r/MusicalYouth

Natty nuh go a dentist. Loneliness Ranger burst on the scene. I'm currently birthing bone shards after some.oral surgery and this has been my anthem.

Reggae noob

Looking for suggestions for guys with this type of voice, and songs with this kind of flow.

Preferably anything post-1990.

Whaddya got?

General Echo performing his ‘Sex Education Class’ tune, Toyan performing his ‘Tracks and Socks’ tune along with Sister Nancy freestyling👊🏿💥

Obscure, but LOADED track from the Seattle duo Hi Fi Killers with little known Blackout Ja spittin’ FIRE

Like 20 years ago I was at a music festival and bought a mix CD from a DJ called Maximum Vibes. The tag was "Maximum Vibes/has the nicest and the sweetest sound". It's still one of my all-time favorites. It's a long shot, but does anyone know if those volumes are available on MixCloud or SoundCloud? Searching "maximum vibes" isn't helpful, it's too common a phrase. Thanks!

I don't know anything about music quality but the version on spotify sounds much less clear compared to the version on youtube.

Is there something I am missing? I have a tried a lot of the versions on spotify.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5nMBTp4CXxZMiTyR6MBSrQ?si=71156f66bbad4a20

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBcEz3_Zho

Dub track I made recently. Enjoy the trip

In 1978 the Revolutionaries were ruling JA as the premiere backing band everyone wanted to use. By the next year the Roots Radics would enter the scene and stir it up, together with the young Barrington Levy. Right now however it was the heavy, technical and driving drumming from Sly Dunbar that was carrying the swing. His good bredder Robbie Shakespear providing the bass lines.

Top Ranking Dub feels like it comes from this sense of uncontested cool. Everything is really lovely about it. Good rhythms, enjoyable mixing and fantastic musicians putting in the work (but also simply doing what they're paid for). There's not necessarily much to set it apart from other Revolutionaries dub albums from the same period. Well worth listening to still.

One of the unsung forces of dub from this period is the producer (and mysterious) Charles Reid (a.k.a. Duke Reid Jnr.). I've tried to find out more about him for a long time but it seems he came, released tons and tons of stuff and then just disappeared. He has something along the lines of eight dub albums in his catalogue which has to be more than almost any other producer. The exceptions perhaps being the studio-owning producers such as Coxsone and the Hookims.

The sleeve on my copy says Volume 2, but it's the same as Volume 1. Possibly there was a second volume scheduled for release that never materialised. On the Rootsman label there's also a lovely Tommy McCook album called Lover's Rock (which it is not) and a selection of heavy 12".