Early digi reggae

[Client Eastwood]

Following on from the Nitty Gritty can people add some digi reggae ?

I only know the obvious ones so ill start with this

Kenny Knox

 

[droid]

Where to start?

Lovely darker shade of black version:



Run down the world:



Contender for the first digi tune:



Kind of obvious, but one of my fave digi riddims. The dub is sublime:



Cant find a video for the "head to toe' riddim, but thats another good one. Low quality Mp3 here:

http://www.dancehallmusic.de/riddimbase/query.php?category=riddim&id=716&page=1

 

[Client Eastwood]

nice one droid, slowly coming back to me

agony riddim


loads on the sleng teng, tenor saw - pumpkin belly

 

[john eden]

There is a good piece about digi reggae in this months issue of The Wire.

 

[crackerjack]

Another obvious one, but one of the first and still my favourite digi reggae tune ever.

 

[droid]

Nice version of Heavenless:



Quite fond of this cut of Sleng teng:

 

[Client Eastwood]

Another obvious one, but one of the first and still my favourite digi reggae tune ever.

whhhheeeeeel and come again !

 

[Client Eastwood]

Courtney Melody -

"any time we come we come cantakerous
nicer than a coffee inna thermos"

 

[Client Eastwood]

Not quite early digital but its baad . .

Rumours -


Telephone Love -

 

[crackerjack]

Not quite early digital but its baad . .

Rumours -


Telephone Love -

I love all that gussie clark stuff from that time, great sound, really glossy by JA standards.

 

[Client Eastwood]

Too true, some please do a blogarydims (sp) of this stuff. Some one around these parts must have loads of this stuff. Looks at Eden and Meme . . .

 

[crackerjack]

Too true, some please do a blogarydims (sp) of this stuff. Some one around these parts must have loads of this stuff. Looks at Eden and Meme . . .

Mind yu dis

 

[muser]

Ackie - call me rambo
anything by white mice

 

[mistersloane]

Ackie - call me rambo

rambo gun salute! Big tune.

 

[Client Eastwood]

What a voice, Yami Bolo -


Half Pint - Greetings

 

[droid]

Ackie - call me rambo
anything by white mice

Most of the other basic replay is fantastic as well, but none of its on Youtube. In fact Youtube is pretty crap for even vaguely obscure dancehall and reggae.

Cocoa tea: 'War' version:

http://wma.juno.co.uk/ASF/SF275151-01-02-01.wma

 

[droid]

I was recording some stuff tonight so I threw a few digi things in as well seeing as youtube is so shit.

The 'Head to toe' version as mentioned earlier. This ones a stormer, and is an original Jammys riddim as far as I know:

http://www.weareie.com/audio/digi/headtotoe.mp3

Overtly digi clap happy version of 'Throw me corn' from Sly and Robbie, 1985 style:

http://www.weareie.com/audio/digi/throwmecorn.mp3

That 'What the hell' version I was talking about. Would love to know the background behind this riddim. Its got a big change in the bassline which tends to be an artifact from older versions. Check out that weird 12 bar squelchy intro:

http://www.weareie.com/audio/digi/whatthehell.mp3

Not really digi but another of my favourite versions. I call it 'laugh and grin' after the ninja tune on the flip. Im sure it has a real name, but I havent been able to track down any other tunes on the same riddim. Jammys of course:

http://www.weareie.com/audio/digi/laughandgrin.mp3

 

[STN]

Bun Dem by Cutty Ranks on that Head to Toe rhythm is wicked.

 

[droid]

Havent got that one. Was it on penthouse?

Ive ever seen a non-Jammys version of the riddim. There is a different cut of it thats nowhere near as good, and there we some new pieces put out on it a few years back...

 

[STN]

No, it's a Jammy's (the later, bluer label, I think) the flip isn't a version, it's a tune with a female singer whose name escapes me. Can dig it out tomorrow tho.