The Mighty Diamonds 50 Years Strong

Celebrating an amazing

50 years of the Mighty Diamonds

Its been a real pleasure compiling this tribute selection. One of the greatest ever Jamaican harmony groups, definitely in my all time top three. The biggest hits are all here although, having only 2 hours, so many well crucial songs sadly had to be missed out this time. We managed 67 tracks still...

What's your favorite Diamonds track?

The more I've heard them the more I've come to appreciate what a fine vocalist Tabby Diamond really is and how well arranged the harmonies always are, not to mention the lyrics. Over 40 albums and endless touring - an exceptional effort. I got to see the Diamonds live in the 80s, 90s, 2000s & 2010s --- now forward the 2020s!

Rewind Show on rastfm.com 27 Sept 2019

Continuous mix 2 hours

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Mr BT I think this'll be right up your street... bless 

Lukie RootsQC check it out boss   

 

 

Rocking Time ...from my 70s vinyl collection

Rewind Show on rastfm.com 23/08/2019

Revisiting this selection of late-70s classics and rarities from my old singles collection. Expanded by an extra 40 minutes. Roots and revival in a discomix style

Vocal and dubwise, deejay cuts

Expanded tracklist 

Gregory Isaacs - Let's Dance

Ras Midas - Kude A Bamba /

 

Mighty Diamonds - Jah Will Work It Out / Silver Shadows - Jah Will Guide /

Jackie Paris - Going Home 12''

The I-Tones - Love Is A Pleasure

Ronnie Davis - No Weakheart (Shall Enter Zion) /

Dillinger - Power Bank / Prince Hammer - Dreadlocks Ting /

The Revolutionaries - Rub A Dub

Gregory Isaacs - One More Time / Linval Thompson - Negrea Africa Dub

Linval Thompson - Not Follow Fashion

Mighty Diamonds & Trinity - Like A River

Dennis Brown & U Brown - Say What You Want

Continuous mix. 2 hours

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Out of the GG's Records Stable

Irie Sundays Show on Rastfm
3rd Feb 2019

 

 GG's Records' releases early 70s - early 80sAlvin Ranglin productions were deeply influenced by the music of a bygone era - the folk-roots of rural Jamaica - mento - Stanley Beckford's music especially. Cultured vocal harmonies from the Starlights. Roots and revival selection with plenty of singer-deejay combinations as many famous names pass through. Some of the most vital 12' cut's from the 1970s like CHUNNIE YU MY NUMBER ONE, I TRUST YOU and BORDER

Continuous mix 2 hours

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Emmanuel Be With I - Dennis Brown Tribute

Emmanuel Be With I

Dennis Brown spotlight

RastFM #LoveReggaeMusic Show 53 & 54 Aug 2018
  
This one's very close to my heart. Long live the CROWN PRINCE of reggae music...
Over 100 of his best tunes from 1977 onwards over 2 volumes (I left his early 70s music for another time - there are just TOO MANY big tunes to pick from!).

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Focus is on the best of his sublime roots reggae hits for the likes of Joe Gibbs, Errol Thompson, Tad's, Gussie Clarke, Jammys, Taxi, Clive Hunt, Robert Ffrench, Aswad, Gemini & some later Niney recordings, as well as his own productions on the D.E.B. & Yvonne's Special labels. Strictly roots & culture. He not only had the golden voice but was also one of the greatest lyricists with a true gift for vocalising melodies, whoh wohohoh yeah wohohohooooooh now, SEEN....

Dennis Brown probably enjoyed his greatest creative spell around 1976-82, particularly while working with Joe Gibbs, Errol Thompson & Niney the Observer. 1978's VISIONS OF DENNIS BROWN LP is a major highlight. While he later went on to voice the odd sides for nuff producers everywhere as is normal, Dennis remained loyal to his key partnerships right up to his (or their) passing, man like Niney & Joe Gibbs, but also King Jammy & Gussie Clarke. So he able to maintain the coherence and overall high quality of his work right up to the end of the 1990s. He was actually getting back to his best at the very end with inspired LPs for Jammys & Music Works in the months before he died.

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We mix things up a bit more for part 2, showing off the depth of D Brown's influences and his versitility. From roots & roots-dancehall to lovers rock and blazing digital dancehall. Productions from Joe Gibbs, Jammys, Gussie Clarke, Gemini, Sly & Robble, Black Scorpio, Niney, Saxon, Lloyd Charmers, Two Friends, Junior Reid, Penthouse and more from  his own D.E.B. label.

Some of his very biggest hits like Money In My Pocket, Ain't That Loving You, Should I, Love Got A Hold On Me, Friends For Life, Have You Ever, the list goes on... Big combinations with blood brothers Gregory Isaacs & Junior Delgado, Freddie Mcgregor, Janet Kay, Sharon Forrester, John Holt and Richie Stephens among others. 

