Blacker Dread recuts classic Black Ark rhythm
S Barrow
If you know and enjoy the track 'Underground Roots' on Scratch's LP
"Scratch the Super Ape" you may be interested to hear that Blacker Dread
has just released six vocals on a new lick of this rhythm.
As well as running the UK label/shop, Blacker Dread was for a long time
associate of UK sound Sir Coxsone Outernational Hi-Fi. That sound system
in the mid-seventies had a dubplate of the rhythm that surfaced in 1976
on "Scratch The Super Ape". The vocal - "(From) Creation" was by Clive
Hylton, who also sang "Judgement Day" for Perry around this time. A lot
of people thought it was by Junior Byles....anyway, it never came out on
Upsetter; it was only on Coxsone's dubplate. Around 1984 Coxsone
released a Don Carlos version of the song, over a recut of the rhythm on
S.C.O.M 12".
Now Blacker Dread has released six vocals on a new Mafia & Fluxy lick of
the rhythm. Titles are:
1. Rastaman / Everton Blender
2. Borrowed Time / Sandeno
and then a Blacker Dread meets Black Uhuru excursion on the version:
3. Be Yourself / Mykal Rose
4. Jah Messengers / Junior Reid
5. From Creation / Don Carlos
(this is Don Carlos' 1984 vocal dropped on to the 1998 rhythm)
Titles 1-4 have "Creation Dubwise" by Mafia, Fluxy and Dean Fraser as
the b-side; title 5, the Don Carlos 84/98 combination, is in fact the
b-side. The A-side has Patrick 'Colour Red ' Hylton himself revisiting
his original song twenty-four years after he first voiced it at Black
Ark. Roots for the millenium, well seasoned....!!
Available from:
Blacka Dread Music Store
406 Coldharbour Lane
London
SW9 8LF
tel:(0044)-(0)171-274-5095
and
J.R Promotions
1b Lynsie Crescent
off Dunrobin Road
Kingston 5
Jamaica
Tel (Intl Code) 931 0538
Takeshi dubbrock Fujikawa
Blacker Dread recently released another roots oriented riddim called
"Sweeney".
Babylon Mission Fall / Anthony B
Don't Wanna Be(No Gangster) / Frankie Paul
Mr.Pressure Man / Freddie McGregor
John Law / Junior Reid
These tunes on the same "Sweeney" riddim are very good , too!!
Takeshi Fujikawa
Christopher Durning
Hi Steve,
Just to clarify, Blacker Dread has produced and released these as singles?
You mentioned six new vocals but only list 5; what's the 6th ??
I am in the USA, can these be gotten at one of the bigger UK mail order
houses, e.g. dub vendor ??
Thanks for info
Chris D.
S Barrow
There are six vocals - the Don Carlos and Patrick Hylton cuts are
back-to-back on 45. The other four are backed by the same dub on each
45. They are definitely available from Blacker Dread (phone number
already given) - I don't know if Dub Vendor have them, since today is a
bank holiday in UK and I can't check this. I will let you know later
this week...