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All Aboard: Tracking Down Reggae’s Obsession with Trains

http://www.highstylus.com/all-aboard/
A history of Jamaican train culture expressed in reggae music

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Mlimani Park - Kenya Soukous from the 80s 

 

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More~Roots: Jah Fire~ Roots Selection Vol 4~

Jah Fire~ Roots Selection Vol 4~ 

Tracklist:
Mighty Soul Rebels ‎– Jah Jah Is No Gimmick
Pablo Gad – Oh Jah
Al Campbell Feat. General Lee & Trinity – Jah Love
King Tubby’s Dub
Burning Spear – Marcus Say Jah No Dead
Tilly & Larry – Jah Gave Us Everything
Jah gave us Dub
The Rastafarians – Seek H.I.M
Naggo Morris – Jah Guide
The Observers – Jah Guide Part 2
Lopez Walker – Jah Jah New Garden
Phase One All Stars – Version
George Boswell – Jah Fire
Creole – Jah Creation
Version
Sir Lee – Who Is The King Of Kings
Twinkle Brothers – Jah Kingdom Come

DOWNLOAD THE MIX AND HEAR MORE FROM SELECTOR MORE~ROOTZ AT:
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Good over Evil

DJ Roby Mix présente La Bibliothèque Du Makossa Vol.1

An all-time favorite, deep offering of Makossa now up at the High Stylus site!

Visit http://www.highstylus.com/mixes/ for this and all featured mixes
 

Computer Rise

 By Frederick R Dannaway

 of www.highstylus.com

Jamaican music scholar Frederick R Dannaway charts the rise of technology and machines – and the changing role of the producer – from roots reggae through dub to digital dancehall.

“Computer world, we in a computer world” – Lee Van Cliff (“Computer World”)

Rhizomatic riddims
The roots of reggae stretch deep to African soils, re-emerging as digital filaments and radicles in the creation of dub, dancehall and digital reggae. The revolving complexity of instruments filtered through various types of mixers and special effects has changed the very conception of music. From bedroom to cutting-edge professional studios, digital hardware is ever birthing new combinations. Dub as the mystical shadow of vocal versions has always had a touch of magic in its echoing translations of one drop riddims. Producers are the ‘scientists’ and ‘professors’, ‘organisers’, ‘doctors’ or ‘chemists’ in their recipes of audio potions that vibrate from their studio laboratories.
All music that is not enjoyed live and in person is subjected to the interlopers of recording devices and studio equipment of microphones and amplifiers. Yet some of the vintage studio equipment seemed to transmute the recordings uniquely – modern producers try to re-invoke the signature sounds. Musical periods, and therefore the studio outputs, are defined by the unique tonal ambiance of the recording equipment. Certain equipment is legendary, such as the Ampex 351, the holy grail of the recording arts. Abroad, the Ampex was recording Elvis and The Beatles, marking the era by its characteristic sound. In Jamaica it was immortalising such acts as The Wailing Wailers with Bob Marley at Studio One.

Read the rest on Red Bull Music Academy:

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/computer-rise

Blind Man Selector – Blind Woman and Child Mix

Blind Man Selector – Blind Woman and Child Mix

 

 

From Blind Man Selector, straight outta of Copenhagen.  “The mixtape is a selection of primarily late 70s/early 80s roots reggae which has made a deep impression on me through my years as a reggaelover. The mix also shows my love for the steppers trend in Jamaica in the late 70s. All the records are taken from my collection which consists of records which I have travelled a lot of European cities to build up.”
Tracklist:
Prince Jammy – Uhuru Express
Barrington Levy – Robin Hood
Dennis Brown – No General + Dub
Earl Zero – Please Officer
Augustus Pablo – Pablo In Moonlight City
Barry Brown – Jah Jah Lead Us
Johnny Osbourne – Fally Ranking
Hugh Mundell – Tell I A Lie
Welton Irie – Bill Fold Wa You Fa
Cornell Cambell – Blinded By Love
Johnny Osbourne – Trench Town School
Johnny Osbourne – Jah Ovah
Barrington Levy – Run Come Ya
Barry Brown – Jah Jah Never Sleep
Natural Vibes – Life Hard A Yard
Half Pint – Mr. Landlord
Sugar Minott – Sing A Happy Song
Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse

