COMPILATIONS WITH king tubby

Reggae Dub ‘79-’83

Friday, July 17th, 2009

part three of the styleguides reggae excursion to kingston, this time seriously deep in dub with subsonic basslines, infinite echo clouds and intense grooves in slow motion:

bonus video is king jammy on the controls explaining dub:

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):

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