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Baco Hiriz Band - Kinky Station - out on MVS Records/Anticraft

Saturday 03 July 2010, 12:41 1

Baco Hiriz Band Kinky Station
Baco Hiriz Band - Kinky Station
(CD) MVS Records/Anticraft, 2010-05-19

A group of buskers who became famous for playing a unique style of reggae music on the Paris metro have picked their second home as the main theme for their first official album.

Each of the tracks on the Baco Hiriz band's CD Kinky Station focuses on one of the French capital's 14 underground train lines.

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Diesler feat. Laura Vane vs Grant Phabao - Reggae Magic

Monday 03 May 2010, 01:32

Diesler feat Laura Vane vs Grant Phabao Reggae Magic
Diesler feat Laura Vane vs Grant Phabao - Reggae Magic
(limited 7"/Digital) Social Beats/Unique UNIQ176-1, 2010-04-05

Reggae Magic is a bubblin' re-work by Parisian producer Grant Phabao of the song Samba Magic from Diesler's 4th LP Ties Breakers which is due out June 2010. Featuring the vocal stylings of regular collaborator Laura Vane, this has been released on a limited edition 7" (with a nice 'Dub' on the B Side) on Social Beats/Unique.

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Jellybass - No Love

Sunday 28 March 2010, 17:21

Jellybass No LoveJellybass No Love
Jellybass - No Love
(12") Lohz LOHZ12002V (Download) Air Recordings AIRFIX 017, 2010-02-10

Jellybass are back with a brand new slice of their unique bassline driven sonic adventures! This time round they've enlisted Brixton's finest rasta MC, Brother Culture, to lay down a smooth dub vocal. No Love sees Jellybass making a return to the skanking dub sound of their first album, but this isn't your usual dub affair; Jellybass turn up the pressure with a nu-skool baseline twist!

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Down By The River Side - Hard 2 Find Vol.2 - out now on COLORED-INC.

Tuesday 23 March 2010, 10:33

Down By The River Side Hard 2 Find Vol 2
Down By The River Side - Hard 2 Find Vol.2
(Download/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI002, 2010-03-21

Down By The River Side's first album on the new Colored-Inc. label (colored-inc.com) - launched by Djouls and Doctor L - is what some could call a 'jazz' album. Blending Jamaican harmonies with American Jazz or blaxploitation Funk, European folk & electronics with African percussions, Slam and Jazz with Hip Hop, Afrobeat with Gospel and Poetry, with some hefty doses of Reggae, Psychedelia and Soul in between, this is indeed a kind of a New Thing!

All production duties and nearly all instruments by Doctor L & Grant Phabao with star guesting Carlton Livingston, The Lone Ranger and The Jays (from Jamaica), Rare Moods and Kactus Hunters (from Paris), Allonymous (from Chicago) and Tony Allen (from Nigeria).

Down By The River Side - Hard 2 Find Vol.2

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The Black Cat - Hard 2 Find Vol.1 - out now on COLORED-INC.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 15:31 1

The Black Cat Hard 2 Find Vol 1
The Black Cat - Hard 2 Find Vol.1
(Download/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI001, 2010-02-24

The Black Cat's first album on the new Colored-Inc. label (colored-inc.com) - launched by Djouls and Doctor L - is what some could say a 'world' album. Blending Latin grooves with Afro rhythms, Reggae harmonies with American Jazz or Funk vibes, Saudade with Jamaican riddims, Psychedelic Funk with Electronic R&B, Psychedelia and Hip Hop, with some lusty doses of Rub-a-Dub , Afro, Soul and Reggae in between, this is indeed a kinda world tour.

All production duties and nearly all instruments by Doctor L & Grant Phabao with star guesting Martin Perna (from Brooklyn), Ocote Soul sounds & Adrian Quesada (from Nicaragua and Austin, Texas) Carlton Livingston, The Lone Ranger and The Jays (from Jamaica), Tita Lima (from Brazil), Allonymous (from Chicago), Roldan (from Cuba), Dom Farkas (from Paris) and Kiala (from Nigeria and Congo). Yep 'world' indeed.

