VA - Basic Replay-CD
Artist : VA
Album : Basic Replay-CD
Year : 2007
Genre : Reggae
Source : CDDA
Label : Basic Replay
CatNr : BR-1
URL : www.basicreplay.com
Date : 15-12-2007
Quality : VBR
Size : 84,2 MB
Time : 59:31 min
01 ackie - call me rambo 05:21
02 chuck turner - trying to conquer i 03:41
03 professor grizzly - fight the professor 03:35
04 ijahman levi - i am a levi 04:04
05 ijahman levi - i am a levi part 2 03:41
06 king culture - nice up the session version 03:17
07 courtney melody - black liberation 03:40
08 courtney melody - black liberation version 03:47
09 tenastelin - burial tonight 03:32
10 tenastelin - burial tonight version 03:34
11 keith hudson - huntin 02:20
12 jackie mittoo - ayatollah 04:11
13 gregory isaacs - dealing 03:32
14 andrew bees - militant 03:57
15 white mice - nothing never done before the time 03:55
16 prince jazzbo - replay version 03:24
This wicked CD compiles some of the Basic Replay releases
on vinyl the brought out until now. All classic tunes that
were originally released years ago. For more versions and
more killer tunes get the Basic Replay vinyls...
Basic Replay is a reggae reissue label run by Honest JonÆs
in London and Basic Channel / Rhythm & Sound in Berlin. This
album is a sampler of its releases since starting in 2004.
All except two of the tracks are new to CD.
The Ackie and Tenastilin tracks are from the London dancehall,
killer shots from 1986 and 1992. Basic ReplayÆs hit 12" reissue
of Rambo was the subject of articles in Wax Poetics in the US,
and (a double page) Natty Dread in France. Over decades, Shaka
would on special occasions unleash the staggering dub - with
its foghorn effect - of IjahmanÆs rare, resplendent first version
of I am A Levi (recorded in London in 1974). Also the apocalyptic
Ayatollah, recorded by Jackie Mittoo post-Studio One, in New York.
From Canada, King CultureÆs stunning dub of Barry Brown is surely
the deadliest cut of the mighty Cuss Cuss rhythm. The Courtney
Melody, Chuck Turner and White Mice are classic no-mercy Stateside
digi sufferers - from just a few years ago, the Andrew Bees (the
Black Uhuru singer) is in the same lofty tradition. Keith HudsonÆs
LP masterwork Flesh Of My Skin is represented by its opener,
featuring Count Ossie; alongside cruelly brilliant, deeply grooving
productions by Niney The Observer and Prince Jazzbo which epitomise
the label's appeal to the reggae cognoscenti over the last three
years, but crucially also beyond, to fans of dubstep, techno,
anything tough and worth a listen.