Saturday Music Selection - Reggae and Dub

[davesmusictank]

Done one report and will do the other tomorrow. For now i shall have a bit of music mash up. All dub stuff as I an I will say , Jah Rastafari..Dem natty sounds and smoke the ganja.

Steel Pulse- Revolution Dub

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[thespian15]

Oh Ya Man. :p
Hugs, Jon

scratch records

[pigshitpoet]

reggae lends itself well to dub, maybe it's even the original dub.. what is your take? lee perry is a mad professor..

lee scratch perry, there is no other!

; )

and augustus pablo, he da boss!

one of my favourite reggae man is dennis brown

and after dat der so many.. barry levington, gregory isaacs, sugar minott, others..

RE: scratch records

[davesmusictank]

I certainly do think that Jamaica for ska and reggae is also the progenitor of dub. Seemed so natural for producers to play around with the sound in the studios such as Channel One.

RE: scratch records

[pigshitpoet]

i thank jamaica for ska and reggae, there was certainly a huge african influence for afro jazz funk (dance) beat out of africa, but i think that may have followed the western influences. which do you think was the precursor? maybe it all just happened together in one huge galaxies shift from our cosmic consciousness on feeling the great vibe..)))))

wiki thinks jamaican ska began in the 50s when it hit london, one might say it was post-apo-calypso! rocksteady would have been the first big trance dance beat..

i do like this mention: [ as far as Jamaican record buyers were concerned, the origin of the word reggae was the 1968 Pyramid single by Toots and the Maytals "Do the Reggaay". Other possibilities as to the origin of the word include Regga, the name of a Bantu speaking tribe on Lake Tanganyika and a corruption of "streggae," which is Kingston street slang for prostitute. According to Bob Marley, the word is Spanish in origin, meaning "the king’s music" but according to veteran session musicians the word is a description of the

RE: scratch records

[davesmusictank]

Afro beat and ska probably did start around same time i guess, Need a comparative study though,

[a_phoenixdragon]

*HUGS*