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Tribal seeds - the harvest

There's no better music to help you cope with living in Babylon, to help you get through life than reggae. I remember bunny wailer saying that somewhere in the bible it said all peoples of all races will be united under a single music, and that that music was reggae.

so light up a spliff, put some reggae on, and let the troubles of the world melt away. Embrace peace, love, unity, and good over evil, send out positive vibrations, put a smile pon your face, and be happy.

Not even Babylon can crush the feeling reggae burns into your soul, and it will be reggae playing in celebration as Babylon burns to the ground, and as Babylon burns so will the herb from every spliff and chalice of those destined for mount zion.

-eg
 
Common rider - one ton

Ziggy - love is my religion

Ziggy Marley - wild and free

Fortunate youth - jah music

Fortunate youth - love is the most high

The expanders - top shelf

Burning spear - sons of he

Wild life - ganja yard

Tribal seeds - rasta refuse it

Tribal seeds - 144,000

Tribal seeds - the harvest


"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley

"when the music hits I feel no pain at all" -Tim Armstrong

-eg
 
If youre a reggae fan check out the roots singer of the moment, Chronixx, while he still on top form. Dont have any links but theres his album and a load of good mixtapes on youtube. Still lots of good conscious music coming out of JA these days.
 
ijahdan said:
If youre a reggae fan check out the roots singer of the moment, Chronixx, while he still on top form. Dont have any links but theres his album and a load of good mixtapes on youtube. Still lots of good conscious music coming out of JA these days.
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I just saw chronixx and Jesse royal on "noisy" (vice media music program), the program started out with dancehall artists like vybz kartel, popcaan, lady saw, spice, etc... I'm not particularly a fan of dancehall, it has the sound of reggae, but it's devoid of the message, dancehall is more like hip-hop with a reggae flavor...they had an interview with Mutabaruka, a rasta sage and poet, and he pointed out these flaws of the lifestyle dancehall promotes, also speaking about vybz kartel and his life sentence for murder.

I was really impressed with Jesse royal, there was a segment in that noisy program where Jesse royal and Zach goldbaum (music show host) were in the ganja field and later sitting on the beach, where Jesse said some things that I really appreciated, so I looked into his music, which is great.

I have not heard much chronixx yet, but what I have heard isn't bad at all.

There's a Jamaican artist called "turbulence" that put out a few songs I really like

There's a California band called "tribal seeds" which I really dig, great message, even better sound...the singer has this Bob Marley imitation type voice, which was difficult at first because he is not Jamaican, but the songs and music are so good that it was easy to look past, and after a while it kind of grows on you.

I love the rastafari attitude and message, if you look at modern Christians, Catholics, mainstream religious folks, they seem quite unhappy, if you look at Rastafarian peoples, you see smiles, you see them radiating positive vibrations and love, they have a great message, and they use an Entheogenic plant sacrament, I love rastafari, and have even come to incorporate many of their practices, traditions, and principals into my own spirituality.
(Though when I attempted to introduce rasta friends to DMT it failed...they seem to prefer ganja, and while their attitude and beliefs would lead you to believe they would love psychedelics like DMT or LSD, however this is not the case...Regardless they do amazing work with cannabis as their entheogen, and may not need other psychedelics, they are on the right track.

I love reggae, hip-hop, electronic, jazz, jam, punk rock, ska, etc...

But it's reggae the most that allows me to sing away my sorrows, you can let your troubles melt away and feel alright, reggae is spiritual music, it's designed to ease suffering and inspire, to put a smile on your face and love in your heart, reggae is good medicine.

I also really dig some odd-ball hip-hop stuff, eyedea (Oliver Hart), sage francis, lucid optics, etc... specially eyedea.


-eg
 
A while back in Venice beach, California I bought a CD from a man selling them in the beach, it's from "di next generation productions", the artist is dandexx, it turned out to be amazing reggae music, he signed the CD and gave me a business card, he was a cool guy, anyway I found some of his stuff on YouTube as well...


-eg
 
Still havent figured out how to post you tube links. Chronixx's whole album is uploaded there, called Dread and Terrible. Theres also a channel by Justice Sound which has a lot of mixtapes of contemporary roots artists. I-Wayne is another that springs to mind, unique vocal style and lyrics.

Understand about preferring the rootsier stuff but theres a lot of dancehall with conscious lyrics, Sizzla was at the forefront of this style for many years, and made some of the best of it, although he also did a lot of songs that were far from conscious. Same goes for Capleton. They do have a way with lyrics, and theres a raw energy and spontaneity in their type of music that can get lost in the more carefully crafted tunes.

