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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Katchafire - Say What You're Thinking (2007) {Ohana}

Katchafire - Say What You're Thinking (2007) {Ohana}
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Genre: reggae

Say What You're Thinking is the 2007 album by New Zealand reggae band Katchafire. This was released on the Ohana label.

Katchafire - Say What You're Thinking (2007) {Ohana} **[RE-UP]**

01. Say What You're Thinking
02. Now Girl
03. Doesn't Anybody
04. Mr. Flava
05. I Dubb
06. This Would
07. Hold On
08. Love Letter
09. Ultra Music
10. Meant To Be
11. Pain
12. Working

Produced & engineered by Nick Manders
Assistant Engineer: Simon Gooding

VA - Riddim Ryders: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment}

VA - Riddim Ryders: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment}
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Genre: reggae, dancehall

Riddim Ryders: The Remix is a 2006 compilation CD released by the Blazing Flames Entertainment label. It features reggae and dancehall material, done "mix tape" style, by Vybe Kartel, Elephant Man, Tony Rebel, Silver Cat and many more.

VA - Riddim Ryders: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment} **[RE-UP]**

1. Jazzy T - Intro
2. Vybe Kartel - Nuttin' But Vibes
3. Swade - Come Home With Me
4. Voice Mail - How Love Had To Go
5. Kiprich & Fiona - Need Good Loving
6. Cecile & Don Yute - Get It On
7. Galaxy P - Living In The Fast Lane
8. Delly Ranks & Devil - Throw Your Hands Up
9. Lukie D - Jack It Up
10. Powerman & Spanner Banner - Party Going On
11. Megga Banton - Gal Fi Get Wok
12. Shadoo - Spend Pon A Gal
13. Ghost - Grand
14. Kirk Davis - You Sing To Me
15. Silver Cat - Hold Her Space (Simma)
16. Elephant Man - Love Fi Bow Down
17. Tony Rebel & Swade - Trust
18. Swade - Never Let You Go
19. Cecile & Loogaman - Me And You
20. Notch - Fly Away
21. Martina - My Kinda Loving
22. Jazzy T - Outro

VA - Dancehall Xplosion: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment}

VA - Dancehall Xplosion: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment}
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Genre: reggae, dancehall

Dancehall Xplosion: The Remix is a 2006 compilation CD released by the Blazing Flames Entertainment label. It features reggae and dancehall material, done "mix tape" style, by Mega Banton, Spragga Benz, Bounty Killer, Elephant Man and many more.

VA - Dancehall Xplosion: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment} **[RE-UP]**

1. Jazzy T - Intro
2. Lukie D & Red Fox - Up & Down
3. Mega Banton - Back Down
4. Cecile - Would You
5. Madd Anju - This Boy
6. Elephant Man - Fire
7. Red Rat - Bad Gal
8. Bounty Killer - Which One
9. Merciless - It's Me
10. Spragga Benz - Hall Of Fame
11, Assassin - Wah Gwaan
12. Chico - Teaser
13. Turbulence - I Love Her So
14. Determine - Blazing
15. Bounty Killer - Real Killa
16. Mr. G & Kirk Davis - Friday Night
17. Patchie & Shadoo - She's On Fire
18. Mr. G - Nah Get Down
19. Delly Ranks - Ha No Your Fault
20. Patchie - You Not Sharing
21. Roundhead - Monster's Back
22. Jazzy T - Outro

VA - Reggae Xplosion: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment}

VA - Reggae Xplosion: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment}
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Genre: reggae, dancehall

Reggae Xplosion: The Remix is a 2006 compilation CD released by the Blazing Flames Entertainment label. It features reggae and dancehall material, done "mix tape" style, by Sizzla, Luciano, Tony Rebel, Ghost, Halfpint and many more.

VA - Reggae Xplosion: The Remix (2006) {Blazing Flames Entertainment} **[RE-UP]**

1. Jazzy T - Intro
2. Tony Rebel - Women Of Jamaica
3. Buju Banton - Brighter Tomorrow
4. Ras Abijah - Live
5. Dasia - Down Here
6. Kirk Davis - Don't Cry For Me
7. Warrior King - Breath Of Fresh Air
8. Halfpint - Like You And Me
9. Ghost - Baby You
10. George Nooks - I Need To Know
11. Powerman - Navel String
12. Lee Kelly - Baby I Love You
13. Luciano - You Bring Me Joy
14. Halfpint - If Love Is Alright With You
15. Sizzla - Just Be Clean
16. Tony Curtis/Gipsy King/Future Troubles - No Special Time
17. Fiona - I Want You
18. George Nooks - Money In My Pocket
19. Limey - Cool Off The Pressure
20. Turbulence - No Doubt
21. Sizzla - Love And Affection
22. Jazzy T - Outro

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon (1976) {1995 Mango}

Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon (1976) {1995 Mango}
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Genre: reggae, dub

War Ina Babylon is the 1976 album by Max Romeo & The Upsetters. It was produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry, whose band backed up Romeo for this recording. This is the 1995 CD released by Island Records subsidiary Mango.

Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon (1976) {1995 Mango} **[RE-UP]**

1. One Step Forward
2. Uptown Babies Don't Cry
3. I Chase The Devil
4. War Ina Babylon
5. Norman
6. Stealing In The Name Of Jah
7. Tan And See
8. Smokey Room
9. Smile Out A Style

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Max Romeo-lead vocals
Barry Llewellyn, Earl Morgan-male harmony vocals
Marcia Griffiths, Cynthis Scholas-female harmony vocals

Produced and engineered by Lee Perry
Recorded and mixed at Black Ark Studio

Mavado - Gangsta For Life: The Symphony Of David Brooks (2007) {VP}

Mavado - Gangsta For Life: The Symphony Of David Brooks (2007) {VP}
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Genre: reggae

Gangsta For Life: The Symphony Of David Brooks is the 2007 album by Jamaican singer David Brooks, who is known under the mononym Mavado. This was released on the VP label.

In Gangsta for Life, "Squeeze Breast," a filthy-mout'd litany of Mavado's pussy-wrangling skills (rendered even more lascivious by the lingering Jamaican pronunciation of "poosey"), segues into "Heart Beat," an innocent, yearning love song to a girl he's yet to bed. The album's concept—this is a symphony playing off the Jamaican rapper's many moods—would misfire if Mavado weren't truly the "Real McKoy," as he announced in the 2004 tune that launched him. Taken together with scattered pearls of spoken piety dropped like blessings by a Rasta elder, Gangsta's tracks (some proven hits, some new) betray a severe case of multiple-personality disorder.

But Mavado represents for the "ghettio," and what could be more schizophrenic than an island life that's paradise for a few and a prison sentence for most? That essential truth is the source of reggae's sweet and sour attractions, so Gangsta is doing nothing less than keeping it all too real. The violence of "Me and My Dogs" and "ABP" lives side by side with "Sadness," Mavado's lament for his father, and it's not surprising that the album's centerpiece is "Dying," a Tupac riff that similarly vacillates between empathy and rage. Mavado's lyrical skills are nearly as shattering, and he's got that gift for singing with a mystic's sensibility and MC'ing with a thug's stony heart. At nearly every turn, what threatens at first listen to be a clichéd, hypocritical, blatant audience bid turns out to be truly dangerous, a bulletin issued straight from Jamaica's troubled psyche.

Mavado - Gangsta For Life: The Symphony Of David Brooks (2007) {VP} **[RE-UP]**

01. Parental Advisory
02. Angriest Introduction
03. Real Mckoy With A Full Clip (featuring Busy Signal)
04. Weh Dem A Do
05. A Father's Prayer
06. They Fear Me
07. Defitition Of A Gangster
08. Dreaming
09. Don't Cry
10. Cassava Piece Radio
11. Dying (featuring Serani)
12. David's Interlude
13. Top Shotta Nah Miss
14. Joey D Ratt
15. Last Night
16. A Snitch's Eulogy
17. Amazing Grace
18. Touch The Road
19. Me And My Dogs
20. APB
21. Gully Side
22. Squeeze Breast
23. Heart Beat
24. Sadness
25. Born & Raised

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Tracks 3, 6, 8, 11, 23, 25 produced by DASECA Productions
Track 4 produced by Delroy "Delly Ranx" Foster
Track 9 produced by Nikki Z
Track 13, 17 produced by Stephen "Di Genius" McGregor
Track 16 produced by Linton White
Track 18 produced by O'Neil "Foota Hype" Thomas
Track 19 produced by Trevor "Baby G" James & produced by Yard Vybz
Track 21 produced by Dane "Fire Links" Johnson]
Track 22 produced by Michaek "ZJ Liquid" Brissett
Track 24 produced by Bobby "Digital" Dixon & Famous

Sting - Love Is The Seventh Wave (New Mix) (vinyl rip) (UK 12" single) (1985) {A&M}

Sting - Love Is The Seventh Wave (New Mix) (vinyl rip) (UK 12" single) (1985) {A&M}
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Genre: pop, reggae

"Love Is The Seventh Wave (New Mix)" is a 1985 single by British bassist Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting. This was the second album from his debut solo album, The Dream Of The Blue Turtles and features a live version of "Consider Me Gone". This was released by A&M and is a vinyl rip.

