KING TUBBY - (2000) - Crucial Dub

King Tubby (real name Osbourne Ruddock) was a legendary Jamaican sound engineer and producer. I don't know much about him, but I know that he was very respected and very popular particularly in the 1970's. I like his music, and this is a pretty good compilation of some of his stuff. King Tubby was sadly shot to death in front of his house in an apparent robbery attempt back in 1989. For more info there's an article about him on Wikipedia, and his discography, biography, pics, etc. can be found on Roots Archives.

KING TUBBY - (2000) - Crucial Dub

Year: 2000
Label: Delta Music LTD.
Size: 161 MB

01. Zion Dub
02. Soundboy Massacre
03. Drop Dub
04. Waterhouse Rock
05. Farmyard Dub
06. Herbal Dub
07. Dubbing My Baby
08. Shining Dub
09. Laser Rock
10. The Border
11. Conqueror Dub
12. Dubbing It Right
13. The Best Is Lose
14. Blow Down Babylon
15. African Roots
16. Dub Of A Woman
17. Dub Experience
18. A Truthful Dub
19. Watch This Version
20. Dub You Can Feel
21. Roots Of Dub
22. King Tubby's In Fine Style

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LEE ''SCRATCH'' PERRY - (1997) - A Serious Dub

Lee ''Scratch'' Perry is a legendary performer and producer from Jamaica. He got involved in music in late 1950's, and was a leader of The Upsetters during 1968-1972 period. He created and operated The Black Ark studio during 1973-1978 when it burned down and after that Lee ''Scratch'' Perry went to UK and US to continue his music career. He is thought to be an inventor of dub music. He is quite a colorful character, and for anyone interested in his music I would recommend getting ''Arkology I-III'' compilation of his works from above mentioned The Black Ark studios. The CD I've put up in this post is an OK compilation of his dubs, but I have to be honest, there are millions of them out there… Check for more info about ''Scratch'' on Wikipedia, Lee ''Scratch'' Perry's MySpace page, and for most extensive discography go here.

LEE ''SCRATCH'' PERRY - (1997) - A Serious Dub

Year: 1997
Label: Delta Music LTD.
Size: 85.5 MB

01. A Serious Dub
02. A Upsetting Dub
03. Creation Dub
04. King Tubby Dub
05. Sitting And Skanking Dub
06. The Girls Them Love Dub
07. The Way To Unification
08. Time To Party
09. Torch Of Freedom
10. Two Mad Man In Dub
11. Hotter Than Hot
12. Space Dub
13. Power Dub
14. Reincarnation Dub
15. A Evilous Dub
16. A Dangerous Dub

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Black Uhuru

Back to reggae in this post. Black Uhuru are a reggae band from Jamaica that was formed in the 1970's. Their name means Black Freedom (uhuru means freedom in Swahili). They are well known reggae artists and their band history is too long for me to write it here, so here are some links to more info about Black Uhuru: Wikipedia (band history & discography), Discogs (discography) and Black Uhuru's MySpace page.

BLACK UHURU - (1981) - Red

Year: 1981
Label: Island Records
Size: 84.7 MB

01. Youth Of Eglington
02. Sponji Reggae
03. Sistren
04. Journey
05. Utterance
06. Puff She Puff
07. Rockstone
08. Carbine
Produced by Sly Dunbar & Robert Shakespeare.
Executive producer - Chris Blackwell.

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BLACK UHURU - (1987) - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Year: 1987
Label: Poli-Rhythm Ltd.
Size: 104 MB

01. Shine Eye Gal
02. Leaving To Zion
03. General Penitentiary
04. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
05. Abortion
06. Natural Reggae Beat
07. Plastic Smile
Produced by Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.
“Shine Eye Gal” produced by Delroy Witter.
Special mix by Sly & Robbie.
Drums - Sly Dunbar.
Bass - Robbie Shakespear, Radcliff “Dougie” Bryan.
Organ - Keith Sterling, Winston Wright.
Lead guitar - Radcliff “Dougie” Bryan.

