Tag Archives: Reggae

The London dub outfit the reality comprised DJ and audio system vet Joey Jay, Soul II Soul alum Daddae and drummer Skinz. Their debut LP, I ‘n I a Offer Wild Roots, made an appearance in 1997.

Named following the cuddly Gremlins figure, French-Senegalese MC Guizmo, aka Lamine Diakite, rapidly became among the Gallic hip-hop scene’s breakout stars. Elevated in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, he was raised hearing his mother’s assortment of traditional Motown information, but after creating a like of rap as an adolescent, was taken beneath the wing …

b. 19 November 1940, Morant Bay, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Blake was attracted towards music when he observed the delivery of the audio systems in Kingston where he was informed. His curiosity was also motivated due to the actual fact that his dad supplemented the family members income by offering …

Twelve-piece Swedish ska-punk outfit Hoffmaestro initial came onto the general public radar in 2005 if they wrote and directed the indie film Stockholm Boogie, that in addition they supplied the soundtrack. The film became a cult preferred and their tune “Desperado” was popular. With their mixture of ska, punk, nation, …

A Japanese reggae group, Shonan no Kaze formed in Shonan, Japan, and released their 1st album independently (on the 134 Recordings label) in 2003. Users and founders Crimson Grain and Han Kun, both reggae and hip-hop followers, met up with DJ Surprise Attention and Wakadanna as well as the lineup …

Maker Harry Mudie could be counted among the most initial of reggae auteurs. He not merely presented the bottom-heavy audio reggae was well-known for, but he extended around the spirit sweetness of several rocksteady edges with strings and details of Philly spirit ambience, aswell. His prime function from your ’70s …

English producer Rodney Smith founded himself as Roots Manuva in the past due ’90s and released many albums through Big Dada/Ninja Tune. Smith’s function spanned the music range, strongly rooted in reggae but also incorporating a lot of the trip-hop design often connected with Ninja Melody. He debuted in 1999 …

Flowering Inferno was the tropical-dub task, and among the many aliases, of multi-instrumentalist and producer William Holland. An evolutionary part of the producer’s oeuvre, Holland shaped the task after shifting to Cali, Colombia, having released several information under his Quantic and Quantic Spirit Orchestra aliases beforehand. The task has been …

Roykey Wydh, raised for the Caribbean isle of Aruba, initial made a name for himself along with his amazing electric guitar session function. He shifted to Europe in the very beginning of the ’80s, getting support gigs with performers like Lionel Ritchie, Patrick Gammon, yet others. In 1984, Wydh, who …

Inducted in to the Jamaican Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997, Marjorie Whylie provides committed her life to discovering and expanding in the musical root base of her homeland. Her compositions, such as “Mountain Females,” “Ni Girl of Future,” “I Not really I,” “Bloodstream Canticles,” “Drumscore,” “Caribbean Canvas,” “The Dark …