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Artist:
VA
Title:
Tempo Explosion
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
DO ADM070CD
Moving between New York and Kingston, Jamaica, in the mid-1980s, the revered Black Victory label was a perfect storm, crossing the sainted ranks and deep lineages of Studio One and Bullwackies, together with the first, most celebrated strikes of the digital revolution in reggae. The musicians -- for the JA recordings presented as
The Studio One Band
, in NYC as the
Black Roots Players
-- included Brentford Road legends like bassist
Bagga Walker
and keyboardist
Pablove Black
, alongside White Plains Road aces like sax-man
Jerry Johnson
and percussionist
Ras Menilik
. The studios were Bullwackies, in the Bronx, where the genius
Lloyd Barnes
produced
Tempo Explosion
with
Sugar Minott
, and Music Mountain, in Stony Hill, Kingston, where
David Rowan
was the recordist, and the heavyweight
Crucial Bunny
(from Channel One) mixed the
Nitty Gritty
LP,
General Penitentiary
. Business was run from two New York record shops: Madison Records at 125th Street in Harlem, and Wackies. Dancehall savior of Studio One and co-architect of Black Victory, Wackies stalwart Minott himself takes the mic, kicking off the imperious
Tempo Explosion
version-excursion. Studio One veteran
Willie Williams
turns in one of his masterworks, a pile-driving Shaka murder, with a deejay cut by newcomer
Colorman
. Throughout Black Victory, the musicianship and dubwise production magnificently rides the cusp between analog and digital, with masterful live performances and swinging drum programs seamlessly combined. This is an album containing eight versions on
King Tubby
's "Tempo" rhythm, originally released in 1985 and produced by
Bullwackie
and Sugar Minott. Sleeve art by design by Wackies artist
Leslie Moore
. Other artists featured include:
Chris Wayne
,
Ras Menilik DaCosta
,
Jerry Johnson
and
Black Roots Players
.
Artist:
VA
Title:
Tempo Explosion
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
DO ADM070LP
LP version. Moving between New York and Kingston, Jamaica, in the mid-1980s, the revered Black Victory label was a perfect storm, crossing the sainted ranks and deep lineages of Studio One and Bullwackies, together with the first, most celebrated strikes of the digital revolution in reggae. The musicians -- for the JA recordings presented as
The Studio One Band
, in NYC as the
Black Roots Players
-- included Brentford Road legends like bassist
Bagga Walker
and keyboardist
Pablove Black
, alongside White Plains Road aces like sax-man
Jerry Johnson
and percussionist
Ras Menilik
. The studios were Bullwackies, in the Bronx, where the genius
Lloyd Barnes
produced
Tempo Explosion
with
Sugar Minott
, and Music Mountain, in Stony Hill, Kingston, where
David Rowan
was the recordist, and the heavyweight
Crucial Bunny
(from Channel One) mixed the
Nitty Gritty
LP,
General Penitentiary
. Business was run from two New York record shops: Madison Records at 125th Street in Harlem, and Wackies. Dancehall savior of Studio One and co-architect of Black Victory, Wackies stalwart Minott himself takes the mic, kicking off the imperious
Tempo Explosion
version-excursion. Studio One veteran
Willie Williams
turns in one of his masterworks, a pile-driving Shaka murder, with a deejay cut by newcomer
Colorman
. Throughout Black Victory, the musicianship and dubwise production magnificently rides the cusp between analog and digital, with masterful live performances and swinging drum programs seamlessly combined. This is an album containing eight versions on
King Tubby
's "Tempo" rhythm, originally released in 1985 and produced by
Bullwackie
and Sugar Minott. Sleeve art by design by Wackies artist
Leslie Moore
. Other artists featured include:
Chris Wayne
,
Ras Menilik DaCosta
,
Jerry Johnson
and
Black Roots Players
.
Artist:
TENOR SAW
Title:
Victory Train
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
DO ADM071EP
Tenor Saw
gets full superstar treatment from the best in the business, with a tremendous, chunky, runaway rhythm, dominated by
Bagga
's roiling bass, burning horns and dubwise, lightning-clap percussion. Not to mention a full-color picture-sleeve, replicated by Dug Out.
Artist:
NITTY GRITTY
Title:
General Penitentiary
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
DO ADM080CD
Basic Replay presents another Black Victory label classic missing-in-action,
Nitty Gritty
's 1987 album
General Penitentiary
. With superb rhythms and killer dubs, this album is a dream combination of Studio One and Bullwackies musicians, with the young sing-jay already at the top of his game. Nitty Gritty: the name alone tells you that he was rough and tough. Having survived many a hard time in the ghetto, he came forward on
General Penitentiary
in his own strong original style.
Artist:
NITTY GRITTY
Title:
General Penitentiary
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
DO ADM080LP
LP version.
Artist:
WILLIAMS/COLARMAN, WILLI
Title:
Sweet Home/Budget
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
DO ADM084EP
Driving Shaka murder, fury and yearning coiled into an ideal marriage of digital and old-school music-making.
Bagga Walker
and a drum-machine tear up the dub. Complete with rare, ebullient
Colarman
toast.
Artist:
MINOTT, SUGAR
Title:
Sheriff John Brown
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
DO ADM095EP
Dancehall savior of Studio One, and co-architect of Black Victory, Wackies stalwart
Sugar Minott
himself takes the mic. The single "Sheriff John Brown" is a driving sufferer's cliffhanger about bent cops and going on the run. Included here also is another version and a "Brown Dub."
