Dancehall - The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
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- Released
- 10/11/2008
- Music Genre
- Dancehall
- Media Format
- Audio CD
Description
100% essential jam-packed monster Dancehall double-pack compilation released to coincide with Beth Lesser’s amazing Dancehall book also published by Soul Jazz Records! This is an A-Z of Dancehall’s finest moments. A mammoth two-CD pack featuring killer tracks back-to-back from the finest Dancehall artists ever including Gregory Isaacs, Tenor Saw, Sugar Minott, Sister Nancy, Eek A Mouse, Sly & Robbie, Yellowman, Frankie Paul, Lone Ranger and many more. ‘Dancehall’ is an absolutely essential guide to the music featuring classic tracks and classic artists. If ever you wanted a party album of stone-cold floor-filling party classics - this is it. As well as the stellar line-up and tracklisting, the album comes complete with a selection Beth Lesser’s amazing, unique, never seen before photos throughout the CD and album booklets (all of which also feature in the new book published at the same time) as well as concise newly written sleeve-notes and Soul Jazz Records classic packaging.
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Product Details
- Artist
- Various
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- SOUL JAZZ
- Original year of release
- 2008
- Number of Discs
- 2
- Year of release
- 2008
- Cast & Crew
- Various Artists (Music Performer)
Press Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "DANCEHALL covers the few artists who transcended the Jamaican scene, such as Yellowman, Cutty Ranks and Clint Eastwood and moved into more mainstream areas of popular music. Record Collector (magazine) (p.103)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Yellow Man - Bam Bam
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Tenor Saw - Pumpkin Belly
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Reggie Stepper - Cu- Oonuh
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Chaka Demus and Pliers - Murder She Wrote
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Pinchers - Agony
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Michigan & Smiley - Diseases
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Ini Kamoze - World a Music
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Junior Murvin - Cool Out Son
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Triston Palma - Entertainment
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General Echo - Arleen
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Barrington Levy - Here I Come
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Cutty Ranks - Chop Chop
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Lone Ranger - M16
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Super Cat - Trash and Ready
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Trinity - Jamaican Dollar
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Cornel Campbell - Boxing
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Gregory Isaacs - Soon Forward
Disc 2:
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Conroy Smith - Dangerous
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Jacob Miller & Trinity - I’M Just a Dread / One Shut
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Lady Ann - Informer
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Brigadier Jerry - Fred Locks a Dreadlocks
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Eek-A-Mouse - Wa Do Dem
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Sister Nancy - Only Woman DJ with Degree
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Early B - Deaf Ears
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Trinity - Uptown Girl
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Toyan - Spar with Me
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Horace Ferguson - Sensi Addict
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Clint Eastwood - Jump and Pawn
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Half Pint - Greetings
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Reggie Stepper - Under MI Sin Ting
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Frankie Paul - Call the Brigade
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General Echo - Track Shoes
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Cornell Campbell - Mash You Down
