King Kong Di Gorilla Post

Small tribute post to one of my fave dancehall icons

King Kong - Agony And Pain 7'' [198x Jah Life Original Pressing]

Early Jah Life release over a crucial Drifter riddim. Very nice piece of digikal dancehall here. Also check out I Roy's Musical Drifter on the same label/riddim. That versions perhaps even better than this one surprisingly!

Me Duele Mama!

King Kong - Big Boy 7'' [1986 Oneness Original Pressing]

Big Heavenless riddim here. Not a 7'' you see too often. Oneness had a string of large tunes like this one, Chicken Chest's Raggamuffin Selector, and Frankie Wilmott's Sensemilla (on Tempo), but then also cut some pretty bland stuff with an over the hill Jimmy Cliff, Ansel Collins ,etc...

Boyee

King Kong - Four Year Old 7'' [198x Apple Tree Original Pressing]

This ones on the Two Year Old riddim. Different color label than most of the Apple Tree 7'' releases that tended to be green and white. More cool digi.

How Old?

Thriller U - Best Thriller 7'' [1989 Dallas Texas Original Pressing]

Thriller rides the Wild Gilbert riddim made famous by Lovindeer. Thought this was an American label when I first picked it up, but it's in fact Jamaican. Very unusual Texan patriotism going on here. While I have heard that Houston has a small Jamaican community, I can't say the same about Dallas though.

49ers > Cowboys... All Day!

Tony Tuff - Woman, Woman 7'' [1987 Alpine Original Pressing]

Tony explains his love for the opposite sex over a nice African Beat riddim.

Girly Girly

Tenor Senior - Poorman Living 7'' [1988 Royal Star Original Pressing]

Nice deejay cut on small independent label. Records first half is a likkle beat up, but still plays ok. I've noticed that you see a lot of digital recordings from '87 and '89, but not too many from 1988. My guess would be that would be due to it being an election year, which caused violent instability every 4 years on the island. While I the '76 and '80 elections were known to be the bloodiest, I'm assuming by '88 the streets were still hot! Any other insight?

Ballot Box

Trevor Sparks, Junior Wilson, and Mystic Man - Speak Softly / Conroy Smith - Problems 12'' [1989 Blue Trac Original Pressing]

Interesting UK produced 12'', which also, in my opinion, has a harder flip side. The A Side has a combo of singers over a riddim that sounds like the theme from the movie Godfather. Conroy's side has a very similar riddim as well, but for some reason sounds a lot more crucial and less gimmicky.

Side A

Side AA

Sugar Minott - Hi Hello / Jerry Johnson - Saxman Special 12'' [198x Wackies Original Pressing]

This is one bad ass 12'' that was cut around 1983-'84 and features two killer semi-digi tracks. The first side is Sugar singing over a beautiful Revolution riddim cut, and even has a very short chat towards the end by unknown deejay Lover D. The flip side is perhaps slightly more hard hitting, with the saxophone man Johnson ripping up an instrumental version of the Billy Jean riddim. This release was cut during Sugar's time in NYC when he linked with Lloyd Bullwackie Barnes in the early 80's, and has that distinct Wackies sound to it. Bullwackie reminds me of an American version of Jah Shaka, both of who have very unique but instantly recognizable styles. This is the og press by the way, though this tune has been repressed by Wackies.

Side A

Side A2

Junior Cat - Killin Pussy 7'' [1995 John John Original Pressing]

Cat slaughters bumbaclot ediot sounds on this Heavenless remake.

Jammy Jr on the prodo again.

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