Roots At The Beep

The Major has some strange habits. Like recording Gideon Coe and Marc Reilley on BBC as WAV, cutting all the live stuff, coding the tracks to .FLAC and .MP3 and storing them well sorted in his archives at the "Hermetic Garage". A very strange habit, yep, but there has always to be the one crazy guy doing this strange work so you can profit from it in downloading the results here. 

As the Major loves Reggae Music since a mystic moment in the year 1975 at the town, where Nostradamus once lived (Salon de Provence in the South of France, where as we know "all the ladies love to dance") when an old french hippie played this "War ina Babylon" longplayer while juggling virtual crepes ... so lets start with a nice collection of roots music from the Beep

Hail JAH,

Rasta Far I

Emper-I

Selassi-I

King Of King

Lord Of Lords

Conquering Lion

Of The Tribe Of Judah!

Aswad

Black Slate

Burning Spear

Culture

Dreadzone

Isaacs & Roots Radics, Gregory

Johnson, Linton Kwesi

Mad Professor

Marley, Bob 

Mickey Dread

Misty In Roots

Osbourne, Johnny

Prince Far I

Ranking Ann

Steel Pulse

Tippa Irie

Tosh, Peter

Twinkle Brothers

Wailing Souls

pw: mghg

Aswad - 1980-07-03 WDR Studio-B Cologne

When Aswad played the Rockpalast recording at the Studio-B of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk nowbody expected them to become pop stars in the future, yet. At this time they still were part of the London punky reggae party, which Lee Perry initialized with a Bob Marley song, on which the 18 year old Drummie Zeb did the drumming. Aswad, as well as Steel Pulse and Matumbi, joined the coalition of British underdogs against the upcoming Thatcherism and played together with punk bands in the line-up of the Rock Against Racism campaign in universities, youth centers and clubs throughout the island. The Rockpalast concert shows the Band in an early stage, as they only already released two of their about 30 albums: influenced by punk, raw and untamed, years before they rose to be one of the most important reggae bands from Great Britain next to Steel Pulse (source)

Aswad   1980-07-03 WDR Studio-B Köln 
Only Jah Children I A Rebel Soul Back To Africa Sons Of Criminals Concrete Slaveship Rainbow Culture Not Guilty Three Babylon Natural Progression

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Bonus: Aswad @ The Beep in 1977