Babylon Falling is the launching mixtape and soundtrack of this new project, One Blood Records, an online record shop focused in Reggae Roots and Digital.

In this mixtape we go back to the Jamaica of the 80s were the new technologies just landed in the island and hit Reggae Music with it's drum machines and synthesizers. It made possible that new producers joined the business as the need of musicians to record "real" instruments in a proper studio would end.

As Frederick R Dannaway says in his article for the "Red Bull Music Academy Daily" the new technologies democratized the music production as producers with less resources could make riddims from their tiny bedrooms.

All that gave way to a new style called "Digital Reggae", characterised by its sharp drums and its melodies coming from retro synthesizers that still to this day, although with a renovated sound, remain present in the Reggae scene.

This mixtape then, focuses on the transition from the Roots to the Digital of the first half of the 80s, the style also known as "Digi-Roots", and on the Digital from the second half of the 80s.

Hope you vibe it as I did when I made it.
Peace.

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Babylon Falling es la mixtape que inaugura y pone banda sonora a este nuevo proyecto, One Blood Records, tienda online de vinilos especializada en Reggae Roots y Digital.

En esta mixtape viajamos a la Jamaica de los 80 donde la llegada de las nuevas tecnologías a la isla golpeó al Reggae con sus cajas de ritmos y sus sintetizadores. Esto hizo posible que nuevos productores entraran al juego ya que la necesidad de tener un estudio como tal y tener que contar con músicos para grabar instrumentos "reales" se acabaría.

Como dice Frederick R Dannaway en su articulo para la "Red Bull Music Academy Daily" las nuevas tecnologías democratizaron la producción musical ya que productores con menos recursos podían crear riddims desde sus pequeñas habitaciones.

Esto dio pie a un nuevo estilo, el "Digital Reggae" caracterizado por baterías afiladas y melodías provenientes de sintetizadores ochenteros que aún hoy en día, aunque con un sonido renovado, sigue estando presente.

Esta mixtape pues, se centra en la transición del Roots Reggae al Digital de la primera mitad de los 80, denominado también como "Digi-Roots", y en el Digital de la segunda mitad de los 80.

Espero que os mole y la disfrutéis tanto como yo haciéndola.
Paz.

Tracklist:

Sidney Mankind - The Truth
Clive Matthews - Live not for Vanity
Mcwoner - Higher Region
Jah Mel - Sufferer's Song
Barrington Levy - Don't Run Away
Midnight Riders - Cross the Border
Eek a Mouse - Tell them
Horace Martin - Me Rule
John Holt - Love & Understanding
Midnight Riders - Me a no Gunman
Boom Back - Ghetto Life
Don Carlos - Heartbreaker
Peter Broggs - Jah Jah voice is Calling
Yammie Bolo - Free Mandela
Boom Back - Road Block
Michael Palmer - Jah is on my Mind
Don Carlos - Knock Knock
Winston Hussey - Settle every Posse
Patrick Cool - Slave Driver
Tinga Stewart - Babylong Falling
Clive Matthews - Change your Constitution
Don Carlos - Black History
Winston Hussey - Ghettoman Problem
Hopeton Lindo - Roadblock
Michael Palmer - Ghetto Dance
Johnny Osbourne - Let Him Go
Midnight Riders - Youthman Invasion
Patrick Cool - Father Nature
Nathan Skyers - Don't go Away
Flick Wilson - Ready fe Dem
Midnight Riders - Wanted
Milo - Woman Mek you Wine So
Major King - Jahovia
Philip Myers - Ghetto Struggle
Crime Stoppa - Drugs Addiction
Suru Board - Serious Ting

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