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| ARTIST: | Various Artists |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Heartbeat / Pgd |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | I Wish You Were Mine - Alpheus, Wages of Sin - Glen Washington, Saving My Love - Sugar Minott, Forget Me Not - Dennis Brown, Mama Prayed - General Smiley, Brotherly Love - General Smiley, Letter to Myself, Why You Got to Leave Me - Alpheus, It Was You - Glen Washington, No One - Sugar Minott, Rasta Ktichen - Tippa Lee, Never Felt This Way, Bye Bye Rebel, Turn Me Loose - Al Campbell |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 011661772021 |
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Customer Reviews of Studio One Dancehall Selection
A most welcome misnomer Although this is titled "Dancehall," and it appears to have been done with new material generated circa 1998, only two tracks on the album are even arguably within the parameters of the modern dancehall genre: - Tippa Lee's Rasta Kitchen, but it really isn't either - just the vocal stylings make it reminiscent (which, incidentally, is the only track on here I'm not crazy about - not because it IS dancehall, but because he goes a little too far in making humorous voices and, IMO, detracts from the song), and "Mama Prayed" by General Smiley (which I am crazy about).
Other tracks, however, fall more into the Rockers category with a few close to rock steady. And they're wonderful. Thank god Coxsone Dodd decided to team up with these folks once again, just at the time the vaults of Studio One seemed to be running dry.
There are tracks that, had they been produced in the 70's, would be appearing on all kinds of "best of" albums - Sugar Minott's "Saving My Love," Sugar Massive's "Never Felt This Way," and many others. All of them have the old school feel, without any of the techno-instrumentation or preprog elements that, for me, makes newer reggae really miss the mark. The harmonies between singers are exquisite.
As the back of the CD case insinuates, lot of the other tracks here sample older Studio One tracks. For example, Alpheus' "I Wish You Were Mine" uses another Studio One track's instrumentation - and does it admirably. I believe JD Smoothe's "Letter To Myself" uses the Heptone's "Party Time" (reissued on Best of Studio One, v. 1, available on Amazon and recommended by me) with equally great results.
That said, all of the tracks here still find a way to preserve the integrity of the classic track being used and yet make it feel like a wholly different song with their inspired melodies and vocals across the top. (These aren't little byte samples - the original tracks are used in their entirety, sans vocals, with some extra instruments thrown in occasionally.)
Just a thought: Any DJs out there might want to try getting this and the originals (most of which are available on Amazon in heartbeat reissues) and make their own mixes between the originals and these tracks.
All told, this is a fantastic album. I'm really thrilled to have it and I hope everyone else will too.
Studio One
What more is there to say. What you get here is your favorite old school riddim with some fresh vocals. Superb recordings. Absolutely Superb. Very refreshing.
Kader