Calling All Jah Children

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Lustre Kings / Project Groundation
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 633913997022
EAN: 0633913997022
ASIN: B000BGQSRM

Release Date: 2004-11-11

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One Piece of a Brilliant Album!.......2005-11-08

The mixtape and proven effective method of putting new music and new artists out there to the masses, and of all musical forms hip-hop has probably gained the most usage of the mixtape, as even the upper echelon of rap acts routinely do work exclusively for the mixtape circuits and even go as far as doing it for their own promotions.

Reggae, however, is quite different. Generally in reggae the mixtape is done by a completely independant party and done for his/her own benefit not necessarily for the promotion of the music or the artists behind it.

So give massive biggups to the Lustre Kings crew as well as Project Groundation for releasing this hard to find gem of a mixtape featuring some of the biggest and most well known roots reggae acts as well as some of the up and coming names. And they've done it professionally (case and point, you're currently reading this on Amazon.com aren't you?), legitamately and for the promotion of the music and the artists, as they have already released 2 albums from artists on this album (Turbulence & Lutan Fyah) and worked extensively with many of the others.

The album runs in pretty much typical mixtape fashion with a few turns. It is of course a continuous mix, spanned over the course of 7 riddims (the Fortune Teller, Alarm Clock, Liberation, African Charm, Talking Drum, Disco Rock and the Shining, as well as remix section). There are 61 tracks in all with every one being a verse from a specific tune and in many cases other verses are given (thus you get a track called Keep the Pace and then get Keep the Pace pt. II) later in the riddim.

Picking the best verse out of the 61 would probably be impossible. Instead I'll tell you that the best riddim here is without a doubt the biggest that LKP has ever done, the massive Alarm Clock riddim. The piece is just so beautiful and absolutely had it been a native JA riddim, it would have done even more major damage than it did and continues to do, the Alarm Clock is massive and represented by 9 beautiful cuts, perhaps the best being Natty King's See the Wicked Run.

Other standouts on this massive project include Norris Man and Lutan Fyah doing big things on the opener Fortune Teller riddim with Thunderous Sound and No More War, respectively. Lutan coming back in grand fashion on the hit from his recent album, Stress Free, on the Liberation riddim. Fyah again on Fyah in the Barn as well as Jah Mason on Free Up on the Shining riddim. And of course Turbulence on We Need Liberation on the Liberation riddim, which might be the single best complete tune from this project.

Of course, this is what it is, its a big Rasta (Bobo centered) mix tape, so the usual suspects are present as well. Sizzla, Capleton & Luciano all make appearances on the sound as well.

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