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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · Jul 20

You know a dub album is gonna be good if somebody meets somebody somewhere. Tell tale sign of a classic dub record.

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 9m

Visiting the in-laws this weekend. Had no luck at the record stores but found a local Discogs seller who had this gem so I just went and picked it up. My first DB record.

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BD6 @bd6.bsky.social · 3h

Having tuned into another great @louiseann.bsky.social show on the World Wide Web, it’s time to jump back on my latest bandwagon #NowPlaying

The album is Cymande by Cymande. Couldn’t even be bothered to seek out an original and a bright orange disc is spinning on the turntable

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 7h

Love this record.

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Scott Clifford @ilovemyrecords.bsky.social · 8h

Conscious I don’t post here very often… going to try and remedy that by upping the record-nerd content…

This was released a couple of weeks ago on Soundway (who were doing a really neat/good value ‘bundle’ offer on their Bandcamp page)

It is absolutely sublime

The sleeve of K Frimpong & his Cubano’s Fiesta Blue album propped up against two big piles of books

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t. kendal mintcake @mintcaketime.bsky.social · 1d

handshake meme about some of my guys doing Raps

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Putting some Ibex Band on the timeline. RIYL: anything cool

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Ibex Band - Yezemed Yebada | አይቤክስ ባንድ - የዘመድ የባዳ

YouTube video by Muzikawi

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

The cool thing about bsky is that Superchunk will like all your afrobeat posts but not follow you back. This seems like the perfect Superchunk fan experience. Anyway, I still bump Throwing Things now and then, which still rules.

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Superchunk - Throwing Things

YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Fela was undoubtedly the gateway drug, but it was the ancillary records that got me hooked on afrobeat. Don't let the dodgy album cover fool you. This shit owns.

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Monomono - Give The Beggar A Chance (1973)

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

And also Al Campbell

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AL CAMPBELL - Hide And Seek

YouTube video by dubbys75

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet fuckin score. A buddy of mine just got that record. I didn't know the backstory of the Coxsone stampers. I need it now too.

Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Got a 4-day weekend so this is technically my Friday night*

*packing the pipe and listening to Laurel Aitken in the backyard again

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Laurel Aitken Judgment Day blue beat bb14 1960

YouTube video by Jaz Brads

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Great stuff. Is this really from 2014? You can never trust spotify dates

Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't. Thanks

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Daydreaming about a website that was like bluesky but it was run by Discogs. Lots of sexy record pics, hot tips on Russian bootleg reissues of classic Brazilian LP's, and no politics. Would sign up if it existed.

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

I could listen to Tony Allen play anything all day.

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

His 70's prime repertoire is some of the funkiest shit ever committed to tape by anyone. James Brown territory.

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Postman Pat came by.

Fela Kuti & the Afrika 70 - Gentlemen (1973)

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 1d

Grail alert!

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Phonic Underground @phonicunderground.bsky.social · 1d

I picked this up years ago cheap and thought at the time better to have a bootleg as was not a common lp to see. Ended up this short “unofficial” run was by Coxsone using the original Jamaican 1973 mix stampers.

Record label for Upsetters “Blackboard Jungle”

Sleeve of lp showing a simple blackboard on a red background.

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 5d

Is this about Eric Alper

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 5d

My timeline on this app is 90% record nerd posts (my personal fave) and 10% screenshots from fucking twitter. Anyway, here's a picture of a record that's awesome.

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Ezra Brooks @ezbrooks.bsky.social · 6d

Not only the best 12th album by an artist, but one of the best albums period.

The cover of Herbie Hancock's 12th album "Head Hunters".

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 6d

It's a 1975 Venezuelan pressing. I dug the toucan!

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Bronx Cheerleader @bronxcheerleader.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I have a couple of Tony Allen records. The reissues of his stuff are harder to find and more expensive than the Fela stuff.

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Revolutions Per Movie @revpermovie.bsky.social · 7d

My guest Scottish filmmaker/author @grantmcphee.bsky.social on his trio of films about the Scottish indie music scene and the @jesusandmarychain riot that happened in 1985. Listen to @revpermovie.bsky.social here: shows.acast.com/revolutionsp...

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