Web Links:
Big Youth at BBC
Big Youth at MySpace
Big Youth at Wikipedia
Big Youth fan site
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Big Youth, started his career in the early seventies finding real great success in 1972 when he first recorded for the late Keith Hudson.Big youth's real name is Manley Augustus Buchanan. For the next few years his popularity on the Jamaican market was immense, only to be approached by one Bob Marley. Big Youth's original chant-like style strongly influenced and changed the deejay style for the next decade. In his later work he more and more focusses on singing. Some classic tunes deeyayed by Big Youth include "My time" 1974 and a classic cut of "Touch me in the morning".
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Web Links:
Brother Culture Homepage
Brother Culture at MySpace
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Brother Culture started out his career in the 80's as mic man for the 12
Tribes Sound System in London and Brooklyn. Now based in Brixton, he works
with a variety of producers and sound systems like Manasseh, Aswad, Youth,
Trojan and Groove Corporation |
Web Links:
Little Tempo (official site)
Little Tempo at Soytzer
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Little Tempo was formed by art students in 1992 and has since evolved to become
one of the most popular bands on the Tokyo club scene. 'Fireblender' is their 6th release.
They have worked with artists such as Linton Kwesi Johnson, Buffalo Daughter, Brixton's Funky Fresh Four,
Rico Rodriguez & the Aswad horn section on previous releases. Little Tempo plays regularly at major festivals
like Mt Fuji Rock & Rising Sun.
The group was invitied by none other than Lee Perry to perform at last year's Meltdown festival in London.
Little Tempo is now planning gigs on the Euro Festival and club circuit to promote this and future releases.
This release and Little Tempo's highly original music style should be of interest to fans of dub, World,
and all forms of adventurous music. |
Web Links:
Luciano at MySpace
Luciano at Wikipedia
Luciano at RAS
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Luciano started in the 90's as part of the Exterminator label crew and
developed into one of finest vocal talents to have emerged from Jamaica in
the last 20 years.
Luciano has scored major hits in the Jamaican & UK charts, had
numerous successful releases on both Major labels like Island Records and
independent labels.
He performs extensive concert tours Worldwide thrilling the crowds at Major
festivals and concert halls with his top notch live band. |
Web Links:
Michael Rose at Heartbeat
Mykal Rose at MySpace
Mykal Rose at Wikipedia
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From his early solo work for Niney the Observer through a trailblazing
stint as lead singer of Black Uhuru - netting reggae music itÕs first Grammy
- to his magnificent later solo work, Michael Rose has consistently remained
at the helm of one of reggaeÕs most far - reaching sounds. He can always be
counted on to be challenging, topical, musically expansive and lyrically
visionary - no small feat in a genre that sets aside old styles like ska,
rock steady, roots and dub for the rest of the world to mine as it drives
relentlessly forward.
(Chuck Foster) |
Web Links:
Ranking Joe at MySpace
Ranking Joe fan site
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Ranking Joe [Joseph Jackson] started his career on the microphone deejaying
on stage shows in the early 1970s and later on Stur Gav Hi Fi in the
mid-1970s before moving onto Ray Symbolic Hi-Fi where he acted as mentor to
the new generation of mic-men - most notably
Charlie Chaplin and Josey Wales. By this time, Joe had also begun his
recording career, cutting sides for foundation producer Clement 'Sir
Coxsone' Dodd, Bunny Lee, Mrs Sonia Pottinger, Sly & Robbie's Taxi label,
Joe Gibbs, the late Dennis Brown, Jo Jo Hookim and many more. Many of
today's deejays relate how it was Ranking Joe who first inspired them to
pick up a microphone.
(Steve Barrow) |
Web Links:
Turbulence at MySpace
Turbulence at Reggae Now
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Having created musical shockwaves on the reggae scene with a consistent flow of strong recorded output, Turbulence has also been
touring nonstop to the four corners of the World; dazzling the crowds Internationally with his dynamic onstage delivery and uplifting
'conscious' message.
With his mastery of the dancehall deejay style and powerful singing voice, he is uniquely poised among current reggae artists to be
equally at ease in a ballad or a fiery reality-themed tune to mash up any dancehall session.
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Web Links:
myspace.com/twilightcircus
m-records.com
twilightcircus.com
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Currently based in the Netherlands, Twilight Circus ringmaster Ryan Moore grew up
in Canada and is rooted in reggae & dub. He has been active in the music world since 1981 and appears on over 60 albums
with various artists.
A Dub fanatic of the first degree since teenage days, his first studio experiments took place in the mid 80's and when
he moved to The Netherlands in 1991, virtually unlimited access to recording studio equipment allowed his knob twisting
tendencies to develop to the point of no return. In the studio multi-instrumentalist Moore plays and mixes all the
tracks himself.
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System has performed 100's of live dates around the world since 1995. |
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