Some more reg­gae. Has got synths (+ dub­step com­pat­i­ble tempo). Also, “Liv­ing On The Front Line” video below.

Swedish reg­gae 1982 with delight­fully nice vid. The track is from the album Something’s Going On which might be worth check­ing out. Yes, Frida was a mem­ber of the one band named ABBA.

(Via Shawn Ryan)

Music from and inspired by Finnish sketch com­edy shows Pult­ti­bois and Man­it­bois. Might have some added value for Finns but cer­tainly you’ll be able to enjoy the mix on it’s own! The music here ranges from the years 1985 to 1990. A melt­ing pot of delight­ful new jack swing, hip-house, breaks, funk and house with dis­tinc­tive Pirkka-Pekka Petelius-style, who is widely known as a reg­gae enthusiast.

Musi­ikkia ja vaikut­teita sket­sis­ar­joista Pult­ti­bois ja Man­it­bois. Mukana myös muita saman­henkisiä biisejä. Hymy­i­lyt­tävää ja raa­joja liikut­tavaa meininkiä. Sar­jat sisäl­sivät aikanaan paitsi mieleen­painu­via hokemia, myös ajanko­htaista musi­ikkia eri gen­reistä. Pirkka-Pekka mitä helevettiä?

Jatkamme, saamme ken­ties elää.

This Is How We Swing by Beat Jockey Dzei

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Track­list
Intro: Kari Mänty & “Frankie Fred­er­icks“
1. Dream War­riors — My Def­i­n­i­tion Of A Boom­bas­tic Jazz Style
2. Sly & Rob­bie — Yes We Can Can
3. Tina Turner — You Can’t Stop Me Lov­ing You
4. Mid­night Star Fea­tur­ing Ecstacy of Who­dini — Don’t Rock The Boat
5. James Brown With Full Force — God­fa­ther Run­nin’ The Joint
6. Dig­i­tal Under­ground — Packet Man
7. Heavy D & The Boyz — Some­body For Me
8. Full Force — Alice, I Want You Just For Me
9. Ice MC — Dolce Vita
10. Ziggy Mar­ley — Look Who’s Dancin’ (Club Mix)
11. Chad Jack­son — Hear The Drum­mer (Get Wicked)
12. Oh Well — Oh Well (88 Dance Mix)
13. M.A.R.R.S — Pump Up The Vol­ume (U.S. Remix)
14. Novo Band — Take It To The Street (Hit­house Remix)
Outro: Kari Mänty

UPDATE 20.02.2011

This Is How We Swing — Extended Spo­tify playlist

VIDEOMIXATION!

This Is How We Swing Promo Video Mix­tape KynyNasty

“Vanha Hippi” (old hip­pie) is a song by Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies. It isn’t the the first reg­gae song in Fin­land but among the first ones, yes. It appears on the first vol­ume of “Suomi Rock ’80″ com­pi­la­tions released by Poko Records.
Most of the older Finnish reg­gae stuff aren’t any good (e.g. Avaru­uslintu — Kesä Reg­gae) but this “Vanha Hippi” is a great suc­cess mostly because of the con­tro­ver­sial and amus­ing lyrics! Def­i­nitely a good source for vocal sam­ples (tip!).

As said before, the eas­i­est way to get it is to acquire a copy of Suomi Rock ’80 com­pi­la­tion but we’re here @ Kyny­Nasty so nice peo­ple that we offer you the oppor­tu­nity to get it right here.

Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies — Vanha Hippi

If you’re the owner of the song/the artist per­form­ing it/don’t want it to be put online, please mes­sage us and we’ll remove it as soon as possible.

A brief his­tory of Finnish reg­gae (pub­lished in Ylioppilas-lehti 09/2001, in Finnish)