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LINVAL THOMPSON x JONQUAN x TICKLAH – BOUND TO FALL – NEW SINGLE + DUB AVAILABLE NOW ON 7″ VINYL
Following the buzz around their first, recent collaboration, "Cultivator," Linval Thompson and JonQuan return with "Bound To Fall," another roots-heavy track, this time with Ticklah at the mixing board. Babylon will surely fall under this heavyweight tune. Stream or get your limited edition physical 7” copies now while they last. After three singles, Fruits Records felt the need to push the collaboration further by producing a full showcase album pairing Kumar with The 18th Parallel. Four years in the making, going back and forth from Kingston to Geneva, with the final touch added by [...]
KUMAR MEETS THE 18TH PARALLEL – WORLD WIDE LOVE – NEW SINGLE & VIDEO OUT NOW
Fruits Records and Easy Star Records proudly present ‘World Wide Love,’ the brand new single by Kumar with The 18th Parallel, taken from the upcoming album TALES OF REALITY. Kumar, former lead singer of GRAMMY-nominated roots reggae band Raging Fyah, meets Switzerland’s The 18th Parallel on this classic ‘80s major-key, Roots Radics-influenced riddim. Kumar has recently appeared on a number of releases, including as a guest on Jesse Royal’s GRAMMY-nominated ROYAL and Winta James’ Gratitude Riddim EP. The 18th Parallel, based in [...]
MORTIMER – “MY CHILD” – NEW SINGLE & VIDEO OUT NOW
Today, Jamaican singer-songwriter Mortimer releases “My Child,” the fourth single from his anticipated full-length debut. The album, titled From Within, was produced by Winta James (often in conjunction with Mortimer), and will be released September 20, 2024 by Overstand Entertainment and Easy Star Records. The new single, which is accompanied by an official music video directed by Dennis “Denni” Fyffe (whose credits include videos for Protoje, Lila Iké, and Jesse Royal), can be seen and heard HERE. From Within is a series of songs that tell an overarching story of Mortimer’s journey – spanning his loves and passions, his [...]
ROYAL BLU X KABAKA PYRAMID X THE AUTOS – “LIGHT MY WAY” – NEW SINGLE & VIDEO OUT NOW
Royal Blu teams up with GRAMMY winner Kabaka Pyramid and The Autos production collective to deliver this inspiring roots reggae anthem. This follows two previous singles Blu worked with The Autos ("Dancehall Session" and "Artillery") while also representing the first new single from Blu's upcoming full-length debut album, due later this year. The whole project is being overseen by G.wav, which is a new quartet of producers and artists (Runkus, Royal Blu, Kalex, and RiddimBoss) out of Jamaica. Blu says of the track: "For as long as I’ve known myself, [...]
THE GHOST OF LADDERS FROM THE LOVING PAUPERS & VICTOR RICE RELEASES TODAY
OUT TODAY ON EASY STAR RECORDS On the liner notes of the original release of LADDERS in 2023, the legendary UK tastemaker and DJ Don Letts wrote, "I don't know how this Washington, DC-based dub reggae outfit was brought up, but for the most part, like me, they seem to have been raised with sixties pop hitting them in one ear and seventies reggae hitting them in the other." That very apt description comes further into focus with the complete dub version of LADDERS, called THE [...]