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Judge Dread

Judge Dread (or Alex Hughes, which was his real name) was a ska/reggae performer from the UK. He started playing around the beginning of the 1970's. His songs were funny although considered ''rude'' by some snobbish, stuck-up people. I can't agree with them, for me he just had a good sense of humor. I like his music a lot, and that's the main reason I've decided to upload it. I know that he's not well known as other ska/reggae artists like i.e. Desmond Dekker, but I hope this post will correct that. Judge Dread sadly died of a heart attack in 1998. I recommend that you go and read an article about Judge Dread on Wikipedia cos it gives much more details about him than I have given you here cos the man had an interesting life story worth checking out. Cheers to Judge Dread!!!

JUDGE DREAD - (2001) - The Legendary Judge Dread Vol. 1 (King Of Rudeness)

Year: 2001
Label: Recall Records
Size: 103 MB

01. Je T'Aime
02. Ska Fever
03. Hello Baby
04. Up With The Cock
05. Phoenix City
06. Bring Back The Skins
07. The Winkle Man
08. Big 6
09. Rudy (A Message To You)
10. Jamaica Jerk Off
11. Dread Rock
12. Rub A Dub
13. Lovers Rock
14. Big 9

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JUDGE DREAD - (2001) - The Legendary Judge Dread Vol. 2 (Reggae And Ska Years)

Year: 2001
Label: Recall Records
Size: 90.8 MB

01. Big Eight
02. Fatty Dread
03. Reggae And Ska
04. Will I What
05. Al Capone
06. Y Viva Suspenders
07. Dreads Law
08. All In The Mind
09. Deception
10. Come Outside
11. Big One
12. Take It Easy
13. Molly
14. Mary Ann

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NO RESPECT - (1997) - Excuse My Smile

I was introduced to this German Oi!/punk/ska/reggae band by Sandro of Živjela Komercijala zine/distro. He had good connections with the German scene so one could always get some interesting German bands from him. This CD is No Respect's first album which was released on Mad Butcher Records. No Respect are still playing and releasing stuff so check their Official No Respect web page and order something.

NO RESPECT - (1997) - Excuse My Smile

Year: 1997
Label: Mad Butcher Records
Size: 103 MB

01. What I Call Life
02. Excuse My Smile
03. Human Scum
04. Lose It All
05. Anarchy
06. Black And White World
07. Nowhere To Run
08. Reason And Desire
09. Statement
10. Good Old Days
11. Before I Go
12. Judge And Jury
13. No Nazi's Friend
14. 16 Tons

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THE 4 SKINS - (1999) - The Best Of The 4 Skins

This legendary Oi!/punk band was formed back in 1979 and they broke up in 1984. It's a bit weird to write about them cos I liked them a lot when I started listening to them and you can't deny them giving the ''A.C.A.B.'' slogan to the world of angry cop hating youths (together with a couple of really great Oi!/punk songs), but then there were some really dodgy people in that band like their guitarist Paul Swain (from 1983-1984 period) who later played in those nazi scums Skrewdriver. And being connected with Garry Bushell (who looked like a pimp when I first saw him in that 1983 ''UK/DK'' movie that I've mentioned in some of my previous posts) doesn't give them many positive points in my book. However, this is a very good release and I hope you enjoy it! It looks like The 4 Skins got back together in 2007 cos I've found their MySpace page, and there's also an article about The 4 Skins on Wikipedia, and you can also check The 4 Skins fan page I've stumbled upon which has a lot of info like their pics, lyrics, bio, discography, etc.

