Tristan Palma

* Look how serious dude's album cover is?

More rub a dub ting for the massive. If you're coming here for some rap shiz don't bother cause I'm on a dread takeover and will be for a while.

Tristan Palma comes with it on this one. Again we have all Radics on the back end, but with a man called Jah Thomas on the production tip which ain't a bad thing.

This one really conveys the whole roots to dancehall transition I've been talking about. It is worth noting because there are only so many records that do it right.

Enjoy this one because it has some heat on it.



And here we have another album cover jammie which features Tristan posing with a guitar of alll things.

Track Listing:

Innocent Man
Babylon
Give Me Your Love
Lonely Man
Got To Praise Jah Jah
Joker Smoker
Peace And Love In The Ghetto
Two Timer
Ghetto King
Lover Man
Give Me A Chance *bonus
Time So Hard *bonus
Give I Girl *bonus
Joker Smoker (12" Mix) *bonus

Download:
Tristan Palma "Joker Smoker" 1982 Re-Issue

Fearless Vampire Killers

Things related to this movie:

- The poster artwork was done by Frank Frazetta
- Roman Polanski (director) married Sharon Tate (stars in the film)
- Charles Manson has posse kill Sharon Tate and 6 other people i.e "Helter Skleter"
- Heltah Skeltah is the name of a popular 90's hip-hop group
- Fearless Vampire Killers is the title of a Bad Brains song
- Roman Polanski would win Best Director in 2002 for "The Pianist"


Strange indeed.

Banksy Phone Booths

Oh Banksy you silly goose.


* Nicked from Wooster which they nicked from the man himself.

Graffiti: Utah

Utah is the latest graffiti artist to end up in a highly publicized court case. The funny part is I used to see her throw ups in lots of mags and books and just assumed it was a dude.

At any rate in another angry white people vs. a "scum bag tagger" we are treated to the same old rhetoric and tired ass arguments as to what the public should do with graffiti artists.


Read the article HERE

Movie Night At Unite's

I've been man handling the internet for music for years, but my movie rip game is weak. My buddy Unite finally got things going and went ahead and posted up two massive yardie movies "Babylon" and "Jammy At The Controls" for your download pleasure and I can't recommend these flicks enough. If you're into sound system culture.

Get them both here:

Party At 45 RPM

Little John

I'm not super up on Likkle John. This is the first long player of his I've come across and it is pretty damn good.

This one has Henry "Junjo" Lawes on the controls and Roots Radics on backing and it is another Channel One Studio ting.

"Let Go Me Hand" and "Why Won't You Come On" (think Keith and Tex "Tonite" riddim) are the big tunes on here in my opinion.

Run it.


Track Listing:

Give The Youth A Try
Why Won't You Come On
The More We Are Together
Tea Tar Toe
I Have Got To Go
Let Go Me Hand
Down A Yard
I Love My Mommy





Download:
Little John "Give The Youth A Try"

Hole In One

I bet this guy felt like a "horse's ass".

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Barrington Levy

(Two different album covers for ya)

I've gotten on this "rub a dub" kick of late.

The sleeve says it was released in 1982 and it sounds like it. All of the backing is pretty much Radics and it is a Channel One joint which makes this one a no brainer.

Barrington is another singer/deejay that survived the "roots to dancehall" transition of the 80's and he is probably one of the better performers out there as far live shows go.

If you're only familiar with "Murderer" and "Here I Come" then you should definitely grab this one and listen to him in his rub a dub prime.

Run it.



Track Listing:

1. She Is The Best Girl
2. Don't Give Up
3. Sensimella
4. True Love
5. Poor Man Style
6. This Little Boy
7. Rob And Gone
8. I Can't Wait Too Long
9. Man Give Up
10. I Love, I Love You


Download:

Barrington Levy "Poor Man Style" (Full Album)

Reggae Album Art

I usually comb through album art for 5 or 10 minutes to do these posts, but this time it took only a minute total because each one one I came across was straight fyah!

Barry Brown's "Cool Pon Your Corner" just might be my new favorite dancehall album cover ever. Look at that thing. He's like a pose able rude boy action figure with the kung fu grip.

The End

This is the end.

Grandiose Shop

Those who can't do, teach and those who can't teach, coach p.e.

My homie Nelson moved away from SD a while back and apparently got his act together and then some.

For all you AZ readers get on over to the grand opening of Grandiose as I can only imagine what is going to go down there.

Links:

Grandiose Web Site Soon Coming

Johnny Osbourne

Greensleeves keeps dropping more and more gems with their "Most Wanted" series and they finally got to one of my favorite's Mr Buddy Bye a.k.a Johnny Osbourne.

A while back Unite and I were rapping out with Half Pint and he told us to his knowledge that Johnny Clarke was the first dancehall singer not deejay and I can't really front on Half Pint seeing as he was actually THERE during the era and one of the major contributors to the sound.

However I do think that Johnny Osbourne may have been an extremely close second in my opinion or at least one of the best to do both.

Johnny can crush any tune and ride any riddim so effortlessly. His catalogs in both roots and dancehall are massive and worth hunting down if you have the time.

Greensleeves again comes correct with 12" mixes and extended versions.

Enjoy.


Track Listing:

01. Fally Ranking (12"mix)

02. Trench Town School (12"mix)

03. Ice Cream Love

04. Back Off with Papa Tullo (12"mix)

05. Trying To Turn Me On with Papa Tullo (12"mix)

06. Give A Little Love

07. Angel In My Arms (12"mix)

08. Water Pumping

09. Rewind

10. In The Area

11. Buddy Bye Bye

12. No Sound Like We

13. Dub Plate Playing

14. Struggle Ha Fi Gwan

15. Trickster (12"mix)


Download:

Johnny Osbourne "Greensleeve's: Most Wanted"

Quote of The Day: Foster's Law

"The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders."

- Foster's Law

D V US

It was my paint now its "his" paint.

It's a tough day when you get "D-Bo'ed" by your own son.

Last Resort

My buddy Jaime hipped me to Last Resort a while ago and I've had this cd in my car ever since. My knowledge of Oi! is pretty limited, but the subculture has been something I've been reading about in my free time for the last few years mainly due to its parallels with reggae and the fact that the originators of the Oi and Skinhead youth movements were some of the first groups to embrace reggae and immigrant Jamaicans in the UK.



Wikipedia defines: Oi!

"The general ideology of the original Oi! movement was a rough sort of quasi-socialist working class populism. Lyrical topics included unemployment, workers' rights, harassment by police and other authorities, and oppression by the government. Oi! songs also covered less-political topics such as street violence, football, sex and alcohol. Although Oi! has come to be considered mainly a skinhead-oriented genre, the first Oi! bands were mostly comprised of punk rockers and people who fit neither the skinhead nor punk label."

All that being said just download the record even if you're not a fan of oi or street punk and see if you like it.

Downloads:
Last Resort "A Way Of Life: Skinhead Anthems"