Jacob Miller & The Inner Circle Band - 'Killer Miller LP In Showcase Style' (Vocal + Dub Mixes)
Greetings each and all, to whomever may be reading.
This is a new platform to me, a medium I've never used before. The kind of things I'm going to share on here and the ways in which they're presented, I have worked with before. I have uploaded over 140 mix shows on Mixcloud.com, built up over the last 7 years or so. That process isn't new to me. So by way of introduction on this inaugural post; here's a little contextual narrative.
Basically, I interact with music to a considerable degree every day. I'm sure most people do also. I've been collecting intensely for 26 years, and built up a huge and decidedly varied mass of sounds, tones and frequencies. And in navigating these varied and eclectic works, in my day-to-day listening habits, I've taken to archive the stuff that resonates most especially with me. The tracks that interact with my soul or psyche on a profound, abstract and almost mystical level... Y'know, the stuff that 'jumps out' in some sort of way.
The archiving forms part of a playlist. No doubt, it's a similar process to curating a playlist on Spotify, though I've never used that particular medium and have only cursory familiarity with it. But the analogy works because the point is, I'm sure most serious fans of music in this day and age are familiar with the idea of putting together some sort of playlist.
Tracks from 'the bigger archive' can be broken down into subgenres and various other type of theme. Genres are fairly nebulous and far-reaching and can end up incorporating lots of little stylistic variations within.
But tracks from multiple genres can also interact on more decidedly personal levels, where interactions of tempo, tone and timbre can create a subjectively pleasing aesthetic.
Basically, to cut a long story short and to illuminate and elucidate my pretentious ramblings somewhat: everybody has the capacity to share their tastes and therefore thinks they are a DJ these days. None more so than myself, I readily admit. This neurotic need for others to validate our 'good taste' is a complex state of the modern condition. And I'm going to indulge that need by sharing some of my aesthetic pleasures and examples of good taste to the internet!
But today's first post is much simpler than any abstract genre-bending or splicing. Simple because it's a 'version excursion' mix of Jamaican reggae music from the seventies.
'Version excursions' are a way of compiling that particularly novel Jamaican enterprise of 'milking a riddim': releasing modified versions of the same root recording. Typically in reggae, that was the mostly-instrumental dub 'remix' and a version 'rapped' over by what in the Jamaican industry is called the DJ, the parallel and precursor to the Hip-Hop MC.
A 'simple' kind of mix because you don't have to worry about whether one track is going to successfully flow in to the next to create a pleasing aesthetic, because essentially you're playing a modified version of the very same track next.
Throughout the 1970's and beyond it was pretty much guaranteed that a 7 inch reggae single would have the instrumental dub version of side A on side B. Just have to flip it over and pow - next version. Very neat and tidy. But... I don't collect 7 inch singles. I have a few, but ultimately it's too time-consuming to track them down on Discogs or ebay and, in a lot of instances, really rather expensive too.
The good news for me is there are lots of long-playing dub albums and compilations out there that feature dub and DJ versions of reggae vocal tunes from other collections. So when I find them, I put them together and compile them neatly. As neatly as I can, anyway.
Here's the last one I did. A vocal album from Jacob Miller, originally released 1977, with each vocal track matched with its dub mix.
1. Forward Ever / Colt 45
2. I Shall Be Released / Release Dub
3. 80, 000 Careless Ethiopians / Careless Dub
4. Shaky Girl / Shaky Dub
5. Big Stripe (To Lock Up Rasta) / Rock For Ever
6. Killer Miller / Killer Dub
7. Land Called Home / Addis Ababa Rock
8. Mrs. Brown / Dread At The Control
9. City Of The Weak Heart / All Babylonians
10. Lamb's Bread Collie / Meditation Rock
https://dropfiles.org/7ZWIT6Sw
This is a new platform to me, a medium I've never used before. The kind of things I'm going to share on here and the ways in which they're presented, I have worked with before. I have uploaded over 140 mix shows on Mixcloud.com, built up over the last 7 years or so. That process isn't new to me. So by way of introduction on this inaugural post; here's a little contextual narrative.
Basically, I interact with music to a considerable degree every day. I'm sure most people do also. I've been collecting intensely for 26 years, and built up a huge and decidedly varied mass of sounds, tones and frequencies. And in navigating these varied and eclectic works, in my day-to-day listening habits, I've taken to archive the stuff that resonates most especially with me. The tracks that interact with my soul or psyche on a profound, abstract and almost mystical level... Y'know, the stuff that 'jumps out' in some sort of way.
The archiving forms part of a playlist. No doubt, it's a similar process to curating a playlist on Spotify, though I've never used that particular medium and have only cursory familiarity with it. But the analogy works because the point is, I'm sure most serious fans of music in this day and age are familiar with the idea of putting together some sort of playlist.
Tracks from 'the bigger archive' can be broken down into subgenres and various other type of theme. Genres are fairly nebulous and far-reaching and can end up incorporating lots of little stylistic variations within.
But tracks from multiple genres can also interact on more decidedly personal levels, where interactions of tempo, tone and timbre can create a subjectively pleasing aesthetic.
Basically, to cut a long story short and to illuminate and elucidate my pretentious ramblings somewhat: everybody has the capacity to share their tastes and therefore thinks they are a DJ these days. None more so than myself, I readily admit. This neurotic need for others to validate our 'good taste' is a complex state of the modern condition. And I'm going to indulge that need by sharing some of my aesthetic pleasures and examples of good taste to the internet!
But today's first post is much simpler than any abstract genre-bending or splicing. Simple because it's a 'version excursion' mix of Jamaican reggae music from the seventies.
'Version excursions' are a way of compiling that particularly novel Jamaican enterprise of 'milking a riddim': releasing modified versions of the same root recording. Typically in reggae, that was the mostly-instrumental dub 'remix' and a version 'rapped' over by what in the Jamaican industry is called the DJ, the parallel and precursor to the Hip-Hop MC.
A 'simple' kind of mix because you don't have to worry about whether one track is going to successfully flow in to the next to create a pleasing aesthetic, because essentially you're playing a modified version of the very same track next.
Throughout the 1970's and beyond it was pretty much guaranteed that a 7 inch reggae single would have the instrumental dub version of side A on side B. Just have to flip it over and pow - next version. Very neat and tidy. But... I don't collect 7 inch singles. I have a few, but ultimately it's too time-consuming to track them down on Discogs or ebay and, in a lot of instances, really rather expensive too.
The good news for me is there are lots of long-playing dub albums and compilations out there that feature dub and DJ versions of reggae vocal tunes from other collections. So when I find them, I put them together and compile them neatly. As neatly as I can, anyway.
Here's the last one I did. A vocal album from Jacob Miller, originally released 1977, with each vocal track matched with its dub mix.
1. Forward Ever / Colt 45
2. I Shall Be Released / Release Dub
3. 80, 000 Careless Ethiopians / Careless Dub
4. Shaky Girl / Shaky Dub
5. Big Stripe (To Lock Up Rasta) / Rock For Ever
6. Killer Miller / Killer Dub
7. Land Called Home / Addis Ababa Rock
8. Mrs. Brown / Dread At The Control
9. City Of The Weak Heart / All Babylonians
10. Lamb's Bread Collie / Meditation Rock
https://dropfiles.org/7ZWIT6Sw
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