UB40 - Red Red Wine (Official Video HD Remastered)
YOUTUBE · rights discovery only · releasesOfficial youtube upload (channel: UB40); embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.
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LISTEN / SONIC GROUPINGS / EMBEDS
931 playable recordings, interviews, documentaries and sound tapes from the archive, sorted into nine sonic groupings. Each grouping tells you what to listen for, so the difference between a ska chop and a one drop is something you can hear rather than something you have to take on trust.
SONIC GROUPINGS
Most groupings follow a period of sound — the tempo drop into rocksteady, the machine arriving in 1985. Clash and dubplate is the exception: it is a practice rather than a decade, so a record lands there for what it shows, not for when its artist worked. A recording can sit in more than one.
Deep background
Three Nyabinghi drums in conversation — the bass drum on the downbeat, the funde holding a steady heartbeat pulse, the repeater improvising across the top. Kumina and revival singing work the same way: a fixed pulse with a voice moving freely over it.
35 recordings1940s–50s
An acoustic band with no drum kit: banjo, guitar, hand drum and a rhumba box — a big thumb piano the player sits on — plucking the bassline. The lilt leans on the last beat of the bar, which is why mento swings where calypso struts.
27 recordings1950s–early 60s
American R&B and shuffle boogie played through valve amplifiers and home-built bass bins. The thing to hear is not the song but the system: bass weight the record was never mastered for, and a selector talking over it.
17 recordings1962–66
The chop on the offbeat — guitar and piano stabbing the up-strokes between the drums — at a pace close to a run. Horns carry the melody, jazz-schooled and loud, and the bass walks rather than repeats.
43 recordings1966–79
The tempo drops and the bass steps forward as the lead instrument. Count to four: in a one drop there is nothing on beat one, and kick and snare land together on three. Then dub takes the same tape and removes most of it, leaving reverb where the singing was.
218 recordings1979–90
One riddim under many different voices. After Sleng Teng in 1985 the backing is a machine rather than a band, so the timing is exact and the same instrumental can carry a love song, a boast and a warning in the same session.
187 recordings1990s
A familiar tune with the words changed — an artist singing a rival sound into the ground and calling your sound by name. These are specials, cut one at a time for one system, and the crowd noise is the scoring.
201 recordings2000s
Records built for a specific move, with the instruction in the lyric. The tempo and the gaps in the beat are shaped around what a body has to do on the floor.
108 recordings2010s onward
Old riddims resurfacing — a Studio One bassline under a new voice, a revival singer reaching back past dancehall to roots. Listen for what is being quoted.
263 recordingsLISTENING — GLOBAL AND THE LIVING ARCHIVE
Old riddims resurfacing — a Studio One bassline under a new voice, a revival singer reaching back past dancehall to roots. Listen for what is being quoted.
263 recordings Clear filters
Official youtube upload (channel: UB40); embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.
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Official youtube upload; embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.
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Official youtube upload; embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.
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Official spotify upload; embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.
Source link ↗Official spotify upload; embedded as a discovery-only reference pending editorial review.
Source link ↗Damian Marley/UMG official video reference; discovery-only embed.
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Trojan Records Official YouTube audio; discovery-only embed.
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Sean Paul official YouTube video; discovery-only embed.
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UMG/Shaggy official video reference; discovery-only embed.
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ShaggyVEVO/UMG official YouTube video; discovery-only embed.
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YouTube discovery-only video reference for Tuff Gong vinyl-plant coverage; verify channel before public embed.
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TVJ/YouTube video reference for Cooyah brand context; external discovery only.
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Entertainment Report Podcast YouTube interview highlight; external discovery only.
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BBC World Service/Witness History YouTube reference for DBC; external reference only.
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YouTube video reference for IRIE FM/reggae radio context; verify channel and rights before public embed.
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Archival YouTube reference for UK pirate radio/patois context; verify rights before public embed.
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Official Bob Marley/UMG video reference; external discovery only.
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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group; external discovery only.
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Official/label video reference; external discovery only.
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Official YouTube upload (channel: MarciaGriffiths); embedded as reference.
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Official YouTube audio supplied to YouTube by Universal Music Group; embedded as reference.
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Official YouTube upload (channel: VP Records); embedded as reference.
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