recommend me some reggae

[Spion]

Volume 2 is also pretty good.

Got it this week. It's got the feel of a rare groove collection compared to Vol 1, which seemed to have quite a few more well known tunes on it.

Anyway, still getting into it, but am so far obsessed with Desmond Dekker's Fu Manchu

 

[killer b]

rhythm & sound are krauts... excellent they are, too. split up now.

you should also check out their techno stuff as basic channel...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Not as big a reggae expert as some on here but this is one of my old faves

 

[ska invita]

Not as big a reggae expert as some on here but this is one of my old faves

cant criticise it

 

[Meltingpot]

Long Shot Kick De Bucket - The Pioneers

 

[Sweet FA]

Some bloke called Dubversion did a great mix called 'The 21 Commandments of Roots' but I can't find the link for it.

Which is helpful.

 

[savoloysam]

Dillinger.

 

[ringo]

Anyway, still getting into it, but am so far obsessed with Desmond Dekker's Fu Manchu

Good choice, what a tune. One of the differences in volume 2 is that Dave put a load of tunes he'd been searching for without luck for many years, so more 'hard to find' great tunes than a carefully thought out compilation.

Fu Manchu used to sell for over £200 so few had it until this came out. After the interest Beverley's reissued it on single so it can be found for £3; good news for us lot.

 

[foo]

rhythm & sound are krauts... excellent they are, too. split up now.

you should also check out their techno stuff as basic channel...

they've split up?

that's a shame.

sorry don't understand the bit about basic channel...

 

[killer b]

basic channel are rhythm & sound, making techno.

 

[sim667]

Im going to see the heptones tonight

 

[ska invita]

Anyway, still getting into it, but am so far obsessed with Desmond Dekker's Fu Manchu

wow never heard that b4 - beautiful.

going to have to loook for this comp - thanks all

...such a shame that harmony groups/singing have pretty much died out in Jamaican music - people dont really go for the whole falsetto thing much anymore either - doubley sad.

I read a Lee Perry biog a while back and I seem to remember the story going that Cedric Myton of the Congos couldnt get a deal cos of his unusual falsetto voice, till Scratch picked him up on it - something about falsetto in reggae just does it for me:


...might start a thread to pool all the great falsetto singers of all time...late for work now!

 

[May Kasahara]

...such a shame that harmony groups/singing have pretty much died out in Jamaican music - people dont really go for the whole falsetto thing much anymore either - doubley sad.

Really? Some of the most beautiful harmony singing I've ever heard has been in 70s reggae. I seem to remember the Abyssinians and the Gladiators being particularly good at it.

 

[tarannau]

To be fair pretty much all the vocal groups above seem to be still going on the revival circuit

Whether you still think the Congos sound half as tight is another matter. But I think they're playing the Hob/Hootenanny again in a month or two.