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Big Youth - Screaming Target (1972) Expanded Remastered 2006

Posted By: Designol
Big Youth - Screaming Target (1972) Expanded Remastered 2006

Big Youth - Screaming Target (1972) Expanded Remastered 2006
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 356 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 190 Mb | Scans included
Roots Reggae | Label: Trojan | # TJCCD305 | Time: 01:16:26

Big Youth's debut full-length album, 1972's Gussie Clark-produced Screaming Target, was an instant classic, showcasing Youth's uncanny ability to transfer the vitality and energy of Jamaica's dancehall sound to the studio setting. But Youth did more than that. Recognizing that if one is given the chance to say something, then one ought to have something useful to say, he lifted the art of DJ toasting to the level of art by intelligently incorporating bits of Rastafarian wisdom, pop-culture references (frequently connected to the world of cinema), children's rhymes and key lines from traditional Jamaican mento folk tunes into his toasts to create a music that both drew from and added to the classic island rhythms he used, ultimately creating a template that allowed constructive cultural themes to be reintroduced into the frequently slack dancehall scene. An essential Jamaican album in its original ten-song incarnation, Trojan has here reissued it with fourteen bonus tracks that include the original vocal cuts Youth used for his versions, along with some marvelous dub versions.

VA - Roots 'N' Culture: 21 Mighty Reggae Cuts (1993) Reissue 1997

Posted By: Designol
VA - Roots 'N' Culture: 21 Mighty Reggae Cuts (1993) Reissue 1997

VA - Roots 'N' Culture: 21 Mighty Reggae Cuts (1993) Reissue 1997
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 383 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Scans ~ 93 Mb
Reggae, Roots Reggae | Label: Nascente | # NSCD016 | Time: 01:15:45

This set, with its powerful melodies, brilliant playing (note the superb horns) and all round attitude, is a sparkling reminder of how reggae sounded when it first influenced the world music scene in the Seventies. But it afso bears testimony to the sophisticated consciousness, wisdom and Afrocentric worldview that were the trademarks of the Rasta rebel soul at that time. This music had weight. That 'Roots' and 'Culture' became pilloried cliches at the beginning of the 80s says something about the rot that had set in at the heart of reggae - and just as much about, how times had changed. The idea of Roots - kind of personified by Alex Haley's mid-Seventies book and TV series of the same period - typified the search for an African identity, after centuries of physical and then economic slavery, amongst Jamaican youth.