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Sounds Like: StudioOne's Hidden Vaults... "If the idea of Jewish Reggae sounds as feasible as- say- Jamiacian Bobsleigh, German Cuisine or Irish Temperance, then pin back ya natty ears bred'ren, and listen to some knowledge(it says here).
Israel is central to Rastafarianism because King Solomon of Israel got the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba up the pole. Their son, Melenik, along with a retinue of thousands of men from each of Israel's tribes, left Jerusalem to found the Ethiopian Judaic dynasty known as the Falashes.
Before leaving, one of his crew swapped the Ark Of Covenant (which supposedly contains the Ten Commandments given to Moses by the Big Guy on Mount Sinai) for a Fugazi, and they had it on their toes.
Emperor Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari himself) is a direct decendent of this Melenik chap, and his teachings and analogies between black slavery and the biblical Exodus of the Israelites became enormously influential in the col,onies like Jamaica from whence Reggae came.
Reggae is still a really big sound in Israel with 6 specialist radio stations and dozens of dancehalls; in fact one of the preeminent Jamacian outfits are Israel Vibration..."
from: OY VEY! ISRAELI REGGAE! by Niall Neeson..KingPinMag...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIqLsGT2wbQ
~SNACKMASTER DJ©--SELECTION LEARNING CENTER~
Excellent Reggae Music-- and Hip-Hop are today the two largest musical movements in Jamaica and America respectively.
Ever since the start of the Jamacian music industry, black American and Jamaican music have had parallel and inter-connected histories.
This began with the Kingston Soundsystem owners who played a strict diet of American R'nB throughout the 1950's. At the end of the 1950's Jamaican musicians began to imitate US R'n'B music which was then recorded and released by CoxsoneDodd, DukeReid, KingEdwards and other Soundsystem operators of the day as they began to move into production. By the start of the 1960's Jamaica ahd it's first homegrown musical style, Ska and has never looked back since...
From then till now, Jamaican and black American music has bounced back and forth influencing each other as each new music has come up with it's own new developments.
In the 1960's Rhythm and Blues became Soul music and US artists CurtisMayfield, OtisRedding and MarvinGaye became the template on which Jamaican singers such as AltonEllis, BobMarley and KenBoothe based their singing as Jamaican music itself evolved from Ska into Rocksteady.(See SNACKMASTER DJ FRIDAY NIGHTS)
Then as the US Civil Rights movement came to influence everyone in the States from JamesBrown to JohnColtrane, Jamaican Reggae and Roots became Kingston's musical conscience...
Shortly afterwards Jamaican Dub and Version, invented on the mixing desk of KingTubby and others, would be the same process later used by Disco remix pioneers WalterGibbons, TomMoulton and the many others that followed in the US... But by far the greatest connection is that between Excellent Reggae Music-- and American hip-hop and two turntables and a microphone are the key ingredients to both musical worlds... TO BE CONT:
~SNACKMASTER DJ©-- SELECTION LEARNING CENTER~
...Jamaican Dancehall music and American Hip-Hop both started at the end of the 1970's.
Jamaican Dancehall culture, on the other hand, began in the 1950's with the early Kingston Soundsystems. The first MC's were CountMachuki and KingStitt, who toasted in-between the records and maybe just before the bridge of a song. Tom the GreatSebastian was the first Soundsysytem Operator to Use two turntables(that's what i'm talkin' bout). Then in the 1970's DJ music swept Jamaica making stars out toasters such as URoy, Dillinger, DenisAlcapone and hundreds more...
Twenty five years on from CountMachuki and we find KoolHerc, a young Jamaican who had emigrated to NewYork in 1967, stringing up his soundsystem, plugging into park streetlights and running block parties similar to the Kingston Soundsystems of his youth. Being that he was in the US, instead of playing reggae he played a mixture of Funk and Disco classics. Another New Yorker of Jamaican extraction, GrandMasterFlash, was soon taking this a step further, adding new turntables techniques such as scratching and mixing. As the skills required of the DJ became more sophisticated, the MCing duties(orginally little more than shout-outs) were handed over to a rapper and there you have it - with the addition of Graffitti, Breakdancing, B-boys and Beat Boxes Hip-Hop culture has arrived...
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