Continuous mix. More than 4hrs in total
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EMMANUEL BE WITH I - ITINUALLY

Nice Up The Session Rub-A-Dub Style

Nice Up The Session

Inna early 80s dance hall stylee
Singerman & a whole heap a deejay
Vibes of the time...

RastFM #LoveReggaeMusic Show #31 20/1/18

Riddim: FULL UP, SHANK I SHEK, CUSS CUSS, M16, I'M NOT GETTING CRAZY, HEAVENLESS, BOXING, MOVIE STAR, REAL ROCK, TAKE 5, OPERATION ERADICATION, ROPE IN , WEATHERMAN SKANK...

Continuous mix 3hrs.
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Debut #LoveReggaeMusic Podcast on RastFM

Debut promo show on RastFM 04-29-2017
#LoveReggaeMusic  
Strictly positive reggae music... 2hr show.
Jah Jah love inna wi 

 This week we big up the Captain FREDDIE MCGREGOR, showcasing his latest LP TRUE TO MY ROOTS. The album definitely lives up to is name - everything you'd expect from a Freddie set. If you don't already have a copt GET ONE! Massive title track on the Heavenless.

Various cuts of some massive riddims from across the years. Version excursions on the Adowa Triumph, Since I Threw the Comb Away, Ali Baba, Creation Rebel, Dub Organizer, Weather Balloon, Heavenless, Children of the Emperor, Problems/Lovers Mood, Imperial Crown, Shank I Shek, Hypocrites & the Rope In.
Big thanks to Sleng Teng, Shikydraks and all the RastFM family for making this happen. Blessed love. 



Thanks to all who tuned in. This is a taster of things to come on this weekly show, more love higha medi... but I'll have a mic for next week... 5pm Saturdays = 16:00 UTC

Tune in to RastFM 24-7 
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Rocking Time - Late 70s Revival Vinyl Mix

Rocking Time - Selections from the late-70's



 
Cool & easy revival mixtape made up of rips from my 7 & 12'' collection. Incorporates various styles of the day, varying from roots to big people revival vibes. Runs vocals into deejay cut into dub version or blazing instrumentals inna true discomix style... Some real timeless classics here like the Phase One classic rockers cut of Waiting in the Park by the Chantells, Owen Gray's cover of When I Need You or Trevor Hartley's combination with U-brown on Selassie-I. Singer Ras Midas with a dread version of the Paragon's rocksteady hit Same Song. Ends with a personal favorite of mine, the sublime Going Is Rough by Jimmy London. 49 tracks.

Continuous mix. 79 minutes. Repost...

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SiamRootsical Roots & Culture Mix 2014

 

 

We revisit Royal Order's killer relick of the Channel One dancehall classic Worries in The Dance, renamed War Is In The Dance, with cuts by Pressure, Bobby Hustle, Gappy Ranks and the amazing Stand For Something by Keida as well as the original Frankie P scorcher (Hitbound). Lustre Kings come with  the dubstep-roots flavoured Junction riddim. Equally rootsy is the Jah Warriah (Zion High) with conscious vocals from Jahdan & Pressure, Batch, Niyorah, Jah Mali and one by Lloyd Brown from last year's excellent Rootical album. Keyboards interplay nicely with live horns on the Reggae Root (Kheil Stone). Kabaka Pyramid & Chronixx team up with the Ghetto Blues. Duane Stephenson gets in the groove on Bunny Wailer/Roots Radics' Cool Runnings (Kongstar)

There were a few interesting roots lps in 2014. Included here are two songs by Netherlands-based singer Rass Motivated who released his impressive debut album Who Am I. Hear it on Soundcloud. Norris Man collaborates with the Hot This Year Band on Real, his 2nd album for Partillo & Lancealot for a great live sound throughout. Two tracks are featured, including an irie collaboration with veteran deejay U-Brown. Hear the full album on Soundcloud here. Panama rootsman Likle Mystic released an excellent 2nd set with producer Ziggy Blacks this year, the Island In The Sun EP. Jah Cure's upcoming Rasta lp should be good judging by the single Rasta Is Passing Through. Pressure Busspipe was back at his best this year with a chain of ruff tunes & two good albums, including the musically diverse Africa Redemption (Yard Vybz). Jahdan Blakkamore also came strong. Another contender is Addis Pablo's In My Father's House, sister  to Chezidek's Order Of Melchezidek on Jahsolidrock. Penthouse artist RC (Righteous Child) and young blood Yung J.R. broke thu...

Continuous mix. 79 minutes.

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Rootsical Vibrations Vol. 2

Rootsical Vibrations Vol 2
Roots Rockers from the Late 70s
 Part two of the rockers era mixtape. 1978-80. More 7 and 12 inch roots in a full length discomix style Channel 1 style... 



