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"Freddie McGregor has one of the sweetest voices in reggaea cool, clear tenor that could have come straight out of Motown rather than the Jamaican countryside. McGregor turns 50 this month and he still sounds like the lost protege of Barry Gordy. Actually, McGregor did have a Gordy-like mentor in Coxsone Dodd, whose Studio One label is often referred to as the Motown of Jamaica." Grab a tune and enjoy, at TSAKU.
From the same site... "Jeff Chang points out a great piece by Peter S. Scholtes on the late Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker in this City Pages blog."
The Politics of Sampling: A Discussion with Hank Shocklee, DJ Spooky (hat tip to Mr Dubber)
"... And one of the things about sampling is it forces us to go backwards in history. It allows us to go back and seek these records out and as you’re seeking these records out you find information at the same time, for example I never knew who Clyde Stubblefield was until I started sampling James Brown. And then after sampling James Brown you find out that he also had a bass player Bootsy Collins, who was also in Parliament Funkadelic, so you start to understand that there is a historical lineage that happens between everything, so musically there is a community." - Hank Shocklee.
There's a bunch of great articles in the latest issue of Wax Poetics magazine on PE and the Bomb Squad.
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