Even now, more than 30 years after its glory days, it’s extraordinary to realise that reggae has not been celebrated, or even just captured, in a raft of films. Those films where rock is the subject or the soundtrack are a dime a dozen, but reggae has really only three, “The Harder They Come” from 1972 (with the unforgettable Jimmy Cliff on the soundtrack) ,”Country Man” from 1982 and this one, “Rockers”, released in the UK in 1979. Back then skinny, spitting British punks had adopted (and adapted) reggae and introduced it to a much wider audience.
32 years on, the sheer life in “Rockers” has survived well. The kind of film where atmosphere is all, and narrative counts for little, this is the Jamaica-set story of a drummer, Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace (playing, like other musicians in the film, a version of himself) who, talented though he is, is mightily fed up with being ripped off by the local music business. Unable and unwilling to survive on occasional recording sessions and gigs, he opts to buy a flashy red motorbike and distribute records himself. The first result of his part-self-centred, part-idealistic efforts is a severe beating and a stolen bike.
Leroy Wallace amusingly reflects the prevalent casualness of the local men, all the more so when his determination to change things breaks through. Whether it is the uniqueness of male-bonding Jamaica-style, the ease of friendship or brittle relationships with women, “Rockers” certainly conveys the rhythms of local life, all of them matched by the soundtrack which features Burning Spear, Bunny Wailer, Third World and Peter Tosh.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012
Rockers (Movie) – 1979
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Three Dubstep Comedy Videos Featuring It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, King Of The Hill, & Seinfeld
This Dayman “Always Sunny in Philly” dubstep remix by Joman is the best damn thing I’ve seen in a day full of funny anti-SOPA memes, Rob Lowe tweeting that Peyton Manning is retiring, and schoolgirls losing their shit over Wikipedia being down.
Two other LOLs to check out is Hank Hill and Kramer listening to some Skrillex. I’m sure you can guess who raves and who rants:
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Video/MP3: Skrillex & The Doors – “Breakn’ A Sweat”
by Jared
You can’t get a much more epic cross-genre collabo than Skrillex and The Doors. Recently Skrillex remixed and re-imagined the traditional music of The Doors to create “Breakn’ A Sweat”. We now have the official visuals which give us a behind the scenes look at them in the studio and Skrillex’s current live show The Skillrex Cell, which is intensely colorful and impressive looking. Download “Breakn’ A Sweat” below: