BANGING MUSIC — Jamaican Reggae 1964–1979 | Ska, Rocksteady & Roots Background Music

Jamaican reggae, ska, rocksteady and roots, 1964 to 1979 — fifteen tracks crossfaded into one continuous piece of background music, played from 1979 back to 1964. Every song is built on a dated event rather than a mood, so the record runs as one argument about the period: · two people in London, a ticket bought, a fortnight left · a market trader who stops waiting on the post and builds her own · a couple from opposite sides of a party line · the woman on the lane who keeps the list nobody else keeps · a father who splits one breadfruit four ways, then gives half away · a welder who walks the long way round a corner that changed hands · a deejay who hands a recruitment envelope back to the man who offered it · a London stallholder who will not let her rent be paid for her · a pit worker who plants one tree in seventeen acres of spoil · a tenant farmer who asks to buy the ground her mother worked · a school-leaver who refuses a porter's job, then takes it · a teacher who takes a country post and keeps the photograph in a drawer · overtime taken on the Sunday he was going to ask for her hand · a young man in Kingston writing home that the work is steady · a storeman who trains a fourth man into the post he wants CHAPTERS 0:00 Just Have These Two Weeks — Island Roses 3:46 Mi Build Mi Own — Dub Horizon 7:21 Where the Road Divide — Island Roses 10:44 Wi Hold It Up — Dub Horizon 12:49 Nobody Leave the Table — Dub Horizon 15:38 Take the Long Road — Dub Horizon 18:42 Take Back The Envelope — Dub Horizon 21:42 My Own Money, My Own Key — Island Roses 25:14 Red Earth Under Mi Nail — Dub Horizon 28:19 Mi Name Reach A Paper — Dub Horizon 31:22 Five Certificates — Island Roots 34:25 One Passport Photograph — Brass Avenue 37:26 Standing Outside the Door — Brass Avenue 41:00 Everything Fine — Brass Avenue 44:12 Three Men Before Me — Kingston Stomp Fifteen tracks. Fifteen years. Ska through rocksteady, early reggae, roots, deejay and lovers rock — the whole development of Jamaican popular music in one sitting. Listen free on YouTube and subscribe for more:    / @neiljones6551   Long-form mixes are also on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/bangingmusic/ #BangingMusic #JamaicanReggae #Ska #Rocksteady #RootsReggae #LoversRock #ReggaeMix #BackgroundMusic #AIGeneratedMusic What's the best setting for this mix? Drop a comment below.