RhoDeo 1151 Roots

Hello, we're still on that island with a huge place in the global music catalogue, Jamaica. A production hothouse and they say the Weed makes you slow and lazy-go figure. Without the ganja driven reggae music Jamaica would have remained a Caribbean backwater and dare i say would never have given us Bolt, the fastest man in the world.

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Set up in 1975 as the house band of the Channel One Studios owned by Joseph Hoo Kim, The Revolutionaries with Sly Dunbar on drums and Robbie Shakespeare on bass, created the new "rockers" style that would change the whole Jamaican sound (from roots reggae to rockers, and be imitated in all other productions. Beside Sly and Robbie, many musicians played in the band: Bertram McLean, Radcliffe "Dougie" Bryan on guitar, Ossie Hibbert, Errol "Tarzan" Nelson, Robert Lyn or Ansel Collins on keyboards, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, Noel "Scully" Simms on percussion, Tommy McCook, Herman Marquis on saxophone, Bobby Ellis on trumpet and Vin Gordon on trombone.

Everything fell into place when they backed The Mighty Diamonds classic 1976 set 'Right Time'. The album offered fresh new Rockers rhythms to the reggae world. This militant double drumming style dominated the music scene from 1975-1978.
It's from this period that a set of classic dubs were created by Bunny 'striker' Lee from sessions recorded at Channel 1. The Revolutionaries mark the first time that the legendary duo Sly & Robbie played together.

The band played on numerous dub albums and recorded as a backing band for artists like B. B. Seaton, Black Uhuru, Culture, Prince Alla, Leroy Smart, Gregory Isaacs, John Holt, The Heptones, I-Roy, Tapper Zukie, Trinity, U Brown, Errol Scorcher, Serge Gainsbourg among others.

This is a 40 track 4cd sampler the Evolution Of Dub Volume 3 - The Descent Of Version from a thusfar 6 volume series, buying it at Amazon UK wouldn't set you back much, it's just 12 pounds, i suspect buying it per track at I Tunes will be more expensive. As all albums are clearly below 200mb I don't provide OGG rips here.

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The Revolutionaries - Negrea Love Dub (flac 173mb)

1.01 Rock Me In Dub 3:28
1.02 Channel One In Dub 3:45
1.03 Thompson In Dub 3:37
1.04 Negrea Love Dub 2:52
1.05 Jah Jah Children Dub 3:33
1.06 Lion Dub 3:04
1.07 Natty Dread Dub 3:08
1.08 Roots Dub 3:24
1.09 Jamaica Colley Dub 3:07
1.10 Africa Love Dub 3:22

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The Revolutionaries - Green Bay Dub (flac 148mb)

2.01 Mafia Dub 2:51
2.02 Jungo In Dub 2:54
2.03 Survival Dub 2:49
2.04 Nagusa Dub 3:36
2.05 Skillful Dub 2:51
2.06 Creation Dub 3:44
2.07 Green Bay Dub 3:33
2.08 Hop Scotch Dub 2:39
2.09 Jerusalem Dub 3:33
2.10 Back A Wall Dub 3:13

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The Revolutionaries - Outlaw Dub (flac 143mb)

3.01 79 Rock 3:21
3.02 Danger Rockers 3:29
3.03 African Free Up 3:35
3.04 Wicked Dub 2:47
3.05 Dub I Dub 2:46
3.06 Roots Man Dub 2:21
3.07 Fisherman Style 2:46
3.08 Freedom Dub 2:20
3.09 Shockin' Rock 2:50
3.10 Thompson Sound Incorporated 3:35

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The Revolutionaries - Goldmine Dub (flac 190mb)

4.01 Calico Jack 4:02
4.02 Big Foot 3:12
4.03 Goldmine 2:51
4.04 Bitter Blood 3:09
4.05 Red River Dub 3:07
4.06 Musketeer Dub 3:02
4.07 Jamintel 3:41
4.08 Heartburn 3:10
4.09 Sore Mouth 2:57
4.10 Pepper Dub 3:41

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