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  http://www.highstylus.com/mixes/

Real Situation: 2012 & The Eschatology of Reggae Music

Real Situation: 2012 & The Eschatology of Reggae Music

by Frederick R. Dannaway (Riddim Magazine, July/August 2012)

“2012, something big going to happen, either me married or the Lord is coming” Chris Martin

“But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Luke 21:28

So Much Trouble in the World
Most of the world’s religions have some sort of end-times scenario. These range from the destruction of the world and rebirth of a New Jerusalem or the appearance of the Madhi or a new cyclic Vedic world age. Religions from Christianity and Buddhists to Mayans and Rastafarians all anticipate some cataclysmic event or divine moment that will forever change life as we know it. Science predicts global entropy for environmental systems as cultures, economies and societies seem to crumble like melting icecaps in the world news. To confront reality, to literally be “conscious,” is to sense that the world is in hyper-crisis –and although it has always as such– it has perhaps never faced so many complex scenarios from global warming to catastrophic world obliterating weapons. Zimbabwe’s biggest newspaper just had a major Sunday feature on evangelical doomsday prophecies threatening African’s very stability as the people’s faith has them stopping saving for their retirement or children. Whole villages are abandoning long-term concerns of health, investments and education in slightly more zealous certainty than an outstanding amount of Evangelicals worldwide who eagerly await being raptured off the earth before divine wrath consumes the world. Numerous documentaries have shown villages abandon with jobs, debts, savings and families, so utterly convinced the end is near and the worlds rampant use of finite resources and pollution would seem to indicate that elites are not concerned for long term planetary sustainability. Mayan calendar predictions have reached pop culture from Hollywood movies to commercials and Jamaica is no exception. And as Chris Martin isn’t planning on putting on a wedding ring this year something big might happen as this is perhaps reggae’s most discussed year numerologically since 1977. So even if you are either planning a wedding this year, as is yours truly, or expecting the Lord to return or the earth’s pole to shift into hyperconsciousness, one is still haunted by reggae’s soundtrack to the apocalypse that stretches back some 35 years.

Read the rest here, before it's too late:
http://www.highstylus.com/real-situation/

The Exotica Conspiracy

 

By Steve Aydt
Invisible College of Esoteric Disc Jockeys Audio-Didact, Cut 1

Genre Flow: Impressionism, Exotica, Lounge, Dub, Cartoon Score, Easy Listening, Bachelor Pad Jazz, Plunderphonics, Experimental, Ambient, Nootropicalia, bullshit artistry, dialect, parody, Romanticism, Erotica, Orientalism

Analogical Tools: Funhouse mirror, lens, poison pen, the broad brush, the comic book, the pillow book, the aphrodisiac, lampoon, piss-take, prank, love-feast, mixology, ritual magic, stagecraft

Artists: Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Esquivel, Enoch Light, The Three Suns, Edmundo Ros, Sun Ra, Werner Muller, Claude Debussy, Carl Stalling, Raymond Scott, Ennio Morricone, Ray Martin, Dick Hyman, Riz Ortolani, Henri Rene, Tony Mottola, J.G. Thirlwell, Boyd Rice, Throbbing Gristle, SPK, John Oswald, People Like Us, Stock Hausen Walkman, The KLF, Rod McKuen

Moon Madness

Anyone who has listened to a mockingbird knows the secret of Exotica. 1934: the original Don the Beachcomber lounge opens in Hollywood, portentous of skewered pigs, cocktail umbrellas, and Hula dances. Soon afterward, Exotica seems to rise from the Pacific like the hot wet specter of Mu, a faux Polynesian Tsunami of sweet rum drinks, lava, and Pacific saltwater gushing across America. Dada tone poets and Balinesian kecaks knew it was coming. Its Gamelon music was played on pots, pans and a bicycle horn. It’s sound was everywhere but its culture was from nowhere. When it turned its ear to Africa, it heard Tikky Tikky Boom Boom. Ki-Aza-Ku-Sasa. Papa Oom Mow Mow!

 TO READ THE REST, VISIT:

http://www.highstylus.com/the-exotica-conspiracy/

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