Mick Holdsworth Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 That's what I would like to know - 70's / 80's Stuff like bob marley / Island and Johnny Nash CBS etc. Is it Dancehall or is that something more specialist. Cheers Mick
Spacehopper Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 i would say just what you did...commercial reggae...not quite hard enough for 'roots' or soft enough for 'lovers'..... as far as dancehall goes i think it does include some reggae...artists such as sanchez and frankie paul are dancehall...digital rhythms built for the danchall as opposed to full bands playing highly produced music but still musically reggae... before the roots and dancehall acts such as wailing souls and yellowman shared the same rhythms....unlike 'ragga' which is another sub genre of reggae with a different beat which takes over from the bassline as the most important bit...especially when dancing...this complete change in rhythm happened about '91 with tunes like 'bogle' by buju banton which was named after and about the new dance to this type of rhythm...named after a man who started the dance whos surname was bogle can remember working with a sound system in norwich at that time importing tunes straight from JA and people saying thats not reggae...how do you dance to that?!...now artists like sean paul and beenieman are household names to a generation of kids who have grown up with it...and can even be heard in the background on eastenders!! just like soul has....rnb,tamla,northern,crossover,mid-tempo,70s,modern etc...all very different but still connected and influenced by each over as time passed so has reggae....ska,rocksteady,boss 'skinhead'reggae,roots,lovers,uk steppers,dub,dancehall,ragga... IMO dean
Mick Holdsworth Posted November 4, 2011 Author Posted November 4, 2011 Thanks folks - it was for some stuff to put on eBay, and their catagories are ... Dancehall / Dub / Ska / Roots ... and Other. So I suppuse "Other" covers this lot
Pete S Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 Original dancehall 78-82 is reggae, pre-digital, how can it not be reggae?
Spacehopper Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 agree..as i said wailing souls and yellowman etc...all those greensleeves 12"s....and the reggae that influenced such as under mi sleng teng and ring the alarm is dancehall....i think toad probably meant ragga...sure he will be on later... dean
Guest sharmo 1 Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 I'm keeping out of this one !!! regards Simon.
Ceejay Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 (edited) I'm keeping out of this one !!! regards Simon. Yep, me too...........spacehopper seems to know what he's talking about...........leave it to the experts, that's what I say!!! Edited November 4, 2011 by Carol J
Guest ScooterNik Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 Stick 'ska' in the description, everyone else does.
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