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You sure it's not John Wark?

I love Mr Doo’s version of the classic Lecturer riddim that Ninjaman rides here: warm bass, crisp snares, dubbed out keyboards, and a saxophone melody that will live in your head for days 🎷🎹🥁

🔊 Mandela Come – Lecturer Riddim (1991)
🎤 Ninjaman
🎵 Cargill Lawrence
🎚️ Mr Doo

Ninjaman thought he should’ve been able to walk the streets of Kingston and be among the people of deprived areas such as Tivoli, Jungle, and Rema 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏿🌇

He recorded this to vent his frustration, with an impassioned, almost spoken word delivery that, 35 years later, is a valuable historical document 🔥

Why was Ninjaman angry about Nelson Mandela’s visit to Jamaica? 😡🤔

In July 1991, Nelson Mandela visited Jamaica and appeared at the national stadium, with musicians such as Jimmy Cliff, Marcia Griffiths, and Judy Mowatt performing in tribute 🎤🪘🎸

Was a good time to be an Arsenal fan ☺️

I don't remember any of the goals except maybe Andy Lineghan (teenage Arsenal fan), main memory is Tony Adams x Steve Morrow 😑

Same teams in both finals?

This from ChatGPT is a lot better but also much less fun

St Paul's Catheter

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John's Hopkin

🔊 Murder She Wrote
🎤 Pliers
🎵 Harry J
🎚️ Sunset Records

🔊 Four Season Lover
🎤 Leroy Gibbons
🎵 Steely & Clevie
🎚️ King Jammy's

I've been enjoying remembering how to mix vinyl again for Bluespot at Dreamhouse Records in Leyton 💥🔥

Come and say hi this Friday if you're about 🥰

🔜 Friday 28 November 2025
🕔 5-10pm
📍 Dreamhouse Records, 177 Francis Road, London E10 6QA

Can I mix these two records smoothly? Let's see 👀

Out of the original Pliers (no Chaka Demus) version of ‘Murder She Wrote’ into the sweet voice of Leroy Gibbons ‘Four Season Lover’ 🪻😎🍂⛄

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Soundtracked, of course, by Junior Reid’s anthemic call for unity

🔊 One Blood (1989)
🎤 Junior Reid
🎚️ JR Productions

There are many ways you can donate money or materials to relief efforts, and I know from experience that trying to choose how to do this can be overwhelming 🤔

Here are four ways to help 🙏🏼

💰 jnfoundation.com
💰 givebutter.com/walkgoodjamaica
💰 justgiving.com/campaign/wraforjamaica
💰 windwardaid.org

It’s been heartbreaking seeing the devastation wrought on Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa over the past couple of weeks – but also beautiful to see the efforts to rebuild and pull together 🖤💚💛

Jamaica is a small country that has given so much to the world and it’s important that we offer our support 💷

Thought this was an Onion article until I scrolled back

Ha nice

Thought this was gonna be about Terry Venables 😔

🔊 Big Things A Gwaan – Black Widow Riddim (1998)
🎤 Mr. Vegas
🎵 Shane Richards
🎚️ Shines Production – Greensleeves Records

Big things going on for Mr Vegas 💥

But not so much going on musically – the minimal production is key to the success of the Black Widow riddim 🕷️

The crisp, clean drums and bare bones melody leaves space for the melodic vocals and perfectly complements Mr Vegas’s style 🥁🎹🎙️

@footballcliches.bsky.social Can a move leading to a goal – rather than a classy albeit ageing Dutch defender playing for Liverpool – be described as a Rolls Royce?

"It was a Rolls Royce of a move" – Adrian Clarke on Sky when Ethan Nwaneri scored for Arsenal against Brighton in the Carabao Cup

Anyway, this is an incredible vocal from Kartel, his staccato delivery perfectly complementing the riddim - which was produced by Top Notch, Famous, and Niceness out of Sweden and released by KBC Music from Stockhom 🇸🇪

🔊 All Gal A Fi Mi (2002)
🎤 Vybzkartel
🎵 Top Notch - Famous - Niceness
🎚️ KBC Music

I’ve been looking for that video ever since, but I can’t find it 😭

I’m sure he was in the booth at Don Corleon's studio, but I may have misremembered or imagined it 💭🧐

When did you first realise Vybz Kartel was a musical genius? 💡

This record is from 2002, the year of his first hit - New Millennium with Wayne Marshall 🎯

I remember seeing a video of him voicing this on YouTube a few years later and being blown away by his flow and the way he rode the riddim 🤯🔥

The Bam Bam riddim always sounds great, especially the way it flips here into a hip hop beat and then back again with renewed energy 💫⚡

🔊 A Who Seh Me Dun (Wait Deh Man) – Bam Bam Riddim (1992)
🎤 Cutty Ranks
🎵 Courtney Cole
🎚️ Roof International

This record has been sampled sooo many times. What’s your favourite version? Choose one 😆

It’s tough to beat the original. Cutty Ranks on top form, hitting out at the idea he might be past it and laying into a new generation of dancehall artists including Buju Banton, Ninjaman, Capleton and Cobra 🔥

@cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social 👀