Message in
the music
Mad Professor rewrites the rules...
"Unless you re-orientate your
mind and think positive about your race, about your skin
colour your gonna occupy that negative stretch ..."
Not only
is he a modern day master of dub, Mad Professor conveys
a deeper message ... Cristina Dio talks to Neil Fraser at
his Ariwa Studios in South London... click on the image
King Jammy
meets Dry & Heavy - in the jaws of the tiger
(Valve Records)
king tubby meets lee
perry - megawatt dub (Shanachie)
Dennis
Brown - The Promised Land 1977-79 (Shock)
The late Dennis Brown’s The Promised Land 1977-79
(Shock) is a reissue of the singer’s Joseph’s Coat
Of Many Colours with several bonus tracks added that were
originally on 45s. Dennis was Jamaica’s consistently
most popular singer.
Prince
Alla - I Can Hear the Children Singing
From the same era comes the 2002 Blood
& Fire reissue of two of Tappa
Zukie’s best productions, Prince
Alla’sHeaven Is My Roof
and Jr Ross & The Spears’Babylon Fall, released as a double
CD entitled I Can Hear The Children Singing.
king tubby - bring
the dub Come (Heartbeat) From the vaults of the Observer label
come top-rank- dubs, mixed by the legendary King Tubby. Dub
mixes of reggae hits by Dennis Brown, Big Youth, Michael Rose
and others bring you over 60 minutes of scorching reggae,
most tracks previously unreleased.
Dub
Selector 2 - Various (Quango)
Here's an interesting concept. As Jamaican dub is the root
of today's electronica why not turn the tables and make an
electronica dub album? So that's what they did on Dub Selector
2...click
on the CD for a full review
jackie
mittoo – Jackie Mittoo (Soul Jazz Records) This instrumental set includes the
entire “Showcase” album with 7 bonus tracks
added. Full of Jackie’s rich, groovy, fat organ sound,
throbbing bass from Robbie, those distinctive rocker’s
era polyrhythms from Sly, a slew of some of the best accompanists
in the business (including Chinna Smith’s guitar and
Skully Sims’ percussion) and judiciously placed, stimulating
dub throughout the superb, varied tunes, this has got to
be one of the truly great instrumental reggae albums of
all time.
dry & heavy - full
contact
Impact - Clive
Chin
In the late 60's Vincent's business interests had expanded
to include a new record label called Impact.
Initially devoted to his productions of the music of many
local artists who were destined to become names on the reggae
scene, Impact came to feature the productions of his son,
Clive Chin.
dry & heavy
- new creation After the incredible dub King Jammy
collaboration album earlier in 2002. These extraordinary Japanese
dubmasters return with the glorious New Creation. Nothing
short of sunnyside up. Features the track Strictly Baby.
