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Wieder lieferbar ist ein Klassiker des Dub-Reggae, von Kevin Metcalfe re-mastered und auf dem VP Records Sublabel 17 North Parade wiederveröffentlicht. Im Original erschien der Longplayer erstmalig 1977 auf Joe Gibbs' Record Globe Label und wurde mit seiner Studioband The Professionals eingespielt. Laut Originalcover waren das George "Fully" Fulwood, Carlton "Santa" Davis, Tony Chin, Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall, Tommy McCook, Bobby Ellis und Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace. Am Mischpult saß Errol Thompson. Hier finden sich 12 exzellente Dubversionen von Riddims aus der Treasure Isle und Studio One Rocksteady-Ära, und zu "Hypocrites" von Bob Marley & The Wailers sowie zu"Uptown Top Ranking" von Althea & Donna!

Brandneues Remix-Album der französischen Modern Roots-Band in Kooperation mit den Bass-Music-Experten ONDUBGROUND als CD und LP auf dem Bandlabel BACO. Rund ein Jahr nach Release ihres aktuellen fünften Studioalbums haben sich DANAKIL für die Dub-Versions mehr vorgenommen als bisher. Mit den Landsleuten ONDUBGROUND wurden die 13 Songs von ´La Rue Raisonne´ durch ungewöhnlich futuristische Echokammern gejagt, neben dem ganz klassischem Dub-Feeling sind die Einflüsse aus modernen Dancefloor- und Soundsystem-Styles wie Trap oder Dubstep unverkennbar. ONDUBGROUND luden zudem eine ganze Schar an zusätzlichen Feature-Sängern und MC´s ein, so dass neben den auf dem Originalalbum vertretenen Gästen wie PATRICE, NATTY JEAN, BALIK, FLAVIA COELHO, YANISS ODUA, ANTHONY B, VOLODIA, JOSH (THE SKINTS), NATTALI RIZE und BRAHIM auch noch JOSEPH COTTON, ADAM PARIS und GREEN CROSS (BRIGANTE LABEL) sowie MC JAMALSKI, SIR WILSON und CHILL BUMPs MISCELLANEOUS als Featuregäste zu hören sind. DANAKILs reifer und eklektizistischer French Reggae wird mit diesen Remixen auf ein ungewohnt modernes Level gebracht, das konservative Roots-Fans vielleicht irritieren mag, jedoch als radikale Weiterentwicklung der Band-basierten Songs eine sehr gute Figur abgibt.

Emotional Rescue freut sich, zum ersten Mal den legendären Ernest Ranglin zusammen mit Noel Williams alias King Sporty auf diesem Treffen der Reggae-Gitarren-Legende und des Miami-Disco-Boogie-Dons aus dem Jahr 1983 wiederzuveröffentlichen, das zu dieser heiß begehrten 6-Track-Mini-LP führte.
Ranglin ist ein prägender Gitarrist und Komponist in der Entwicklung der jamaikanischen Musik und muss kaum vorgestellt werden. In seiner über 50-jährigen Karriere war er an der Entwicklung von Mento und Calypso zu Ska und Reggae beteiligt. Er wirkte an der bahnbrechenden Aufnahme von My Boy Lollipop mit, bevor er mit Musikern wie den Skatalies, Prince Buster, Jimmy Cliff und Bob Marley zusammenarbeitete. Ranglin, der 1932 in Manchester im Westen Jamaikas geboren wurde, bevor er nach Kingston zog, war ein Autodidakt, der Jazz, Mento und Reggae mit perkussiven Gitarrensoli mischte. Als er 1982 nach Florida zog, tat er sich mit dem Szene-König Williams zusammen, um "einen neuen Stil" zu präsentieren, der den basslastigen Boogie-Disco, für den der Produzent berühmt war, mit Ranglins einzigartigem Spiel mischte. Mit einem Who's Who der Szene von Miami, darunter Bobby Caldwell, Timmy Thomas, Betty Wright und Williams selbst, beginnt die neu arrangierte Reihenfolge mit Soft Touch. Eine Neuaufnahme von Thomas' TK Disco- und Cosmic)-Klassiker Africano, bevor ein tanzbares Remake des Williams-Standards Keep On Dancing und der Titelbomber Be What You Want Be das Spiel von Reggae und Vocal Disco krönen. Ebenfalls enthalten ist eine schöne Version des R&B-Klassikers In The Rain von Anthony Hester, während die Platte mit Papa Doo" und dem Jammer Why Not" schließt.

