Since digital revolution, good music is not lacking, just in need of digital crate diggin.
Back in 2011 Amerigo Gazaway crafted this musical gem:
Check out full album and instrumentals.
Category: dUb
Sha la la Riddim Afrikan Samba Kings Highway Played by Alchemist Dub
Whole heap of dubs played by Alchemist Dub straigh pon YT with various artists and singers. And collection growing monthly and daily so be sure to check them out.
This one produced by mighty Dub Creator:
Shieldrum Records – BUILD A DUB TRACK FROM SCRATCH EP # 1
High Elements building riddim intrumental from zero to top layering skanks, bass and drums for all yo all.
Mighty Mystik – Cali Green – Jamie Bostron Remix
Out on Totally Dubwise Recs here come Jamie Bostron drumnbass refix of Mighty Mystik – Cali Green.
On selecting Madonna in a dance
It was not unusual for the selector to play Latin, Hip Hop, Disco, Rock & Roll, other music, including songs like Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’, and ‘Ain’t Nothing Going on but the Rent’ as examples. Of course these constitute hit songs in their particular genres and their popularity catapulted them into the Jamaican dance scene where they are baptized in Dancehall aesthetic and practice (‘dance- hallified’), especially through dance styles such as the ‘bubble’ along with other directions from the selector. These directions continued in the typical Dancehall style until dawn when the event ended.
From: The dance, found in:
Making space: Kingston’s Dancehall culture and its philosophy of ‘boundarylessness’.
Author: Sonjah Stanley Niaah. 2004. African Identities.
Image source: PASSA PASSA KINGSTON JAMAICA
Stalawa ft Nazizi – Ukiangalia
Scotch Bonnet Records spice up tings with something completely different from Stalawa’s kitchen. A nice soul food meal well steamed for over 3 years. Take heed and listen!
Jah Sonic Muziek – The Curve EP
Jah Sonic coming with EP featuring 2 vocal cuts, a sax and a dub cut.
Straight outa Amsterdam, mastered by mighty Dub Creator.
Egoless – Live at Outlook 2018
Straight from the Outlook mix series here comes Deep Medi on the beach with mighty Egoless live set. Presumably sound system is royal Dub Smugglers posse and crew. You can hear massive and patrons wild out and wail giving it a warmer than warm and realer than real type of feel to recording.
It was a infamous moment when special Croatian Egoless dubbed out with one of his native mammoth live performances and stepped up the beach with his filling of creations, echoes, reverb and delays. 🙂
On industry, slackness and spirituality
Another influence was the growing backlash against “slackness” and “violence” music in certain circles. Hence the “banning” of Lady Saw from performing in Montego Bay proclaimed by that city’s Mayor after her notorious success at one of the music festivals there; or the decision by various members of the Jamaican Federation of Musicians to refuse to provide musical backing for singers of slackness or violence, or a renewed policy of filtering of much of this music by certain of the radio stations and a corresponding promotion of “spiritual” music.
The conditions in the “industry” were therefore conducive to a renewal. It is obvious that the swing benefitted enormously from the emergence of heavily “spiritual” singers of the quality of Garnet Silk in the early nineties, or Luciano slightly after, but the dance hall also experienced a duality in some and an outright “conversion” in others of its major figures. Lady Saw, for example, the top female D.J. who continues to be the undisputed queen of sex lyrics, can sing a highly successful song of praise and thanks to God (“Glory be to God”) for her material advancement resulting from those same “slackness” songs. In the midst of his 1991 album of sex lyrics, “Gold”, Capleton sings a song “Bible fi dem,” proclaiming his religious righteousness. It is neither that these singers are being inconsistent nor that they are being opportunist. Indeed, their reconciliation of sex with spirituality is consistent with a value system that does not dichotomize carnality and spirituality.
Naturally, such a mix does not meet with approval from orthodox Rastafari. In discussing “the anointing” of dancehall, Yasus Afari argues that: “You cannot accept just any song into the dance because the dance is to praise Jah.”
Even Capleton becomes intolerant of sexual lyrics in his more recent phase. And yet, Bob Marley had no difficulty in singing songs of sexual expression, if not slackness, recognizing the validity of this human dimension, just as front-line “conscious” singers like Buju Banton today defend the mix of carnality and spirituality.
Found in: Babylon to Vatican: Religion in the Dance Hall
Author: Joseph Pereira
Source: Journal of West Indian Literature, Vol. 8, No. 1 (OCTOBER 1998)
Image source: Lady Saw Net Worth
malakai beats – The Art of Koi Keeping
If you getting into the art of Koi keeping, Japan pop beats and Wu Tang flips, check out malakai beats:
OUT OF MANY COME DUB AND OUT OF DUB COME ONE 