Get this... Skrillex was the Final Boss of the orginal UK scene. And not only did the UK scene surive the battle, althought it did loose it, it won the war and even became friends with the Final Boss. Kind of wholesome.
I'm from Portugal, been going to Drum and Bass parties my whole life. Reggae was in my life from a very young age, ska came early too. Then it was DnB, then came Dubstep(which is probably the sound I connect with the most). The UK Bass music scene has been the majority of my musice taste. It's kind of crazy how connected I feel to this whole scene without actually living it. But I type this just to say, The Skints is a crimminally underrated band, it's crazy. It's rare that a band of this genres trully feels fresh, they feel fresh and more connected to the whole family of uk carribean music genre than any other modern band. I have a huge question though! What is the missing link of all this UK sound and the Balkan sound? Am I crazy? Did Ska simply got popular there and the balkan sound mixed well naturally? Do you think maybe the balkan sound influenced Ska way before somehow? Maybe there's no connection, but I always felt like that stuff like Emir Kusturica has some room in this story.
I have started listening to reggae & ska music when I was 14, now I am 45, I am Italian 😁. your documentary is incredible, it really explains all the important steps of this amazing (r)evolution - thank you.
only thing id say is the mary an hobbs part look at the scene now hella chicks can't mix but there jus for afirmative action hire not saying she was but the way she use to speak on the mic i was never into her shows at all sadly so yeah your right she deffo did some spreading lol and yeah that was gonna happen anyway to be honest it went too far and the word dubstep became something where half the people who say they know what that is have no clue on all this great history you just blessed the people with serious doc and vital info right here <<<!!!
“The good thing about the name when it stuck was that when they (the media) checked it out it wasn’t just black people in the dance. It was a mixture of cultures together in one place and that's what jungle done.” - Flinty Badman, one half of Ragga Twins
Great documentary from a white mid UK male born 67, i grew up knowing if you had a turntable & some speakers it was party time just from our youth club. Paper rounds seven days a week turned me into a vinyl junkie by the age of 12 for ska reggae two tone then we had raves & jungle, two 1200's after years of licking the local HI-FI Shop window. Fast forward to now & we have a 2k Roots & Dub sound in our yard & never enough vinyl.......Bless the Culture
Great doc. It's worth remembering the role of punk gigs in the dissemination of roots and dub throughout (particularly white) Britain. Prior to punk, I'd heard the more poppy aspect of reggae and ska. In those radical gigs, we got radical reggae sounds between the acts. On the big sound systems of night clubs, this was an eye opener. I've been on a bit of a quest to find lengthy postings of house/blues parties from the 70s/early80s on YT. Thanks for your suggestions. If anyone else can direct me to some, I'd be grateful. Those were beautiful and experimental times, more chilled than a lot of output today.
I had never heard that Darqwan - Confused track, damn! That's a great one! Never even heard of him after years and living dubstep through the internet.
& rest in power Count Prince of Trinidad & Fulham ,1 other organiser/founder of the Notting Hill Carnival , who passed away @ 2020 ... a very good friend of Claudia Jones & many sound systems,musicians,artists activists & philosophers Peace & Love x
