“City Too Hot”

Songs & tracks

Every song the chapter names, in the order the text names them, each with the sentence that introduces it, set as printed.

• 001

  Under Me Sleng Teng

  Wayne Smith (King Jammy prod.)

  Wayne Smith’s Jammy-produced “Under Me Sleng Teng” and the scores of versions that followed it ushered in the era of digital “ragga.”

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• 002

  Tempo

  Anthony Red Rose (King Tubby prod.)

  He had substantial success in 1985 with Anthony Red Rose’s “Tempo,” an early piece of digital ragga with a moody, eccentric mix that gave at least a preliminary indication of what digital dub might have sounded like in Jamaica had Tubby lived to develop it.

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• 003

  Marcus Garvey

  Burning Spear

  For example, a 2004 CD of jazz instrumentals by guitarist Ernest Ranglin and pianist Monty Alexander contains several canonical songs or riddims of the roots era strongly associated with dub, including Burning Spear’s “Marcus Garvey,” the Congos’ “Fisherman,” Augustus Pablo’s “East of the River Nile,” and the generic “Stalag 17” riddim, which has provided the foundation for uncountable versions over the years.

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• 004

  Fisherman

  The Congos

  For example, a 2004 CD of jazz instrumentals by guitarist Ernest Ranglin and pianist Monty Alexander contains several canonical songs or riddims of the roots era strongly associated with dub, including Burning Spear’s “Marcus Garvey,” the Congos’ “Fisherman,” Augustus Pablo’s “East of the River Nile,” and the generic “Stalag 17” riddim, which has provided the foundation for uncountable versions over the years.

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• 005

  East of the River Nile

  Augustus Pablo

  For example, a 2004 CD of jazz instrumentals by guitarist Ernest Ranglin and pianist Monty Alexander contains several canonical songs or riddims of the roots era strongly associated with dub, including Burning Spear’s “Marcus Garvey,” the Congos’ “Fisherman,” Augustus Pablo’s “East of the River Nile,” and the generic “Stalag 17” riddim, which has provided the foundation for uncountable versions over the years.

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• 006

  Stalag 17

  Techniques All Stars

  riddim

  For example, a 2004 CD of jazz instrumentals by guitarist Ernest Ranglin and pianist Monty Alexander contains several canonical songs or riddims of the roots era strongly associated with dub, including Burning Spear’s “Marcus Garvey,” the Congos’ “Fisherman,” Augustus Pablo’s “East of the River Nile,” and the generic “Stalag 17” riddim, which has provided the foundation for uncountable versions over the years.

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• 007

  Ringo Rides

  The Skatalites

  This same practice can even be traced back to the ska era, on tracks such as the Skatalites’ 1966 “Ringo Rides,” which is itself graced with the sound of intermittent gunfire.

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• 008

  Ring the Alarm

  Tenor Saw

  (Producer Winston Riley, who ironically produced one of the canonical early ragga tracks, Tenor Saw’s “Ring the Alarm,” 2000)

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Albums, compilations & series

Albums, compilations and series, again in the order the chapter names them.

• 009

  African Dub All Mighty

  Joe Gibbs & Errol Thompson (The Mighty Two)

  The overdubbing of “pure” sound effects had been used selectively by several of the engineers discussed in the previous chapter, but was most strongly associated with Errol Thompson, particularly on his African Dub series with Joe Gibbs in which he essentially challenged the dominance of common practice harmony through the use of pure sound elements.

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• 010

  African Dub All Mighty Vol. 2

  Joe Gibbs & Errol Thompson (The Mighty Two)

  The overdubbing of “pure” sound effects had been used selectively by several of the engineers discussed in the previous chapter, but was most strongly associated with Errol Thompson, particularly on his African Dub series with Joe Gibbs in which he essentially challenged the dominance of common practice harmony through the use of pure sound elements.

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• 011

  African Dub All Mighty Vol. 3

  Joe Gibbs & Errol Thompson (The Mighty Two)

  The overdubbing of “pure” sound effects had been used selectively by several of the engineers discussed in the previous chapter, but was most strongly associated with Errol Thompson, particularly on his African Dub series with Joe Gibbs in which he essentially challenged the dominance of common practice harmony through the use of pure sound elements.

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• 012

  African Dub All Mighty Vol. 4

  Joe Gibbs & Errol Thompson (The Mighty Two)

  The overdubbing of “pure” sound effects had been used selectively by several of the engineers discussed in the previous chapter, but was most strongly associated with Errol Thompson, particularly on his African Dub series with Joe Gibbs in which he essentially challenged the dominance of common practice harmony through the use of pure sound elements.

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