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1.The Dub Factor by: Black Uhuru February 20, 2003
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I remember the first time I met someone else who also knew this album. That was about 20 years ago in France, and the bloke was a Punk bloke with the most extreme look and a pronounced taste for very hardcore music. For some reason he was at my place for a party and at some point I played this album. That certainly got his attention as he already knew and loved this album and we struck a lasting immediate friendship there and then. I think this is the moct important thing about this album. It transcends the closed up Dub world to a larger experimental world of open minded people. The production is impeccable, and it certainly will twist your mind when you have smoked a few too many spliffs, but even now that I have not been smoking ... Read More:

2.Sinsemilla by: Black Uhuru December 03, 2007
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Having cut numerous massive selling 12" singles with Sly and Robbie ("Leaving To Zion", "General Penitentiary", "Shine Eye Gal") for a variety of labels, Black Uhuru were snapped up by Island and given a contract that allowed them enough studio time to make albums, and sent to work with their favourite ryhthm section. The result was an album that was far ahead of most reggae of its time, and pointed the way towards the emerging digital dancehall sounds, without resorting to the cheap sexism of the "slackness" that so disfigured that music's early years. Working at Channel One with a few former Revolutionaries (Radcliffe Bryan, Ranchie McLean and Ansel Collins) on hand to beef up the sound, with ernest Hoo Kim at the controls, and with ... Read More:

3.Red by: Black Uhuru December 03, 2007
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After the stunning artistic and commercial success of "Sinsemillia", going back into the studio with the same band a few months later was hardly going to produce poor results. Unfortunately, having torn up the rule book with their last LP, they presented us with more of the same. "Youth of Eglington", "Utterance" and "Sponji Reggae" can still bring a smile the faces of all but the most terminally miserable, and there are some wonderful backing tracks on here, with Sly and Robbie stretching themselves due to having freedom to experiment, but it really is little more than "Sinsemillia Part 2", so only four stars, sorry

4.Black Uhuru by: Black Uhuru
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"Black Uhuru" by Black Uhuru has been released many times, under various titles such as "Showcase" and "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". I first came across it as a vinyl LP on Virgin UK, VX1004 being the catalogue number. At that point in my life, I thought that reggae began and ended with the (then) ubiquitous UB40. From the opening, mournful Hammond organ chords of "Shine Eye Gal" to the dub playout of "Plastic Smile", this album transformed my life and led me down the righteous path of roots reggae. I had heard nothing like it before. Stripped-down rhythms, often just the drum/bass interplay of Sly and Robbie, with minimal input from guitar or keyboards, this was the message of Africa written large through my inadequate speakers. ... Read More:

5.Liberation: The Island Anthology by: Black Uhuru February 02, 1994
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Double CD with 28 tracks not in chronological order. The 1980 -1985 line up of Michael Rose, Duckie Simpson, and Puma from the Island Records albums. Of course the vital rhythm section of Sly Dunbar on drums and Robbie Shakespeare helped to make Black Uhuru so important in reggae music, their hard-hitting beats combined so well with superb expressive vocals of Michael Rose, complimented by the haunting harmonies of Puma and Duckie. `The World is Africa', `Sinsimelia', Bull in the Pen', `What is Life?' ,Happiness`, 'Guess who's Coming to Dinner', are still crucial cuts some twenty five years. The live version of ` Shine Eye Gal' is not so chilling as the original studio version , but is still excellent. `Chill Out' is superb, reggae veering towards ... Read More:

6.Guess Who's Coming to Dinner by: Black Uhuru October 01, 1999
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All reviewers here are right - this album is total dope and garanteed high class listening. It is also, quite rightly - with the Dub Factor -, the absolute best of Black Uhuru's as far as I am concerned. However it is not straightforward roots reggae as most are used to hearing it. In fact it is way more original than that : sparse and tight (Sly & Robbie as stated by others), drum & bass driven, mystical / hallucinatory chanting, it has an identifiable 80s feel and an aural mystique that makes it one of my all time fave albums. Simply a must have for anyone into music, whether it be Reggae or not.

7.Party In Session - The Black Uhuru Collection by: Black Uhuru April 30, 2007
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Unavoidabily this new twofer of Black Uhuru has to be compared to the Liberation compilation. This Party in session has 4 tracks more and, crucially, has 5 dub sides from their 1983 Dub factor album (on cd 2)not featured on Liberation. This gives us the chance to hear both the vocal hits and some of their dub counterparts, which feature more than usually the high voices of Puma Jones and Michael Rose. Sly and Robbie hit a top in their career with these dub sides. The absence of Push push has to be regretted (as on Liberation). Black Uhuru hereby has a second testimony to their 1980-83 heyday and confirms itself as one the absolute top-5 artists in reggae.

8.Chill Out by: Black Uhuru August 01, 2002
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Unavoidabily this new twofer of Black Uhuru has to be compared to the Liberation compilation. This Party in session has 4 tracks more and, crucially, has 5 dub sides from their 1983 Dub factor album (on cd 2)not featured on Liberation. This gives us the chance to hear both the vocal hits and some of their dub counterparts, which feature more than usually the high voices of Puma Jones and Michael Rose. Sly and Robbie hit a top in their career with these dub sides. The absence of Push push has to be regretted (as on Liberation). Black Uhuru hereby has a second testimony to their 1980-83 heyday and confirms itself as one the absolute top-5 artists in reggae.

9.Brutal by: Black Uhuru October 04, 2004
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Unavoidabily this new twofer of Black Uhuru has to be compared to the Liberation compilation. This Party in session has 4 tracks more and, crucially, has 5 dub sides from their 1983 Dub factor album (on cd 2)not featured on Liberation. This gives us the chance to hear both the vocal hits and some of their dub counterparts, which feature more than usually the high voices of Puma Jones and Michael Rose. Sly and Robbie hit a top in their career with these dub sides. The absence of Push push has to be regretted (as on Liberation). Black Uhuru hereby has a second testimony to their 1980-83 heyday and confirms itself as one the absolute top-5 artists in reggae.

10.Black Uhuru with Sly & Robbie: Dubbin' It Live [2006] by: Black Uhuru, Sly & Robbie June 06, 2006
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This is a ok dvd but its not one of those that you would play all the time.

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