MLK

What is most striking to me about Dr. King is how he gave of himself. He was a giver.

Max Romeo did this one on his Reconstruction LP for Mango, quite a statement during the height of Burning Spear's celebration of Marcus Garvey's legacy.
I have extended the tune with a piece of itself to create a five and a half minute version that is great for radio or the conscious part of a dance this weekend.

BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.mediafire.com/?yy5qmyyqjy0

JUNIOR DEMUS MEGA SHOWCASE

The gravel voice deejay aka Conrad McNish has a humor and grittiness that draws the listener in- Here he appears in showcase style over 9 very decent riddims.
Junior Demus is a legend in Jamaica and a fixture in NY dancehall: once when I was at Don One's in Brooklyn, Demus and his entourage walked in with a case of bottled roots tonic ready to put about ten tune on acetate. Jr Demus was warm and joked that stress can kill you and you "can't hold it in or it will give you cancer- Let it out!"
BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.mediafire.com/?tzmze2nezcz

COLD CONCRETE

This one goes out to all Haitians with love and hope-The situation in Haiti is terrible and it does not make sense that such a beautiful place and people should feel so much pain for so very long.

Help or contribute any way you can-

BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.mediafire.com/?bixlz3tm03d

Yabby You- gone but not forgotten

Trinity rides a flyers cut of "Sweat For You Baby" for Yabby You's Prophet imprint.
Got to be the Soul Syndicate!



Much has been made of Yabby You, a dread who was surrounded by rasta and constantly preaching about Christ. I once asked Bassie from the Gladiators if Yabby You was a rasta man or what- Bassie said "He is a Christian who love Jesus Christ!!"

Looks like Prince Tony put this one out for Yabby, retitled with different art.
The booming baritone vocal of Alric Forbes is strikingly heavy on A and B sides mixed by Scratch at Black Ark. It is also known as "Run Come Rally" and seems to be based on the ancient anthem "Sinking Sands", cut by many many artistes over the years under variations of both titles.

Big respect to Yabby You (1946-2010) and the Vivian Jackson Family.

BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.divshare.com/download/10212351-4ed

handsworth riddim

Three pieces of Handsworth Revolution- anyone have any others, or the dub cut to Pulse's original? Hello out there......................................

BOOMING BASSLINES
http://www.mediafire.com/?jmdknwifwom

shake itup tonite

Big Youth and Luciano each touch the same riddim for Freddie; Big Youth aka Manley Buchanan gives a sermon about The Lord's perfect work while Luciano fits Cheryl Lynn's verses perfectly over it- any one have the dub version or other cuts? Please send a link-

BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.mediafire.com/?t3ai1xt3ymy

el africano

http://www.mediafire.com/?2wjdd1tjgqn
First cumbia post on this blog- this music is so heavy it will reach anyone who loves heavy grooves and powerful singing-

These cassettes were obtained at the end of an era: Woolworths on Santa Fe's plaza was fazing out their Spanish cassettes years ago, and BOOMING BASSLINES was there to swoop on anything that said cumbia, mambo or rancheros-

Sound quality is quite listenable: check the scorching Latina who voiced "El Africano" and others, and check that squishy keyboard on "El Guiro", kinda like Calypso (soca) and Cadence (zouk) among other styles from the multitude of Caribbean islands.

Pretty sure these are Mexican tapes of Colombian and Mexican artistes.

MERRY XMAS- BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.mediafire.com/?otyq2x0nm1g

hardest dubplate ever cut

This Major Mackerel dubplate for EXODUS goes out to all you
can't-mix DJs, all you fake hippies and all you
bitch-attitude record collector geeks- MERRY CHRISTMAS-
http://www.mediafire.com/?jm4dt4ibitz

babylon war

Smooth vocal from the Admiral over a digital lick of "Full Up"-
The B side was a minute long scrap of the dub version that faded in! (a big NO NO),
but here it is edited into a playable VERSION-

BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.mediafire.com/?t42mmmomjmm

blood in the street

Leroy going for himself in Toronto-
BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.badongo.com/file/18770795

street of gold

Eighties style Heptones led by Barry, doing over the Gladiators' "streets of gold/ dreadlocks the time is now/roots natty" in a dance hall fashion- Not sure if Albert wrote that one or not- Included is a BOOMING BASSLINES discomix edit for your dubbing pleasure-

BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.badongo.com/file/19805847

Heptones - Harry Js Showcase A1

Imagine how the Heptones feel: coming from humble beginnings and rising to great heights internationally, they have watched as virtually everything they recorded for Coxsone has become a world standard "riddim", versioned mercilessly by countless producers and voiced by thousands worldwide. As you read this, someone is in the studio building a new version of a Heptones riddim and djs are playing any number of records based on their compositions.

Ranging from classic versions that are remarkable, to god-awful dance hall one-shots soon forgotten, Earl Morgan, Leroy Sibbles and Barry Llewellyn have recieved zero royalties from any of it.

The music presented here is from their sessions for Harry Js, grouped together by riddim and cleaned up a little. What a creative time in the music!
This music is bad and beautiful-

BOOMING BASSLINES

http://www.badongo.com/file/19805864