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Watch How The People Dancing – Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989
Various Artists
Watch How The People Dancing - Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989
Style: Reggae
Label: Honest Jon's Records
Catalog Number: HJRLP003
In 1985, King Jammy changed the trajectory of reggae music forever with his Casio keyboard produced digital “Sleng Teng” riddim. In the years following, digital dancehall would take over sound systems in Jamaica and beyond with all kinds of amateur artists being able to create music using a cheap Casio MT-40 and 4-track recorder. One of the significant crews to emerge during this era was Robert Fearon aka Ribs’ UK-based Unity Sound System. Compiled by Honest Jon’s, Watch How The People Dancing collects the raw digital sound of Unity featuring vocal and rhythm track “versions” that highlight the simplistic, but brilliant Jamaican ingenuity of the digi-dancehall riddim. Ribs: “There’s a whole heap of stuff that we did at that time, different even to the music, that we didn’t really know what we were doing, we just done it. This feeling on the records, we did that with everything we did, it was just the vibes that we were carrying then, it was all about one massive vibes.”
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Tags: Dancehall / Digi-Reggae
Tracklist:
A1 Selah Collins– Pick A Sound
A2 Selah Collins– Pick A Sound (Version)
A3 Mikey Murka– We Try
A4 Mikey Murka– We Try (Version)
A5 Errol Bellot– What A Wonderful Feeling
B1 Kenny Knots– Watch How The People Dancing
B2 Richie Davis– Lean Boot
B3 Richie Davis– Lean Boot (Version)
B4 Peter Bouncer– Ready For The Dancehall Tonight
B5 Peter Bouncer– Ready For The Dancehall Tonight (Version)
C1 Richie Davis– You Ha Fe Cool
C2 Richie Davis– You Ha Fe Cool (Version)
C3 Kenny Knots– Ring My Number
C4 Kenny Knots– Ring My Number (Version)
C5 Mikey Murka– Back Your Automatic
D1 Mikey Murka– Control The Dancehall
D2 Mikey Murka– Control The Dancehall (Version)
D3 Jack Wilson (2) & Demon Rockers*– Chuck It
D4 Mikey Murka– Ride The Rhythm
D5 Mikey Murka– Ride The Rhythm (Version)
D6 Kenny Knots– Run Come Call Me
Credits:
Compiled By – Mark Ainley, Tom Benson
Design, Photography – Will Bankhead
Mastered By – Moritz von Oswald
Photography – Trevor Lewis
Producer, Written-By – Ribs, Ruddy & Red Eye
Written-By – Kenny Knots (tracks: B1, C3, D6), Mikey Murka (tracks: A3, C5, D4)
