Distinctly Jamaican Sounds
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The "Shitter Was Full" Jamaican Christmas Mix 2011

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With only 10 more days until Christmas I finally present for your Yuletide enjoyment... the "Shitter Was Full" Jamaican Christmas ...
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Monday, December 05, 2011

The Ghosts Of Christmases Past...

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Here are the Jamaican Christmas Mixes from previous years... 125 songs in total and with a combined running time of around 7 hours, there...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Christmas Mix 2011 - Good News & Bad News

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I've got some good news and I've got some bad news... with the holiday season upon us again, I have started the long and arduous pro...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

RIP Heavy D 1967-2011

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A small tribute to a man gone way before his time...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

RIP Joe Frazier 1944-2011

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A small tribute to a true icon...
Monday, October 31, 2011

The Complete Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Happy Halloween!

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I hope the Halloween Spooktacular has added a bit of holiday spice to your October and for those of you who have provided comments and thank...
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Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Twenty One - Duppyman Skank

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We've arrived at Halloween and though it means the end of this years Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular, but for the kids the fun is just b...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Weekend Calypso Treat #8 - Zombie Jamboree (Back To Back)

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Lord Jellicoe is one artist whose background information remains illusive. I originally included his version of "Zombie Jamboree"...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Weekend Calypso Treat #7 - Love In The Cemetery

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Lord Kitchener (born Aldwyn Roberts, 1922, Trinidad) was one of those calypso artists who achieved success when he moved to England, via Jam...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Twenty - Voodoo Man

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So we're arrived at the last Friday in our Halloween Spooktacular and we're gonna take you into the weekend on an up-note. At the ri...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Nineteen - Deep In The Dark

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Short and sweet today... The next song in our mix is a bad-ass roots tune by Barrington Levy called "Deep In The Dark," produced a...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Eighteen - I Shall Fear No Evil

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I remember the first time my friend Nick and I got together to watch The Evil Dead and the most vivid memory I have of the whole event was t...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Seventeen - Thunderstorm

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Did you know that thunderstorms are responsible for about 93 deaths and 300 injuries each year in the United States alone? Did you also kno...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Sixteen - Vampire

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I used to like vampires... I used to think Dracula was a pretty cool guy, as far as monsters go at least. But popular culture has now made ...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Weekend Calypso Treat #6 - Witch Doctor

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Mighty Sparrow (born Slinger Francisco, 1935, Grenada) is known as the "Calypso King of the World" was one of the artists credited...
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Weekend Calypso Treat #5 - Creature Of The Black Lagoon

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Lord Melody (born Fitzroy Alexander, 1926, Trinidad & Tobago) began singing calypso in the mid 1940s. He most likely recorded "Cre...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Fifteen - House Of Darkness

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To me there is nothing so elementally Halloween as a film about a haunted house. I'm not talking about these new high-tech ripoffs of c...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

The 2011 Non-Jamaican Spooktacular - Tribute To Vincent Price!

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Here it is!! The 2011 Non-Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular and I've gone with a theme this year in honor of Vincent Price's Vincente...
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Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Fourteen - Black Magic Woman

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The cutie over on the left is going to bring us to the fourteenth track in our yearly countdown of scary tunes straight outta yard! This on...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Thirteen - U.F.O.

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I've been doing the Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular for six years and this is only the second "sci-fi track" that's made i...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Twelve - Ten Commandments From The Devil

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Short and sweet today... In 1970, Eddy Grant, of incorrectly filed in the reggae bins at the record store and "Electric Avenue" fa...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Eleven - Sudden Death

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The Chiller Carnival of Blood was a four picture film festival which as far as I can ascertain was probably played at drive-in movie theater...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Weekend Calypso Treat #4 - Annie Palmer

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Annie Palmer was named the White Witch Of Rose Hall due to the fact that she was purported to have practiced voodoo and tortured and killed ...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Weekend Calypso Treat #3 - Obeah Wedding

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Lord Creator (born Kentrick Patrick, circa 1940, Trinidad & Tobago) started as a calypso singer then moved to Jamaica in the late 1950s....
Friday, October 14, 2011

Jamaican Halloween Spooktacular 2011 - Track Ten - Ghost Hour

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We're not going to get into the mysterious identity of King Horror because I explored that topic ad nauseam in my post Would The Real Ki...
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