock performers Carroll Thompson and Janet Kay, bands like Aswad and Steel Pulse and reggae admirers such as Boy George and Paul Weller.

The programme celebrates the impact of reggae, the changes it brought about and its lasting musical legacy.

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Pete

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I've become obsessed with reggae over the last year. Shocked no one has mentioned the legend that is Burning Spear. Marcus Garvey is one of my favourite albums. Very much roots reggae rather than dub but just beautiful.

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Yeah Burning Spear is a good shout, also in the same vein I'm not sure Third World have been mentioned.

I love the first track from 96 in the Shade.

For myself, I've recently been spending a lot of time in the company of one Joe Higgs

and I linked to it earlier in this thread, but I can't stress enough how much this album will change your life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJLXTnG0fQ

and just so it doesn't seem like I'm trying to derail a laudable dub-fest, I offer this slice of the thickest heaviest dub I know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrx4JQahBIY

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I've been listening to this far too much recently. I never realised that Aswad were actually a proper band, I'd assumed they were reggae-lite after only ever hearing 'Don't turn around' or whatever it's called.

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Yes, a lot of love for Aswad. A great band. There were so many brilliant reggae bands around that time (the late 70s early 80s I mean), it really was the golden age of reggae.

Examples, you say? Well take Black Uhuru for instance...

This whole album is superb, but featuring as it does, a ryhthm section composed of the legendary Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare how could it not be?

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David Kenny

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Well the obvious one is Bob Marley but I assume you're familiar with his stuff (although every single Bob Marley album is superb, so if you only know Legend you should be picking up Natty Dread, Kaya, and Burning as quick as you can... and then all the others when time and funds allow).

The other album I think is similar to Joe Higgs stuff is Bunny Wailer's Blackheart Man. The whole album is fantastic, but here's the title track.

Is that the sort of thing you're after?

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Glad to hear it. Well in the same vein, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'm going to recommend Ijahman Levi's "Haile I Hymn" (again). It's by far my favorite roots reggae album, and I've heard a few, by golly.

I see the link I posted earlier has died, so here's another track from it.

I've been listening to this album for 25 years and I still love every second of it.

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David Kenny

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Arise, Zombie thread!

 

All reggae lovers should have a listen to Ken Boothe's cover of Syl Johnson's Is It Because I'm Black.

 

 

Amazing.

 

Also available on Youtube an incredible version of the same tune performed live by Nicky Thomas. So er.. check it... if you like.

 

 

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