This is more like it. Elephant Man is on a mission to bring the fun back to Dancehall. His latest album is called “Dance and Sweep – Adventures of the Energy God”, and it features a fantastic piece of cartoon cover art that brings back memories of those old Greensleeves album covers (especially the Scientist [...]
Wilfred Limonious was an illustrator of many, many reggae album covers and almost all of them featured his distinctive cartoon style, often with scrawled text describing much of the action and adding more energy to his artwork. This cover is arguably the most famous album cover credited to Wilfred Limonious – partly due to the [...]
Yellowman and Fathead are the (probably unintentional) kings of funny and cartoonish album covers. “Live at Aces” came out in 1982 on VP and Jah Guidance records and it’s a collection of tracks from Yellowman and Fathead live on stage. I have no idea what “Feeding in the Dancehall” refers to. Seriously. Track Listing: Fathead [...]
Released in 1983 on Ariwa records this was Ranking Ann’s second album (her first album was called “A Slice of English Toast”). The album was produced by Mad Professor and as a result it has bass heavy dub feel to it with plenty of sound effects firing off while Ranking Ann DJs over the top. [...]
Following the meteoric rise of Yellowman in the Jamaican dancehalls, and then globally – a couple of albino Jamaicans decided to pick up the microphone and emulate his success. Purpleman was one such DJ – he also recorded under the name Peter Yellow, and strangely even released an album as ‘Yellowman’. Here he teams up [...]