1. Love Is The Seventh Wave (New Mix) (4:05)
2. Consider Me Gone (Live) (4:45)

Ripped by eharmonica

Thank you to the original uploader.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

311 - Music (1993) {Capricorn/Mercury}

311 - Music (1993) {Capricorn/Mercury}
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Genre: alternative, funk, rock, hip-hop, ska, reggae

This alternative Nebraska (United States) pop/rock combo may have had bigger hits in future projects but this was their major label debut that featured the hit tune "Do You Right". This was released buy Capricorn/Mercury.

311 - Music (1993) {Capricorn/Mercury} **[RE-UP]**

01. Welcome
02. Freak Out
03. Visit
04. Paradise
05. Unity
06. Hydroponic
07. My Stoney Baby
08. Nix Hex
09. Plain
10. Feels So Good
11. Do You Right
12. Fat Chance

Produced & engineeered by Eddy Offord
Assistant engineer: Mike Geiser, Scott Ralston
Mastered by Joe Gastwirt

Monday, October 12, 2020

Jah Cure - True Reflections… A New Beginning (2007) {VP}

Jah Cure - True Reflections… A New Beginning (2007) {VP}
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Genre: reggae

True Reflections… A New Beginning is the 2007 album by Jamaican singer Siccature Alcock, known under his pseudonym Jah Cure. This was released on VP Records.

Coinciding with his long awaited release from prison comes this release of "True Reflections … A New Beginning", collecting several of the most beautiful singles that were released during the last couple of the 8 years of Jah Cure's incarceration. Enigmatic roots singer Siccature Alcock - popularly known as Jah Cure - for those who don't know, got a 15 year sentence in 1999 after he was found guilty of rape and gun charges. Regardless of whether or not Jah Cure is truly guilty (rumours go that it was a setup initiated by the Jamaican government), it's the young singer's music that has to be judged on its own merits, and will be now that he's finally released. He'll be recording lots of new music very soon, will be performing at the rescheduled Cure Fest, originally planned in August and now taking place on the North Coast of Jamaica in Ocho Rios from October 12th to 14th, but before his first live performance will be in the Netherlands on August 12th at Reggae Sundance.

This album is a perfect set to celebrate his newly gained freedom filled with big tunes only (though most have appeared somewhere else before), Opening this album is the big title tune "True Reflection (Behind These Prison Walls)" over Downsound Records' version of the 'Reflections'-riddim, that is so much better than the Moses Productions version of it, used for all other tunes on 'Reflections', followed by another Downsound production, the 'Sweet Sop', not only backing the then Jamaican chart topping and European dancehalls ruling "Lucky You" by newcomer Nanko, but also this superb Jah Cure & Fantan Mojah combination "Dem Nuh Build Great Man" dem only kill great man and one of his best tunes ever and one of the strongest tunes on an overall brilliant voiced riddim, the superb lovers tune "Longing For", that also reached the No.1 spot in JA, and ruled the airwaves when Donovan 'Vendetta' Bennett a.k.a. Don Corleon's first heavy impact one drop riddim 'Drop Leaf' was released. The freshest (sic) tune on this album is Jah Cure's beautiful "To Your Arms Of Love" over the excellent one drop riddim 'Guardian Angel' that Arif 'Fresh Ear' Cooper released this spring, till then also known for straight hardcore dancehall riddims only.

Jah Cure's "What Will It Take", my love, to show you, i'm still in love with you? plea to his woman was recorded over Wayne 'Purple Skunk' Morris' riddim built round a Spanish acoustic guitar 'Istanbul' and then the two takes on (dancehall DJ) Chad 'Goofy' Simpson's riddims 'Soul Food' consisting of really nothing more than an acoustic guitar so it can hardly be called a riddim and the upful horn embellished 'Gideon' show what a great emotional singer and love-songwriter Jah Cure is, delivering his heartfelt "Your Love" and "Same Way". For Michael 'Mikey John' Johnson's Lion Paw label he recorded late in 2004 the wicked piece of Lovers Rock with i've been "Searching For A Girl" like you over the 'Nine Eleven'-riddim, released by VP Records (probably because of a policy as a NYC label to avoid being drawn into controversy because of the name of the riddim) as 'Lion Paw' named after Mikey John's label.