Herman Chin Loy wants the world to know the truth about his musical vision, realized in a series of fantastic records released throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s. And how his mission was interrupted in the early 1990s.

“I would like to start off by saying: what about the half that has never been told, who so bold, for the price of gold. The first part is like a Jamaican proverb, but who so bold, for the price of gold, is the part that I put in, because it is all about gold. My mission on this earth is all about the music. But if you want to know the truth, follow the money!”

Herman’s musical trip had a wonderfully sunny start, before ending in acrimony and intrigue. Follow the money indeed… He started by selling records for Leslie Kong, then opened his own One Stop record shop, before moving on to KG’s electrical appliance store in Halfway Tree and deejaying at their discoteque, the Lotus A Go Go.

“It was the age of Aquarius! Whatever was in the air, or what got my attention at the time would find its way into the music, cos I was very creative.”

So Herman turned his keen ears towards record production. The Aquarius and Scorpio labels had a fine run of hit tunes, known for their unusual arrangements and imaginative productions. Many cuts featured Herman himself talking over them. Others were moody instrumentals, for which Herman invented the name Augustus Pablo.

“The name came out of my head. Augustus Pablo – it sounded real not normal! Horace Swaby is the one that I really put the name with, but before that it was Lloyd Charmers, he did some songs for me under that name. Well Horace Swaby came back to me and said can I use the name on my own productions, and I said sure, go ahead. Cos I was not interested in money per se, I was interested in helping others along.”

Kingston in the early 70s was on fire with new music, and Herman put on the afterburners to release Aquarius Dub, probably the world’s first dub LP.

“People always used to come to the store and they want to buy the dub music, but they couldn’t get it easily, so I said let me put all these things together as an LP, and let’s put no label on it so it looks like a dub [plate], and let’s sell it as a dub album. And I was the first one to do that, for sure. I remember when I took the record down to sell it to Randy’s, well they just scoff at it to some degree. Well if people didn’t want to sell my music, then I would just say ‘fuck off with you’, I’ll just sell my music myself, from my own shop and nowhere else.”

Herman then opened the Aquarius Records shop on Constant Spring Road, with a busy bus stop right outside providing a captive audience. Big speakers were placed out in the street, and Herman acted as a vibes man and entertainer, running in and out of the shop and dragging customers inside. As the crowds grew bigger, Aquarius became extremely influential, and the energetic Herman could make or break the latest tunes.

“Well once we get going now, the Aquarius record shop sells more records than anyone in Jamaica. And the people get to know me and come to hang out to see what we play. And soon all musicians start gathering there, like Tommy McCook and the Wailers and everyone, cos Aquarius was the place to be.”

In one infamous incident, Peter Tosh was hanging around outside the shop, when plain-clothes police grabbed the spliff he was smoking and dragged him back to Halfway Tree police station, where he was brutally beaten. Herman and Tommy McCook were the ones who bailed him out.

“Peter Tosh was feisty and got in some trouble sometimes, but then we all did – heheheh. I had always hung around with the bad boys.”

Herman had by now brought his brother Lloyd into the business, and together they opened the Aquarius Studio, fitted out to an extremely high standard by Rosser Electronics, from Swansea in Wales. The studio is probably most remembered today for the recordings made there by Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. But it was also the seedbed for some interesting offshoots into jazz and soul, with Herman always pushing up against the boundaries of what was conventional. Interestingly, Herman retains a huge affection for Lee “Scratch” Perry, and the mystic experiments that came out of his Black Ark studio.

“Well Scratch was a mad guy, a crazy dude. When we were a youth, the two of us make some records with a bit of screaming and shouting on top. So I come with “here is the news, the great bugga wugga from arugga”, and some other foolishness, just like Scratch, who come with the Chicken Scratch. It was a youthman thing. Then later he came into the shop one day looking like Haile Selassie. And I say “bloodclaat Scratch, you can’t go around looking so”, and he take off him cap and looked inside and pull out some cigarette butt he found in there. And he had a girlfriend name Pauline, and when the two of them fall out, he threw everything out of the studio that had the letter P on it! He was one crazy dude.”

Herman was developing his own unique world view derived partly from a rejection of conventional politics, alongside a distinctive reading of the Bible.

