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Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 18 July 2010 CE
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Edited Jul 21, 2010, 15:38
Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 18 July 2010 CE
Jul 21, 2010, 15:35
zphage wrote:
Sin Agog wrote:
I never really gave Dancehall much of a chance, mostly because whining about how Reggae died with the '80s along with everything else just sounded so neat and easy. The kind of opinion music mags drum into you. But you know, some of the best stuff ever made came out in that decade, so I don't see why it should be too different with reggae. I think when I first heard Dancehall I wrote it off as the New Romantic of Reggae. Totally wrong. Here's a link to a show on Digital Dancehall by Rinse.FM that's almost singlehandedly brought the genre back from the dead for me. So much excellent music.

http://www.theheatwave.co.uk/music/item/25yearsofdancehall/


roots was dead by '82; went thru the same turmoil soul music did, coming out denatured as only R&B, same with reggae.

I listened to this with interest, but really miss the heavy bass and soulful vocals replaced by cheesy plinky synths and sing speak vocals


Largely driven by a change up in drug use among the artists presumably.

I've got 'Til Shiloh some Garnet Silk and a few other bits and bobs -mainly Wackies productions - but my reggae collection tails off mightily after 85ish. Would like some pointers to more modern gems but that digital sound mainly leaves me cold. That said there were a couple of really nice Kiddus I releases a few years back "Ina Da Yard" and a compilation. Though that comp was exhumed 70s stuff. Johnny Osbourne was the last "new" artist to really crank my handle. Which is a short lifetime ago. Unless you count the On-U stuff.
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