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50’s Jamaican mento at its best, reissue of a double 10 inch album into one solid discHappy and delightful Jamaican mento played by local jazz musicians, recorded in the golden age of 78rpm SP... -
Originally released on Trojan Records in early-1969, Dancing Down Orange Street is today widely regarded as one of the finest and most sought after albums from the classic ‘boss reggae' era The LP showcases a dozen of the most popular late rock steady and early reggae productions of leading Jamaican producer, Sonia Pottinger and...
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Refined rock steady from the creator of the genre Guitarist and arranger, Lynn Taitt, interprets some of the greatest hits of the era including variations of many of the melodies he originated for a number of Jamaica’s foremost artists and...
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Dub Store Records is the Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and Dancehall reissue label run by the eponymous Tokyo based record store The label aims at accurately covering the 50-plus years of Jamaican music, and pass on many rare and magnificent recordings, which are non-commercial and highly artistic Carefully handing down the tradition of...
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At the same time that Neville 'Bunny Wailer' Livingston recorded his debut solo long playing masterpiece, 'Blackheart Man', he was also creating a series of singles for his own Solomonic label These records were every bit as good, at times even better, but they have never been released outside of Jamaica Until now… It is next...
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Superlative 70’s dub masterpiece from the Blackheart Man Bunny Wailer Subtle interpretations of cuts from Bunny’s ‘Blackheart Man’ album together with contemporaneous Solomonic disco mixes with unsung dub masters Sylvan Morris and Karl Pitterson at the control...
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Who knows the work of Sonia Pottinger, owner of High Note and the affiliated labels, Gay Feet and Sky Note If not, consider this, her masterfully deft and dreamy production for Errol Brown & The Revolutionaries, a damn fine introduction to Jamaica’s greatest female label owner and producer make sure to check for that...
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1976 rare dub album consists of robust Techniques rhythms dismantled and reconstructed by King Tubby to its perfection Long-expected reissue of one of the most sought after dub...
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Federal Records is generally considered to be responsible for birthing Rocksteady in the 1960’s, but Jamaica’s first recording studio also had a nice little side-thing going for jazz records at the same time New Dub Store compilation Jamaica Jazz from Federal Records: Carib Roots, Jazz, Mento, Latin, Merengue & Rhumba...
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Without Count Ossie, it could be argued, there would be no ska, no reggae, no dancehall, no Jamaican popular music as we currently know it A Rastafarian drummer born Oswald Williams in 1926, Count Ossie began performing Nyabinghi music in the 1950s This rhythm and chant heavy religious meditation derived from the drumming...
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Murder in the dancehall tonight! Jammy’s leading artists boost up the sound system The heart and soul of dancehall - singing about the sound over crucial rhythms, challenging a sound boy to come test...
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BMN Ska & Rock Steady Always Together...
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Killer, massive collection of Redman’s ’80s + ‘90s digidub productions, sourced from rare 7”s This one’s a lot! Check for Tony Tuff’s ‘Careless People’, Admiral Tibet on the ruddy ride of ‘New Tactics’, and particularly the handful of dub versions! “Two years after the release of Sleng Teng, a young vigorous...
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One of the most talented musicians of his generation, trombonist Rico, was a key player and founding father of Jamaican music who went on to establish ska in Britain in the early sixties and then add authenticity to the Two Tone ska revival of the late seventies Hear him here at the outset of his incredible musical...
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Traditional 1970s ragamuffin roots played in pure 1980s digital style Message music with a dancehall vibe, King Jammy mixes it up with conscious tunes from superstars like Dennis Brown, Cornell Campbell, Wailing Soul & Horace...
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Far And...
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Missing masterpieces of the original Jamaican Ska Recorded at the Federal Studio between 1964 to 1965 and released on Ken Khouri's Kentone label, this is another essential reissue from the Dub Store Records camp, not to be missed! Featuring The Maytals, The Techniques, Dobby Dobson, Eddie Perkins, Sneer-Towners, Stranger &...
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A Night In Jamaica With Cecil...
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Class selection of early Ska aces taken from the seminal Kentone Records - a subsidiary of Federal Records Surveying Jamaican music at the point it transcended Jazz, rock, soul and calypso influences to create the foundations for what would become reggae music The bookending acoustic pieces by The Sharks and Federal Singers are...
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Fantastic sounds from the rocksteady years in Jamaica – tracks that are a fair bit more rare and obscure than some of the bigger singles that circulated at the time – even though they feature a fair bit of the same artists and musicians! The work here all came from the studios of Federal Records – one of the first indies in...
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Smooth, sophisticated sounds from the highly respected Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin Originally released in 1965 and reissued for the first time by Dub Store...
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At the same time that Neville 'Bunny Wailer' Livingston recorded his debut solo long playing masterpiece, 'Blackheart Man', he was also creating a series of singles for his own Solomonic label These records were every bit as good, at times even better, but they have never been released outside of Jamaica Until now… It is next...
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Ken Khouri's Federal Records gave Jamaica its musical identity The Federal Record Manufacturing facility was the first pressing plant in Jamaica their studio gave birth to mento, ska, rock steady and reggae of the highest calibre This album features an astonishing selection of well known classics and rarities transferred straight...
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