Two from '81

 Here are a couple of tunes from 1981; 'Street Of Gold', the Heptones update of the Gladiators' classic, and 'Blood Stain', a sort of early dancehall thing from Peter Broggs. They're pretty different, but both good in their own way.

Street Of Gold

Of the two I prefer 'Street Of Gold' - it's the harmonies, the rhythm section, and above all the dub that set it apart for me.

Blood Stain

I've sorted out my computer problems now, so I'll be posting a bit more often. As always, hope you enjoy.

Observation Station

Here's a nice tune from the Observer - Big Youth's 'Six Dead Nineteen Gone To Jail'. It's the next cut to 'My Time' by Dennis Brown.  The deejay side's good, and if you like it there's a lot more of the same on the CD 'Microphone Attack' which is still available to buy, and highly recommended (not least because this http://www.mediafire.com/?jfyvy5ni2im copy's a bit on the rough side).  I think the dub might be on one of the more recent Trojan compilations, and it's damn fine. It often happens that a tune's deejay version has a better dub than the original - maybe it's because the deejay's there's that much more to work with. This is one of those tunes (by the way, does anyone out there have the dub of 'Tell It Black'?). It sounds like the bass has been put through a flanger or something, and the echo is laid on with no compromise.

Early Train

I was thinking that maybe I'd post 'Westbound Train' today. It's one of Dennis Brown's best tunes, it's one of Niney's biggest rhythms, and it has a great dub. The only question - what to post with it?

Well, I used to have quite a strange record - a 7" single with 2 pocket-sized instrumental/dub versions of 'Westbound Train' on one side, and two of Ken Boothe's 'Silver Words' on the other. I think it was one of the so-called 'economic packages' that surfaced occasionally during the oil crises of the seventies, but never really took off because the grooves were packed too tight together to get very much in the way of bass. So I thought I'd do that with the two original vocals, and why not have deejay and instrumental versions just to round it all off? Here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/file/dzvn2dholft/Early Train.zip Enjoy.