Friday, April 1, 2011

Dub Explosion: Playlist for March 25, 2011.
























Thanks to P. A. to Da Reggae for this excellent slab of British reggae.




















Fat Freddys Drop: The Raft -- Live at Roundhouse London (The Drop 2010)
African Head Charge: Hold Some More -- Songs Of Praise (On-U Sound 1990)

The Black Seeds: Slingshot -- Solid Ground (Easy Star 2009)
The Black Seeds: Slingshot (Truth Remix) -- Specials: Remixes & Versions From Solid Ground (Ind. 2010)
Strange Parcels: Outsider -- Disconnection (On-U Sound 1994)
Strange Parcels: Outsiders (remix) -- Pay It All Back Vol. 5 (On-U Sound 1995)

Dubkasm: Stricktly Ital (feat. Ras Addis) -- Transform I (Sufferah's Choice 2009)
Dubkasm: Beto's Yard -- Transformed In Dub (Sufferah's Choice 2010)
Martha & the Muffins: Echo Beach (The Gateway to Samadhi remix) -- Echo Beach 30th Anniversary Remixes (Echo Beach 2010)
Sugar Minott with Twilight Circus Sound System: Take It Slow -- Binghi Riddim (M Records 2008)

Ethnic Fight Band: Dub Explosion -- Music Explosion (Ethnic Fight 1977)
Hey-O-Hansen: Creep -- We So Horny: Serious Pleasure Riddims (Pingipung 2010)
The Aggrolites: Dreamin' on Erie -- Rugged Road (Stomp 2011)
Cocoa Tea: I Am The Marshall -- The Marshall LP (Jammy's 1991)
Henry & Lewis: Bobimore Dub -- Dope On Plastic 3 (React 1996)

Deadbeat: For Israel (Jaffa Revisited) -- Wild Life Documentaries (~scape 2002)
Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar: Od Srca (DJ Delay Cut) -- DJ Delay Presents: Brass, Wires, & Bass (Beaming Productions 2010)
Llwybr Llaethog: Cariad (Lover) -- Mewn Dyb (In Dub) (ROIR 1991)

Shirley & Lee: I'm Gone -- Original Jamaican Sound System Style: 21 R'n'B Scorchers (1952)
Derrick Morgan & Hortense Ellis: I Am Gone -- Trojan Club Reggae Box (Trojan 2000)


I was wrong to say on air that Shirley & Lee "invented ska" in the United States in 1952.

It's just that "I'm Gone" sounds soooo Jamaican. Let's say they invented Jamaican R & B.

New Orleans singing duo Shirley Goodman & Leonard Lee recorded "I'm Gone" with Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino's producer, and this tune turned out to be such a shining example of New Orleans R&B, it is now well-known as the immediate progenitor of Jamaican R&B.

Still sounds great!

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