![]() ![]() Sugar Minott recorded for his own record labels, and he worked with other top labels and producers. Lovers rock, Roots, covers, dancehall style, and original written material. Sugar was a very Dynamic, versatile artist with successful records in different styles. Other artists associated with the Black Roots and Youthman Promotion movements include Barrington Levy, Little John, Nitty Gritty, Tenor Saw, Junior Reid, Jah Stitch, Ranking Dread and Ranking Joe. It was Sugar Minott who actually recorded Garnet Silk‘s first song. He gave unknown artists the chance to perform live in the Dancehall and record for the first time. While in England he discovered the group Musical Youth.īack in Jamaica, he’s also credited with discovering many young talents. The lover’s rock craze started in the UK and Sugar was one of the major players in that movement. Sugar Minott moved to England where he was achieving more success than he was in Jamaica. His vision was to give young artists an outlet, and a chance to make their name in the music business. He also founded a sound system called Youth Man Promotions, and later a record label by the same name. He worked with Coxsone Dodd and sang new lyrics over the instrumentals of popular Studio One songs.Īfter leaving Studio One, Minott founded his own record label called the Black Roots. Sugar Minott was the first artist to recreate that style inside the studio. In a live dancehall setting during the 1970s, it was common for artists to perform over pre-recorded instrumentals. APPLE PODCASTS: SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN VIA ITUNES. SOUNDCLOUD: CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR PLAY EPISODE. ![]() GOOGLE PLAY MUSIC: SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN HERE. STITCHER RADIO: SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN HERE. This is Kahlil Wonda from Highlanda Sound saying Jah bless. Email your requests and feedback to Until next time, keep it positive. Please share and invite others to listen. Please subscribe to the reggae lover podcast. Salute to the icon, the giant, one of the greatest producers ever – Joe Gibbs. An amazing body of work, the Joe Gibbs catalog includes some very important songs in the story of Jamaican music. He released music on an array of different record labels. He had over 100 Jamaica number one hits and over a dozen UK hits. Joe Gibbs passed on to Zion in February 2008. In the new millennium, Joe Gibbs focused on marketing his back catalog. In 1977 the Culture album entitled “Two Sevens Clash” debuted and became a smash hit which coincided with the punk rock craze in the UK.Īrtists recorded and produced by Joe Gibbs included Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller, Gregory Isaacs, Junior Byles, Barrington Levy, Cornell Campbell, Delroy Wilson, Beres Hammond, JC Lodge, Marcia Aitken, Althea and Donna, Ranking Joe and Peter Tosh. Hundreds of hits came out including “Money in My Pocket” by Dennis Brown and “A So We Stay” by Big Youth. In 1972, Errol Thompson came on board as the chief engineer and together with Joe Gibbs formed “The Mighty Two.” Their studio band called The Professionals featured bassist Sly Dunbar, drummer Robbie Shakespeare, and guitarist Earl “Chinna” Smith. Soon ‘ Niney The Observer‘ joined the team and they were able to produce Rocksteady era hits. Bunny Lee helped them form The Amalgamated record label. Stream this banger below, and cop it when it drops on Buygore on April 1.He worked with Lee “Scratch” Perry who had left the employ of Coxsone Dodd‘s Studio One. You might have heard a number of dubstep remixes of reggae/dancehall bits, but it's always iller to have the original artists to drop by and add their flavor organically. It's a killer combination of vibes, with Borgore matching Barrington's toasting with some massive melodies. "Barrington Levy was one of my favorite artists as a kid,” he told Complex. Dancehall meets an authentic dubplate style that collides into EDM it's raw but an organic sound!" For Borgore, this was one of those long-awaited collaborations for him. Gong" Marley, and in that vein, the latest single from Borgore's Buygore imprint finds the dubstep impresario linking with the legendary reggae star Barrington Levy for "Blast Ya."Īs Levy describes it, "'Blast Ya' is a three-dimensional futuristic record. One easy collaboration to point to is Skrillex linking with Damian "Jr. While it's false to say that dubstep emerged from the actual roots of dub music, it's always intriguing to see how the Jamaican-based sounds have infused themselves into electronic music. ![]()
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