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Very impressed with the history of punk and dub from Greg Whitfield at

which is linked to from that motherlode of wisdom which is www.uncarved.demon.co.uk.

I thought I saw somewhere in there that if you slowed down a jungle record you’d hear reggae — it’s not really true, jungle is a reggae record (albeit cut up) with doubt-speed drums. Different. You can take any reggae record at 80-90bpm and turn it into jungle just by adding a few breaks. In other words, the lineage from reggae to dance music is immediate.

But I’m not comfortable with a perceived dissing of poppier or lovers reggae styles and a sense that only heavy, dread music is acceptable or cool. That’s not what it’s like in the lawns of jamaica or the dances of south London.

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