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What am I missing & should add?

Reggae:
Wailing Souls - Fire House Rock
Bob Marley - Survival
Mighty Diamonds - Right Time (1976, but it's got the vibes)
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Peter Tosh - Legalize It
Third World - 96 Degrees In The Shade
Clinton Fearon - Vision
Cornell Campbell - Follow Instructions
Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
Rockers OST
Babylon OST
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Eric Smith – Rocky Road

Dancehall:
Yellowman & Fat Head – Bad Boy Skanking
Tenor Saw – Meets Nitty Gritty (No Work On Sunday has awesome sounds)
Michigan & Smiley – Sugar Daddy
Bunny Wailer – Rootsman Skanking
Don Carlos & Culture – Roots & Culture
Purpleman – Saves Papa Tullo
Lone Ranger – M16
Sinbad - The Seven Voyages of Captain Sinbad
Toyan – How The West Was Won
Josey Wales – Outlaw
Wayne Wonder & Sanchez – Part 2
Ini Kamoze – Here Comes The Hotstepper (fun sound effects)

Other:
HR – Charge
African Head Charge – Songs Of Praise
Mikey Dread – Pave The Way
Deadly Headley & Bim Sherman – 35 Years From Alpha
Tippa Irie – Talk The Truth (hit and miss, but very fun)

Dubwise:
Dennis Bovell – Strictly Bovell
Prince Far I – Dubwise (Cry Tuff Dub Encounters II)

If anyone has recommendations, I’d really appreciate it. Most of the artists I listed I only put the album I prefer of theirs at this time. Some of it might be weak, so I’d like to forward it as much as I can. Not trying to clutter this collection with too much, but just make it stronger.

albums you’d replace or add
singles I should find

Post your preferences!

My dub is a little small, I mostly like well placed sound effects. I don’t even know, but I’ve heard some great dub, but I’m not sure what style it is yet. I went to a 2009 Mad Professor show & that hit the spot, but I haven't heard a Mad Professor album that was as engaging & magical.
Any particularly masterful Scientist albums? I read Scientist say he makes the sound better than the rest of the engineers.

Also what is dubwise other than dub, is it the same?
Is dubwise from UK?
Further more what about steppers, seemed to a big UK thing, any good steppers bands (something militant)? Is there any better marching, militant (bonus with horns) reggae albums/singles? (Twilight Circus or something?)
What happened in the UK with dub & steppers?

Went to a Pato Banton show, and it was the same issue as Mad Professor. The show was literally amazing, but I can’t find an album to match that experience. My Destination sounds kind of poppy, but the show felt full of hardcore DJ niceness (he did just change bands).

Went and saw The Wailers play and during I Shot The Sherriff the lead singer did a blam blam blam (I don’t know the sound, but it was interesting tongue twister). A lot of shows do the gun shot onomonopia, and it’s pretty cool.
Anyone know any albums/singles people do cool sounds like that on?

This version of Alton Ellis – La La Means I Love You
sends chills down my spine. I love the phasers, beem bee beem beem.
Anyone know where it’s from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJbXx-YNCDQ

I’ve been listening to reggae a lot for the past 5 years, Seattle area, 23 years old.

Ranting, I know to shorten it:
Militant marching reggae.
Dub with great sound effects.
DJ’s that rock the house.

I’m not sure where to go next, anyone able point me in the right direction?
Rub-A-Dub, Steppers, Dubwise!

King Tubby Meets Roots Radics: Dangerous Dub

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