Rockers (Movie) – 1979

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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...ch ch check out this trailer from these crafty brazilians as DUBSTOCK continues here on MojoTV...

...at first, one might think that reggae and dance music don’t have much to do with each other. But that’s a false perception.

The documentary “Dub Echoes” aims to show how this Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.

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...The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell.

It stars reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who plays Ivanhoe Martin, a character based on Rhyging, a real-life Jamaican criminal who achieved fame in the 1940s. Martin is a poor Jamaican man in search of a job, before finally getting one as a reggae singer. Upon the verge of a hit record, he discovers the only way he can get a hit record is by signing away the rights. Eventually, Jose (played by Carl Bradshaw), one of the first people he met after he moved to Kingston, offers him an opportunity as a drug dealer|dealing marijuana]]. He turns to a life of crime and violence. There are two versions of the film — one with subtitles and one without — and each has a different ending.

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