Motorcycle Mixes

S90

Blue Boot : Eric Donaldson
Ghost Dance : Prince Buster
Jack Of My Trade : Sir Lord Comic
Preacher Man : The Stingers
Chi Chi Bud : Max Romeo
Them A Fi Get A Beaten/Reuben : Peter Tosh
Dark Shadows Version : Charles Hanna & The Graduates
Do Your Thing Part Two : The Tornadoes
Milk & Honey : Dennis Alcapone
This is a Welding : Keith & Romay
Finders Keepers : The Crystalites
Dr. Who : I Roy
I've Got a Burning Fire : The Wailing Souls
DJ Special : King Sporty
The Gardener : Julie Anne (Judy Mowatt)
Ontarious Version : Charley Ace
Lorna Banana : Junior Byles
Cow Thief Skank : The Upsetters
Black IPA : The Upsetters
Whole Lot A Fire (12" Mix) : Big Youth
Brimstone & Fire : Clifton Gibbs & The Selected Few

CB200

Aily Sound : Lloydie
Guns In the Ghetto : Broadway
Ethiopian War : Roland Alphonso
Bike No License : Easton Clarke
Festive Season : I Roy
Gone Is Love : Inge Larsen
High Locks : Pablove Black
If Loving You is Wrong Version : Busty Brown & The Chosen Few
You're No Good : Ken Boothe
Love of Jah : Vivian Jackson and The Prophets
Tell It Like It Is Version : Glen Brown/King Tubby
Liberty : Junior Ross & The Spears
Freedom : Tappa Zukie
Weeping : Junior Byles
Water Rate : I Roy
Big Cockey Wally : Fay Bennett
Big Pussy Sally:Big Sally Dub (Extended Version) : Lord Creator & The Upsetters
Deck of Cards : Prince Far I
Lagos : Heptones Version
Chim Chim Cheree : The Upsetters
Hard Man Fe Dead : I Roy

GPZ900R

Eek A Mouse : Virgin Girl
Horace Andy : Spying Glass
Tristan Palmer : Spliff tail
Michigan and Smiley : Nice up the Dance
Nicodemus : Dog is Better than a gun
Michigan and Smiley : Diseases
Tenor Saw : Golden Hen
Sophia George : Girlie Girlie
Reggie Stepper : Cu Oonuh
Nitty Gritty : Hog in a Minty
Super Cat : Si Boops deh
Shelly Thunder : Kuff
Shabba Ranks : Roots and Culture
Nardo Ranks : Burrup
Flourgon : Follow me go Dancehall
Cutty Ranks : Hitman
Ninjaman & Flourgon : Zig it up
Cutty ranks : Pon Pause
Shabba Ranks : Respect
Tony Rebel : Chatty Chatty
Shabba : Wicked Inna Bed
Marcia Griffiths/Tony Rebel/Cutty Ranks/Buju Banton : Discovery
Wayne Wonder : I'd Die without you
Papa San : Hippity Hippity Hop
Louie Rankin : No Move
Louie Rankin : Typewriter
Supercat : Don Dada
Shabba Ranks : Ting a ling
Dirtsman : Dance fever
Shabba Ranks: Caan Dun
Capleton : Armshouse
Buju Banton : Batty rider
Ninjaman : The World
Buju Banton : Mind behind the wind

RMZ 450

Buccaneer: Skettel Symphony
Beenie Man: Badder than the rest
10%: U Sue Dub
Tanya Stephens: Big Ninja Bike
Beenie Man: Old Dog
Stink: Girls Anthem
Stranger: Dugu Dugu
Beenie Man: Who Am I?
Mykhal Roze: One A Wi
Luciano: One Way Ticket
Johnny Clarke: Leggo Violence
Capleton: Mankind
Louie Culture: Bogus Badge
Sizzla: Black Woman And Child
Sizzla: Mama Africa
Vybz Kartel: Picture This
Elephant Man: Fuck U Sign
Sky Juice: Dance Moves
Wayne Marshall: I Will Love The Girls
Beenie Man: Girls Way
Goofy: Fudgie
Beenie Man: Year 4
Red Dragon: Explode Gal
Beenie Man: Row Like A Boat
Sean Paul: Ever Blazin'
Vibes Kartel (sic): Nobody No Dead
Bounty Killer: Sufferer
Vybz Kartel: Send On
Buju Banton: Up Close And Personal
General Degree: Last Night
Elephant Man & Wayne Marshall: War
Elephant Man: Wrong Application
Baby Cham: Wha Dah Fah

so yeah well this was my half-century selection of JA music. some of these tunes are well-known - some (probably a satisfying amount even to aficionados?) are probably unknown. they're my favourites essentially... i'm attracted to the eye-poppingly preposterous, the eccentric, the liminal etc

why motorbikes? it's a recurrent motif in JA music - emblematic of freedom of the yout'. bombing round the island. sex. danger. speed. glamour. by definition it's not a socialist thing. reggae is rather hijacked by socialists over here - there were socialists in reggae (like for instance clancy eccles - very committed he was too) but by-and-large it was a cultural but not politicised movement.

(S90 was the first named after the DJ track "S90 Skank" by Big Youth)
(CB200 was named after the Dillinger tune "CB200")

(the GPZ900R was Kawasaki's innovative eighties bike - the first "Ninja" bike)
(the Suzuki RMZ400 was a nineties bike - it is namechecked by Tanya Stephens in her tune "Big Ninja Bike")

(of course) the order of tunes is broadly chronological:

S90 starts in 1970 and carries on to the early middle of the decade.

CB200 is skewed towards rockers and rasta-inflected sounds and ends up around 1980 with twinklings of dancehall in its eye.

GPZ900R shows the movement between dancehall, digital dancehall and ragamuffin (interchangeable terms largely but certainly also used specifically to point to the music shifting up gears). between (roughly) 1980-1993.

RMZ400 covers (again, very roughly) around 1994-2002. the roots-style stuff might confuse the chronology rather - but that was a trend in that era which you could argue has now split off from the main thrust of the music and persists.

i've found less stuff of interest since the magic year 2003 - but certainly i haven't been following it closely. both the last two mixes had me following the music extremely closely at the time. buying singles and comps (jet star and VP) as they came out in london. i visited JA in 1992 and picked up roughly as much modern dancehall as old stuff (back then anything studio one was the rage)

if listened to in order it ought to be like sitting on a boat travelling down a river. you start in the mountains - and the scenery changes gradually - and before you know it you're in the ocean.

sufi said:

you gonna put em all up? i only see 2 on soundcloud,

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only room for two on soundcloud free.

if you want a (nudge nudge wink wink) "provision" - just email me

same applies to anyone who stumbles on this thread. just email me.

sufi said:

(&where's the africa mix gone ?)

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see above.