Holy Fire EP (MA12-03)

Battle of Jericho - Sister 40

Dub Fellowship

Riddim by Dreadsquad 
https://soundcloud.com/dreadsquad

Tanya Stephens - It's A Pity (International Currency Riddim / DCMJr Refix )

Out soon on Roots Tribe Records: Slimmah Sound & Lyrical Benjie - Firm In Jah. A 5 vocal / 5 dub showcase produced by Slimmah Sound. Modern Roots Reggae music. www.rootstribe.com // Available from JULY 1ST 2011 // LP - CD - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Slimmah Sound & Lyrical Benjie - Firm In Jah (album preview)

Without a glance, Hercules crushes him.
The foot lands. The shell cracks.
Carcinus is broken — not in battle, but in a moment no one sees.
He does not scream. He simply falls in silence.
And that silence echoes.

6.) Under Foot

Fences remix / Ras Tinny feat. Kazuman

Longfingah Meets Maxi Roots - Urban Mystic (Sticky Joe Remix) // taken from "Urban Mysic 45 & Remixes" Album
Artists: Longfingah/Maxi Roots/Sticky Joe
Album: Urban Mystic 45 & Remixes
Track: Jah Bless (Sticky Joe Remix)
Label: GuerillJah Productions
produced: GuerillJah Productions (Hardy Digital & Longfingah)
Cat.-No.: GP009
Release date: 31. October 2016

Longfingah Meets Maxi Roots - Jah Bless (Sticky Joe Remix)

Naja - I Can Fly (Riddim by Boombardub)

From the album SIMPLY WARRIOR. Get the CD and wav files at I-Roots Records: https://iroots.bandcamp.com/album/simply-warrior

African Culture
Alpha and Amlak tell them
 
Hold on to your culture
Remember we are stronger
Hold on to your culture
Africa we prefer
 
They call us pagan
We deal with spirits
They call us black magicians
We deal with physics
They call us sorcerer
We deal with digits
Numbers, metaphysics, ancient tongues and hieroglyphics 
This anciency is Nilotic
Fashioned and designed with melanin the natural mystic
Original mason I am Kemetic 
Equatorial ethic
Rastafari copasetic
 
No one can tell I who I must be
No one can tell I my destiny
No one can come and tell I about me
African roots is my identity
Like Mansa Musa covered in glory
Negus Ezana stepping in a victory 
What about Akhenaten and mighty Piankhi
Imhotep and Hatshepsut Selassie I 
 
I say we are beautiful and we are strong
Many shades of black under the sun
So we are big and we are long
Some people envy what they never could become
How can we praise Jah in a strange land?
How can we love Jah in a strong tongue?
How can we hail Jah in a wasteland?
Don't go outside yourself
African tradition

Fikir Amlak & King Alpha - Africa We Prefer & Dub

For over two decades, Glasgow’s Mungo’s Hi Fi and their label Scotch Bonnet have spread their fun, forward-thinking reggae music around the world. And this ethos is triple-distilled into their now eagerly- awaited Puffer’s Choice compilations.
The latest, third edition in the series collects some the last few years' top collaborative highlights onto one LP. With its cover bearing the MacLeod of Lewis tartan, Puffer’s Choice 3 is a celebration of both the label’s Scottish heritage and their global family tree of links with sound systems, artists and producers who share the same spirit.
The album begins with Heavenz by Norwich-based producers Chief Rockas, featuring the hypnotic flow of Jamaican-born emcee Mr Williamz, over a smoking “re-lick” of the famous Heavenless rhythm. It’s followed by the soulful voice of Ireland’s Cian Finn, singing traditional Celtic song Go Lassie on a sparse, dubby Mungo’s backing. This track was previously released on Mungo’s offshoot imprint Dumbarton Rock which quickly sold out.
The pastoral becomes the political as US-born, Wales-based crooner Jeb Loy Nichols gently reminds the world that To Be Rich (Should Be A Crime). It’s a biting message from Nichols’ album 'Long Time Traveller' produced by legendary dubbist Adrian Sherwood of On-U Sound. Scotch Bonnet crew member Stalawa draws on the African excursions that yielded 2019’s acclaimed Stalawa In East Africa EP. Rather Be Alone, featuring Kenya's 'First Lady of hip hop and reggae’ Nazizi, is the next cut to Ease Up the Pressure by Jamaica’s Delroy Melody and Uganda’s C Wyne.
Swedish production unit Viktorious (who Puffer's Choice fans will remember from 2016’s volume 1) revive Hotstepper, a lost lyric from Jamaican veteran Earl Cunningham. It was an unreleased artefact from a 1980s sound system cassette that deserves a wider audience. The digital sounds that rose in the 80s continue with Crucial by Swiss producer Bony Fly and New York vocalist JonnyGo Figure – whose style reminded Mungo’s of another NYC legend, Shinehead.
The record flips over to celebrate UK sound system heritage, with the first ever vinyl release of Interrupt’s Lyrics Spree, a family affair involving three generations of British lyricists, Parly B, Daddy Freddy and Tippa Irie. Also getting a first release on wax is hard-puffing, all Jamaican dancehall affair BBS, featuring Shokryme and RTKaL. Produced by experimental Kingston collective Equiknoxx, it demonstrates that however far Mungo’s Hi Fi’s interest in reggae may travel, they still listen to the island where it all started...
At the other end of the scale, musically and geographically, is Weak Hearts, a haunting, mechanical soundscape from New Zealand dubstep project Flying Fox. Its sparing, sampled vocal contrasts with the loud and clear anti-racist lyricism of Black, chanted by Jamaican sing-jay Skari over a deliberately unobtrusive backdrop from Belgium’s INT DUB.
Mungo’s Hi Fi themselves make a reappearance on the flipside with hymn to solitude, In My Zone, by Bristol emcee Gardna and singer Charli Brix. Taken from Gardna's debut album, the rhythm is a Mungo’s homage to Coki - Dry Cry (a dubstep bootleg using an old Sizzla acapella). The album’s final port of call is Sailor West by Cumbrian dubstep producer Somah and ethereal Edinburgh-based singer Nem, who appeared on Puffer’s Choice volume 2.
The third installment in what is now a reggae and dub lover’s institution, Puffer’s Choice 3 once again balances diversity with shared musical vision. Carefully selected by the Mungo's and Scotch Bonnet team, it stands for everything its creators value: community, experimentation, heavy bass and good times.

Viktorious & Earl Cunningham - Hotstepper

The Scientist Mastercraft

Egyptian Ankh

Independent record label created by Mungo's Hi Fi.

Viktorious & Earl Cunningham - Hotstepper

Scotch Bonnet Records

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