STINGRAY ROOTS & CULTURE SESSION

STINGRAY RECORDS SPECIAL

Roots selections from 1994 up to now..

Rewind Show on rastfm.com 23rd March 2019

 

 

Champions of Yard-style music in England, STINGRAY RECORDS LONDON has been keeping UK reggae moving forward ever since the McLeod brothers founded the label in 1994. Their West London studio continues to record some of the biggest names in reggae music from Jamaica, the UK & further afield. 
For a full bio & info visit their website http://stingrayrecordslondon.com/about

Over 50 tracks here by an impressive array of artists. Strictly culture selections here - we don't venture into the extensive Stingray lovers rock catalogue at all this time: perhaps another show... 

 

Tuff riddim like the I Love King Selassie I, Free Up The Vibes, Rope In, Jah Love, Boops, Hypocrites, Craven Dog, Wolves & Leopards, Cuss Cuss, Peace & Love, Caution, the brutal Bloody City, Tamarind Juice, rootical updates of the Zion Pathway & None A Jah Jah Children plus the amazing Coxsone Dodd inspired Vampire.

This was my last session before I take a short break from broadcasting. We gotta move house this month so I need to focus all of my attention on that for a while (its a pain in the butt though its kind of exciting sametime). Looking forward to getting a new studio together and moving forward. Thanks as ever to all listeners and friends... Siamroots-ites, rastfm family, mixcloud reggae massive, twitter crew...BLESSUP

Coninuous mix. 2hrs
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Lovers Rock & Dancehall Hits from the Nineties

Revisiting the mixtape
Lovers Rock and Dancehall from the 90's
Compilation of MASSIVE reggae hits.
Rewind Show on Rastfm.com 8th March 2019

Riddim track ike Its Growing, Love of a Lifetime, Practice What You Preach, Full Up, Stars, Penthouse's Taxi and Swing Easy.

Continuous mix. 158 minutes.

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ROUGH AND RUGGED

ROUGH AND RUGGED

Revisiting the reggae/dancehall mixtape from 2008.

Tuff reggae riddim with blazing dancehall

Keeping it conscious...

Essential Buju & Beenie Man

CD1: Includes excursions on the Shoot Out (John John), Taxi (Gargamel), Baltimore (Don Carleon), Answer (Ghetto Youths), Statement (JukeBoxx), Gangsta Rock (Birchill), Lucky 7 & Chinkuzi (South Rakkas).

CD2: Tempo nah cease... it just increase.... Riddim like: Three Blind Mice (Gargamel), Airwaves (Firelinks), Sleng Teng (Power Stone), 85 (Mad House), The Mission (Baby G), Cuss Cuss (Massive B & Ranking Joe), Bam Bam/Murder She Wrote '05 (Taxi), Bad Dog (Black Shadow) and the crucial Come Around/Last War (Massive B).

Continuous mix. 157 minutes total. Repost...
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The Heptones Keep On Pushing - Tribute

THE HEPTONES - KEEP ON PUSHING

Special tribute on the Rewind Show

www.rastfm.com 22nd Feb 2019

One of the most influencial vocal groups ever, Leroy Sibbles, Earl Morgan and Barry Llewellyn, came together in 1965. They went on to voice a long string of classic hits for Coxsone Dodd up to 1971 in rocksteady and then reggae styles. The 1st half of this mix is pure Studio One.

 The trio went on to record essential LPs with, among others, Harry J's, Lee Perry, Niney the Observer & Joe Gibbs right through the 70s. Leroy Sibbles eventually left the Heptones to pursue a solo career in 1978 so roots man Naggo Morris was invited to step up & join the group. Their last really big hit came in 1980 - Mr Ska Bean'a with Alton Ellis - a massive tune!

 

Continuous mix. 2 hours

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