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Mick Sleeper knows his Reggae Music and History.
All his podcasts have a specific theme, and apart
form a jingle here and there and some introduction
talk, he lets the music speak for itself.
In this episode, he takes us to the year before
Reggae Music was born. Jamaican Music had already
been undergoing a lot of changes in name, style
and tempo as the music developed from covering
American music in the 1940's, 1950's into a
particular Jamaican rhythm.
There was Mento, there was Ska, and now in the
1966 Ska slowed down a little bit. The drum and
bass became more prominent, the guitar would start
to play along with the bassline. More and more
artists could be recognized as being a member of
the Movement of Rastafari, and it became clear
that everything was heading toward Reggae Music.
However, there was a style between Ska and
Reggae. It only took Jamaica about one and a half
year to make the transformation. The
transformation itself was called Rocksteady.
Enjoy some music from the fall of 1966 to the
summer of 1968.
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