"Jamaica" is one of Jah Cure's most beautiful tunes and it's almost unbelievable someone allegedly innocent imprisoned in a country would record such a beautiful song of praise for that country, in this case over Danger Zone's 'Sunshine'-riddim, followed by a tune that has (as far as I know) never has been included on an album or compilation before, but that was recorded before Jah Cure went to prison over Stone Love's 'Children Of Israel/Give Me The Right'-riddim turned it into a window rattling thumper, the shining message tune "Cease All War". Germany's leading reggae singer Gentleman joins Jah Cure for the brilliant combination "Share The Love" over Vertex' 'Love Light'-riddim, and the superb "Love Is" was recorded in 2005 over Don Corleon's next equally high praised second one drop riddim 'Seasons', the successor of 'Drop Leaf', dismissed by some as being 'just a 'Drop Leaf' part 2', but this riddim is maybe (if possible) even better than 'Drop Leaf'. Then Jah Cure sings about his love for music in "The Sound" over Danger Zone's 'Turmoil'-riddim (one of the tunes that was included on his combination album with Richie Spice for Jet Star "Toe 2 Toe Vol. IX", the other tunes are "Jamaica" and "Most High Cup Full").

"Conga Man" is Jah Cure's excellent take on Downsound Records' impressive acoustic Nyahbinghi riddim featuring Bongo Herman's percussion alongside Beze's guitar 'Maroon' and the last tune on this great album is the beautiful "Most High Cup Full" over the by BBC 1Xtra's Seani B produced 'Sun Is Shining'-riddim for his Big League label, a superb relick of the classic Bob Marley & the Wailers classic riddim. These 15 all-killer-no-filler tunes makes this "True Reflections … A New Beginning" album (celebrating Jah Cure's release from prison) a must buy collection, even if you already know or even own most of these tunes.

Jah Cure - True Reflections... A New Beginning (2007) {VP} **[RE-UP]**

01. True Reflections
02. Dem Nuh Build Great Man
03. Longing For
04. To Your Arms Of Love
05. What Will It Take
06. Love You
07. Same Way
08. Searching For A Girl
09. Jamaica
10. Cease All War
11. Share The Love
12. Love Is
13. The Sound
14. Conga Man
15. Most High Cup Full

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Track 1 produced by Andrew Prendergast, Joseph Bogdanovich, Duane Stephenson, Superintendent Gladstone Wright and Sonita Walker
Track 2, 14 produced by Andrew Prendergast and Joseph Bogdanovich
Track 3, 12 produced by Donovan "Vendetta" Bennett
Track 4 produced by Arif Cooper
Track 5 produced by Wayne Morris
Tracks 6, 7 produced by Chad "Goofy" a/k/a "Mr. G" Simpson
Track 8 produced by Michael "Mikey John" Johnson and Rae Edwards
Track 9 produced by Mitchum Chin, Dwayne Chin-Quee, Delmar Drummond, Dean Drummond, and Edward Warren
Track 10 produced by Wee Pow
Track 11 produced by Ricky Genious and Ray Stephens
Track 13 produced by Delmar Drummond
Track 15 produced by Maurice DeLauney

Edited and mastered by Paul Shields at VP Mastering, NY

Saturday, October 10, 2020

VA - Relix (November 2008 CD Sampler) (2008) {Relix Magazine}

VA - Relix (November 2008 CD Sampler) (2008) {Relix Magazine}
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Genre: rock, reggae, blues rock, jam rock, indie rock, jazz

Relix (November 2008 CD Sampler) is a sampler CD that was part of the November 2008 issue of Relix magazine. This features tracks by Joan Osborne, Burning Spears, Lucinda Williams and many more.

WARNING: This does not feature the magazine to download, it is just the sampler CD.

VA - Relix (November 2008 CD Sampler) (2008) {Relix Magazine} **[RE-UP]**

1. Burning Spear - Step It
2. JJ Grey & Mofro - Orange Blossoms
3. Josh Rouse - Camping in Copenhagen
4. Joan Osborne - Sweeter Than the Rest
5. SIRSY - Revolution
6. Boris Garcia - Through the Window
7. Lubriphonic - Say Something Good
8. The Alan Cohen Experience - Elephant
9. Chip Greene - Everything About You
10. Clifton Williams and the Blue James Band - Believe
11. Laurie Larson - A Striking Resemblance
12. The New Cartographers - The Lionheart
13. Lucinda Williams - If Wishes Were Horses (editor's pick)
14. Geva Alon - In My Head (JamOff winner)

VA - Relix Magazine CD Sampler (February/March 2007) (2007) {Relix Magazine}

VA - Relix Magazine CD Sampler (February/March 2007) (2007) {Relix Magazine}
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Genre: country, Americana, reggae, rock, blues rock

Relix Magazine CD Sampler (February/March 2007) is a 2007 sampler CD found within the February/March 2007 issue of Relix magazine. This is just the sampler disc, not the full magazine.

