Reggae Power (Vinyl LP) Hip Hop

Reggae Power (Vinyl LP) Hip HopBy the close of the Sixties, record retailer and jukebox businessman Karl 'J. J.' Johnson was firmly established as one of Jamaica's leading record producers, having released a string of best selling rock steady and proto reggae 45s by such noted local acts as Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the Rulers, Carl Dawkins, the Kingstonians and the Ethiopians. Early in 1969, Trojan Records released an album containing a dozen of Johnson's latest recordings in the new

that included Bernard Purdie

the Fugees' second album

and Billy Higgins on drums traverses diverse territory from the post-bop of Desert Moonlight to the calypso of Eclipso to the mournful closing ballad The Lady dedicated to Billie Holiday

There are even two musicians shared by both groups as well as the same sound and same groove so characteristic

Berlin techno

Tony Simmons eye-wateringly expensive '83 jam 'I can't let you go' backed with Soul Shack's cosmic masterpiece 'Galactic Funk' from 1980

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" continues Branch

swinging angles was already fully formed for this album

This support allowed him to experiment and grow

Across all of her projects Jenn balances experimentation with craft

which was only issued on vinyl