COMPILATIONS WITH bob marley

Reggae Disco ‘75-’79

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

part two of the styleguides reggae excursions, this time on a disco tip:

this time’s bonus track not available on amazon is a disco reggae version of michael jackson’s ‘don’t stop till you get enough’ by derrick laro and trinity 1980:

Reggae Soul ‘73-’77

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

reggae may be easy to reduce to a silly cliché, but it’s influence to hip hop, funk and soul music can’t be underestimated. no matter how lofi some of these 4-track tape recordings may be, reggae music brought some fantastic song writing and alot of creativity and inventiveness to the music world. reggae disco, dancehall and dub compilations will follow up on styleguides sometime later.

the bonus track is yet again a small music treasure not available on amazon and in need of a proper reissue, susan cadogan’s ‘nice and easy’ (trojan records 1975):

ARTISTS

ARCHIVE