THE 4 SKINS - (1999) - The Best Of The 4 Skins

Year: 1999
Label: Snapper Music
Size: 153 MB

01. One Law For Them
02. Yesterday's Heroes
03. Clockwork Skinhead
04. Brave New World
05. Chaos
06. Wonderful World
07. Evil
08. Sorry
09. 1984
10. A.C.A.B.
11. I Don't Wanna Die
12. Plastic Gangster
13. Yesterday's Heroes (single version)
14. Get Out Of My Life
15. Justice
16. Jack The Lad
17. Low Life
18. Bread Or Blood
19. Seems To Me
20. Norman
21. On The Streets
22. Five More Years
23. Betrayed
24. Saturday (live)
25. Dambusters

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TERMITI [1996] LP ploča ''Vjeran pas''

Termiti were one of the legendary punk/new wave bands from the city of Rijeka in Croatia. They were formed in the 1978 and played until 1982. Termiti never released an album but you can find three of their songs on a cult compilation LP called ''Novi punk val'' which was released back in 1980 by ZKP RTL (Radio Television Ljubljana's record label) and which covered the period of Ex-Yugoslavian punk and new wave from years 1978-1980. The Termiti CD I'm putting up here is from 1996 (but I've found info on the net that says it was released back in 1998, so I don't know for sure…) and I'm putting it up cos it's being reissued this week (with different covers) in celebration of 30 years anniversary of Termiti's formation. I think that this is actually a complete discography of their work. Termiti were a shock to the public when they first appeared cos they used unusual stage props like toilet seats, throwing feathers on audience, etc. Hope you'll like them, and if you do, try to get this reissue coming out this week, at least those of you from Croatia.

TERMITI [1996] LP ploča ''Vjeran pas''

Year: 1996
Label: Dallas Records
Size: 145 MB / 320 kbps / 7z / DL

01. Vjeran pas
02. Ja ne želim ništa
03. Mama, s razlogom se brineš
04. Vremenska prognoza
05. Ujo gastarbajter
06. Prljava sudbina
07. Idem nestajem
08. Žaca
09. Zdravo Marijo
10. Šminkeri
11. Kišni razdraganci
12. Crossofiran
13. Pobuna
14. Nova umjetnost
15. Gibajmo se
16. Miris tamjana
17. Baš vas briga
18. Redukcija (live)
19. Ja ne želim ništa (live)
20. Komercijalna ljubav (live)
21. Igrokaz "Hajate" (live)
22. Vjeran pas (live)
23. Miris tamjana (live)
24. Skylab (live)

Tito's Bojs

Tito's Bojs are a relatively new punk rock band from Istra (Istrian Peninsula) in Croatia. They play music reminiscent of The Clash and some Latin American bands that carry on with that style of music with a touch of fun thrown in. ''Electro Istra'' is their second release and ''Picajolo'' their third and most recent. They are still active and are gigging around. I saw them live once in Gromka club in Metelkova in Ljubljana and it was a good gig. I like them cos they have a strong anti-fascist attitude, their ''Naci skinjara'' (Nazi skin) song being one of the best anti-nazi songs from a Croatian band that I have ever heard. And their name is also quite courageous to have in today's Croatia where the mention of Tito or communism can get your head kicked in by some idiot filled with patri(di)otism (read: right wing shits who adore war criminals from Croatian quisling regime during World War II). Check them out at their Tito's Bojs official site and order some of their stuff cos I think it's still available.

TITO'S BOJS - (2002) - Electro Istra

Year: 2002
Label: Ča kurac?/Humanita Nova
Size: 45.2 MB

01. Tito's Bojs intro
02. Bez komentara
03. Mast i vlast
04. Čika plavi
05. HTV vikend
06. Ovako završe svi
07. Rovinj gori
08. Nonotova pjesma
09. Moštruožo
10. Tajkob+
11. Billy, Billy
12. Ja sam svoj
13. Tito's Bojs Song
14. Ugasi pogon
15. Osjećam se

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TITO'S BOJS - (2007) - Picajolo

Year: 2007
Label: Ča kurac?/Bum Records
Size: 80 MB

01. Baj, baj za kraj
02. Preživjeti
03. Fuj bljak ska
04. Đorđo putano
05. Istina
06. Komunalac
07. Naci skinjara
08. Kuba 1.62
09. Neshvaćeni degenerik
10. Story Of The Picajolo Punk Guy
11. Radio Rovinj
12. Smak svijeta
13. Žuta kronika
14. Kod Moma
15. Outro

