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Artist:
HUDSON, KEITH
Title:
Playing It Cool
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
BRJT 009CD
First release on Basic Channel's new Jamaican reissue imprint, Basic Replay. "Keith Hudson -- as is Lloyd Bullwackie Barnes, his collaborator here -- was a one-off innovator with impeccably classical lineage: his first studio recording involved former Skatalites; his earliest releases provided solid-gold hits for Ken Boothe ('Old Fashioned Way,' 1967), John Holt, Delroy Wilson, U-Roy and the rest.
Playing It Cool & Playing It Right
was released in 1981 on the Joint International label, in NYC. It was originally intended that one of Hudson's teenage sons would voice the dubs: in the event the Love Joys, Wayne Jarrett, and most inimitably Hudson himself featured at the microphone. Like Wackies, Hudson was a Studio One devotee -- '
I used to hold Don Drummond's trombone for him so I can be in the studio
,' he once recalled -- and the album follows Coxsone's recent strategy of overdubbing signature rhythms. The Studio One sides were aimed at the dancefloor; Hudson's reworks of tracks like 'Melody Maker' are more psychological. Here deep Barrett Brothers rhythms are remixed deeper with reverb, filters and other distortion, pitched down, everything; and overlaid with new recordings, often heavily treated, of guitar, percussion, keyboard, voice.
Playing It Cool
is legendary, strange, utterly compelling music."
Artist:
HUDSON, KEITH
Title:
Playing It Cool
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
BRJT 009LP
LP version.
Artist:
VA
Title:
Basic Replay
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BR 001CD
Basic Replay is a reggae reissue label run by Honest Jon's in London and Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound in Berlin, and this album is a sampler of its releases since starting in 2004. All except two of the tracks are now available on CD for the very first time. This assemblage includes the best of the label's dancehall hits, classic deep dub stunners and reggae essentials that you must own. The
Ackie
and
Tenastilin
tracks are from the London dancehall, killer shots from 1986 and 1992. Basic Replay's hit 12" reissue of "Rambo" was the subject of feature articles in
Wax Poetics
magazine and
Natty Dread
(France). Also available is a hit from
Professor Grizzly
and
Ijahman Levi
's rare, resplendent first version of "I'm A Levi" (recorded in London in 1974) and the apocalyptic "Ayatollah," recorded by
Jackie Mittoo
post-Studio One, in New York. From Canada,
King Culture
's stunning dub of
Barry Brown
is surely the deadliest cut of the mighty "Cuss Cuss" rhythm. The
Courtney Melody
,
Chuck Turner
and
White Mice
tracks are classic no-mercy Stateside digi-sufferers from just a few years ago, the track from
Andrew Bees
(the
Black Uhuru
singer) is in the same lofty tradition.
Keith Hudson
's LP masterwork
Flesh Of My Skin
is represented by its opener, featuring
Count Ossie
; alongside cruelly brilliant, deeply grooving productions by
Niney The Observer
(via
Gregory Isaacs
) and
Prince Jazzbo
which epitomize the label's appeal to the reggae cognoscenti over the last three years, but also beyond, to fans of dubstep, techno, anything tough and worth a listen.
Artist:
BEES, ANDREW
Title:
Militant
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRAB 001EP
"The Black Uhuru singer storms through Rome on this tearaway digi roots cut from 1993. Expert dubbing of an irresistible bubblers B-line, seething electronics and fluent truths and rights. Comes with the version; two more songs, 'Things A Gwaan' and 'Life In The Ghetto.'"
Artist:
HUDSON, KEITH
Title:
Flesh of My Skin Blood of My Blood
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BRAT 1005CD
"
Flesh Of My Skin...
is the most hallowed of all those reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson's key achievement in a career launched when as a fourteen-year-old he recorded members of The Skatalites on his
Shades Of Hudson
rhythm. Originally released in 1974, after a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and the rest, it projects Hudson's removal from JA to London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, and inaugurates a sequence of albums -- classics like 'Pick A Dub', 'Brand', 'Playing It Cool' -- which show his troubled experimentalism better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7" reggae format. Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate -- alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles -- Hudson's mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like 'Darkest Night', 'My Nocturne' and 'Testing My Faith' he struggles for Black senses of commitment --political, existential, religious -- at its breaking point. Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable."
