Masterclass with Prince Fatty (Mad Professor / J Dilla)

gusgranite

I really enjoyed this.

audiobussy

Really enjoyed that… Thanks

JohnnyGoodyear

Jesus that's good. First time I've sat still for half hour in a month Thanks GG.

DCJ

Oh I cannot wait to watch this.

gusgranite

The pre delay tip is killer

supadom

All very useful stuff. Thanka

Off to change the skin on my bass drum!

JohnnyGoodyear

@supadom said:
All very useful stuff. Thanka

Off to change the skin on my bass drum!

Hey, always good to have skin in the game Mister (And that was a good tip....)

RockySmalls

Like!
i’m off to rootle in my Orphan Sock Drawer asap..

jonmoore

Highly recommend this book if you want to research the Jamaican pioneers a little deeper. It's a little dry and scholarly in terms of delivery, but there's no finer book documenting the originators, the technologies they used and the techniques they pioneered that continue to have a huge influence today.

Ace recommended listening appendix too, broken down by recording engineer/producer.

Amazon Link - various formats

gusgranite

Nice one @jonmoore.

I can recommend this book as well for the UK take on all things reggae. Killer CD of tunes as well.

jonmoore

Thanks @gusgranite hadn't come across Tighten Up!

I'm a West London boy and over the years spent a fair bit of cash at Dub Vendor on Ladbroke Groove. Much of it was on homegrown tunes. Dennis Bovell was a particular favourite UK producer of mine as he was just as instrumental in the 80s post-punk scene as he was for with lovers rock releases and such like. Happy times!

gusgranite

@jonmoore I spent a lot of time at Dub Vendor as well. I worked in Soho though so Berwick St was my daily haunt. I used to go digging every lunchtime to grab the promos.

JohnnyGoodyear

@jonmoore said:
Thanks @gusgranite hadn't come across Tighten Up!

I'm a West London boy and over the years spent a fair bit of cash at Dub Vendor on Ladbroke Groove. Much of it was on homegrown tunes. Dennis Bovell was a particular favourite UK producer of mine as he was just as instrumental in the 80s post-punk scene as he was for with lovers rock releases and such like. Happy times!

Far flung though we may be at this point, I think we should consider some sort of West-London-by-birth AB Merch. A small but troublesome subset

gusgranite

I remember chasing all over London for this Ernest Ranglin LP https://www.discogs.com/Ernest-Ranglin-From-Kingston-JA-To-Miami-USA/release/2651297

Soho didn't have it, neither did Dub Vendor or the stores in Brixton. One of the record shops gave me a phone number though. 20 quid from a guy in Stokey. It was a different hunt in those days.

jonmoore

@gusgranite said:

Soho didn't have it, neither did Dub Vendor or the stores in Brixton. One of the record shops gave me a phone number though. 20 quid from a guy in Stokey. It was a different hunt in those days.

Stokey, East London's very own haunt of the trustafarian.

JohnnyGoodyear

@gusgranite said:
I remember chasing all over London for this Ernest Ranglin LP https://www.discogs.com/Ernest-Ranglin-From-Kingston-JA-To-Miami-USA/release/2651297

Soho didn't have it, neither did Dub Vendor or the stores in Brixton. One of the record shops gave me a phone number though. 20 quid from a guy in Stokey. It was a different hunt in those days.

C'mon: 20 quid from a guy in Stokey. Great last line to a song you just haven't written yet...