WHAT YEAR IS IT ANYWAY?

Last night I was digging around on funk blogs and ran into one that had a few mixes, one of which was mostly reggae. Alas, the link was dead, but there was one song I was reminded about, so I went on a dig. It's a cover of "Whole Lotta Love," by the Dynamics; a reggae inflected version, with just a touch of dub. Not really what you'd call straight up reggae, but for a contemporary band, it's pretty sweet, especially for a band from France that's three quarters white dudes. The second song below "Bring Me Up" is a little more roots, it would fit nicely in a mix with Gregory Isaacs and Dennis Brown. Apparently the Dynamics like their covers, because there's also versions of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" and Madonna's "Music" floating around. (The White Stripes cover reminded me of one by Alice Russell and Nostalgia 77, so that's down there too. More on Russell later, but, man, does she have some pipes!) Listening to a few other Dynamics songs, it's apparent that they dig seventies soul too. I like that, the fact that they're sort of a seventies soul/reggae hybrid, because, lest we forget, there were more than a few bands like that out of Jamaica in the seventies.

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Visit:
The Dynamics - Whole Lotta Love mp3 at Radio Milwaukee
The Dynamics - Bring Me Up mp3 at Hilly Dilly
The Dynamics - Music mp3 at Cover Me
The Dynamics - Seven Nation Army mp3 at Town Full of Losers
The Dynamics - Miracles mp3 at Hilly Dilly
Alice Russell and Nostalgia 77 - Seven Nation Army mp3 at 365 Days of Music
Visit:
The Dynamics at Favorite Recordings
The Dynamics at Facebook