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This is a list of reggae music compilations. It includes LP and CD compilations featuring music from the various styles of reggae, including mento, ska, rocksteady, early/roots reggae, dub, and dancehall, etc.
Reggae fusion is a fusion genre of reggae that mixes reggae and/or dancehall with other genres, such as pop, rock, hip-hop/rap, R&B, jazz, funk, soul, disco, electronic, and Latin music, amongst others.
Reggae Sounds, derived from jamaican sound system is a term use to describe a group of reggae Disk jockeys in Kenya who provide entertainment mainly by hosting reggae related events and shows, first gained popularity in the 1990s with notable groups such as Omega Sounds, King Lions Sounds, Livity Sounds, Jahmbo Sounds, King Jahmbo Sounds and Shashamane Intl being among the first to be formed.
Reggae (/ ˈ r ɛ ɡ eɪ /) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. [1] A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.
A discomix, or simply a disco, is an extended reggae 12-inch single that typically features the vocal track followed by a dub version or a deejay version of the same track. [1] [2] The format became popular in the mid-1970s, with the extended bass range of 12-inch singles being better suited to dub music. [1]
[11] Another RM editor, James Hamilton described the 1992 version as "a sweet reggae styled jogger". [12] In 1994, he deemed it a "tremulously crooning Errol Reid's superb soulful sweet slinky reggae swayer". [13] Pete Stanton from Smash Hits gave "Searching" four out of five, writing, "The nicest song off the pile, this one. [...] This is a ...
Raggamuffin music (or simply ragga) is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music with heavy use of sampling . Wayne Smith 's " Under Mi Sleng Teng ", produced by King Jammy in 1985 on a Casio MT-40 synthesizer, is a seminal ragga song.
Reggae fusion is a mixture of reggae or dancehall with elements of other genres, such as hip hop, R&B, jazz, rock, drum and bass, punk or polka. [12] Although artists have been mixing reggae with other genres from as early as the early 1970s, it was not until the late 1990s when the term was coined.