Lifetones - For A Reason

Charles Bullen (This Heat`s guitarist) started listening to some reggae music after a DJ friend of his turned him on to it. after the Deceit sessions he decided to start a project based on these caribbean rhythms and took it to a whole new level. inspiring lyrics, epic ras drum tracks, weird/beautiful harmonies and some chant-style voices that you would hear on any This Heat record. this is some serious stuff. its a rare listen at first but it sucks you in.

is it because i acted badly to you, you acted badly to me and i acted badly to you? or viceversa?

Pantless - ADD Vol. 2

another ADD mix has arosen from the ashes of all things danceable. this mix was really fun to create but way overdue. expect sonic debauchery with a mix of funk, dub, hip hop and blissful soundscapes. i really hope this music speaks to you as it has to me.

and so the track list goes a little something like this:

01 Invisible On The Brow - Fantasmes
02 Santic Dub - Rockers Allstars
03 Theme De Yoyo - Art Ensamble Of Chicago
04 Hollywood Swingin` - Kool & The Gang
05 Ghetto Life - Rick James
06 Funky Worm - Ohio Players
07 Mothership Connection (Star Child) - Parliament
08 Li quid Swords - GZA/Fall Of Saigon - This Heat
09 Yonkers - Tyler, The Creator
10 Fiat Lux - Einstürzende Neubauten
11 Vulture - Michachu
12 Port Town - Yumiko Kanki & Naoto Ishida (F Zero)
13 The Free Design - Stereolab
14 Bem Vinda - Hermeto Pascoal
15 Schweitzer - Stock, Hausen & Walkman
16 January Rain - Psychic Ills
17 Halloween - Zombie Zombie
18 Sexx Laws - Beck
19 Aliante Giallo - Alessandro Alessandroni & Nora Orlandi
20 Disorder - Joy Division

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illustration by Christine Fraguela (http://paldecolors.blogspot.com) and Lorraine Rodríguez (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorraine-bosque)

total run time: 56min.

Inner Circle - Reggae Thing

this album stands out of many of the 70s era reggae recordings. its music is unique, beautiful, very melodic and emotional. jacob miller in the vocals, chinna smith in the guitar, horsemouth wallace at the drums and augustus pablo at the keys. this is a gem.

jah music!

Pantless - ADD Vol. 1

now for something totally different. inspired by the last posts containing the Timeless series and by many many good music that has surfaced this planet, yours truly has felt the need to communicate thy love and mix/mash a shit load of tracks that have inspired many of us and have shown us the true path of musical righteousness. presenting the first ever ADD mixtape series brought to you by Pantless himself!

tracklist:

01 Welcome 2 Detroit - J Dilla 01
02 Welcome 2 Detroit (J Dilla) - Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
03 The Day - The Roots
04 Auditorium (Madlib) - Mos Def feat. Slick Rick
05 The Official - Jaylib
06 Jah Jah Voice Is Calling - Peter Broggs
07 Yèkatit - Mulatu Astatke
08 TV Spot - Can/Hunting Bears - Radiohead
09 Hunting Bears - Radiohead/Joni Mitchell`s Message
10 C.R.E.A.M - Wu Tang Clan
11 Witness - Roots Manuva
12 Gobbstopper - J Dilla
13 Na Boca Do Sol - Arthur Verocai
14 Stop Them Jah - Augustus Pablo
15 Marcha De Carnaval - Luciano Perrone/Message From Nine to The Universe - Jimi Hendrix
16 Chik Chikka - Mulatu Astatke + The Heliocentrics
17 Moondog Monologue - Moondog
18 Humming - Portishead
19 Right Off - Miles Davis + Isle Of Wight Commentary/Karina - Arthur Verocai
20 Redgold - Fantasmes
21 Sunny Ti De Ariya - King Sunny Adé
22 Roforofo Fight - Fela Kuti

total running time: 60 min.
art: Kristian Hammerstad

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Peter Broggs - Rastafari Liveth

this album is slowly becoming a personal favorite. the music is truly roots and culture, the recording is pristine with the rhythm section sounding FAT, the lyrics are socially conscious and the vibes are right. a gem of rasta recordings.

I am a international farmer, cultivating my good sensimillia.

Dub Specialist - High Fashion Dub Top Ten

dub specialist is Coxsone Dodd, a jamaican record producer that is responsible for a lot of records from artists like alton ellis, jackie mitto, the heptones and wailing souls.

love love

Burning Spear - Social Living

a classic roots album filled with awesome harmonic explorations and praises to marcus garvey. this was one of the first reggae albums that i bought when i was in highschool and still it sounds like a timeless achievement in jah music. light one up and give thanks.

marcus say jah no dead

Dub Echoes OST

the original soundtrack of the documentary. the album name pretty much explains it as it is. from classic dub tunes to the more experimental and broad world of dubstep music.

Dub Echoes - trailer from Bruno Natal on Vimeo.

witness!

V/A - The Harder They Come

This one's for Pachist.

The classic soundtrack to the film "The Harder They Come", this is one of the most legendary reggae albums ever. It helped popularize reggae and Jamaican music in the United States and abroad.

