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Switchstance Recordings is celebrating it´s 20th anniversary this year and we would like to present to you a fine selection of hot and dirty Reggae tunes that we released over the years. KINKY REGGAE is our label compilation from the World of Reggae, Dub and Dancehall.

From the Ancient Astronauts collaboration with UK Reggae veteran Tippa Irie or Jamaican lyricist Monsoon to Protassov´s “I Wonder feat. Bajka” up to the collaboration by Kabanjak and Fat Albert Einstein or a Dub Remix of a Deela song with Spanish singer Maria Garcia Lora, here are some of our bass-heavy Reggae gems. 

From soulful messages to instrumental skanks, it´s all there. 

ONE LOVE

KINKY REGGAE

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Revelation Dub

Heart Of The Congos

Congoman

Gunman

Love and Unity

Hurt so Good

Dub It

Release Date: May 24, 2018
Label: Rootfire Cooperative

Band: forpeaceguam.com
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For Peace Band - Rarest Flower

“So Many Reasons” is the first single from The Elovaters sophomore album DEFY GRAVITY, produced by Danny Kalb, out Oct 26 on Rootfire Cooperative.

Pre-order Defy Gravity: https://fanlink.to/defygravity

Formed in 2014, The Elovaters are Jackson Wetherbee (lead vocal, rhythm guitar), John Alves (lead guitar), Nick Asta (drums), Matt Link (bass), Derrick Cabral (percussion), and Greg Nectow (keys). 

Their debut album, THE CORNERSTONE, was recorded by Mike Caplan at the legendary Lion and Fox Studios in Washington D.C. in 2017. It reached #2 on the iTunes reggae chart and #9 on the Billboard Reggae Chart, and the band has been touring heavily in support of the album ever since, opening for the likes of Ziggy Marley, Stick Figure, The Movement, John Brown’s Body, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and more.

https://theelovaters.com/

Defy Gravity

So Many Reasons

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First Listen: The Elovaters - "So Many Reasons" (Rootfire World Premiere)

The Elovaters "People Go" from new album DEFY GRAVITY out October 26 on Rootfire Cooperative! Produced by Danny Kalb.

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LYRICS:
I was chilling in the morning
So tired so sleepy don't wanna wake up
But the suns gonna rise, and so am I
Gonna fill my cup
Had to hit it, gotta get it
Running out the door
Getting on the road
To lift up my mood
I turn on the radio
Because it made me go

Zoo do do do do
The people go

The afternoon came crazy
I’m so lazy, gotta step outside
Take a deep deep breath
Get a little bit of air
Catch a little bit of sunshine

Well I never wanna be another number
Like the other gotta show how I shine
To cool my mood
I turn on the radio
Cause it makes me go

Zoo do do do do
The people go

As night time fell
Just like me I gotta rest my head
Can’t wait to get home, ease my bones and fall into bed

Then my friends gonna call me
Talking about a little party that’s going on down the road so
I throw on my clothes
Strap on my shoes
And turn up the radio

Zoo do do do do
The people go

People Go

The Elovaters - People Go

(Lyrics Below) New single from Steel Pulse's forthcoming album, Mass Manipulation, out 2019 on Rootfire Cooperative and Wiseman Doctrine.

www.steelpulse.com
www.rootfire.net/cooperative

LYRICS:
Amasaganalo 

Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come

This is a message
A message from the elders yeah (ancient ones)
Cause we living in the west
And we plenty miles away from home
Cause they are calling
Yes they're your ancestors yeah
And it's coming from the roots to my boots
And is shaking my bones so so

So stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come

You could a Twelve Tribe
Or Nyahbinghi
Or Judah Coptic or even Bobo Shanty
It was promised by His Imperial Majesty
The inheritance of Shashamane, ehh

Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come

Repatriation
Building us a brand new nation
Only then the prejudice and bigotry
Will (ever) leave us alone
Move out of Babylon
A thousand million strong strong
Lalibella is the place
For the healing of the Human Race, so so so

So stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come

You could a Twelve Tribe
Or Nyahbinghi
Or Judah Coptic or even Bobo Shanty
It was promised by His Imperial Majesty
The birthrights of Shashamane, ehh

Stop you coming and come
Stop you coming and come

It's our destiny
To know our history
No more slavery
Born to be free
African legacy
We never a colony
An African dynasty
For you and me
The African dynasty
Is part of me
African dynasty
Is part of me
Born to free
Our liberty

Mass Manipulation

Stop You Coming And Come

Steel Pulse - "Stop You Coming And Come"

From Steel Pulse's forthcoming studio album, MASS MANIPULATION, out May 17, 2019, on Rootfire Cooperative / Wiseman Doctrine. 

https://www.steelpulse.com
https://www.rootfire.net

LYRICS
 
Verse I
A who the hell do they think I am
A give me food from dem pot bottom
A give me scrap from their table
I man no desperate or disable
 
In dis ya land we live where dog eat dog
And some a dem a just a gwaan like hog
A simple ting fe mek jump and bark
A gravalicious like a harbour shark
 
Chorus I
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
For my people yeah    x2
 
Verse II
There’s just one thing I can’t overstand
What mek we love fe kill we own black man
Mi feel so shame mi have run and hide
Mi call it self-inflicted genocide
 
Me step aside and hav fe weep and moan
I feel the pressure right inside my bones
I man back against the wall
Woo l hold my head and bawl
 
Chorus II
Cry Blood
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
Cry Blood, Cry Cry Blood
For my people yeah
 
Verse III
Nyahbinghi Bobo Shanty I
In a dispute I says don’t know why
Be careful of the flag now
Don’t put the lion on its back now
 
A dis ya plan is to divide and rule
In a the end a we the people lose
So many martyrs come fe things right
Oh no I and I won’t give the fight
 
Chorus III
Cry Blood cry cry blood
Cry Blood cry cry blood for my people yeah
Cry Blood cry cry blood
Cry Blood cry cry blood for my people yeah
For my people yeah yeah
My people people
My people.
 
When we gonna wake up 
Yes we need a shake up
Let us kiss and make up
Or bare witness to this break up
The whole world’s taking advantage 
While we stand aside and look
It was prophesied we’d rise again
Just take a second look
 
A cry cry blood yeah
Cry blood cry blood
For my people yeah ye
My people people
My people.

Cry Cry Blood

Steel Pulse - Cry Cry Blood

The Russians Are Coming / Lonely Girl

The Russians Are Coming

Release date: June 28, 2019

Artist: https://princefatty.bandcamp.com/
Rootfire: https://rootfire.net

Get Ready

Get Ready Ft. Big Youth & George Dekker

Scientific Dub

Drum Song Dub

Short Break

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Get Ready Ft. Big Youth & George Dekker

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