THE AGGROVATORS ON A TRUCK

The Aggrovators got me tonight. A studio band at Bunny Lee's, King Tubby's mix meat and a rotating line up chocked full of reggae A-listers. To wit: Tony Chin, Ansel Collins, Carlton "Santa" Davis, Bobby Ellis, Vin Gordon, Tommy McCook, Robbie Shakespeare, Earl "Chinna" Smith, George "Fully" Fullwood, Sly Dunbar, Carlton Barrett, Aston "Family Man" Barrett and Winston Wright. It you don't recognize those names just imagine a reggae version of Booker T and the MGs with the Mar-Keys being dubbed to death.

I happened by a post at For The Sake of the Song with a couple vintage Aggrovators cuts, then went to YouTube and got totally fucking devoured by a mess of their stuff. Not fighting it. Like a title of one of their compilations says, let dub change your mind. It kind of did. I went from lazy to lazier.

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Listen:
The Aggrovators - Skilful Dub mp3 at For the Sake of the Song
The Aggrovators - Babylon Dub mp3 at For the Sake of the Song Go there to get it
The Aggrovators - At King Tubby's Studio (streaming) at YouTube Full LP

HEADS UP TERRY

This one is a no brainer.  Tame, uninformed or otherwise pedestrian reggae mixes are a dime a dozen, but it's not often you come across reggae mixes with vintage dubplates and four, count 'em four, blank labels, including one by Augustus Pablo and one by Tommy McCook.  This is good stuff folks, at times scratchy, exotic, and other worldly, it puts you smack dab at some dusty sound system four or five decades ago.  All seventeen songs are from 45s, and if you know Jamaican pressings, you know we're not talking audiophile (a guy I know said he once owned a JA pressing that had a fly pressed into the grooves.)  If you ask me that adds to it.  Listen for yourself, it's at the link below, both streaming and as a quick download.

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Listen: 
King Crab Reggae Selection by Frankie Francis at Sofrito 17 songs, all killer, no filler.  Go there for the song list.