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Post by Captain Africa on Jan 11, 2024 0:18:40 GMT
I'm curious to know , if any of you 'watchers' would care to supply your top 5-10 tunes from 2023?(but somehow i doubt it) 
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Post by Captain Africa on Jan 16, 2024 2:21:38 GMT
OHHH you're all so bashful  OK constant readers, I'll get the ball rolling shall I? Captain Africa's Top Ten releases/reissues from 2023 (in no particular order) 1. As some of the constant readers may have seen my earlier post regarding Jane Bee's - River Nile - Tuff Scout 10", so her release easily makes the top five. Everyone I've played it to, really 'feels' it.  2.1212 featuring Earl 16 - Love will tear us apart - Happy People US 7" - yes I know everyone is probably sick to death of this old chestnut, but for me Earl makes it almost sound like his own song & great riddim/production as well 3.Leroy Smart - So Much Things (Dub plate cuts) - Music Works/Common Ground Int'l 10" + the Gussie Roots Sounds 7" of the same tune, both mixed by Russ D - HARD! 4.Gladiators - Can't Stop Righteousness - Hit Bound/Archive Recordings 7" - Excellent in every way. 5.VA - Studio One From The Vaults Vol.III - Studio One LP 6.Ruddy Symbal - A So The System Go - Sufferer / Hornin' Sounds 7" - simply beautiful. 7.Bakery All Stars - Send Me That Love - Hornin' Sounds 12" - ditto. 8.Best Of Natty Dread - Book - interviews with some seriously rare artists & splendid photos. 9.Joe Gibbs & the Professionals - 100 Years Of Dub - Dr Bird 2CD - I wasn't expecting to enjoy this set as much as I do? 10.Sangie Davis - Jingling Keys - Horus 7" close runners up, TJ Thomas - Sad To Know I Am Leaving - Deep Roots 12" Laury Webb - Woman My Queen - Jamwax 12" Ruddy Symbal - Time To Realise Sufferer/Hornin' Sounds 7" Roman Stewart/Heptones - Rain A Fall - Park Heights / DKR 7" Michael Powell - Christmas Time - Hot Stuff / TRS 12"
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Post by Funky Dread on Jan 31, 2024 18:23:24 GMT
Not a Top 5 or a Top 10, but most of DKR's rereleases of 2023 have been excellent.
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Post by Captain Africa on Jan 31, 2024 21:39:53 GMT
Really nice to see you posting FD. I agree DKR stuff is top! I reckon you could easily come up with at least a top 5...which tunes did you play most last year, ones that really stick in your mind perhaps? Go on mate give it a go |
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Post by Funky Dread on Feb 1, 2024 0:21:41 GMT
I do not make lists, but I enjoyed this DKR 7" very much: Junior Vibes: Sweet Jamaica. Excellent. I quote a list from Jah Reel here, I know that you have seen it before: I ROY 7" 101 Sister Maggie Breast (Observer) Produced by Niney 2 Musical Drum Sound (Syndicate) Produced by Lloyd Daley 3 Lloyd Coxsone Time (Tamoki) Produced by Roy Cousins 4 Sound Education (Ackee) Produced by Jimmy Rodway 5 Hot Bomb (Green Door) Produced by Derrick Morgan 6 Welding (Love) Produced by Joe Joe Hookim 7 Magnificent Seven/Leggo Beast (Smash) Produced by Gussie Clarke 8 Point Blank/Camp Road Skanking (Observer) Produced by Niney 9 Jazzbo Have Fe Run (Student) Produced by Pete Weston 10 How Do You Mean? (Well Charge) Produced by Joe Joe Hookim Compiled by OBSERVER STATION |
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Post by Captain Africa on Feb 1, 2024 8:26:14 GMT
Well this is kinda weird, I just recieved Junior Vibes - Sweet Jamaica yesterday!! Do you happen to work at Honest Jons by any chance FD?  (seems all most too much of a coincidence, that of all the thousands of records you could mention , you chose that one Spooky) Any ideas what became of Mr Reels massive collection? Cheers Capt A |
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Post by Captain Africa on Feb 1, 2024 8:28:05 GMT
[quote I quote a list from Jah Reel here, I know that you have seen it before: I ROY 7" 101 Sister Maggie Breast (Observer) Produced by Niney 2 Musical Drum Sound (Syndicate) Produced by Lloyd Daley 3 Lloyd Coxsone Time (Tamoki) Produced by Roy Cousins 4 Sound Education (Ackee) Produced by Jimmy Rodway 5 Hot Bomb (Green Door) Produced by Derrick Morgan 6 Welding (Love) Produced by Joe Joe Hookim 7 Magnificent Seven/Leggo Beast (Smash) Produced by Gussie Clarke 8 Point Blank/Camp Road Skanking (Observer) Produced by Niney 9 Jazzbo Have Fe Run (Student) Produced by Pete Weston 10 How Do You Mean? (Well Charge) Produced by Joe Joe Hookim Compiled by OBSERVER STATION [/quote] Great list Penny! |
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Post by Funky Dread on Feb 1, 2024 19:29:44 GMT
Well this is kinda weird, I just recieved Junior Vibes - Sweet Jamaica yesterday!! Do you happen to work at Honest Jons by any chance FD? (seems all most too much of a coincidence, that of all the thousands of records you could mention , you chose that one Spooky) Any ideas what became of Mr Reels massive collection? Cheers Capt A No, mr j j, I am not employed by any Jon, honest or otherwise. Wicked tune, though. And I have no idea about what happened to the collection. I heard somebody whisper that most of it got stolen, don't know if it's true, but that would add beautifully to the myth about Jah Reel's alleged badman connections. |
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Post by acidmintz on Feb 1, 2024 22:18:24 GMT
...Jah Reel's alleged badman connections. Badman connections - chortle chortle
I had my bike stolen once. Wonder if I had badman connections too? Sorry, I can't add anything pertinent to the thread - I don't remember the last reggae record I bought  |
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Post by Captain Africa on Feb 4, 2024 23:17:01 GMT
"Sorry, I can't add anything pertinent to the thread - I don't remember the last reggae record I bought"
How come Mintz?, just bored with the whole style, nothing of interest being released?
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Post by acidmintz on Feb 6, 2024 21:18:42 GMT
Hard to say really. I've been listening to reggae since I was about thirteen in 1980, but less and less in probably the last fifteen years. I guess my tastes have changed. I still have a fair amount and enjoy listening to it in the car, and I dare say I'll buy more in the future, but it's not the musical be all and end all to me that it once was  |
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(seems all most too much of a coincidence, that of all the thousands of records you could mention , you chose that one 
