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Jeremy Freeman, owner of Deadly Dragon, wrote these thoughts about the sad passing of reggae legend Sugar Minott.
A few days ago, the singer, producer, label-owner and sound-system operator Lincoln “Sugar” Minott passed away at the age of 54. When I heard this news it truly left me with a pit of sadness deep in my stomach — a feeling of loss, as if the world was simply not as good as it was in the minutes before Sugar passed away. This was a different feeling for me as when, say, …
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Or.. eek-a-mix. If you don’t know the mouse, you should. And if you do, you know why he gets his own mix. In my car I have this ipod car stereo that has to be the worst thing ever designed. The “select” button actually changes depending where in the menu tree you are, how confusing is that? Someone just wants you to crash using this thing. So I just leave the ipod on shuffle and skip songs. You really get to know your music when you run that style for …
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Enjoy a mix of Thompson Sounds 45s produced by Linval Thompson. The first Eek-a-Mouse is one of my favorite Eek-a-Mouse songs ever and I love Eek-a-Mouse. Here is Linval’s wiki entry:
Thompson was raised in Kingston, Jamaica but spent time with his mother in Queens, New York and his recording career began around age 20 with the self-released “No Other Woman,” recorded in Brooklyn, New York. Returning to Jamaica in the mid 1970s he recorded with Phil Pratt, only to return to New York to study engineering. Returning again to Jamaica, …
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Honestly, I don’t know much about this label. After I post this I’ll probably send it to Scratch Famous at Deadly Dragon to fill us in with the story, because I know he knows it. All I know is that for a while when I was going ebay crazy on collection collections, I bought a box of records from some guy in Vermont who had closed a store, and it included a ton of Corner Stone represses. I started listening to them and made this mix off my favorites. I …
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The short version: Deadly Dragon rules.. it’s in New York. Go there and spend money on records! deadly dragon sound!
The long version: I was born a spry lil’ feller.. wait, I won’t go that far back. Let’s fast forward to High School. I grew up in New Jersey, an easy train or bus to New York City. More importantly, I was in range of the college radio stations in New York. Not really sure how I first started listening to reggae, but I do know that Bad Brains had something …
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Back when I had a writing job that took about 10 minutes a day to do what they expected, and payed really well, I spent the rest of my time ebaying reggae 45′s. Sometimes I would buy whole lots of records off one collector. Somehow I ended up with a pile of singles that someone had written “J B” in marker on every side of every record. I figured it would be fun to piece back together JB’s mix, so I recorded only JB records for this one. Unfortunately JB …
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