http://www.badongo.com/file/14707664
Thursday, April 30, 2009
BTO VS. STARSHIP
My Canadian cousin, Ian Butters, sent me this as a fun joke and says he is working on a whole series of “versus” collections that pit two classic seventies acts against each other in a sudden death confrontation.
A ground rule of the battle is that one group is American while the other is Canadian. Each group is allowed seven songs to prove how hard they actually rock, but another ground rule dictates they must also have intricate, well-crafted “mellow” ballads suited to having sex.
The mind reels with combinations- which Yanks should be paired with April Wine or Chilliwack?
BTO-BLUE COLLAR
BTO-HEY YOU
BTO-LET IT RIDE
BTO-LOOKIN’ OUT FOR #1
BTO-QUICK CHANGE ARTIST
BTO-TAKE IT LIKE A MAN
BTO-YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET
JEFFERSON STARSHIP-CAROLINE
JEFFERSON STARSHIP-COUNT ON ME
JEFFERSON STARSHIP-LIGHT THE SKY ON FIRE
JEFFERSON STARSHIP-LOVE TOO GOOD
JEFFERSON STARSHIP-MIRACLES
JEFFERSON STARSHIP-RUNAWAY
JEFFERSON STARSHIP-WITH YOUR LOVE
BOOMING BASSLINES
http://www.badongo.com/file/14731675
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Jamaican follytricks
Neville Martin was never a huge name in the Jamaican record business, but one tune in particular is historically important for it lyrics. “The Message” came out on forty five in 1976, and was a hot part of the infamously violent Jamaican elections. Producer Clancy Eccles was a strong supporter of Socialist candidate Michael Manley, a champion for the poor man who was in touch with Jamaicans in a way that made him seem accessible and sympathetic.
Manley commissioned a campaign tune that would get his message across, presumably the lyric is Manley’s. Heavy manners are promised, the PNP’s social programs including the JAMAL literacy program, Land Lease and free education. The recording has patented Channel One production, with a clean, hard drum sound and outstanding mix. It has a “country sound” like Jamaican calypsos done at the same studio by Stanley & the Turbines and others, a rockers beat with long, draggy guitar skanks, stepping bassline, cool Hammond and piano. A dub of the original tune appears on the single’s flipside.
A spinoff entitled “Tidal Wave” provides two more sides derived from the rhythm track: the a-side launches with a great spoken intro and delivers a solid version with percussion and a haunting ape-like cuica effect, and the version side is a nice horns cut of the rhythm.
One can imagine that these and other versions of the rhythm, especially on dubplate, must have ruled many a 1976 Jamaican dance.
The song was featured in a BBC movie in a mix of popular records blended live at Randy’s downtown in Kingston (predecessor of New York’s VP empire, run by the Chin families of Jamaica).
It is said that at the time, Neville “STRUGGLE” Martin hid in the country or on a neighbouring island to wait out the very intense election time. People associated him with the song and with Manley’s PNP party, and Martin was hated by certain factions.
Eccles did another tune entitled “Power For The People”, and Michael Manley himself appears on the B side. Musicians present at the session recall that Manley’s timing was perfect, he came in on cue like a deejay.
BOOMING BASSLINES
http://www.badongo.com/file/14605399
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Revolutionaries - Ballistic Dub
These sides were cherry picked from the versions of seventies wax-
Celebrated backing band The Revolutionaries is featured, the heavy mixes are supplied by engineers like Ernest Hoo Kim, Bunny Tom Tom, Maxie, Solgie and Errol T.:
The sound is centered around Sly Dunbar’s drumming: his precision timing with a heavy swing, his creative drum sounds and arrangements, and his hip ear for trends and beats make him unique in the world-