Features a killer D. Brown-Dillinger counteraction on Jah Is Watching (Niney). Big excursions on the Weather Balloon (Channel One) Linval Thompson's Never Push Your Brother & the Blackstones' Open The Gates. Mystic Eyes team up with Jah Thomas for Reality on Jah Life. The Tappa Zukie & Knowledge 12'' Make Faith and the Earl 16 original Malcolm X are here also.

Continuous mix. 79 minutes. Repost...
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            vol 1                                    vol 3

 
vol 4

Roots On Attack 1976-79

 

Attack Records UK 7''Vinyl Selections - Part 4 - 1975-78 

 

The fifth and final lot of Attack singles from the 1970s. Good balance of vocal & deejay tracks with nuff dub versions.... a dis ya rootsman time!

Striker Lee releases predominate. Other productions from Keith Hudson, A. Ranglin, Glen Lee, Neville Beckford, Clive Hunt, Linval Thompson & Eric Donaldson. Features four Bunny Lee cuts of Wailers rhythms - Kaya, Time Will Tell, Easy Skanking and Nice Time with vocals by Johnny Clarke, Ronnie Davis & deejay U Brown. Other Lee riddims like the Ali Baba, Move Out of Babylon, Enter In To His Gates With Praise, Satta Massagana, I Love Marijuana, Ten To One and three Cornell Campbell classics on the Undying Love, Duke Of Earl and Queen of the Minstrel. Prince Jazzbo nice up this one alongside Augustus Pablo. Jah Stitch rides two great John Holt tracks. All the Bunny Lee sides are again backed up with tuff Agrovators/King Tubbys versions

Pick of the other productions include Keith Hudson's Don't Think About Me (Horace Andy & Jah Woosh). Heavy roots on Sylford Walker's I Can't Understand and a pair of Lizzard tunes produced by Clive Hunt. Glen Washington's Voice of the Father from 1976, a version of Culture's Behold I Come, is sublime

Continuous mix 79 minutes
Links to Part1, Part 2, 

Part 3

 Part 4

 

Augustus Pablo & The Rockers All-Stars - Hungry Town Uprising

 Augustus Pablo & The Rockers All-Stars - Hungry Town Uprising. Essential Rockers International mixtape comprising Augustus Pablo productions and collaborations (some rare) between 1974 and 1988. Fully extended cuts with dubs, versions and deejay cuts. Like Sugar Minott at Black Roots, Pablo nurtured young talent, notably Junior Reid, Hugh Mundell, Ricky Grant, Icho Candy, Earl 16, Yami Bolo & White Mice. His 'far east' sound also drew in many bigger name artists, particularly in the 1970's.More killer rhythms: Love Won't Come Easy, Girl Name Pat, Cassava Piece, Mr Bassie, Artibella, Who Say Jah No Dread, Rockabye Woman, Satta. and the glorious Arise & Shine by Hugh Mundell. More cuts on the False Rasta-Hungry Town Skank. Jacob Miller revisits his Keep On Knocking hit, this time on the Hypocrites alongside U-Brown. Killer Miller's supremely positive Each One Teach One features the deejay cut from Jah Levi (Hugh Mundell).

Continuous mix. 77 minutes.

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Rocking Time - Late 70s Revival Vinyl Mix

Rocking Time - Selections from the late-70's. Cool & easy revival mixtape made up of rips from my 7 & 12'' collection. Incorporates various styles of the day, varying from roots to big people revival vibes. Runs vocals into deejay cut into dub version or blazing instrumentals inna true discomix style... Some real timeless classics here like the Phase One classic rockers cut of Waiting in the Park by the Chantells, Owen Gray's cover of When I Need You or Trevor Hartley's combination with U-brown on Selassie-I. Singer Ras Midas with a dread version of the Paragon's rocksteady hit Same Song. Ends with a personal favorite of mine, the sublime Going Is Rough by Jimmy London. 49 tracks.

Continuous mix. 79 minutes.

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Year 2 Year 12'' Discomix Collection 1987

Year 2 Year 12'' Discomixes 1987. This series came out as a curious collection of mainly back-releases in '87 and precious little was fresh. No Jammys, no Music Works, no Techniques here... Its an eclectic mix of styles and periods, mixing up roots from the late 1970s, pre-digital dancehall and contemporary UK productions. Good listening, but hardly cutting edge at the time. Productions from Augustus Pablo, Tommy Cowan, Augustus Clarke, Willie Lindo and Kangal. 1987 contrasts sharply with the other Year-2-Year volumes in that it dips into the archives (no Jammys, no Tubbys here). Features the Winnie Mandela hit tune by Carlene Davis, interesting in retrospect...

 
 Continuous mix. Short and sweet at 33 minutes. Repost..
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