01. Lucinda Williams - What If
02. Keller Williams featuring Bob Weir - Cadillac
03. Stephen Marley featuring Damian ''Jr. Gong'' Marley - The Traffic Jam
04. Max Allen - Underwear Umbrella
05. Xavier Rudd - Messages
06. Shady Deal - Faulkner
07. Assembly Of Dust - Telling Sue
08. Hardin Thomas - Movin' On
09. Spencer Durham - Floodwater
10. The Codetalkers - Ike Stubblefield
11. Tony Furtado - Used
12. Swatl - 2:00 am
13. Patti Griffin - Heavenly Day
14. The Brew - Faces

VA - Relix Magazine CD Sampler (February/March 2007) (2007) {Relix Magazine} **[RE-UP]**

VA - Relix Magazine CD Sampler (September/October 2006) (2006) {Relix Magazine}

VA - Relix Magazine CD Sampler (September/October 2006) (2006) {Relix Magazine}
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Genre: rock, blues rock, jazz, hip-hop, Americana, reggae, acoustic

Relix Magazine CD Sampler (September/October 2006) is a 2006 sampler CD found within the September/October 2006 issue of Relix magazine. This is just the sampler disc, not the full magazine.

01. Ray LaMontagne - Three More Days
02. Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood - Little Walter Rides Again
03. John Popper Project featuring DJ Logic - All Good Children
04. RAQ - Bootch Magoo
05. Circus Mind - Injuns Comin'
06. Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel (2006)
07. The Duhks - Down The River
08. MOJOE - Yesterday
09. Honkytonk Homeslice - Shot In The Blue
10. Devon Allman's Honeytribe - Torch
11. Gov't Mule - Unring The Bell (Live)
12. Scratch Track - Homeless Man

VA - Relix Magazine CD Sampler (September/October 2006) (2006) {Relix Magazine} **[RE-UP]**

Friday, October 9, 2020

Wings - Back To The Egg (1979) {1989 Capitol}

Wings - Back To The Egg (1979) {1989 Capitol}
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Genre: pop rock, soul, reggae

Back To The Egg is the 1979 album by Wings, a band featuring Paul McCartney. This is the 1989 CD pressing on Capitol which features three bonus tracks: "Daytime Nightime Suffering" (the B-side to "Goodnight Tonight") and McCartney's Christmas single from 1979, "Wonderful Christmastime" and "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae" in monaural.

Reversing the trend towards sophisticated production, this is very off-the-cuff: several tunes are just fragments (the tantalizing funk-rock "Reception"), and many of the harder-rocking tracks sound like home recordings ("We're Open Tonight"). All of which has a certain charm, and the thumping "Old Siam, Sir" and gorgeous "Arrow Through Me" (a flop single) are among his best work. But most of the songwriting is way below par: the rockers are nearly tuneless (the other flop single "Getting Closer," Laine's "Again And Again And Again") and the ballads are nearly tasteless ("After The Ball," "Baby's Request"). At this point McCulloch and English were already gone, replaced by Laurence Juber and Steve Holly, though as it turned out this was the last Wings record anyway. Two tracks feature Rockestra, an all-dinosaur lineup featuring Zepsters John Paul Jones and John Bonham, Pete Townshend and Kenney Jones from the Who, plus Ronnie Lane, David Gilmour, Ray Cooper, Gary Brooker, etc. Paul produced with Chris Thomas.

Wings - Back To The Egg (1979) {1989 Capitol} **[RE-UP]**

SUNNY SIDE UP
1. Reception
2. Getting Closer
3. We're Open Tonight
4. Spin It On
5. Again And Again And Again
6. Old Siam, Sir
7. Arrow Through Me

OVER EASY
8. Rockestra Theme
9. To You
10. After The Ball/Million Miles
11. Winter Rose/Love Awake
12. The Broadcast
13. So Glad To See You Here
14. Baby's Request
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BONUS TRACKS
15. Daytime Nightime Suffering
16. Wonderful Christmastime
17. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae

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STEVE HOLLY – drums
LAURENCE JUBER – guitar
DENNY LAINE – guitar, vocals
LINDA McCARTNEY – keyboards, vocals, back cover photos
PAUL McCARTNEY – vocals, bass, guitar, piano, back cover photos