BOOMING BASSLINES
THE REVOLUTIONARIES-
ballistic dub
01 how you mean dub
02 tale of two dubs
03 pearl dubwise
04 dub in Jamaica
05 uncle joe dub
06 leftist
07 P.L.A.
08 top rank
09 angola
10 caymanas park
11 joy dub
12 ballistic dub
13 kissinger
14 counter attack
15 cut you dub
16 earthquake
17 why war
18 hurt you dub
19 still in dub
20 answer
21 born to dub you
22 sister pat
23 M.P.L.A.
http://www.badongo.com/file/14575981
Monday, April 20, 2009
V.A. - DUB OF THE TIMES
V.A. DUB OF THE TIMES
001 the shade - merry me version SERPENT 45 1975
002 we the people band - version two PARKS 45
003 frog version TIPPA 45
004 superstar girl version ALL ROOTS 45
005 lone ranger - version HIT 12 1981
006 barrington levy - mine version JOE GIBBS 45 1981
007 drum song version HARRY J 45 1984
008 ernest hoo kim - version CHANNEL ONE 12
009 bb seaton - life version HIGHNOTE 45 re
010 living truth - it is written IMPACT 45 1978
011 freedom justice version GEN GAP 45
012 tw allstars - freedom version QUESTION 45
013 big youth - fulfillment NICHOLA DELITA LP
014 roots radics - kouchie version
015 thoroughbred - weapon style PRESIDENT GENERAL 45 1983
016 eek a mouse - beng da deng version
017 aggrovators - tradition version HOT STUFF 45
018 aggrovators - Jah Jah Dub
019 m16 version LIBRA 45 1981
020 sly dunbar - cocaine cocaine TAXI LP
021 scientist - part two VISTA LP
022 version HI TEC 45 1983
023 king tubbys - no. 27 BLACK&WHITE 45
024 carlton patterson - weed man rock BLACK&WHITE 45
http://www.badongo.com/file/14587526
Jamaica salutes Obama
As you read this, several artists are busy voicing a new dancehall tune this very second in most of Jamaica’s studios. Every week since the late fifties, a new batch of singles hits the streets, pumping from soundsystems island-wide and worldwide-
Quite often the lyrics are topical and up-to-date, quite often political- Politics are literally deadly in Jamaica- As the US election built momentum, Obama cuts were voiced all over the Caribbean, Florida and East Coast-
Most of the world breathed a sigh of relief as Barack stepped in earlier this year, the vibe is celebratory- These are my picks, and feature extended mixes I assembled in the lab-
BOOMING BASSLINES
http://www.zshare.net/download/588956434ed8d5bd/
dennis alcapone - dread capone LP
Dry and heavy deejay LP from Dennis-
Enjoy the bonus extended cut-
BOOMING BASSLINES
http://www.mediafire.com/?2z1dnmzvmm1
Sunday, April 19, 2009
mg's - burnt biscuits
albert's rap
ain't it
aw mercy
baby scratch my back
big train
booker loo
booker loo LIVE IN PARIS
boot leg LIVE 1967
burnt biscuits
down at ralph's joint
fannie mae
gimme some loving LIVE IN PARIS
green onions LIVE IN EUROPE
green onions LIVE 1967
green onions LIVE IN PARIS
hi heel sneakers
hip hug her LIVE IN PARIS
james brown medley LIVE
mg party
on a saturday night
outrage LIVE IN PARIS
red beans and rice LIVE IN PARIS
soul sanction
the bo vitch
tic tac toe ALTERNATE
tic tac toe LIVE IN PARIS
wade in the water
wang dang doodle
working in the coal mine
you don't love me
http://www.mediafire.com/?fddygk0klmd
BOOMING BASSLINES
Saturday, April 18, 2009
mg's - ODD 33
be my lady
behave yourself
blue on green
bookers notion
carnaby st
chinese checkers
comin' home baby
doin' our thing
funky folks cha cha
good groove
harlem shuffle
i was made to love her
jazzy
jericho
lawn party
mo' onions
my sweet potato
night owl walk
no matter what shape
outrage
pigmy
slum baby
soul clap '69
soul dressing
soul jam
spoonful
summertime
sunday sermon
sunny
taboo
the exodus song
weird stomp
we've got johnny wells
BOOMING BASSLINES
http://www.mediafire.com/?wgqm12gqlzf
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