For all the reggae maniacs and addicts out there, I found something very nice: Soundsgood Intl. put mp3s of some of their remix tapes
online. The quality is not extremely high, but enough for copying it to tape (remember: these are mp3s of remix
tapes, you know, this ancient medium with the cassettes that tended to get stuck in the player just when you needed the tape or the player desperately).
I already downloaded the "high bias 2" remix tape, which is a reflection of modern dancehall reggae, remixed to 2x46 minutes of non-stop reggae. Currently, I'm listening to side A of the "pure niceness" tape, which is pure roots reggae (i.e. "Bob Marley style", the way reggae used to be in the very beginning, with real singing, slow downbeats, a good bassline, and real horns and trumpets). Nice music to simply lay back and relax (or blog
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