»Intellectual move and no gangster thing«
posted on November 22nd, 2010 by Tobias in Jamaican Music, Video
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Noel Davey, the Casio MT-40 and the Sleng Teng
posted on November 17th, 2010 by Tobias in Jamaican Music, Video
Peter keeps digging deep in the Kingston Signals archives and – after publishing footage of Ricky Trooper selecting in the basement of Globe Furniture on Constant Spring road a couple of days ago – pulls out a piece of true dancehall history:
A video of Noel Davey – the guy who switched up a pattern on the Casio MT-40 keyboard to create the the first fully computerised riddim in Jamaican music: the »Sleng Teng«.
The clip was filmed at Noel Davey’s home in Waterhouse, Jamaica in 2001 for the pioneering web program »Kingston Signals«.
Shortly after the clip was filmed, Davey appeared live on the program with the original MT-40 machine. He plugged it into the board and played it to surprised audiences worldwide.
Record Shopping At Dynamic Sounds, Kingston
posted on November 16th, 2010 by Tobias in Video of the Week
A quick walk through the stacks (and stacks) of 45s at Dynamic Sounds in Kingston, Jamaica.
(once again via the ever-great Babylon Falling)
Kingston Signals | Ricky Trooper (2001)
posted on November 12th, 2010 by Tobias in Jamaican Artists, Video
In 2000, the majority of Jamaicans (in Jamaica) were still not online but that was the year that record executive Josef Bogdanovich and photographer Peter Dean Rickards connected the island’s vibrant music scene to Internet audiences via ‘Kingston Signals’ – the first Jamaica-based web program to broadcast live (and uncensored) from the turntables of hardcore soundsystems to broadband from the island – 3 hours per day, 3 times a week, for 2 years.
It was during the days of Kingston Signals that Rickards first picked up a digital camera, primarily as a means of providing a rapidly growing online audience with up-to-the-minute visuals to go with the incredibly raw sounds that were emanating from the turntables in Kingston.
In this collection of clips filmed in 2001, former Killamanjaro frontman Ricky Trooper is seen performing as all the sounds did – in a small studio space in the basement of Globe Furniture on Constant Spring road…the first home of Downsound Records in Kingston.
(via Peter Dean Rickards)
No baby, no cry
posted on November 10th, 2010 by Tobias in Video of the Week
Hopefully it will be as easy like this with my children one day…