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Fakofbolan (FOB)

Fakofbolan are a band from Pula (again!) who play great punk/Oi! kind of music. They were active during the years of 1993-2006 when they sadly disbanded. I've put up here two of their albums, ''Jedini dokaz'' and ''Provincija uzvraća udarac''. On ''Jedini dokaz'' tracks 01-14 are from that album and tracks 15-23 are bonus ones from FOB's split LP with Dark Busters, another band from Pula, which was released in 1996 (''Himna Tounju'' and Maske's joke about the rabbit which were on the original split LP are sadly not here). ''Provincija uzvraća udarac'' is FOB's last studio album, relased on now dead Zvuk Močvare label (killed by racketeering from ZAMP, Croatian version of RIAA, which only cares about killing off underground scene in my country and protecting the interests of mainstream entertainers, popularly called ''estrada'' but I like to call them ''slime'' or ''maggots'' instead, who churn out debilitating songs that'll give you a brain tumor if you get too much exposure to them). FOB was an intense band to watch, and had great lyrics that got you thinking. One of my favourite Croatian bands of all times. If you like them, there's their live show during 10th Orto Punk Festival in Metelkova in Ljubljana which was recorded on 13.09.2003. available for download from Monte Paradiso Netlabel. I've found FOB's web page that looks like it wasn't updated for a long time, but you should check it out cos there's more detailed info (biography, discography, pics, lyrics etc.) about FOB there than that what I've written here.

FAKOFBOLAN [1998] Jedini dokaz 

Year: 1998
Label: Monte Paradiso/Humanita Nova/Dirty Old Town 
Size: 116 MB / 320 kbps / 7z / DL

01. Pietas Iulia
02. Terorizam 
03. Ostali...
04. Cik zore
05. Crna rupa 
06. Točno u podne
07. Ulica
08. Na rubu
09. Noćas 
10. Naprijed u smrt 
11. Da li znaš?
12. Ne vraćaj se
13. Savršeno
14. Sarajevo
15. Kota 313
16. Ropstvo je sloboda
17. Ne želim biti tvoj 
18. Rođen da gubim
19. Metak
20. Mržnja
21. OK 
22. Imamo Hrvatsku 
23. Neprilagodljiv tip



FAKOFBOLAN [2002] Provincija uzvraća udarac 

Year: 2002
Label: Zvuk Močvare 
Size: 79 MB / 320 kbps / 7z / DL 

01. Gangsta '95 (instrumentalna)
02. ...A sada reklame...
03. Pepsi-Nike generacija 
04. Pula ratuje (Gola Jaja)
05. Ne pitaj me zašto
06. Tražeći slobodu 
07. Neznani junaci 
08. Predgrađa
09. Lovci na vjetrenjače
10. Glasnice (Headbanger) 
11. Sumrak civilizacije

SCUFFY DOGS [1997] Scuffy Dogs

Scuffy Dogs are a punk band with reggae and hardcore touches from town of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. They started playing sometime around 1994 and were very popular during the 90’s. I used to see them a lot on all kinds of festivals I went to like Monte Paradiso in Pula, No Border Jam in Maribor etc. and they always played an energetic show. No detailed info about them to be found on the net, and I think they’re not playing any more. Still, this is a good release, hope you’ll like it. Thanx to Bađek family for this one!

SCUFFY DOGS [1997] Scuffy Dogs

Year: 1997
Label: Nuclear Sun Punk 
Size: 90 MB / 320 kbps / 7z / DL 

01. Nočna kronika
02. Heroj
03. Utopija
04. Človek 
05. JNA
06. Psihopat
07. Reggae (Smoke & Enjoy)
08. Tonight
09. Ponižani in žalostni 
10. Scuffy Dogs
11. Revolucija
12. Proud Mary
13. Za domovino 
14. Polda
15. Sirene
16. Bullshit
17. Dobro jutro
18. Jazzcore
19. Vahid
20. Konec