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Dr. Alimantado – Dread Lock's Music / The Challis Blaze AT IT – none Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Jamaica, 1975 info Dr. Alimantado weighs in on the Greenwich Farm sound system scene in this next cut to my last post,  Dance In A Greenwich Farm ,  also from 1975. The DJ picks up the chalice  baton from Cornell Campbell, chanting his own praises of King Tubby's sound and the dreads at the dance. On the B side, instead of a dub, the good doctor keeps riding that same Bunny Lee rhythm (although the lyrics drift a bit from the sound system to touch on some more, ah, medicinal concerns...). Dr. Alimantado's first album, Best Dressed Chicken In Town , came out in 1978, but was actually compiled from singles the DJ had recorded between '73 and '76. This record comes from that same period, when he recorded most of his greatest material. ( His last appearance on these pages was from just a couple years later, mixed by the Upsetter, Lee Perry, who we sadly lost last week.) I know ...

Raphael Green & Dr. Alimantado / Hugo Blackwood & Dr. Alimantado – Rasta Train / Reggae Music Upsetter – no catalog number Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM Jamaica, 1977 info I got a really nice email the other day from a good friend who I haven't seen in far too long due to a conspiracy of the pandemic, many miles, work commitments, and my pathologic inability to pick up the phone and talk to people. (Sorry.) He told me that listening to the Police And Thieves 12" that I posted recently had sent him down a Lee Perry rabbit hole. So a contribution to that particular obsession... This 1977 single has Lee Perry producing two very different songs with two obscure singers, each paired with the great deejay, Dr. Alimantado for these extended 12" disco mixes. The A side features Raphael Green and the good Doctor on the upbeat Rasta Train . Backing vocal "shoobee doobee doo" harmonies might be from the Heptones? It would have been right around the same time that they we...