10/11/2020
Blessed 72nd to Bernard Collins of Theabyssinians, born on November 10, 1948 in Kingston, Jamaica. “ was like the first dancehall song. And the first dub, ... if you listen to the flip side of , same ‘Satta’ version, is drum and bass. Because we record that tune on two-track [two-channel tape recorder]. When I was at the studio one day, cutting a pure stamper, one of my bredren just put it on single track [one channel], and we just get the drum and bass. And him say, ‘but wait, this sound good mon!’ And we just release the flipside of ‘Mabrak,’ which is , pure drum and bass. And that used to play in the dancehall, regular. Cause we used to sell a lot of dub plates, like a special to sound systems, Sir George, Tubby’s, and all them ready soun (soundsystems). Cause we get the dub wax of it right in the dancehall, and from there on you find the dub and version start springing up. From 1970 come down... Version business! In Jamaica here now, the do have a name, yes, in a certain area. If you call upon ‘Satta Massagana,’ , everybody knows those songs, but if you say ‘Abyssinians’ to most of the young youths, they don’t know. Sometime them don’t even know what the word ‘Abyssinian’ mean. They never hear that word before...” - Read more: https://www.snwmf.com/theabyssinians.html
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