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Dub Incorporation, “Live”
After a first album, "Dans le décor", in 2005, Dub Incorporation release their first live album. An obvious step for this band from Saint-Étienne, who spent the year on the roads…
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Yabby You, “Deliver me from my enemies”
Already at work on the "Jesus Dread" box set, which has become a classic of any roots discography, Blood and Fire devotes a new instalment of its collection to Vivian Jackson…
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Clinton Fearon, “Vision”
After setting the bar high with "Give and take" in 2004, it is with a touch of apprehension that we discover "Vision", Clinton Fearon’s sixth solo album. Doubts quickly dispelled…
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Various Artists, “Life goes in circle”
The English label Pressure Sounds carries on down the road of Jamaican reissues and devotes its 52nd instalment to the Chinese-Jamaican singer and producer Tommy Cowan. A member…
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Welcome, “Streetly Reggae Lovers”
A melting pot embodied in its musical influences, the improbable child of Bob Marley, Foreigner and Phil Collins, Welcome crystallises the fusion of 80s English pop, the Motown…
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Burning Spear, “Living Dub vol.5”
Starting from the dub versions of the indispensable "Social Living", Burning Spear’s "Living Dub" collection has grown over the years by combining the dubs of several of his…
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Jah Mason, “Wheat and Tears”
After the impeccable "My Princess Gone/The Saga Bed", released in May 2006 on VP Records, Jah Mason returns in sharp form with a Greensleeves-branded "Wheat and Tears" that…
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King Jammy, “King at the control”
It is no exaggeration to say that Lloyd "Jammy" James and his Jammy's label were to 80s reggae what Clement Dodd and Studio One were to Jamaican music in the 60s. Still…
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Various Artists, “Frenchy Ragga Dancehall”
Already familiar from the Ragga Magazine "Sampler" compilation, Gilgert Pytel offers us here a personal selection of more or less well-known artists from today’s French dancehall…
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Groundation, “Upon the bridge”
Since its debut, Groundation has been weaving a web whose outlines gradually take shape. Album after album, the pieces of the puzzle draw a whole. For the road to this fifth…