“Musicism is because you have socialism, communism and capitalism, so I thought Musicism would be a good thing to forge people together, to stop them yelling at each other and murdering each other. I thought it would be a good place for everybody to come together. Then I started a little thing down by Trenchtown there, where I was getting people from Rema and from Jungle to get together, but it mashed up in a little while because in the heat of the moment the guns would bark, and for the sake of my life I opted out of that, you know. But Musicism was a thought, so I continued to have an album called Musicism, and you’re talking about people like Linval Thompson, Sugar Minott. I was saying to the people of Jamaica, let’s not vote JLP, let’s not vote PNP, let it be that Musicism is a place where it’s not politics, and where people can talk to each other, so Musicism was birthed out of that.. So we had all sorts of things going on with the Musicism label, and I would put an album with the vocal and then have another album with the dub, because I was into business, I was into making money, but what drives me into the music was the music itself, because I really love the music.”

This reissue is of two extremely rare LPs that came out on Musicism in 1983, a couple of years after dub had declined in popularity as an album form in Jamaica. They were released in the generic 12-inch sleeves of the American label TK Disco, which had recently ceased trading, picked up on Herman’s travels to Miami. The labels were either blank or stamped with the wrong song titles from a similarly obscure vocal compilation. A handful of copies were exported to London and the U.S., and the remainder were sold exclusively by the Aquarius shop.

“In the studio we used to work really fast in them days, especially with Karl Pitterson. Karl Pitterson was one of the most efficient engineers you would ever find, and him and me had a great understanding. So the studio ran real fast. Then there was this guy Steven Stanley who was just a little youngster when he start with me, but he went on to Compass Point and working with Chris Blackwell. He was a little uppity, a bit prideful, although he didn’t even recognise that, but still he was a really good engineer. So we had these people to work for me, and it didn’t take long to do what I did. So it’s strange that we did these things so fast, so many years ago, and they still have a public that wants to hear them today.”

Herman also had an eccentric label called Selection Exclusive which mainly released 12 inch singles with hand-stamped titles on the labels, or sometimes no title at all, wrapped in more of those generic TK Disco sleeves. If this wasn’t enough to throw off even the most serious collector, instead of the expected version on the B-side, there would often be a totally different tune from 10 years earlier, sometimes with Herman whispering smokey rhymes over the top.

“Selection Exclusive was birthed where I was selling this dub album exclusive, but it was expensive. So I don’t think much people knew about these records, but the collectors knew, and these records were selling for hundreds of [Jamaican] dollars more than a normal LP. So this dub album come out and I give it to the sound systems, I give it to Gemini and Merritone, so that they play it all the time. I never give my records to the radio station. And I made so much money out of this album, that it was exclusive expensive!” Finally, it was a family dispute with Herman’s brother Lloyd that derailed the Aquarius and Musicism train. The outcome was that Lloyd took the studio and Herman kept the record shop.

“I go to court twice and lost all of that money, and my brother won control of the studio. But then they try to write me out of history. And I get so upset when I really think about it. I’m not saying I’ve never done anything wrong in my life. We all need to repent. You see, I have to tell the truth: what about the half that’s never been told! But there was some skulduggery going on then.”

Nowadays there are no record shops on Constant Spring Road. The block which housed Aquarius is now home to Usain Bolt’s Tracks And Records restaurant. Herman joined the steady exodus of Jamaicans to Miami, and today finds him using his verbal dexterity and irrepressible energy to sell Sorrel drinks filled with medicinal herbs, ginger and turmeric. But his music is still out there, circling the globe through speakers and headphones...

“I always want my music to be on a higher plane, like to carry some message. And a dub album gives plenty of space for the message. Just because there are no words, it doesn’t mean that it don’t communicate. If you listen carefully, you will hear it properly, and so the message will reach down through the years, and spread to the people again. This is a spiritual conversation, cos I have reached to a different spiritual plane!”

