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thanks for the reccomendations, does anyone know of any albums similar to black woman and child by sizzla, i like the toasting style a lot and that and welcome to jamrock are basically the only albums the artist toast. im lovin the albums so far, i still gotta dl the later recommended ones
Any albums with deep dub production that feature lots of toasting or ragga chants? I know Lee Perry/The Upsetters sometimes had toasters, but I'm out of my depth with this genre.
check out
Junior Marvin
Gregory Issac
Barrington Levy
Lee Scratch Perry
I Wayne
MUTABARUKA
Burning Spear
dope thread gotta check some of this out myself
nice thread for the summer
If you like that classic roots reggae then I recommend EEK A MOUSE.
word the fuck up, im not a big reggae head, but Eek'll do it for me too...thats a good album^
Definately, that album is awesome, I bump it alot.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000061PP.jpg
OH NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
THI IS SEEERRIIIOOOOOOOOOUS!!!
i think i found what ive been lookin for, i recommend this album its fire
buju banton- 'til shiloh
king tubby + prince jammy + scientist = first, second and third generation for music from some of the innovators.
the congos
the heptones - leroy sibbles is great
lutan fyah
keith hudson - blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh
It's not traditional reggae by a long shot, nor even your average dancehall, but I love The Bug's work
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/1086-pressure.jpg
Pressure is a bit more dancehall, but with some seriously ragged and electronic beats. Some very energetic and intense ragga tracks with Daddy Freddy, Toastie Taylor, Rootsman & He-Man, and Wayne Lonesome, and some slow atmospheric dub tracks with Roger Robinson's dub poetry and Paul St. Hilaire (Tikiman)'s singing.
However the real masterpiece is London Zoo:
http://www.self-titledmag.com/wp-con...pL._SS400_.jpg
Obviously it's much more influenced by the grime and dubstep scenes (mainly the tracks with Killa P, Flowdan, and Warrior Queen), but it really emphasizes the dancehall/ragga roots of those genres while still keeping the aggressive fast-paced drums & ragga chants of grime and the subwoofer pummeling bass drops of dubstep. Also a few more traditional dancehall toasts and reggae crooning (the songs with Tippa Irie, Ricky Ranking and Roger Robinson) over dark riddims. I'm sure more than a few of you already know about this album since it got rave reviews and I'm sure even more of you are already familiar with "Skeng" and "Poison Dart," so I'll spare you that.
also mighty diamonds - right time. go seek your rights is a classic.
Basically this stuff is the reason I'm looking for earlier (anything pre-dubstep/grime) that has toasting or ragga chants over dub production. I like the deep atmosphere of dub, but I'm not a huge fan of plain old reggae singing, and I love the vocals in dancehall and ragga, but I find a lot of dancehall albums to be too one-dimensional for me (even though Buju has some pretty consistent stuff).