reggae
ALBUM REVIEW: Cherry Red Reggae Reissues: Hot Shots Of Reggae: Doctor Bird Compilation
Cherry Red Reggae Reissues November 2017 By Leggy Mountbatten Hot Shots Of Reggae Doctor Bird Compilation Following from September`s No More Heartaches and What Am I To Do, Doctor Bird/Cherry Red reissue the classic compilation Hot Shots Of Reggae. Following the great Jamaican sound system operators, Leslie Kong became one of the emerging talents …
ALBUM REVIEW: Cherry Red Reggae Reissues – No More Heartaches/What Am I To Do & Marcia Griffiths: Naturally / Steppin
Cherry Red Reggae Reissues September 2017 By Leggy Mountbatten No More Heartaches/What Am I To Do 2 CD Set Compilation Marcia Griffiths Naturally and Steppin 2 CD Set No More Heartaches and What Am I To Do various artists reissued by Doctor Bird/Cherry Red Having the original Trojan and Harry J vinyl versions which would …
Track: Ghetto Priest – Good Lord
Taken from his ‘Every man for every man’ album, out on Ramrock Records on September 8th, comes a new track from Ghetto Priest, titled Good Lord. The former Arsenal Hooligan found Rastafarianism, and threw himself into the music scene, moving from sound system culture to Adrian Sherwoods On-U Sound family, to African Head Charge, arriving …
Album Review: Sherwood & Pinch – Man Vs Sofa
‘Man Vs. Sofa’ is the second album by Adrian Sherwood and Rob Ellis aka Pinch and the predecessor to the well received album ‘Late Night Endless’ It’s Dub filled dark waters of electronica that will pull you under with an undercurrent of unforgiving Bass. Put simply It’s Dark Dub Electronica at its best. The combination of talents …
Album Review: Thievery Corporation – The Temple of I & I
Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, aka electronic duo Theivery Corporation have released the fruits of their labour, recording in Jamaica for their latest full lengther and unsurprisingly given the setting, it’s their most dub-centric record to date. They’ve experimented with dub and roots in the past, not for a whole record admittedly, but as with …
Track: Chronixx – Likes
Taken from his forthcoming debut album Chronology, Reggae/Dancehall singer Chronixx has dropped a new single, Likes. It comes ahead of a load of US dates with Zincfence Redemption, Jah9, Jesse Royal, Kelissa and Max Glazer (Federation Sound)., starting March 2nd. On the self-produced track, Chronixx speaks is mind on a number of issues, from the …
Playlist: Reggae producer JStar shares what’s rocking his DJ sets
A while ago we featured Bad Boy Stepping, the new single from West London reggae producer and DJ JStar. We’ve been back and asked him what rocking his DJ sets and he’s picked out a bunch of his set-fillers and favourites. “Right now I seem to be DJing a lot of the album material as …
See: Jstar releases new video for Bad Boy Stepping ft. Ranking Joe
West London-based reggae producer Jstar, apart from earning a stamp of approval from legendary tastemaker David Rodigan, has returned with a new single, ‘Bad Boy Stepping’, and he’s drafted in another legend, Jamaican MC Ranking Joe. It’s the second single to be taken from his recent ‘Stand to Order’ album, and it has Freedo, Dreadsquad …
See: S I E reveals new video for Read It
Rising reggae star S I E (Success is everything) is a man in trouble. The Rochester, NY born / LA based songwriters new track, Read It, is a tale of steamy text messages, secret lovers and getting caught in the act. “How could I let you read it, before I delete it, you should’ve never …
Playlist: John Peel Show 26.6.88 tracks
Whatever John Peel show you use, compiling a complete playlist, or even an accurate one, given the breadth of the music chosen, much of it remaining in obscurity, is nigh on impossible. One of the enjoyable things though, it’s – apart from the cross genre breadth that Peel utilised meaning the music jumps from one …