Well here it is folks, another day, another month, another year.
Keep on rocking in the free world!
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Excellent ACE compilation.
.sjb
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uh?? where am I? Is this real??
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Its definitely NOT AI generated my friend! 
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Back home after the night out and settled down with a lovely cup of red Bush tea and listening to this 
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Here is to a very dear lifelong friend who died in early 2023. 
We became instant best friends in 1976 and remained so until his death. His friendship literally saved my life more than once. Needless to say, the loss is still painful and I miss him terribly (it’s taken me this long just to be able to post this).
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Dub Day Afternoon…
Dennis Bovell (inspired)…
Co-Founder of well known 70’s UK reggae band Matumbi & other than recording under his own name, Dennis Bovell is a hugely successful producer working with a who’s who’s of post-punk ‘icons’ and is:
Blackbeard
I Wah Dub (1980)
Along with the Dub Factor Black Uhuru and Johnson’s LKJ in Dub, only Adrian Maxwell Sherwood’s Creation Rebel albums could hold a candle to this piece of dark, twisting, utterly melodic dread reggae. A masterpiece. (allmusic)
As per above review:
Black Uhuru
The Dub Factor (1983)
I don’t feel this release to be nearly as engaging as Blackbeard. There are some decent riddims, but I think this release was too caught up in the ‘digital’ era of production that separated it from earlier roots reggae.
I’m a huge fan of LKJ, but alas this is his weakest release, despite what above may have you believe!
Linton Kwesi Johnson
LKJ in Dub (1980)
I posted Creation Rebel (Rebel Vibrations) about two weeks ago, so chose to listen to Starship Africa (1980), because of the recording date & most importantly it’s perhaps their most well regarded album, not to mention I really like it. 
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Merry new year to all with their sundries.
A bit on Tangerine dream this morning with their sessions album.
It’s not proper TD I know but it’s decent at this early hour.
I love their early work. Their more recent work is a nice trip back to berlin.
Their very early albums are good too before they changed style and decided to make money.
The hades compilation is highly recommended
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HNY everyone, glad to see the back of that one, not the best one for our family or our health. Hoping 2024 is a big improvement.
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Sorry for your loss last year. Thank you for sharing this with us 
In a roundabout way, it’s nice to read people’s life experiences, good, bad or sad, as it builds a picture of who we are and that we’re all the same; music loving humans.
Godspeed to all for the year ahead.
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Slow start, Slow Show. Interesting not having a hangover on the 1st day of the year. Both of us still not drinking so it was odd at the party we went to being the only two not drinking.
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I drunk nothing but a small glass of champagne at midnight.
What a strange world we live in 
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