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Richie Spice, “In the streets to Africa”
The impatience surrounding the release of "In the Streets to Africa" matched the challenge facing Richie Spice, two years after "Spice in your Life" (January 2005, on 5th…
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Milton Henry, “Who Do You Think I Am ?”
Another good pick from the Wackies collection! The Bronx label is making headlines again with this reissue of a superb album by Milton Henry made in 1985. A little-known but…
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Ras Michael Junior, “Medicine Man”
So it took almost a year after the last opus devoted to the Viceroys, released in April 2006, before we saw a new release from Makasound on its Inna De Yard label. After the…
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Reckless Breed, “Reckless Roots Rockers”
Nocturne continues its series of reissues of the Wackies catalogue, the famous Bronx studio that reigned supreme over New York reggae from 1977 to 1985. The selection on this…
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Faya Dub, “World wide reggae”
A Parisian collective formed in 1998, Faya Dub is one of those independent groups that make French reggae so diverse. After more than 300 concerts in France and abroad, the 8…
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Kanka, “Alert”
After dropping a heavy slab on the French dub scene in 2005 with his first opus "Don't stop dub", Kanka, a multi-instrumentalist sound engineer (ex King Riddim), returns with a…
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Turbulence, “Do Good”
The new album by Turbulence, "Do Good", bears the stamp of Minor 7 Flat 5, the German-Spanish-Jamaican label that made its name by laying the excellent "Different Thing" in 2003…
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Zoro, “Gugs News”
A South African who crosses the globe to record his first album in Sweden: it is not an everyday trajectory. It is that of Zoro, a native of the outskirts of Cape Town who left…
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Michael Rose, “Warrior”
A little over a year after the album "African Roots", Michael Rose and Ryan Moore (Twilight Production) are back with "Warrior", the obvious sequel to the project: same…
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Tony Tuff, “Say Something”
Announced by Tony Tuff during our interview at Ja’Sound, this new album produced by the German label Minor 7 Flat 5 marks the return on record of the soft-voiced Jamaican singer…