YELLOWMAN AND MIGHTY DIAMONDS - HAVE MERCY

YELLOWMAN AND MIGHTY DIAMONDS - HAVE MERCY
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WWW, November 2008 - A rare video with an exceptional combination: Yellowman meets the Mighty Diamonds in a gathering that is too sweet to ignore!

Yellowman stand synonymously with, let's say, dirty lyrics. The bulk of it was meant as a joke because Yellowman himself is severely handicapped due to the fact that he is an albino, but many have not caught the joke and maybe not everything was that funny indeed.

However, none of that in this special tune. A remake of the classic Mighty Diamonds track "Have Mercy", we also hear and see the singers whose sweet voices are never too much. And we meet the King of Dancehall, as he chants along with the rhythm and the singers.

Crucial!

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BLACK UHURU - BULL IN THE PEN

BLACK UHURU - BULL IN THE PEN
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WWW, November 2008 - In this video, we meet Black Uhuru with Sly and Robbie and a whole lot of other musicians in the studio. The vibe of the 1980's is perfectly captured, where the music could have been played today as well.

Sly and Robbie have been using their cooperation with the vocal group Black Uhuru to produce some of the most progressive Reggae at the time. It captured the vibe of the time, just like Burning Spear and Bob Marley had done before, which led them to introduce Reggae to a new audience.

When they produced "Bull In The Pen", Sly Dunbar was heavily involved in the digital drum kit, which he used in ways nobody had done before. We see him playing along with Robbie Shakespeare and a lot of other crucial musicians.

Niceness!

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BLACK UHURU - ORIGINAL FOREIGN MIND

BLACK UHURU - ORIGINAL FOREIGN MIND
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WWW, November 2008 - Black Uhuru's name is inseparably connected with the names of Mikal Rose, Puma Jones, Duckie Simpson, Sly and Robbie. In this video, we see only one of them.

Don Carlos and Junior Reid are two great Reggae vocalists who have been members of Black Uhuru throughout the group's history. In this video, we team up with Junior Reid as the lead vocalists with Duckie Simpson as everlasting member of the group.

Junior Reid obviously has the voice that keeps everything together, while many people will surely miss the drum and basslines by Sly and Robbie as well.

Still, this is not a video to skip, as we see Junior Reid doing a wonderful performance. Original Foreign Mind in itself has become a classic, which says a thing when considered neither Sly nor Robbie was there.

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LUCIANO - OVER THE HILLS

LUCIANO - OVER THE HILLS
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WWW, November 2008 - Luciano meets Sizzla, and together they go up to the hill of the Bobo Shanti Rasta. To chant down Babylon, and to congregate among brethren.

In this 1996 video, we see the Messenger as he wants to find a place to rest. Suffering in the ghetto's, wars and rumors of wars, death and destruction takes it's toll and it's not just the ones who die that suffer.

As we walk along with him, we land in Creation, in Nature, where Jah Works are seen and felt and freedom is tasted. We meet Sizzla and he receives more power during his meeting with his brethren and with the Creator as he trods through creation.

Ire Ites!

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PRINCE LINCOLN AND THE ROYAL RASSES - KINGSTON 11

PRINCE LINCOLN AND THE ROYAL RASSES - KINGSTON 11
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WWW, November 2008 - Hammersmith Palace was the scene for an energetic, lively, conscious and above all historic event, when Prince Lincoln and the Royal Rasses performed.

Right after the introduction, the band starts playing an impressive intro. Of course, you must have been there to feel it, but the vibes still radiate from the screen when watching this video.

When Prince Lincoln enters stage, the vibe is right and the tones are set. The horns start to play, the Prince starts to sing, the music flood like rain.

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SUPERCAT AND REGGIE STEPPER - JUNGLIST

SUPERCAT AND REGGIE STEPPER - JUNGLIST
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WWW, November 2008 - In the 1990's, there was an explosion of Drum and Bass, or Jungle, or whatever the name was. The music was brand new, and it sound like this.

Supercat and Reggie Stepper get together for an extremely danceable tune: It's called Drum 'n' Bass, or Jungle: an ultra deep bass with a breakbeat on top of it, et voila: there was a mysterious combination of highly energetic drums and an ultra-cool bassline.

The Sound of the Nineties: check it!

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YASUS AFARI - HONOR

YASUS AFARI - HONOR
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WWW, November 2008 - DUB Poetry is where several forms of Art meet each other in Reggae Music.

It started in the 1970's, and in 1992 it sounded like this.

The music is digital, the poet is Yasus Afari. He is keeping up the tradition of DUB Poetry in Jamaica, and he does so from his consciousness as a Rastaman.

In this video, we see and hear him chanting down Babylon's new world order. Straight to Babylon Head!


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STILL COOL - TO BE POOR IS A CRIME

STILL COOL - TO BE POOR IS A CRIME
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WWW, November 2008 - In this 1979 TV performance by the UK group Still Cool, we see them singing the tune that is a classic until this day.

Don't ask me what these vinyl scratches do in the sound. This is not your average You-Tube clip, where you hear a tune and see photo's: we see the singers as they playback on the tune.

This 1979 video clip is, just like the singers, still cool. An incredibly sensitive UK Roots tune, that unfortunately has a theme which is actual even today, almost thirty years after the video was recorded.

Behold!

