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GAPPY RANKS "CARPENTER" OUT NOW! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/carpenter/id690362553?i=690362964 & https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/carpenter/id708499776?i=708499838

GAPPY RANKS - CARPENTER Played by ROBBO RANX on BBC1XTRA 9-19-13

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Gappy Ranks - Carpenter [Robbo Ranx Premiere]

Da'Ville - All You Need In A Friend

More Time

Bless Me

Originally released by Mango Records in 1988, Cultural Roots’ Running Back To Me features prime King Jammy digital production that brought forth hits like Wayne Smith’s “Sleng Teng” and would dominate Jamaican music between 1985-1995.

Cultural Roots emerged as a four-part harmony group for producer Donovan Germain in the late 1970s, releasing two albums. The group with its original lineup then recorded for Junjo Lawes, releasing Hell A Go Pop, one of the Greensleeves label’s lesser known classics.

The group reemerged in 1988 with a new trio lineup for King Jammy, still led by singer Wade Dyce. Tracks include the ever cultural “His Majesty Reign” and the moving love song “Passion Lover,” which shares the backing track with one King Jammy’s all-time smash hits, Frankie Paul’s “I Know The Score.”

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Running Back To Me is released as part of a series of late 1980s King Jammy catalog titles that also includes Wailing Souls' Stormy Night and the compilation Cries From The Youth (July 2023).

The late 80s represent a robust but controversial period in the Jamaican recording industry, as DJs were on the rise with new lyrical approaches, and digital production ruled the day. In the center of the storm was Lloyd James, better known as King Jammy, who is credited for revolutionizing digital production several years earlier with Wayne Smith’s “Under Mi Sleng Teng.” This was the era the term ‘dancehall’ came widely into circulation to describe the new digital sound that came to commonly include slack lyrics and gun themes popular on the street. 

Still relevant, the artists from the 1970s were working to redefine themselves in the digital era. Groups like Wailing Souls and Cultural Roots remained active, even if their multi-part harmony vocals might have seemed overly ornate on these new digital backing tracks, replete with drum machines and sparse synthesized chords. Solo singers like Johnny Osbourne, Junior Murvin, and the up and coming Cocoa Tea found a place for melody alongside the new crop of emcees.

With the thorough compilation Cries From The Youth, Greensleeves Records’ Chris O’Brien presents the period at King Jammy’s across 32 tracks, alongside two original, out of print albums in their entirety, from Wailing Souls and Cultural Roots.

Cries From The Youth is stridently and defiantly focused on the progress of underclass Jamaicans, recorded in the heart of Kington’s Waterhouse neighborhood at Jammy’s Studio at 38 St. Lucia Avenue. The collection features the work of established artists such as Sugar Minott, Dennis Brown, Johnny Osbourne, and Wailing Souls, alongside the cutting edge dancehall artists like Super Cat, Cocoa Tea, Nitty Gritty, and King Kong. The material deals with both reality narratives and more aspirational spiritual themes, all of which defined the times in Waterhouse and across the city of Kingston.

Cries From The Youth will be available on CD, digital platforms and a 10-track vinyl LP with stunning period photos by Simon Buckland. The first pressing of the LP package includes a 2' x 2' poster of the cover art.

Cries From The Youth (King Jammy's) [Disc 2]

His Majesty Reign - Cultural Roots

Here is Part Two. For this, I plucked my favorite songs from Bunny’s Sings the Wailers LP, which comes to about half that album, and mixed each with its respective dub cut from the Dubdsco Vol. 2 set. Beyond those, I’ve once again added some additional tunes…four 12” singles, and one 7”. The last tune here is one of his all-time, almighty songs, Rise & Shine. Deep roots from the early 80’s.  

Best of Sings the Wailers & Dubdsco Vol. 2 LPs:

Rule This Land
Rule This Land Dub
I Stand Predominate
I Stand Predominate Dub
Keep On Moving
Keep On Moving Dub
Burial
Burial Dub
I’m the Toughest
Toughest Dub
Galong So 12”
Cease Fire 7"
Dub
Trouble On the Road 12”
Collie Man 12” 
Rise & Shine 12”

Bunny Wailer Early 80s mix Part 2

SOLID ROCK - Reggae Feeling "Ras Kahindi Selection" 🇰🇪 (Jan. '24)

Quit While You're Ahead

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Heaven In Her Eyes

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The Best Of The Joe Gibbs Years

Ain't That Loving You

Riddim track from the "GREAT YABBY U"  JAH LOVE  is the title of his song, 2018 style "CLEAN AND PURE by CHUKKI STARR.
Real authentic reggae music for the SOUL....

How Long (Asher)

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