Artist:
ANTHONY REDROSE
Title:
Electric Chair
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
7"
Price:
$10.00
Catalog #:
DO DS1
A stinging, thumping, futuristic soundboy frightener, terrible and remorseless, this was originally brandished by JA producer
Dennis "Star" Hayles
in 1989, caged in a label sampler. Mid‐decade,
Anthony Redrose
had a smash hit for
King Tubby
with an immortal song about a rhythm with fierce tempo; by now it has mutated into a killing machine, controls set to vaporize all zinc pan, super‐charged with the shock treatment of all dibbi dibbi.
Artist:
JAH WARRIOR
Title:
Dub From The Heart/Heartical Dub
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
7"
Price:
$10.00
Catalog #:
DO JW702
A collaboration between
Steve Mosco
and
Dougie Conscious
, this was originally released in 1996, in the early days of Steve's London‐based Jah Warrior label. With one eye on the past, this captures UK roots sound‐system vibes, like magic in a bottle; the other on the future, it's a prophecy of dubstep. The music is live and direct, in‐session; grooving and intense, dense and massive; swirling, sizzling and echoing, with writhing, junglist bass.
Artist:
KING KONG
Title:
He Was A Friend/Try Not I
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.50
Catalog #:
DO KK3-EP
This record follows on from the string of mid-'80s hits for Firehouse, Jammy's, Ujama and co, for which
Dennis Thomas
aka
King Kong
is most celebrated. Originally released in 1988 as a tribute to his friend
Tenor Saw
, killed that year in suspicious circumstances, it came as a 12" on Thomas' own Concious Music label, and as a 7" (without "Try Not I") on Jah All Mighty in New York. This is the great dancehall singer at his most powerful. Both vocals come with dubs, and the rhythm is driving, hard and sombre, with nervous, grubbing synths, ringing claps, and a lethal bass-line. Dug Out is devoted to reggae reissues, run by
Mark Ainley
and
Mark Ernestus
. Restoration done at Abbey Road Studio, mastering at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin.
Artist:
BROWN, FOXY
Title:
Love Is Where You Find It/Version
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
7"
Price:
$9.00
Catalog #:
DO PO8218
Careening from the Black Sublime of
Dadawah
to the, er,
Foxy Brown
of
Jennifer Hylton
, Dug Out lets off this early-'90s r'n'b-tipped torpedo, recorded by
Lloyd Pickout Dennis
at Dynamic, with the
Firehouse Crew
--
George
programming drums,
Danny
the bass, and
Wrong Move
the other keys.
Artist:
LITTLE JOHN AND BILLY BOYO
Title:
What You Want To Be
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
DO RI003EP
Rougher than rough
Roots Radics
cut from 1982, fired up with wild effects, murderous dubbing, and live, jostling microphone interplay; and with an excoriating version. Who come fe mash it, man, them can't stand a chance, cah tell you
Billy Boyo
and
Little John
in a the dance, and any way we come we make you jump and prance... So tell me what you want to be.
Artist:
ROSE/UPSETTERS, MICHAEL
Title:
Obserb Life/Obserbing Dub
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
7"
Price:
$10.00
Catalog #:
DO UP4190
Raw, stripped funk from the Black Ark, charged with atmosphere and aura. Done over as Zen tutelage, no doubt inspired by
Michael Rose
's spar
Niney
, this is the Final Weapon rhythm -- that signature cowbell, tough, scrubby guitar, bass bubbling deep in the pocket, and the
Upsetters
mixing live on the spot.
Adrian Sherwood
revisited the song with
Ari Up
-- but here is the hortical piece.
Artist:
NAPHTALI
Title:
Hole Up Your Hand/Version
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
10"
Price:
$12.50
Catalog #:
DO VS003EP
Brilliant, icy, rude-boy minimalism from
Naphtali
, ticking and clopping out of the Vibes Sounds studio on Mayville Road, Leytonstone, East London, in 1987.
Blacka
at the controls,
Jah Warrior
the apprentice dentist.
Artist:
DADAWAH
Title:
Peace And Love
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
DO XYZ004CD
Dark, hypnotic, tripping
nyabinghi
from 1974. Led by Jamaican Rastafarian singing hand-drummer
Ras Michael
over four extended excursions, the music is organic, sublime and expansive, grounation drums and bass-heavy (with no rhythm guitar; rather,
Willie Lindo
brilliantly improvising a kind of dazed blues).
Lloyd Charmers
and Federal Studios engineer
George Raymond
stayed up all night after the session to mix the recording, opening out the enraptured mood into echoing space, adding sparse, startling effects to the keyboards. At no cost to its deep spirituality, this is the closest reggae comes to psychedelia. Previously squandered in an incongruous 2-for-1 reissue, now lovingly returned to its original, singular glory at Abbey Road.
Artist:
DADAWAH
Title:
Peace And Love
Label:
DUG OUT (UK)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
DO XYZ004LP
LP version, repressed, lower pricing. Dark, hypnotic, tripping
nyabinghi
from 1974. Led by Jamaican Rastafarian singing hand-drummer
Ras Michael
over four extended excursions, the music is organic, sublime and expansive, grounation drums and bass-heavy (with no rhythm guitar; rather,
Willie Lindo
brilliantly improvising a kind of dazed blues).
Lloyd Charmers
and Federal Studios engineer
George Raymond
stayed up all night after the session to mix the recording, opening out the enraptured mood into echoing space, adding sparse, startling effects to the keyboards. At no cost to its deep spirituality, this is the closest reggae comes to psychedelia. Previously squandered in an incongruous 2-for-1 reissue, now lovingly returned to its original, singular glory at Abbey Road. Pressed on super-fly vinyl and housed in new standard-printed sleeves.
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