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TONY REBEL - SWEET JAMAICA (1993)

TONY REBEL - SWEET JAMAICA (1993)
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WWW, November 2008 - Before he started Rebel Salute, before he became known to the world as another conscious DJ of the time. Tony Rebel was already going strong.

Jamaica, Land of Food and Water. That name was given to the Island by the original inhabitants, before Christopher Columbus and his gang of vampires turned it into a big plantation.

Jamaica, also the birth place of Tony Rebel. He grew up feeling what it means to be at the receiving end of Babylon System's ugly shitstem. He saw the dances getting hotter, as cokane and violence flooded the island, and decided to do something about it.

Together with people like Luciano, he was part of what some call the "Rasta Renaissance" in the early nineties. "Sweet Jamaica" was one of the tunes of the day.

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LUCIANO - IT'S ME AGAIN JAH

LUCIANO - IT'S ME AGAIN JAH
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WWW, November 2008 - In 1993, Luciano introduced himself to the people of the world, and to JAH, with an impressive musical track and video clip.

This is it.

Luciano, aka The Messenger. In the early 1990's he entered the global scene with a new kind of Roots Music, dubbed by this website as "contemporary Roots". It was a time where cokane and violence ran the dancehall and violence ran the place more than ever before.

Nowadays, we know him as a long dreadlocked singer, but back in the time he was still growing them. He was growing his faith, too, but by looking at the video and feeling the vibes in the music, you can easily see that that faith was already solid as a rock.

Check!

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LINTON KWESIE JOHNSON - DI GOOD LIFE

LINTON KWESIE JOHNSON - DI GOOD LIFE
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WWW, November 2008 - A Video Clip with DUB Poet Linton Kwesie Johnson is kind of rare. When it's played on MTV, it's even more rare.

But here it is!


When LKJ entered the scene, the music that came with his poetry was deep, and hard. DUB effects and everything was there. In fact, it was LKJ's "Five Nights Of Bleeding" that got yours truly hooked on Reggae, somewhere in the early 1980's.

In 1992, the vibe had totally changed. Dennis Bovell, the musical genius behind LKJ, had taken himself and his musicians to higher grounds and they started to experiment with other styles, which they integrated with Reggae.

The result could be an upfull, ska-ish track with Africa style guitar licks.

Like "Di Good Life".

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ROOTS RADICS - RADICALLY RADICS

ROOTS RADICS - RADICALLY RADICS
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WWW, November 2008 - Usually, they are in the background, barely mentioned, while in fact they do all the work. Channel One Studio Band the Roots Radics ask your attention, please!

Sly and Robbie were part of the first Studio Bands of the legendary Channel one studio's in Jamaica, where just too many Roots Rockers and Rub a Dub is recorded to mention.

After the Aggrovators and the Revolutionaries, it was time for the studio to come up with their third band. The name was the Roots Radics, as they played one Rub a Dub after the other into the multitrack recorders at Channel one.

They are barely mentioned on the albums and the concert posters, when they performed to back this singer after that DJ. They played album after album, where only the DUB engineer took the credit.

Now this is changed.

Here is the Roots Radics, starring: The Roots Radics!

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CLINT EASTWOOD AND GENERAL SAINT LIVE (1982)

CLINT EASTWOOD AND GENERAL SAINT LIVE (1982)
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WWW, November 2008 - One big party going on, as the MC's Clint Eastwood and General Saint pop up on stage with a full blown band to make some fun at the UK based "Old Grey Whistle Test".

"Another One Bites The Dust", is the title of the tune the DJ Duo performs. They were known from their world hit "Stop That Train", as representants of Rub a Dub Style in the World Charts.

And no, that is not "World Music". For every music is "World Music".

That aside...

Clint Eastwood and General Saint have a lot of fun together with the band and the audience, as they perform what was then a brand new Style of Reggae.

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THE SPECIALS AND MADNESS LIVE

THE SPECIALS AND MADNESS LIVE
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WWW, November 2008 - In the 1960's, you had skinheads who liked Ska music and were usually seen as rude boys.

No, this is no typo and this is not about neo-nazi's either.

In the end of the 1970's, the UK witnessed the birth of the "Two Tone" movement. It was a Movement with a philosophy and with a music, too.

The name of the music was a bit deceptive, though. It was basically a Reggae rhythm with the drums playing on the 2 and the 4 with the skanks between the counts, where the bass continued to play a reggae-ish line.

It sounded like Reggae, but it was not Reggae.

However, ten years before that, Jamaica also had a music called Ska.

And this is not the only comparance...

Two-Tone was also an answer to the rising army of neo-nazi's who called themselves skinhead. We can see them in the streets today, even, too. However, what most neo nazi skinheads do not know, is that just like Ska, also the skinheads were originally found in Jamaica.

Two-tone had the mission to tell the skinheads about their Toots, and they did so with a lot of music. Here are two of these bands.


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BLACK UHURU LIVE AT GLASTONBURY, 1982

BLACK UHURU LIVE AT GLASTONBURY, 1982
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WWW, November 2008 - After a few atmospheric impressions of a rainy day at Glastonbury festival, we go straight into a majestic performance by Sly and Robbie's Black Uhuru!

As the rain falls down, so does the music. A very strong set played by Sly and Robbie with Black Uhuru during their best days with Puma Jones, Duckie Simpson and Mikal Rose falls over the audience that soon forgets the rain and start chanting along as the band plays Sinsemillia.

The rest is history, which can be seen in this two-part impression of a peace festival somewhere in the UK during the early 1980's.

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