1- Yes
2- Reggae is slower and is more soulful, dancehall is faster and u can dance more to it
3-Not sure im looking myself. If you have pandora…type in t.o.k. and usually alot of classic good dancehall comes up.
Ska (and DEFINITELY Toots!!!) is gonna be in my collection, too. It all started with Madness for me when I was a kid. I saw Toots and the Maytals at Madstock 4 - absolutely amazing! Madness, Specials, Bad Manners - love 'em all. That’s what led me into the older Ska stuff.
A few of the tracks I’m glad I hunted down:
007 (Shanty Town). TUNE!
54 46 Was My Number TUNE!
Uptown Top Ranking. TUNE!
Liquidator. TUNE!
Carolina. TUNE!
I’ll even be getting hold of some Shabba Ranks, Maxi Priest and Wayne Wonder.
Sounds good. I’d really like to get into reggae, and it’s not just the new stuff that I’m intersted in. I’m after the all time classics. I’ve got tracks going back to the 60’s, stuff from 80’s and 90’s, and plenty from 70’s that I really like.
Under Mi Sleng Teng seems like a major turning point. It’s tracks like that that I’m interested in.
Also - I’d like to get hold of a bunch of classic riddims… (I’d love to warp 'em in Live and get mad with some remixing/scratching…)
Alot of break beat music has some good Jamaican rapping in it. Off the top of my head, the Freestylers come to mind.
Reggae and Dancehall are only 2 genres of Jamaican music. Also you have
mento, ska, rocksteady, dub music, & reggae fusion.
I have always loved the Jamaican music! Got to go there last year and had a blast!
I’m not to crazy about Dancehall. I’ve been more into the Dub side of things over the years.
Augustus Pablo
Prince Far I
King Tubby
Ras Michael
Eeka Mouse
Gregory Issacs
The Upsetters
Joe Gibbs
Mad Professor
Niney The Observer
Roots Radics
Scientist
Steel Pulse
Linval Thompson
Junior Reid
Buju Banton
MORE RECENT DUBS but STILL KNDA OLD
Crooklyn Dub
Rythm & Sound
Alpha & Omega
New Breed of DUB
Sub Oslo
Roots Manuva (brand new second hand)
I LOVE Jamaican music. Ska would be my favourite, I think dance hall has lost it’s way a bit over the last ten years. Every type of Jamaican music had it’s golden era, mid 80’s to 90’s dance hall was so good but Jamaican producers seem to get wowed by synthetic sounds and modern tech rather than sticking to the raw instruments and analogue equipment that give’s Jamacian music that authentic sound.
The most interesting thing about Jamaican music is how the different genre’s represent the history of Jamaican life through the decades. Mento, Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, Dub Music, Dance Hall & Raga all link with different movement’s of Jamaican history.
Any way enough rambling, here’s many of my favorite Dance Hall classics
(Girls go crazy for the one above, a bit of fiddler on the roof. This actually is the track that Gwen Stefani and Eve raped for there poppy version)
I’m not sure what the score is now but back in the day you would just by Riddem/rhythm albums which would have most of the different versions and the plain riddem/instrumental spread over 2/3 vinyls
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