As far as 'the message', its not just 'one love' and smoking ganja (although thats a big part of it). Not all reggae singers are rastas and hardly any of the producers are. Coxsone 'studio 1', Bunny Lee, Joe Gibbs, Lee Perry even, all 'baldheads'!. The great studio wizard and godfather of dub King Tubby was not only not a rasta, but didnt smoke or drink. His mixes certainly have a spiritual element however, and he had a deep understanding and love of the music.

Rastafari is a whole subject of its own. I think theres a thread somewhere on the subject, so I dont want to hijack this one too much. I always wanted to be a rasta when I was a younger, and I still embrace a lot of the rasta values, but at the end of the day, I cant honestly say I consider Haile Selassie a living god, nor do I want to be repatriated to Africa, nor live strictly under the laws of the Old Testament...

Reggae and The Herb are a natural mix of course, but Ive personally found even greater depths listening to it on psychedelics, especially mushrooms. Ive got some theories why there isnt more use of psychedelics, other than ganja, in the Jamaican community, but thats for another time. (Still getting the hang of this forum posting lark).

Think Ive figured out this youtube thing now, Ill try and post some links next.
 
I'm not really into dubstep all that much but this one really hit me in the feelers:

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Some more roots/dancehall stuff from Jamaica. Big tune by Kabaka Pyramid, mix of I-Wayne, and one of Sizzlas first (and best) albums. Ill try and upload more vintage and obscure stuff as I come across it. Got a load of stuff on 7 inch vinyl so thinking of recording a mix whilst having a changa session if I get the house to myself one night...



 
ijahdan said:
Still havent figured out how to post you tube links. Chronixx's whole album is uploaded there, called Dread and Terrible. Theres also a channel by Justice Sound which has a lot of mixtapes of contemporary roots artists. I-Wayne is another that springs to mind, unique vocal style and lyrics.

Understand about preferring the rootsier stuff but theres a lot of dancehall with conscious lyrics, Sizzla was at the forefront of this style for many years, and made some of the best of it, although he also did a lot of songs that were far from conscious. Same goes for Capleton. They do have a way with lyrics, and theres a raw energy and spontaneity in their type of music that can get lost in the more carefully crafted tunes.

As far as 'the message', its not just 'one love' and smoking ganja (although thats a big part of it). Not all reggae singers are rastas and hardly any of the producers are. Coxsone 'studio 1', Bunny Lee, Joe Gibbs, Lee Perry even, all 'baldheads'!. The great studio wizard and godfather of dub King Tubby was not only not a rasta, but didnt smoke or drink. His mixes certainly have a spiritual element however, and he had a deep understanding and love of the music.

Rastafari is a whole subject of its own. I think theres a thread somewhere on the subject, so I dont want to hijack this one too much. I always wanted to be a rasta when I was a younger, and I still embrace a lot of the rasta values, but at the end of the day, I cant honestly say I consider Haile Selassie a living god, nor do I want to be repatriated to Africa, nor live strictly under the laws of the Old Testament...

Reggae and The Herb are a natural mix of course, but Ive personally found even greater depths listening to it on psychedelics, especially mushrooms. Ive got some theories why there isnt more use of psychedelics, other than ganja, in the Jamaican community, but thats for another time. (Still getting the hang of this forum posting lark).

Think Ive figured out this youtube thing now, Ill try and post some links next.
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For me, reggae by definition is spiritual music.

And while not all reggae is rastafari, for me it makes the best reggae.

I don't incorporate every aspect of rastafari into my own spiritual tradition, I simply take the aspects that I find benneficial, and there are many, and choose not to incorporate the aspects that I see as detrimental or unnecessary...like an archeologist with brush and pick in hand, you must sift through layers of detritus to find the artifacts.


there were many "baldheaded" producers, but look and the life and energy of the rasta producers, Lee "scratch" Perry being one of my favorites, an eccentric in all the best ways...

While there is some good dancehall, it's more of a rude-boy, or in America it's called "thug" attitude, it's not necessarily positive, so while a reggae artist would say "preform acts of good, don't pick up the gun, follow what's right" a dancehall artist would say "I'll pick up the gun and shoot you, I'll loot you, etc..."

It doesn't have to be rastafari, but reggae is spiritual music.

Regardless if you believe that Solomon and the queen of sheeba moved the faith to Ethiopia, or the divinity of haile selassie I , or what it says in the Kebra Nagast, there is tons of valuable spirituality in rastafari.

I've taken high affinity to the Babylon metaphor, the Babylonians and Assyrians destroyed the first temple and enslaved God's people, forcing them to live under a culture that is antithetical to the true ways of God...

This is an old thread titled "understanding rastafari" perhaps it would be more appropriate to move that discussion there?

-eg
 
One of my rasta friends pointed out these songs to me.

This guy and his circle were the ones I tried to introduce to DMT and psilocybin without success...



Capitol letters - smoking my ganja

Johnny osbourne - mushroom

-eg
 
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