Speedy Acquaye – percussion (8,13)
Tony Ashton – keyboards (8,13)
Black Dyke Mills Band – (11)
John Bonham – drums (8,13)
Gary Brooker – piano (8,13)
Tony Carr – percussion (8,13)
Howie Casey – horns (8,13)
Ray Cooper – percussion (8,13)
Tony Dorsey – horns (8,13)
Dave Gilmour – guitar (8,13)
Steve Howard – horns (8,13)
John Paul Jones – bass and piano (8,13)
Kenney Jones – drums (8,13)
Ronnie Lane – bass (8,13)
Hank Marvin – guitar (8,13)
Morris Pert – percussion (8,13)
Thaddeus Richard – horns (8,13)
Bruce Thomas – bass (8,13)
Pete Townshend – guitar (8,13)
Phil McDonald – engineer

As you may recall, the last time we came upon Paul McCartney, pilot of Wings, he'd fashioned a thirteen-song offering called London Town, whose mildly tuneful title track was the epitome of the now-familiar, latter-day McCartney style of songwriting.

People pass by me on my imaginary street

Ordinary people it's impossible to meet

Holding conversations that are always incomplete

Well, I don't know….

Gliding along on the wheels of a catchy little melody, we were scarcely into his pale narrative when McCartney began laying out the limitations of the tale he was to tell. Still, the melody was infectious and the possibilities sufficiently promising, so we went along for the ride on the odd chance of meeting one of those ordinary folks he was crooning about. And, at length, we did—sort of.

Out of work again the actor entertains his wife

With the same old stories of his ordinary life

Maybe be exaggerates the trouble and the strife

Well, I don't know….

Thus unfolded another thoroughly unsatisfying Paul McCartney song on the archetypal Wings LP. London Town was an irritating mélange of lyric fragments, squandered melodies and clever but half-assed arrangements, the whole unrealized mess packaged with a slick, unctuous flair that would have reduced an idea like "Eleanor Rigby" to a two-line roundelay.

Since his solo debut in 1970 with the casual, albeit totally original McCartney, this ex-Beatle has been lending his truly prodigious talents as a singer, songwriter, musician and producer to some of the laziest records in the history of rock & roll. With the exception of Band on the Run and some relatively cohesive material on Venus and Mars, McCartney's work with Wings has proven to be as scattershot as it is puerile, each abortive rock snippet and silly love song feeding the mounting bewilderment about his direction (or utter lack of it) as an artist. Who, one felt compelled to ask, is in charge here? Back to the Egg provides the final, obvious answer: no one.

After ten Capitol albums with wife Linda, stalwart Denny Laine and various incarnations of Wings, McCartney jumped to Columbia last year in a multimillion-dollar deal that many thought would represent a new era for him musically. Despite the addition of Steve Holly on drums and Laurence Juber on guitar, Back to the Egg is just about the sorriest grab bag of dreck in recent memory.

Herewith, a sample of the words from the single, "Getting Closer": "I'm getting closer, my Salamander/When will we be there? Oh no, don't answer." Mercifully, no lyric sheet is provided, but a throwaway scrap (what other kind of McCartney lyric is there?) from the above tune about a "radio playing a song with a point" sets an ironic tone for the entire LP. A veritable slide show of dead-end flights of fancy and yesterday's dross, Back to the Egg doesn't contain one cut that's the least bit fleshed out or brought to any logical conclusion. In place of well-framed songs, we get an irritating display of disjointed images and unfocused musical snapshots. Titles are abundant (fourteen in all), but the content is largely regurgitant. "We're Open Tonight" bears a strong resemblance to London Town's "I'm Carrying," while "Winter Rose/Love Awake" recalls "Power Cut" on Red Rose Speedway. "After the Ball/Million Miles" is the obligatory tip of the McCartney hat to English music-hall tradition, but it's vastly inferior to even such half-baked fluff as Venus and Mars' "You Gave Me the Answer."

The instrumentation on Back to the Egg is so scrambled that any serious criticism would be ridiculous, except to note that the much-heralded "Rockestra Theme" (featuring the playing of Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, John Bonham, Gary Brooker, David Gilmour, John Paul Jones, et al.) is a flat affair cooked up around one hackneyed riff. Likewise, the runaway bass that made the disco single, "Goodnight Tonight" (absent from the album), a curiosity is in ample supply here, but not nearly as inventive or powerful. Instead, McCartney just retraces his tired old patterns.

