ska invita
back on the other side
August 6th 2012 marks fifty years of Jamaican independence, and on my blog/facebook I'm marking the occasion with a 50 day musical countdown, posting a piece of Jamaican music from each of the last fifty years, which if I've added it up correctly should take us right up to August 6th.
On the day itself I'll be dropping five new mixes in quick succession: a tribute to Dennis Brown, a tribute to the Greensleeves label, a new roots & dub mix, a mystic/experimental dub mix, and an hour of across the board JA 7's.
check out http://mikusmusik.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/jamaican-50th-independence-musical.html for a bit more of a write up, and the facebook page thing is here http://www.facebook.com/mikusmusik <be nice to see you on there
I think if nothing else its interesting hearing the new directions develop from year to year.
Rather than just doing them in my little corner I thought I'd post them up here too - please post any favourite tunes from the relevant year too.
So starting today it's 1962 - lots of tunes came out to celebrate independence, I've gone for this one, from a time when the Mento sound was still strong.
tomorrow '63 and so on...