TK-HiFi - Them A Fe Get A Beaten (Mixplates) (Promo 2007)

01 - Gregory Isaacs - Hard Drugs
02 - Peter Tosh - Them A Fe Get A Beaten
03 - Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves
04 - Country Vibes - No Man Is A Island
05 - Gregory Isaacs - Number One (ft Macka Diamond)
06 - Horace Andy - Sky Larking
07 - Johnny Osbourne - Truth And Rights

All Mixplates by Brownie 2006-2007
Mixed at BASS Studio
Design by Fianna

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Review at Dubroom.org:
"WWW, January 2008 - TK HiFi's concept of "Mix Plates" is taken to the max in this Internet release. In true Showcase Style, we hear Peter Tosh, Junior Murvin and many others in a way we didn't hear the before!

Can't really call this a Podcast: it's an album, actually. An album with seven excellent remakes of seven well known tunes by well known vocalists.

With one exception, they're all voiced by the original vocalists and come with an excellent DUB version in the second part.

Can't really call it an album of remixes either: these are Mix Plates, says TK HiFi. Mix Plates are complete remakes of the tune, usually played by Sound Systems.

How they do it, we will never know. But how it sounds, does not have to remain a question for too long. Just download and play as I would say.

You will hear just over 47 minutes of pure Reggae Music, Showcase style: every track comes with a vocal part followed by an excellent DUB. You will hear the seven well known tracks in a way you have not heard them before and will not hear them again."

TK-HiFi - Dub Road To Travel (Promo 2007)

01 - Jonah Dan - Bongoman Dub
02 - Vibronics ft Big Youth - Daniel In The Lions Den (Version)
03 - Bush Chemists - Sounds From De Ground Dub
04 - Paul Fox - Dub Times
05 - Kanka - Ring Dub
06 - Jah Warrior ft Jah Mason - Don't Cry Dub Wise (Part 2)
07 - Reggae On Top All Stars - I And I Father Dub
08 - Vibronics - Marcus Garvey Dub
09 - Jah Marnyah - I Try (TK-HiFi Mixplate)
10 - Bush Chemists - They Say Dub
11 - Seek Jah First All Stars - Devil Cocaine (Version)
12 - Reggae On Top All Stars - The Great Dub
13 - I-Plant - Dub Road To Travel
14 - Nucleus Roots ft Don Hartley - Step It Up Dub

Mixed by Jah Sugar & TK @ TK-HiFi Studio 2007
Mixplate by Jah Sugar
Design by Fianna

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Review at Dubrom.org:
"WWW, January 2008 - Fasten your seatbelts: we're about to travel a thunderous journey into the Deep, Deep Outer Space of UK DUB.

Deeper Bass, longer echo's, more effects, higher consciousness!

In the 1970's, Bob Marley and the Wailers inspired the birth of a whole flood of UK Roots Reggae bands like Aswad and Steel Pulse. A few years later, DUB would become another dominant force and continues to be so until this very day in 2008.

For some reason, producers in the UK kept on developing the Art of DUB also after Jamaica was said to have lost interest in the remix technique. And so, currently, UK DUB productions and releases are very popular even outside Reggae Circles.

Usually, a UK DUB is produced using "real" instruments and musicians in combination with programmed digital material, everything mixed with ultra-deep basslines. More often than not, the vocals will contain conscious lyrics which definitely adds significant weight in the DUB itself.

DUB ROAD TO TRAVEL definitely is a very good representation of the deep, deep DUB that is produced on that Island in front of the I-ropean continent.

The selections are mixed seamless to ensure a maximum and optimum DUB Experience from the top to the very last drop. The excellent show even contains a few remixes by the Podcaster, who seem to have come up with a concept of his own: "mix-plates".

60 Minutes of Heavyweight DUB Niceness!"

TK-HiFi meets Mafia & Fluxy - Day & Night (Mixplates) (Promo 2005)

01 - Mykal Roze - Day & Night
02 - Gregory Isaacs - Down The Line
03 - Earl 16 - Children Of The Emporer
04 - Leroy Mafia - Beware Of Your Enemy
05 - Levi Roots - Red Hot
06 - Barry Brown - Youthman
07 - Luciano - Mankind Crease
08 - Levi Roots - Mix Up
09 - Earl 16 - Foot Of The Mountain
10 - Mikey General - Cut & Clear
11 - Robbie Valentine - Consious Warrior

All mixplates by Brownie except "Children Of The Emporer" and "Foot Of The Mountain" by TK & Leroy
Mixed at TK HIFI Studio & BASS Studio 2005

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Review and rating at Reggae Vibes:
(5 = excellent - 1 = poor)
Vocals: 5
Backing: 5
Production: 5
Sound quality: 4/5
Sleeve: 3

"Usually we don't review products which are not (and never will be) for sale, because it's of no use to write about something no one can purchase. However in this case we think it is justified to make an exception to the rule, because the mixing and remixing efforts of the TK-HIFI crew are simply of such a good quality that one can only hope that they will be noticed by those who are authorized to bring these tunes to the reggae massive.

TK-HIFI is a collective (not a soundsystem!), which started years ago with mixing and remixing different kinds of music, out of pure hobby. Their musical vibes were reggae and all sorts of other (mostly) black music. Nowadays a small group of friends are mixing, remixing and helping to (re)mix reggae. All just for vibes, fun and for themselves. Due to soundsytem demand they collected some Mixplates on CD-R, although they hardly ever had made (long soundsystem) mixes. For some reason they all prefer to make remixes of great 7" singles (due to a combination of time and a better output result). This gave them the introduction of the name Mixplates.

"TK-HIFI Meets Mafia & Fluxy ~ Day & Night" features 11 noteworthy extended versions (vocal plus dub) of roots tunes produced by the Heywood brothers aka Mafia & Fluxy (involved as musicians on every track included here) and Gussie P, amongst them some of the very best production works from these UK producers. Gregory Isaacs' "Down The Line""Children Of The Emperor" and Leroy Mafia's killer version of Creole's roots classic "Beware Of Your Enemies", an adaptation of the riddim used for Hugh Mundell's "That Little Short Man". Further highlights are Luciano's "Mankind Cease" and Mikey General's "Cut & Clear" (both utilizing the same riddim), and Levi Roots' flying steppers "Mix Up". The latter samples the horn line from the In Crowd's classic "Ethiopia". The CD-R rounds off in real fine style with Robbie Valentine's "Conscious Warrior", which comes across the Dennis Brown's "Foot Of The Mountain" riddim.

Besides "TK-HIFI Meets Mafia & Fluxy ~ Day & Night" they have done the following projects: "Vision Of Redemption" (a continuous mix of Nu Roots); "Dubnut" (another continuous mix of Nu Roots); "TK-HIFI Meets Jah Warrior ~ Evolution" (7 Mixplates by Various Artists); TK-HIFI Meets Luciano ~ Love Child (5 Mixplates) and TK-HIFI And Friends ~ Jah Jah Calling (10 Mixplates by Various Artists). All these Mixplates are expertly done, have their own merit and are truly worth of hearing. Big Up to the TK-HIFI crew!"