DJ Lynnée Denise returns with her in-depth series exploring global citizenship, African Diasporic connections, and music migration. This second edition, “UK 76-79’, follows the links between UK reggae and soul and Jamaica and its wide influence on the punk, post-punk, two-tone and new wave scenes during the late ‘70s. Featuring special guest Cleveland Watkiss.
Strut Records: Sound Systems Of The Diaspora - UK 76-79
Steel Pulse – Ku Klux Klan (Island Records)
Aswad – Natural Progression (Island Records)
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Sonny’s Lettah (Anti Sus Poem) (Island Records)
Janet Kay – Silly Games (Scope)
Horace Andy – Skylarking (Studio One)
Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin)
Jacob Miller – Forward Jah Jah Children (Sweet City)
The Clash – Armagideon Time (CBS)
Prince Buster – Ten Commandments (Blue Beat)
Dandy Livingstone – Rudy, A Message To You (Trojan Records)
The Specials – A Message To You Rudy (Two-Tone Records)
Junior Murvin – Police And Thieves (Island Records)
The Clash – Police And Thieves (CBS)
The Police – The Bed’s Too Big Without You (A&M Records)
Sheila Hylton – The Bed’s Too Big Without You (Island Records)
The Pretenders – Private Life (Sire)
Grace Jones – Private Life (Island Records)
The Selecter – Missing Words (Two-Tone Records)
The Selecter – James Bond (Two-Tone Records)
X-Ray Spex – Warrior In Woolworths (EMI)
The Equals – Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys (President)
Gang Of Four – Not Great Men (EMI)
David Bowie – Fascination (RCA Victor)
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Pure (Polydor)
Augustus Pablo – King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (Yard Music)
Gregory Isaacs – Reform Institution (Burning Sounds)
Augustus Pablo – 555 Dub Street (Yard Music)
The Real Thing – Children Of The Ghetto (Pye Records)
Hot Chocolate – Let Them Be The Judge (Rak)
Average White Band and Ben E. King – A Star In The Ghetto (Atlantic)
Delegation – Where Is The Love (We Used To Know) (State Records)
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Bass Culture (Island Records)
Bunny Mack – Let Me Love You (Rokel)
Talking Heads – I Zimbra (Sire)