Artist:
HUDSON, KEITH
Title:
Flesh of My Skin Blood of My Blood
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BRAT 1005LP
LP version.
Artist:
TURNER/PROFESSOR GRIZZLY, CHUCK
Title:
Trying to Conquer I
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRCR 001EP
"A rampaging bull of a Dave Kelly -- like the label logo has it -- from 1989, faced down brilliantly by these two Jammys stalwarts. Another death in the arena from Basic Replay."
Artist:
COURTNEY MELODY
Title:
Black Liberation
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRCR 002EP
"Another vicious, militant bad-bull from the Crat label out of Brooklyn, revived by Basic Replay. Emerging from the Stereo One sound, Courtney ruled the dancehall at this time -- with hits for Tubby, Jazzbo and Jammys and co. -- and like the rhythm, is devastatingly focused. Two songs, both with dubs, naturally; and top-notch remastering as always by Basic Replay."
Artist:
ACKIE/CHESSE ROOTS
Title:
Call Me Rambo/Rambo Gun Salute
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRHW 003EP
2nd release on Basic Channel's dub/roots reissue label. "This was recorded in 1986 and originally released on the Heavyweight label (an offshoot of the Heavyweight soundsystem, based in the Wood Green and Tottenham areas of north London), featuring Chester Roots at the controls and his nephew Ackie at the microphone; also the helicopter sounds free with a Commodore 64."
Artist:
LEVI, IJAHMAN
Title:
I'm a Levi
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRIJL 001EP
"Surely this is music-making of any kind at its most inspired. Recorded in 1975 in London's Gooseberry Studios by Dennis Harris, Ijahman Levi -- aka Trevor Sutherland -- remembers his unscripted performance 'pouring out from inside'. Maybe the short spell he'd just spent at Her Majesty's Pleasure has to do with it. This is the original, way superior version of the song recut for Island. The dub too is breathtakingly powerful -- a Shaka special."
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
Nothing Never Done Before The Time
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRIN 001EP
"Here it is, satisfying the special request of Jah Shaka amongst others -- Mice's all-time dancehall smasher, sounding better than ever, over vocal and dub. And sensationally included is a stripped-down, moody, dubwise and analog-style interpretation, with its version -- both never before released and another Basic Replay exclusive."
Artist:
MITTOO, JACKIE
Title:
Ayatollah
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRJM 001EP
"
Ayatollah
is an apocalyptic record, full of dread -- dubwise and deep from the first chords of Jackie Mittoo's interstellar keys, over classic Wackies-style steppers drum and bass -- with a dream-like atmosphere in which pain and suffering are swirled together with devotional mystery and redemption. Originally released on the Nefertiti label, like Rocking Universally this is from the early eighties (and the B-side here is another essential, extended version of that rhythm -- dancefloor murder), when Jackie Mittoo was between New York and Toronto. Such a killer."
Artist:
VA
Title:
King Culture Presents Cuss Cuss
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRKC 001EP
"Six murderous outings for Lloyd Robinson's immortal rhythm on this showcase EP collecting singles produced by King Culture in Toronto and Kingston, Jamaica, during 1980-81. Rod Taylor was voiced in JA; Barry Brown between both cities. Stamma was mic man for the JA sound Taurus: this was his recording debut. Mixing was done at Tubby's, assisted by his apprentices Professor and Puggy (an expert with the Delta 4 machine tape-delay). These versions tore up dancehalls at the time. Listen to Gemini at Skateland, with Welton Irie, Plough, Ringo and full crew, all riding dubs."
Artist:
ISAACS/KEN BOOTHE, GREGORY
Title:
Dealing/Memories
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BROB 001EP
"Double-barrelled digital onslaughts from Niney The Observer -- the 'Dealing' rhythm is aka Power-Saw, not for nothing -- and both vocalists are inspired: Gregory sounds especially dazed, like he's been dealt; Ken -- the greatest soul singer in reggae -- is searing. The 'Memories' version is a Basic Replay exclusive, created this year by Niney."