"Arrow through Me" illustrates why Paul McCartney's output is rarely covered anymore by other artists. At first pleasing to the ear, this love lament soon becomes so flaky that no other performer would dare stand naked with it. Indeed, the only track deserving of special mention is Denny Laine's "Again and Again and Again," a somewhat engaging rock segment that could have been built into a comprehensible song. The rest of the record sounds like a rude mixture of subbasement tapes and prose torn at random from the Yellow Pages, interspersed for no discernible reason with—no kidding—some spoken excerpts from John Galsworthy's The Little Man and Ian Hay's The Sport of Kings.

In keeping with the fractured nature of Back to the Egg, I offer the reader a multiple-choice ending to this review, with the suggestion that he or she consider combining all of the following:

(A) This album is nothing more than a slipshod demo by an aimless band. If it had arrived unsolicited in the offices of Columbia, it would have been returned in the next mail with a terse "No thank you."

(B) I can think of few other prominent rock musicians who'd have signed their names to this kind of drivel. McCartney's gross indulgence is matched only by his shameless indolence, and Back to the Egg represents the public disintegration of a consistently disappointing talent.

(C) Paul McCartney (how does this man sleep?) has been plagiarizing his own material for years now, and he's finally run out of recycled ideas. With a few key word changes, the lyrics that began this piece could end it on an appropriately grim autobiographical note.

(D) Where have you gone, Emmitt Rhodes? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Improvisators Dub featuring Jonah Dan & Danny Vibes - Super Vocal & Dub Session (2002) {Vicious Circle}

Improvisators Dub featuring Jonah Dan & Danny Vibes - Super Vocal & Dub Session (2002) {Vicious Circle}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 529 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 261 mb
Genre: reggae, dub

Super Vocal & Dub Session is the 2002 album by Improvisators Dub. This project, released by French label Vicious Circle, also features Jonah Dan & Danny Vibes.

Fans of low-end dub will love this band and the album, a mixture of songs with vocals and their dub counterparts.

Improvisators Dub featuring Jonah Dan & Danny Vibes - Super Vocal & Dub Session (2002) {Vicious Circle} **[RE-UP]**

1. Truths And Rights
2. Truths And Dub
3. Warmonger Men
4. Warmonger Dub
5. Need More Love
6. Need More Dub
7. Improvisators Dub Stylee
8. Stylee Dub
9. Sitar Man Rock
10. Sitar Man Dub
11. Dirty Babylon
12. Dirty Dub
13. Come Rain, Come Shine
14. Come Rain, Come Dub
15. Soul Piper
16. Soul Dub

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Manutension-guitar, machine
Fouine-sound system
Russ D-mixing
Fransax-saxophone
Nicolodub-bass, keyboards
Knarfenstein-drums
Jonah Dan-vocals
Danny Vibes-vocals

versions chantees mixed by Fouine & Russ D
dub versions mixees by Russ D

Recorded and mixed at Le Chalet Studio (33-FR) September and December, Dubmil O

Thursday, September 24, 2020

VA - Vintage Reggae 80's Café (2020) {Music Brokers}

VA - Vintage Reggae 80's Café (2020) {Music Brokers}
WEB Rip | FLAC (no log) | scans | 606 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 217 mb
Genre: reggae

Vintage Reggae 80's Café is a 2020 compilation of reggae covers by some of your favorite pop chart songs of the last 40 years, focusing on the 1980's. This was released by Music Brokers.

01. Sublime Reggae Kings/Luca Giacco - I Want To Know What Love Is (3:28)
02. Natty Bong/Michelle Simonal - As (3:12)
03. Pinky Dread/Sarah Menescal - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) (2:58)
04. Groove Da Praia - The Final Countdown (3:52)
05. Freedom Dub - Still Loving You (3:28)
06. General Soundbwoy/Ivette Moraes - Smooth Operator (4:08)
07. United Rhythms Of Brazil/Shirley Adamson - Walk Of Life (3:29)
08. Vintage Reggae Soundsystem, Luca Giacco - Still Got The Blues (3:40)
09. The Reggister's - The Guns Of Brixton (4:00)
10. Sublime Reggae Kings - Self Control (4:15)
11. Luca Giacco - Drive (3:30)
12. Natty Bong - Higher Love (3:54)
13. Sarah Menescal - Where Is My Mind? (3:12)
14. Urban Love - Don't Dream It's Over (4:18)
15. ublime Reggae Kings - Strangelove (3:01)
16. Luca Giacco - Another Day In Paradise (4:32)
17. Natty Bong/Vintage Reggae Soundsystem - Misunderstanding (2:35)
18. Jamaican Reggae Cuts - Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World (Reggae Version) (5:01)
19. Trippynova - Tonight (3:11)
20. Vintage Reggae Soundsystem - Every Breath You Take (4:22)
21. General Soundbwoy - Take On Me (4:32)
22. Groove Da Praia - I'll Be There For You (4:41)
23. Dualbox/Luca Giacco - Mystify (4:31)
24. Groove Da Praia - Toy Soldiers (4:57)
25. Jamaican Reggae Cuts - Every Time You Go Away (5:03)

Thank you to the original uploader.

