ZonaReGGae podcast

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The best from Roots, Dub & Revival reggae, in session, from last Wednesday ZonaReGGae radioshow!

-Revival soundings from Ska, Rockstrady & Jazzy vibes, back in our selections, wid recoveries and advances for: Dave Barker & Alberto Tarin; Gramophone AllStars, Soweto, Skatalites!

-Modern Roots & Dub in a segment full wid new sounds from: First Light Orchestra, Benjammin, El Bazar Orchestra, Mungos Hi-Fi, Zion Train, Ragana!

Dis session, also featuring the first of several sound previews, to the most awaited venue of the year in Portugal: Dub Chapters Vol.1!
The Heavy Dubwise sounds from Vibronics & Echo Ranks, Web Cam Hi-Fi, Weeding Dub & Humble I and Jula Jah sound, are the starting point for a much needed Dub revolution in our country! Next 28th March, at Underground Lisbon, Dub Chapter Productions will make sure that dis culture, finally arrives over here!
All over the month at ZonaReGGae radio sessions, there will be a reserved spot in our selections, livicated to bring to heaviest basslines from dis Chapter One!
Get to know Dub Chapters @
www.myspace.com/dubchapters

-New month begins, and new entries pon ZonaReGGae BEST of 2009! 3 great releases that made highlights in February, are the new entries. Check it @
zonareggae.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/zonareggae-best-of-2009-fev-top/

-Oldschool Roots also arriving today in foundation selection wid, Keith Poppin, Tapper Zukie, Lee Perry, Augustus Pablo, Mikey Dread…supplemented wid the weekly highlight to new releases, another extraordinary compile works from Pressure Sounds team: Once Upon a Time at King Tubby’s!

Word battles between deejays, and sound clashes between soundsystems, are today an unavoidable characteristic, in Jamaican music scene. Anyway, if in nowadays it often reaches ridiculous and violent proportions, its beginning was actually quite different, and surely more constructive, wid the rivalry amid the 1st soundsystems, giving birth to the Jamaican recording industry in the late 50Ts!
Ever since, the competitive Kingston scene, originated and motivated various clashes, between deejays and toasters, and the best known, levelheaded and profitable of all, happened Once Upon a Time at King Tubby´s, Waterhouse Studio.
More precisely over the 1974-75 years, wid I-Roy and Prince Jazzbo, as main actors occurred the classic series of 7inches, ‘Straight to the Head’, goaded by Bunny Striker Lee, producer of all, but one, of the tracks, dat revealed a funny trade of ‘insults’, among the two deejays, who were in reality, and kept on being, great friends!
Generating exchanges of influences and complicities, guest stars,Johnny Clarke, Derrick Morgan, Dirty Harry or Prince Fari, came into the studio, and also entered the confrontation, all recorded and mixed at King Tubby’s, wid exception for “Padlock” which I Roy recorded at Channel One.
Once Upon a Time at King Tubby’s, is the most recent history works, from british label, Pressure Sounds, and gathers for a 1st time, all the chapters from dis battle, that set the Jamaican record scene alight in the mid seventies!
Besides the inspired and creative versions, through which
I Roy and Prince Jazzbo, annoyed and measured up each other, the musical background from The Aggrovators and The Revolutionaires, make dis a enormous roots reggae display, inspired by the early days vibe and musical touch, wid King Tubby’s mixing genius, certifying the musical glow here compiled!
Still today, many argue and question, who really came out as winner from this 7inch contest, and in reality, the only conclusion leads to the instigator of it all! Bunny Striker Lee, whom surely never hit a more profitable musical jackpot as dis one!
Wid scheduled release for 09 March, nothing better than to check it out, and decide for yourself who won the friendly clash, celebrated and immortalized now, by Pressure Sounds as Once Upon a Time at King Tubby´s!
Get it @
http://www.pressure.co.uk/item/PSCD62/

Oh! And don’t forget to hit us back wid your decision

Back in action next week, USA and Virgin Islands revival action!
Hayah Love!
I-Rick

Playlist available @
http://zonareggae.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/zonareggae-playlist-04-marco-2009/