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Alright friends, i found 8 tapes recorded in the late 80s and was wondering if you guys could help me identify these tracks. These below are from the first tape, there are recordings to listen to below:

1: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/1.mp3
2: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/2.mp3
3: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/3.mp3
4: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/4.mp3
5: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/5.mp3
6: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/6.mp3
7: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/7.mp3
8: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/8.mp3
9: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/9.mp3
10: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/10.mp3
11: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/11.mp3
12: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/12.mp3
13: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/13.mp3
14: http://pkl.net/~jajames/k1-upfront-help/14.mp3

Hope you like these as much as i do, feel free to download and keep these recordings
Many thanks and blessings.
Bullit

#5 is Gregory Isaac's "Easy Take it Easy" (original is by Dennis Brown i believe)

#1 revolutionary dreams by pablo moses

7 Lee Perry Push Push

And #10 is a dub to Ranking Ann's "Slice of English Toast"...it's a Mad Professor dub, possibly on his "Dub me Crazy pt. 4" record.

tr 11 dub of "Lion youth" jah shaka & mad professor style ariwa studios style
tr12 dub of Sgt pepper "judgement day"
mad professor dub
tr 13 shaka s dub

#6 is the Wailing Souls who sings, but i dont know the name of the dub and where get it...
Im curious for song #2, this voice is so familiar :/

yeah i know what you mean, its a bit like that with all of these tracks to me, i just cant place them.. I have more tapes of unknowns, getting through a few of these now.

This is one of the more dubby tapes, the others are quite a lot more vocal.

Thanks for your help, lets see if we can get a few more

Peace & Love

#01 Revolutionary Dreams (Pablo Moses)
#02 Give Me Power (The Stingers)
#03 ? Jah Shaka / Mad Professor ?
#04 ? Jah Shaka / Mad Professor ?
#05 Easy [Babylon Too Rough] (Gregory Isaacs)
#06 Very Well Version (The Revolutionaires/Wailing Souls)
#07 Push Push (Lee Perry)
#08 Kunte Kinte (Mad Professor)
#09 River Niger (Mad Professor)
#10 The English Connection (Mad Professor)
#11 Beyond the Realms Of Dub (Mad Professor)
#12 ? (Mad Professor)
#13 Elastic Plastic (Mad Professor)
#14 Get Drunk and Celebrate (Mad Professor)

thanks ron, you got quite a few down there, only 3,4 and 14 left.

Will stick the next tape up later, thanks for all the help so far