DJ Wicz

Good fortune blessed me recently with access to a collection of 80's dancehall. I was able to grab some hard-to-find tunes over the course of a day of digging. Reputation serves as a guide for some of these, as does the tinny speaker of my portable turntable. I'm learning a lot about an era of reggae with lots of hidden gems, the early digital period from 1985 to 1988.

Two of the most sought after tunes are featured above, by the one White Mice and Burro Banton. I can't think of two voices in reggae much more different from one another than these two, White Mice lives in the vocal register of the small rodent he is named after, and Burro has a cavernous rockstone voice.

Summer's a good time for a pair of songs about, well, Young Gal Business, as Shaka puts it. I'm putting these up, especially Shabba's and Lovindeer's tune, as a cautionary tale to a certain friend who has recently met an overeager young woman. They also happen to be nice late 80's digi tunes built on heavy riddims (Mud Up in the case of Shaka). Woman a hunt!