I'M MOVING

I'm moving tomorrow morning. 250 miles round trip. I'll be collecting a new paycheck in a new town doing a job that still makes me think I lost my mind. I'll be crashing at my Mom In-laws till I find more stationary surroundings! In my wife's old childhood room no less. I have lost my mind. She'll be two weeks behind me due too job etiquette. My Mom In-Law is a good cook...so I got a few weeks to fatten up. 

Not actually me...my car is green.

Why am I telling ya this? I won't have access to my computer. I do however have a batch of my incoherent musings already half baked and ready to finish. 

My record reviews are sorta like buying a dime bag only to find you've spent your dime on lawn clippings! 

Another WTF Moment!

Not enough news of VYBZ  circulating in the press lately? Sizzla gets hospitalized by a coward hit and run. The patriarch of the Morgan family, DENROY MORGAN, getting busted with 25 pounds of Ganja and of course BUJU going down slammer hard in TEXAS for ten years. Well VYBZ had to top everybody and face a murder charge...WTF

Here is the latest article courtesy of the Gleaner...

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111004/lead/lead1.html

Or if you prefer the Observer...

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Vybz-Kartel-s-case-put-off-again


By the way DENROY MORGAN could easily plead a case for personal use and prove not intent to distribute. It is 31 people if you count himself and his kids! Bomba-clat...25 pounds is not enough to go around!

AS PROMISED...

I did mention to Rootstar Entertainment way back on July 27th that when I master the mysteries of Blogging that I would post the video "What Goes Up" from their artist The Matik. Well it took several months but here it is!




Now if my car battery goes dead on a freezing cold night...umm you guys will offer me a jump? As a favor in return...right?

MATIK officiall Youtube page-www.youtube.com/therealmatik

1,2,3 TESTING...

When a disturbed mind and creative brilliance mash up. Mad crazy!

TOI!

Okay...I feel a decade younger! And not because I use "Just For Men" to hide the grays! I persevered thru a few bouts of being completely stupid and....

Success!


While I'm at it here is a few links to TOI the sweet voiced Earthly Angel...
Her website- http://www.toimuzik.com
Her Facebook page-http://www.facebook.com/toimuzik
And Youtube link-http://www.youtube.com/toimuzik

Yeah? Oh yeah

COMING SOON AGAIN AND AGAIN....

When time allows...finish that BUSY SIGNAL post! 


I would say a third of my selection is DUBS. I've yet to put one under the spotlight. It seems to be a dying art with the studios but every so often something interesting slips thru the void.  I'll find one.

Here is a new release that's actually old. And a damn near perfect record....

And from someone that is PERFECT...

in both name and sound!

Awhile back the management team behind a fresh upstart going by the name MATIK asked me to pass along the good word and post his video. The REGGAE NATION might cover the whole wide world but this thing called the Internet makes us all close neighbors so I figured it would be a nice neighbourly gesture for me to post it...but my brain made a fizzling noise and then my mind went blank. The light went out. 
My word is good...eventually I'll figure it out. 

I wish this lady was my next door neighbor! 

Okay...this sweet voiced Angel has graced a DON CORLEON production with a big tune on the SUMMER SCHEME RIDDIM! Her manager, Marlon Gichie, sent me a similar request. Damn I hate being old and technologically impaired! This old dog's gotta start learning video embed code. I gotta an idea....

TELL ME A KINGSTON STORY

I hate VYBZ KARTEL. 

Why you ask?

Because that mother f'er released his latest drop, Kingston Story, as a digital only copy. (Sure Ce'Cile did the same thing with her latest, but I could never hate her!) 

I never need a reason to paste up a pic of this lovely lady

 I heard this collection of tunes is the essence of summer listening and up here in the north corner we only have a couple of weeks left of that warm season. I don't wanna be left out in the cold. So that tabloid darling Vybz made me do something that was completely against my untrusting cheap bastard nature, I purchased a handful of intangible MP3 files. I even signed up to online service. Yeah. I figure I can't continue fighting the future! While I was desecrating my morals, I picked up his EMPIRE SUMMER as well. Oh the shame...

Why am I so against online downloads only? 

Well for starters...

I am a used vinyl and compact disc seller. An independent mom and pop underground music store. I'm pop. My music habit has always been bought and paid for by pushing great "like new" used music on unsuspecting ears. My habit has a huge appetite.

Now...

 It's not like I am gonna come across a few crates of old MP3 files tucked behind a stairwell in someones basement. I spent half my adult life slinging pipe wrenches in peoples basements. You would be surprised what homeowners forget what's stashed down there! 

Alright back to the mother f'er whose fault this all is. VYBZ. That tattooed cartoon character straight outta of a big budget sci-fi movie. (The one where he portrays a brilliant but mentally damaged soul survivor.) 

The music? The usual topic of girls and what he likes to do to girls. That much hasn't changed. Vybz's amazing flow has evolved into a more subtle sing song stream of lyrics these days. Is the hard blunt of gangster rhetoric he uses to bludgeon our ears into submission beginning to fade with age? Or is it wisdom? Maybe success? VYBZ delivers all those odd and clever vocal mannerisms that add a difficult depth to his work. Is KINGSTON STORY a worthy successor to say...THE TEACHERS BACK? No it's not meant to be. This is something unique and yeah it was worth losing my innocence.

Epilogue... I'm still leery of MP3 only copies and this is why...a day later for reasons unknown to me I had to re-load the site's download manager into my applications folder. In doing so I deleted all traces of two MAVADO singles. F-ck off! I'm not blaming the online music service but they need to make the process idiot proof for all of us technically challenged idiots. I'm going back to using my stone tools.