Aggrovators

Aggrovators Meets The Revolutionaries At Channel One - Attack - 2006

Bunny Lee loves to try something new - for him that is what a producer is supposed to be. If it's not new singers, it's new deejays or players of instruments. He's 'Changed the Beat' at least twice - but back in 1977 he was wondering about Dub. After a good few years of innovation things were getting a bit dull. So he came up with a very simple new concept 'Instudub' and this is the result.

Rather than let the mixing be upfront as in dub - he would push the horns and other instruments forward in the mix. So you still had some dub - but for most people the set would be checked as 'Instrumental'. It's a shame he didn't call it 'Instrudub' in much the same way that Prince Buster stuck 'Dubwise' on the cover of 'The Message' - this title though was just as good - Bunny old time aggorvators meets Channel One's 'Revolutionaries' all musicians are given a namecheck - and the sounds they create are magnificent. A great work.

Aggrovators - Aggrovating The Rhythm at Channel One - Jamaican Recordings - 2017

Nearly all the rhythmic changes from the mid-seventies to the early eighties from the Aggrovators are here. So you get 'Flyers' 'Rockers' and 'Dancehall' but no 'Bouncers' or 'Steppers'. Still this could be the first time in all these years that Aggrovators have ever got a album release to themselves. 'What never happen in a year, happen in nearly 40 years' But such is the name of reggae music. All those years ago when companies like Trojan were releasing albums by the Upsetters, Harry J Allstars, Mudies Allstars, The Dynamites. No one bothered to ask Bunny Lee about the Aggrovators! This 16 track set is rammed with great rhythms from a wide variety of artists - but no vocals are present.

This set is all about The Aggrovators. With the ball rolling - perhaps it would be a good idea to go back to the very early days of this amazing studio band!