The Black Cat - Hard 2 Find Vol.1

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Jahdan Blakkamoore / Ticklah / Victor Rice - The General b/w Elimination Game

Sunday 24 January 2010, 21:52

Jahdan Blackkamoore The General Ticklah RemixTicklah vs Victor Rice Eliminiation Game
Jahdan Blakkamoore / Ticklah / Victor Rice - The General b/w Elimination Game
(7 inch) Liondub 45 LNDB45001, 2009-12

Coming from the mind of internationally renowned reggae & drum'n'bass DJ Liondub, Liondub45 is a brand new sub label of the already well established and highly sought after LionDub International imprint, which represents the electronic, reggae influenced worlds of Jungle, Drum'n'Bass, and Dubstep sounds. Liondub45 is intent on releasing a catalog of collectible 7"s focusing on deep, vintage dub and scorching Roots Reggae showcasing the talents of a venerable who's who of modern Dub producers and original foundation vocalists. Things kick off with Ticklah's remix of the red hot Jahdan Blakkamoore, whose debut album Buzzrock Warrior on !k7 subsidiary Gold Dust is currently tearing up the charts. Axelrod flips the The General into a deep and heavy dub workout complete with an otherworldly skank and analog squelching bass. To the B-Side, Elimination Game, a monster slice of dub with a driving Steppers beat, swirling sound effects, deep percussion delays, bubbling organs, and all the studio wizardry we've come to expect.

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Pama International - Pama Outernational

Monday 26 October 2009, 14:03

Pama International Pama Outernational
Pama International - Pama Outernational
(CD/LP) Rockers Revolt Records, 2009-10-26

Pama International are back in the studio finishing the much anticipated follow up to Love Filled Dub Band.... Pama Outernational. It features Lynval Golding & Horace Panter (The Specials) and is again being produced by John Collins (producer of The Specials iconic Ghost Town). It picks up where Love Filled... left off with Pama's unique blend of 60s soul/70s reggae & 21st social commentary, but takes some darker twists and dub turns along the way. Billed as 'The Heavyweight Dub Sounds of Now', it will be preceded by three singles over the coming months. Pama International… Reggae For The People

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King Tubby & The Dynamites - Sound System International Dub

Saturday 19 September 2009, 15:14 1

King Tubby and The Dynamites Sound System International
King Tubby & The Dynamites - Sound System International Dub
(CD/LP) Pressure Sounds PSCD0065/PSLP0065, 2009-09-19

Sound System International… this Clancy Eccles produced dub set is so incredibly obscure that it has even the most serious collectors scratching their heads. The set features ten early King Tubby's deconstructions of a selection of Dynamites rhythms produced by Clancy Eccles where Tubbs spins the tunes around and comes up with something very, very special. Anyone who really wants to now what King Tubby's mixing style was all about need look no further as he takes on these straight forward reggae songs turns them upside down, inside out and then takes them on to somewhere completely different...

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Black Uhuru - Love Crisis / Black Sounds Of Freedom

Friday 28 August 2009, 13:20

Black Uhuru Black Sounds Of Freedom Love Crisis
Black Uhuru - Black Sounds Of Freedom (Deluxe Edition)
(2xCD) Greensleeves, 2009-08-28

The first line-up of Black Uhuru was Garth Dennis, Don Carlos, and Derrick "Duckie" Simpson. The group has undergone several lineup changes: Carlos left, replaced by Michael Rose; then Dennis left to play with the Wailing Souls, and was replaced by Errol Nelson, alias Errol Wilson, who left the band after their first album to concentrate on his own band, The Jays (who recorded a new album with Grant Phabao to be released on T.I.M.E.C. very soon). During this early period, the band's most famous recording is the album entitled Love Crisis, later re-released (with overdubs) as Black Sounds Of Freedom.

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Groundation - Here I Am

Sunday 23 August 2009, 16:46

Groundation Here I Am
Groundation - Here I Am
(CD) Young Tree Records/Naive, 2009-06-16

Groundation's sixth full length studio album Here I Am continues the band's groundbreaking fusion of Jazz/Funk Fusion and heavy Roots Reggae with altogether fresh and innovative results. Here I Am features long-time colleagues of Groundation, Roots Reggae legends Sticky Thompson, Pablo Moses and all three original Congos vocalists. This album also presents a new side of the Groundation family; Kim Pommell & Stephanie Wallace sing lead on three songs, including the title track, while new drummer Tekanawa Haereiti's jazz pedigree shines through. Here I Am is just what it sounds like it is: a declaration of presence and a commitment to action in these perilous times at the dawn of the 21st Century.

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