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Luciano - Jah Is My Navigator (2008) {VP}

Luciano - Jah Is My Navigator (2008) {VP}
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 144 mb
Genre: reggae, roots reggae

Jah Is My Navigator is the 2008 album by Jamaican artist Jepther McClymont , who is known simply as Luciano. This was released by VP Records.

01. For I
02. Jah Is My Navigator
03. Darkness
04. No Evil
05. I'm The Tuffest
06. Never Give It Up
07. Trod Out
08. Sweet Jamaica
09. Jah Live
10. Wish You Were Mine
11. Paradise Last
12. African Liberty
13. Wise Up Youth
14. Jah Canopy
15. Hard Herbs

Andrew Tosh-vocals (track 5)
Rochelle Bradshaw-vocals (track 11)

Nitroflare (MP3)
Icerbox (MP3)

Thursday, August 20, 2020

VA - Reggae Platynum 2002 (2CD) (2002) {Blu-Print/J&D}

VA - Reggae Platynum 2002 (2CD) (2002) {Blu-Print/J&D}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 660 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 249 mb
Genre: reggae, dancehall

Reggae Platynum 2002 is a 2CD reggae/dancehall compilation released in 2002. Disc 1 are different songs in completion while Disc 2 is a "mixtape" of sorts where songs and riddims are blended together for a non-stop listening experience. You have a number of familiar names (Bounty Killer, Elephant Man, Wayne Marshall, Sean Paul) along with a few that have faded into obscurity. This was released by Blu-Print/J&D.

DISC 1
1. Oshan Dia-Love
2. Ababa-Yaba Guide (Jah Guide)
3. Turbulence-Finally Free
4. Dennis Brown/Beres Hammond/Freddie McGregor-We All Are One
5. Richie Spice-Monday Morning
6. Glen Washington-Oh What A Feeling
7. Rehka-Too Close
8. Bounty Killer-Thought I Told You
9. Sean Paul-Give Me The Light
10. Elephant Man-Somebody Looking
11. Wayne Marshall-Top That

DISC 2-Renaissance Mix Tape Vol. 4
1. Dr. Dre-Intro
2. Wayne Marshall-Renaissance Special
3. Frisco Kid-Turn It Up
4. Assassin/Sugar Slick-Renaissance Special
5. Devonte-Sweet Symphony
6. Sean Paul-Junkin Punky
7. Buju Banton-All Over Me
8. Wayne Wonder/So Ki Ru-How We Roll
9. Bounty Killer-Fire With Fire
10. Elephant Man-Somebody Looking
11. Ninjaman-Same Sound
12. Sean Paul-Renaissance Special
13. Sean Paul-Give Me The Light
14. Mr. Easy-Don't Test Me
15. Rehka-Too Close
16. Elephant Man-Haters Wanna War
17. Bling Dawg-Renaissance Special
18. Wayne Marshall-Top Dat
19. Elephant Man-Which One
20. Bounty Killer-Thought I Told You
21. Dr. Dre-Outro

VA - Riddim CD 06 (2006) {Riddim magazine}

VA - Riddim CD 06 (2006) {Riddim magazine}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 497 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 246 mb
Genre: reggae, dancehall, dub

This is the sampler CD that came with a German-based reggae/dancehall magazine called Riddim. The magazine is now available in English, and this is from the 6th English edition.

01. Busy Signal featuring Mavado - Badman Place
02. Sly & Robbie featuring Elephant Man - Walk Out
03. Buju Banton - Fast Lane
04. Levysill - Hear & Def
05. Lexie Lee - Keep It Duttyah
06. Twilight Sound System featuring Natural Black - Are You Ready
07. Lustre Kings - Red Razor Megamix by DJ Child Of PGM
08. Irie Ites - Borderline Megamix
09. Michie One - Real Man
10. Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars - Living Like A Refugee
11. Roger Robin - Take It Slow
12. Culture - Raw Truth
13. Riddim Soundclash Dub Fi Dub - Bass Odyssey vs. LP Int. vs. David Rodigan