It features a number of songs from Toots & Maytals, Desmond Dekker, Scotty, among others along with 4 tracks by Jimmy Cliff. Pretty much every song on here is a classic and they've been covered by artists as diverse as John Lennon, Keith Richards, Joe Strummer, Johnny Thunders, Willie Nelson, ext...

Sitting in Limbo

Don Carlos & Gold - Them Never Know Natty Dread Have Him Credential

Another reggae classic from the master of sweet talking the ladies, Don Carlos. This album is backed up by the incredible Roots Radics band with Gold backing up vocals, making some nice horn lines and some beautiful compositions.

ride on, christine.

Tradition - Captain Ganja & The Space Patrol

oh my science, this album is just out of this planetary system. synths, horns, vocals, space echo literally, jah jah, water samples, arpeggiators, cosmic dust, nature and reverb. one of the most unique and abstract dub albums that i`ve come into contact with. it was released in 1980 so its got some soul/r&b influences.

sorry, badongo sucks.





p.s. check out the mixing/recording engineer.

Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood

This one's for Pachist.

I already posted Hudson's excellent Pick a Dub. Here's another classic widely considered to be one of the darkest reggae albums ever made.

"Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate - alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles - Hudson's mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like Darkest Night, My Nocturne and Testing My Faith he struggles for Black senses of commitment - political, existential, religious - at its breaking point. Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable."

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Dub Wednesdays at Café 103

if you`re a lover of dub music come join the crew every wendnesday to listen to some dub + roots classics with yours truly in the mix, selectah! you dubwise soundsystem.
i will be hitting it off at Café 103 in Rio Piedras from 9pm till your brain gets fried.
exotic beers, some nice cuisine, art and strictly dub music.

Midnite - Nemozian Rasta

Midnite is a band based out of St. Croix that plays strictly roots and culture, enlightened jah music. they put out like 4 albums per year (they have 40+ albums). the obscure harmonies on this album changed my view of reggae music forever.

jah jah.

Eek-A-Mouse - The Very Best Of

Great comp collecting the Master and Commander of the singjay style's most famous work. Includes the mighty "Anarexol" and the brilliant "Wa Do Dem".

Biddy Beng Beng

Various - Tommy Boy Big Blunts Volume 1

More Jamaican shit for my boy Abe, also known as Lionel Messi's personal waterboy. I keed I keed. Anyway, choice cuts from Sugar Minott, Barrington Levy, Wayne Smith, U-Roy and The Mighty Diamonds among others, all of them celebrating-what else?- the glorious herb. Pass that shit up son.

Sensi

Various - King Jammy at the Controls

Well, Abe's been bugging me to post some crazy jamaican dancehall vocalese shit lately, so I comply, starting with this awesome collection of Jammy's best and most notorious 80's productions, when he transformed from Prince to King. Includes amazing cuts from Shabba Ranks, Junior Reid, Nicodemus, Admiral Bailey, Nitty Gritty, the immortal "Serious Time" featuring Admiral Tibet, Ninjaman and Shabba, and the riddim that forever transformed the Jamaican musical landscape, "Under Mi Sleng Teng" with Wayne Smith. Essential stuff. More JA shit to follow.

Sleng Teng

DJ/Rupture - Uproot

Sandunga already posted the excellent Nettle album, here's DJ/Rupture's mix from last year that was one of my favorite records of 08'. 

Rupture's mixes always have this unique cohesion to them. Drawing from a pool of worldwide artists these songs from varied genres and moods blend together perfectly going by with an almost dreamlike flow. The album feels like a journey from beginning to end which isn't very common amongst mix albums.

"Uproot oozes self confidence, with effortless mixing of disparate source material. The hour-long record does not seem to run nearly this long, due to the economy of ideas and excellent pacing. Dancehall bangers flirt with chamber music, Nigerian folk and Moroccan hip-hop, eventually decaying into an extended suite of near beatless ambient post-rock. The closing tracks recall Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a striking contrast with the first half of the record’s wobbling low-end bass and dub. It’s an exquisite way to cool off a mix. Uproot is an accomplished release from one of New York’s finest DJs, one that deftly illustrates his transition from showy wunderkind to an elder statesman of forward-thinking mixology."

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Dezarie - Eaze The Pain

Material to get pumped up for the show. Dezarie is gonna play in our island January 24, 2009.
I`m gonna be spending my birthday listening to this incredible voice and one hell of a backup band. Latest production from the rastafari empress from the island of St. Croix, Dezarie. She has a voice that resonates through your whole body while the backing Midnite band makes a great foundation of sound.

What ah lady.

Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub

Seminal album by "The Dark Prince of Reggae". It's one of the first dub albums ever released and it features the incredible rhythm section of Aston "Family Man" Barrett and Carlton Barrett from The Wailers. Augustus Pablo also plays on a few tracks and it has cut up vocals by the likes of Horace Andy of Massive Attack fame.

"The late Keith Hudson's 1976 Pick A Dub was one of the first dub albums. Stuttering melodica, squelching keyboard and guitar chops and a mix which dropped instruments in and out of the sound picture every few bars made this one a must-have." -The Wire-

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