The Reggae Thread

[Reggaebass]

Loving this, big tune 

 

[jahfish]

On 02/10/2025 at 18:48, Reggaebass said:

Haven’t put much up here lately as I’ve been travelling a fair bit, anyway a wonderful album to check out if you have a chance, it’s on the heavy dub side and there’s some great Basslines in there , love a bit of Soul Syndicate

 

Great use of echo on this album mix 👌

[SumOne]

New Chronixx album 'Exile' is worth a listen. 

One of my favourites from it: 

 

 

Edited October 13 by SumOne

[Reggaebass]

Great one here I’m playing at the moment, not heard very often, Gregory Isaacs and Set the captives free 

 

[skilamalink]

From Ecuador 

 

[Reggaebass]

23 minutes ago, skilamalink said:

From Ecuador 

 

Good one, I like that, pretty heavy 

[skilamalink]

3 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Good one, I like that, pretty heavy 

That is how I like my dub! 😀

[Reggaebass]

Dons back with some Leroy Sibbles 

 

[SumOne]

The book 'Bass Culture, When Reggae Was King' by Lloyd Bradley is probably the best account of the history of Reggae.

 

There is a 30hr Spotify playlist of all the music mentioned:

 

 

It goes all the way from late 1940s swing/RnB and Jazz that was played at the early soundsystems before Ska came about. It doesn't include Calypso and Mento though which seem a bit of an omission. 

Edited 8 hours ago by SumOne

[Reggaebass]

10 minutes ago, SumOne said:

The book 'Bass Culture, When Reggae Was King' by Lloyd Bradley

I’ve got that book, I haven’t read it all yet but it’s a really great read 

[stewblack]

28 minutes ago, SumOne said:

include Calypso and Mento

How? How can the history of the genre not include these?

[SumOne]

27 minutes ago, stewblack said:

How? How can the history of the genre not include these?

I'll need to re-read the book, but I think it took the soundsystems 'Bass Culture' as the starting point - and they didn't tend to play Calypso and Mento as they were more of a live band sort of thing and Bass wasn't much of a factor for them. 

[BassAgent]

But if it includes 40s RnB and jazz it's double weird. Ska and blue beat evolved from RnB and mento being squashed together. I bought the book anyway🙃

Edited 7 hours ago by BassAgent

[SumOne]

3 hours ago, BassAgent said:

But if it includes 40s RnB and jazz it's double weird. Ska and blue beat evolved from RnB and mento being squashed together. I bought the book anyway🙃

 

It does mention Mento a few times, and the playlist has a couple of tunes like this:

 

 

But that's just a couple of tunes in 30hrs of music. I think Mento is mostly skipped over to focus on when the music and culture had switched to 'Bass Culture'. 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by SumOne