Hello, last time we were in Japan and today we cross the mighty pacific ocean, the gulf of Mexico and land on an island with a huge place in the global music catalogue, Jamaica. However we take one of last time's Japanese artists along, Dry & Heavy. They gave the tapes of their first two albums to a Jamaican dubmaster, King Jammy and the result blew them away. In The Jaws Of The Tiger is an amazing dub album.
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Lloyd James, (born in 1947, Montego Bay, Jamaica), is better known as Prince Jammy or King Jammy the dub mixer and record producer. After earning money from building amplifiers and repairing electrical equipment from his mother's house in Waterhouse in the late 1960s, he started his own sound system. In 1976 Lloyd set up his own studio at his in-laws' home in Waterhouse, and released a couple of Yabby You productions. For the first few years of his career, Jammy almost exclusively made Dub. In 1977, Jammy was enlisted to mix the dub counterpart to Horace Andy's "In the Light," . That same year, he made his first notable venture into production work, recording the debut of Black Uhuru, In the late 1970s he began to release his own productions, including the debut album from Black Uhuru in 1977. Before he set out to rule modern dancehall as King Jammy, Lloyd James earned the lesser, but still regal title Prince Jammy,
In the 1980s, he became one of the most influential producers of dancehall music. His biggest hit was 1985's "Under Me Sleng Teng" by Wayne Smith, with an entirely-digital rhythm hook. Many credit this song as being the first "Digital rhythm" in reggae, leading to the modern dancehall era. Jammy's productions and sound system dominated reggae music for the remainder of the 1980s, Jammy continued to produce and record into the '90s, a decade that would see his own son, John John, emerging as a successful record-maker. And so he continues to work as a producer, working with some of today's top Jamaican artists.
Dry & Heavy is a Japanese dub and reggae band formed in 1991 by drummer Shigemoto Nanao (Dry) and bass player Takeshi Akimoto (Heavy). Their names come from a renowned Burning Spear album of the same name. The line-up which recorded the album Dry & Heavy came together in 1995 with Naoki Uchida on dub controls, Mitsuhiro Toike on keyboards, Kei Horiguchi on guitar, and the vocal duo of Likkle Mai and Ao Inoue. In 2001, during Fuji Rock founding member Takeshi Akimoto (Heavy) announced he was leaving the group, Audio Active's current bassist Pata, stepped in to fill the void. Takeshi Akimoto was the former bassist for Audio Active, and Shigemoto Nanao the former drummer of the same band.
This is a fascinating summit meeting between a reggae legend and Dry & Heavy. To create this album, King Jammy took tapes from two previous Dry & Heavy albums (One Punch and Full Contact) back to his Kingston studios and dubbed them up in fine, roots-wise style, employing all the tricks of echo, reverb, and drop-out that he learned at the feet of the master; the result is a masterpiece of dark and heavy dub that serves as a perfect companion to the albums on which it's based. Particularly noteworthy are "Rumble Dub," with its subtle use of sustained background echo, the charming "Radical Dubber" (featuring great vocals by Likkle Mai), and the instrumental saxophone showcase "King Cobra Dub."
King Jammy Meets Dry and Heavy – In The Jaws Of The Tiger ( flac 389mb)
01 Do Dub Up Your Fight 4:41
02 Rumble Dub 4:49
03 Dub World 4:51
04 Radical Dubber 4:44
05 Mr. Dub 3:21
06 Breaking Dub 3:57
07 Private Plan Dub 3:42
08 Harmony Dub 4:07
09 Night Flight Dub 4:02
10 Tiger Claw Dub 3:48
11 Less Is Dub 3:59
12 Love Explosion Dub 5:30
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Lloyd James, (born in 1947, Montego Bay, Jamaica), is better known as Prince Jammy or King Jammy the dub mixer and record producer. After earning money from building amplifiers and repairing electrical equipment from his mother's house in Waterhouse in the late 1960s, he started his own sound system. In 1976 Lloyd set up his own studio at his in-laws' home in Waterhouse, and released a couple of Yabby You productions. For the first few years of his career, Jammy almost exclusively made Dub. In 1977, Jammy was enlisted to mix the dub counterpart to Horace Andy's "In the Light," . That same year, he made his first notable venture into production work, recording the debut of Black Uhuru, In the late 1970s he began to release his own productions, including the debut album from Black Uhuru in 1977. Before he set out to rule modern dancehall as King Jammy, Lloyd James earned the lesser, but still regal title Prince Jammy,
In the 1980s, he became one of the most influential producers of dancehall music. His biggest hit was 1985's "Under Me Sleng Teng" by Wayne Smith, with an entirely-digital rhythm hook. Many credit this song as being the first "Digital rhythm" in reggae, leading to the modern dancehall era. Jammy's productions and sound system dominated reggae music for the remainder of the 1980s, Jammy continued to produce and record into the '90s, a decade that would see his own son, John John, emerging as a successful record-maker. And so he continues to work as a producer, working with some of today's top Jamaican artists.
Dry & Heavy is a Japanese dub and reggae band formed in 1991 by drummer Shigemoto Nanao (Dry) and bass player Takeshi Akimoto (Heavy). Their names come from a renowned Burning Spear album of the same name. The line-up which recorded the album Dry & Heavy came together in 1995 with Naoki Uchida on dub controls, Mitsuhiro Toike on keyboards, Kei Horiguchi on guitar, and the vocal duo of Likkle Mai and Ao Inoue. In 2001, during Fuji Rock founding member Takeshi Akimoto (Heavy) announced he was leaving the group, Audio Active's current bassist Pata, stepped in to fill the void. Takeshi Akimoto was the former bassist for Audio Active, and Shigemoto Nanao the former drummer of the same band.
This is a fascinating summit meeting between a reggae legend and Dry & Heavy. To create this album, King Jammy took tapes from two previous Dry & Heavy albums (One Punch and Full Contact) back to his Kingston studios and dubbed them up in fine, roots-wise style, employing all the tricks of echo, reverb, and drop-out that he learned at the feet of the master; the result is a masterpiece of dark and heavy dub that serves as a perfect companion to the albums on which it's based. Particularly noteworthy are "Rumble Dub," with its subtle use of sustained background echo, the charming "Radical Dubber" (featuring great vocals by Likkle Mai), and the instrumental saxophone showcase "King Cobra Dub."
King Jammy Meets Dry and Heavy – In The Jaws Of The Tiger ( flac 389mb)
01 Do Dub Up Your Fight 4:41
02 Rumble Dub 4:49
03 Dub World 4:51
04 Radical Dubber 4:44
05 Mr. Dub 3:21
06 Breaking Dub 3:57
07 Private Plan Dub 3:42
08 Harmony Dub 4:07
09 Night Flight Dub 4:02
10 Tiger Claw Dub 3:48
11 Less Is Dub 3:59
12 Love Explosion Dub 5:30
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2 comments:
great dub album! thanks very much :)
just wanted to ask if you have it in FLAC? that would be perfect...
yay, re-up on this please sir!
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