Wow, you have over 1 hour of Reggae to watch here, as YouTube is hosting the entirety of BBC Four’s Reggae Britannia documentary. We watched a half-hour this morning, and we are hooked. As you probably know, Great Britain has held a major role in developing reggae music worldwide, and this piece tells the story of how it all came together. Great stuff.
From The Citrus Report
Four illustrations that Grotesk did 6 month ago as a tribute to Wilfred Limonious… the originals that ended up on tee shirts with Upper Playground.
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The good people at Upper Playground just released four new high-quality Reggae and Dancehall inspired T-shirts designed by the artist Grotesk. That one up there, that is the one we want.
Here is the full press release: “As evidenced by his artistic style, Grotesk became heavily influenced by Reggae and Dancehall music when he was a late teen in Geneva, Switzerland; and while looking through his friend’s record collections of this genre, discovered the album artwork of Wilfred Limonious. Wilfred’s work has graced the covers of countless albums and as Grotesk puts it, “symbolizes to Dancehall what the Ultimate Breaks & Beats covers are for Hip Hop.” More recently, while tracking down Reggae albums in Brooklyn, Grotesk found the “Stalag 17-18 and 19” collection that Wilfred designed, and immediately decided to create a collection of graphics in posthumous respect to his body of work. The result is these four t-shirts, made as a visual souvenir by Grotesk about the music and art that he grew up on. All four t-shirts are available at Upper Playground retail locations and online at the Upper Playground web store.”
Upper Playground is releasing a line of four new high-quality Reggae and Dancehall inspired T-shirts designed by the artist Grotesk.
As evidenced by his artistic style, Grotesk became heavily influenced by Reggae and Dancehall music when he was a late teen in Geneva, Switzerland; and while looking through his friend’s record collections of this genre, discovered the album artwork of Wilfred Limonious. Wilfred’s work has graced the covers of countless albums and as Grotesk puts it, “symbolizes to Dancehall what the Ultimate Breaks & Beats covers are for Hip Hop.” More recently, while tracking down Reggae albums in Brooklyn, Grotesk found the “Stalag 17-18 and 19” collection that Wilfred designed, and immediately decided to create a collection of graphics in posthumous respect to his body of work. The result is these four t-shirts, made as a visual souvenir by Grotesk about the music and art that he grew up on. All four t-shirts are available at Upper Playground retail locations and online at the Upper Playground web store. (MORE PICTURES AFTER THE JUMP)
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We have never heard of Patrice, an Afro-German reggae artist, but we saw on Hypebeast that JR did some visual direction on this music video, “Ain’t Got No (I Got Life).” Watch it below.
1976 dub version of the reggae jazz record released on blue note
Milton Nascimiento’s composition for this Brazilian vocalists 1975 EMI record
1956 Decca hit, I got this from the Scottish funk/soul DJ’s picks / compilation LP
This comes off Bobbito’s comp of music from the latin diaspora
Ruth Underwood on drums!
1969 soul-rock cut from these Canadians
From one of Egon’s Brazilian record picks off his NPR column