Artist:
PRINCE JAZZBO
Title:
Versions
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRUJ 001EP
"Four riveting, deeply grooving digital-dub productions for his own Ujama label by the great deejay Prince Jazzbo -- widely celebrated for such toasts as 'Imperial I,' 'Mr Harry Skank' and 'Natty Passing Through Rome' for the likes of Coxsone Dodd, Glen Brown and Lee Perry. From the late '80s, sides like these announced a new era in reggae. Replay Version sets the mood here -- malevolent, sick and paranoid, but haunting, and funky like a train, with cruelly brilliant effects; really a stunning piece of music." Tracks: "Replay Version" / "Once Bitten Version" / "Senci Addick Version" / "Senci Pipe."
Artist:
TENASTELIN
Title:
Burial Tonight/Commercial Bwoy
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRVS 001EP
"Recorded in 1990-91 by Blacka, Keety and Tena at the Vibes studio in London, and originally released on Blacka's Vibes label. This is a soundsystem record -- played in the day by sounds like Abashanti, Entebbe, Jah Warrior, and on the radio by Manasseh. Side A is straight to the head of those systems having success at the time introducing R&B into a less rootical reggae selection. AA is chilled and austere: after Rambo, another London killer back on the streets."
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
White Mice
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 001CD
"Born in 1970, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Allan Crichton aka White Mice is a graduate of three sound systems -- Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotion, Jammy's Hi Power, and his hometown Ticka Muzik. His first break came at Sun Splash in 1985, when he and Little Kirk were called on stage to perform with Tenor Saw. Recording at King Jammy's and Channel One studios, with Junior Delgado at the controls, over next the few years Mice let off a series of records amongst the very deadliest of digital reggae -- nearly all on his brother Blemo's Intelitec imprint, out of Miami."
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
It's a Shame
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
7"
Price:
$7.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 001EP
"Born in 1970, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Allan Crichton aka White Mice is a graduate of three sound systems -- Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotion, Jammy's Hi Power, and his hometown Ticka Muzik. His first break came at Sun Splash in 1985, when he and Little Kirk were called on stage to perform with Tenor Saw. Recording at King Jammy's and Channel One studios, with Junior Delgado at the controls, over next the few years Mice let off a series of records amongst the very deadliest of digital reggae -- nearly all on his brother Blemo's Intellitec imprint, out of Miami (exceptionally, 'Youths Of Today' came first on Incredible Music, 'Tallawah' on the Buffalo label)."
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
White Mice
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 001LP
LP version.
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
White Mice Versions
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 002CD
Essential instrumental dub versions of the tracks as on BRWM 001CD. "More deadly digital reggae."
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
Youths Of Today
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
7"
Price:
$7.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 002EP
In Basic Replay's White Mice reissue series, this is the second of four singles.
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
White Mice Versions
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 002LP
LP version.
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
Try a Thing
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
7"
Price:
$7.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 003EP
In Basic Replay's White Mice reissue series, this is the third of four singles.
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
Tallawah
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
7"
Price:
$7.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 004EP
In Basic Replay's White Mice reissue series, this is the fourth of four singles.
Artist:
WHITE MICE
Title:
It's a Shame/Try a Thing/Youths of Today/Tallawah
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
4x7"
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
BRWM 007EP
Basic Reply reissues the 4 White Mice 7" all together in a screened paper bag.
Artist:
WILLIAMS, WILLIE
Title:
Rocking Universally
Label:
BASIC REPLAY (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
BRWW 001EP
"In the early eighties, when they were both moving between New York and Toronto, Willi Williams and Jackie Mittoo revived their classic Real Rock / Armagideon Time sides, originally cut for Studio One. They came up with this dancehall-targeted missile, much more uptempo and upbeat, with rub-a-dub deejaying throughout Willi's new vocal, fully extended over propulsive Sly-style tom-toms and Jackie's oblique, ultra-cool keyboards, and dubwise complete with daft mumbling, sirens and effects. It's saying a lot, but for 2004 this is the killer version of the cornerstone rhythm."
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