- Diggory Kenrick

Musicians include: Drums – Mikey “Boo” Richards, Paul Douglas Bass – Aston “Family Man” Barrett, Val Douglas Guitar – Mikey Chung, Willie Lindo, Lennox Gordon, Carl Harvey Keyboards – Robbie Lyn, Leslie Butler, Geoffrey Chung Horns – Arnold Brackenridge, Ronald “Nambo” Robinson, David Madden, Dean Fraser

DENNIS BOVELL, from Barbados, based in London, England, is a legend - a bass player legend (band leader of the legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson Band) - a producer legend (THE SLITS, Fela Kuti, Bananarama, Madness, Joss Stone, a.o.). He produced the soundtrack for the critically highly acclaimed movie Babylon and the hit song "Silly Games" by Janet Kay. In recent years his works regained interest, also due to the recent rerelease of the 80's movie Babylon and his participation in Steve Mc Queens drama series Small Axe about the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community, set btw 1969-82. In 2019 Vienna's Dubblestandart produced a limited selection of reworks of reggae classics of Dennis Bovell's 1980's band Matumbi, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, Twinkle Brothers, Culture a.o. , focusing on works that have been pivotal for the inspiration of Dubblestandart's bandleader Paul Zasky. Nicolai Beverungen, dub reggae label headman of ECHO BEACH outta Hamburg/Germany, invited DENNIS BOVELL to "REPULSE" the album at Robbie Ost's GoEAST Studio. Dennis felt inspired, loved the idea, re-voiced the songs, added a couple of guitar lines and also re-dubbed the album. "Repulse" Reggae Classics features DENNIS BOVELL on vocals and as a dub producer in co-operation with Robbie Ost from Dubblestandart, mixing on a legendary E - 6000 solid state mixing board (taken over from TEARS FOR FEARS studio in London), using selected vintage outboard Analog equipment, developing a distinctive dub reggae sound for this coming up 2021 release.What do songs like "I'm No Robot", "Babylon The Bandit" or Matumbi's "Hypocrite" have in common? All of them were written during the 1980's of the last century, but never lost their contemporary accuracy, still perfectly criticizing and analysing the "pulse" todays political leaderships and societies controversial points of view, have, while entering the digital age. Re- Pulse 21!

Zweite Compilation der wahren Legenden des jamaikanischen Reggae und Helden der ersten Stunde - analog aufgenommen unter freiem Himmel mit Herzblut, Verve und ungebrochener Schaffenskraft. Echter geht nicht. Der riesige Überraschungserfolg des Erstlings "Inna de Yard - The Soul of Jamaica" 2017, ein Album, über das die Kritik urteilte, es sei das fraglos beste Reggae Album des Jahres - und wohl auch darüber hinaus - inspirierte die wahren Veteranen des Rootsreggae zu ihrem nächsten, diesem, Projekt. Die Grundidee ist es, die Legenden des jamaikanischen Reggae noch einmal ins Rampenlicht zu holen: Inna de Yard vereint vier große Sänger der ersten Stunde, die im Laufe der Jahre unterschiedliche Wege gegangen sind, es sind Ken Boothe, Cedric Myton, Winston McAnuff und Kiddus I. Neben ihnen sind auf dem Album weitere Künstler zu hören, The Viceroys, ein Trio das heute ebenfalls bereits in seinen Siebzigern ist, einige jüngere Stimmen und verschiedene Gäste, wie Horace Andy und Judy Mowatt, eine von Bob Marleys Background-Sängerinnen. Sie spielen ihre größten Hits neu ein und zwar nicht im hochtechnisierten Tonstudio, sondern in den Hinterhöfen und auf den Straßen Jamaikas, eben Inna de Yard, wodurch ein analoger, geerdeter und voller Sound entsteht, der uns das Herzblut erleben lässt, mit dem die Stücke gespielt und gesungen wurden. Die Entstehung des ersten Albums und die daran anschließende Tournee sind Gegenstand des gleichnamigen Dokumentarfilms von Peter Webber (der drei Oscar-Nominierungen für "Girl with a Pearl Earring" bekam), an dem dieser 2017-2019 arbeitete während der Reggae gleichzeitig in die Liste des immateriellen Weltkulturerbes auf der UNESCO aufgenommen wurde. Wer könnte dieses kulturelle Erbe, Jamaikas Authentizität und Kultur, besser verkörpern als diese Gruppe vergessener Legenden, die schon in den 60er und 70er Jahren in Hinterhöfen zusammen jammten, Reggae, Ska und Rocksteady spielten? Ihre Musik ist von einer zeitlosen Qualität, während sie selber altern, seit dem letzten Album sind zwei wichtige Hautvertreter verstorben (Wesley Tinglin, der Leadsänger von The Viceroys und der Posaunist Nambo Robinson) - so ist Inna de Yard auch ein Projekt gegen die Zeit, dass uns authentischen Reggae der ersten Stunde erleben lässt, solange es ihn noch gibt.

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