Friday, April 11, 2014

need help finding library dub albums

I just enjoyed a comp of German 70s commercial music (actually two!: both volumes of Popshopping, though the second's a little better, just like Cumbia Cumbia) more than a more or less universally worshiped comp of classic roots (Jack Ruby Presents the Black Foundation), so if there's a hell below, I'm going to go. But then I may have actually preferred the album of Mauritian Moorish music I heard, Ooleya Mint Amartichitt's Praise Songs, to both, so maybe I'll get to purgatory?

Bruno Nicolai's Rendez Vous is spooky-flavored without containing any actual dread or scares. But it's still moody and vaguely angsty enough to warrant a listen for libraryphiles.

e: and speaking of roots, Jacob Miller's Who Say Jah No Dread is as uneven as its highlights are fantastic - I think I finally get the appeal of "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" now - (them drums!) - but there's just too much that's utterly inconsequential: who really thinks "Girl Name Pat" stands up well next to "Keep On Knocking" or "False Rasta?" nobody, that's who.

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  1. this site is a great - enjoy the hours of digging through :)

    http://maiolibrary.blogspot.co.at/

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