Bass Culture

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Bass Culture
Bass Culture cover
Studio album by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Released May 9, 1980 (UK)
Recorded  ???
Genre Dub Reggae
Length 31:28
Label Island Records
Producer(s) Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell
Professional reviews
Linton Kwesi Johnson chronology
Forces of Victory
(1979)
Bass Culture
(1980)
LKJ in Dub
(1980)


Bass Culture is an album by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released on 9 May 1980 on the Island Records label. It was produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell (credited as Blackbeard).

Reggae Fi Peach laments the death of Blair Peach, an Anti-Nazi protestor who was killed in London during a clash with police officers during a protest by the Anti-Nazi League against a British National Front meeting in 1979.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Bass Culture – 6:04
  2. Street 66 – 3:43
  3. Reggae Fi Peach – 3:09
  4. Di Black Petty Booshwah – 3:36
  5. Inglan Is A bitch – 5:26
  6. Loraine – 4:08
  7. Reggae Sounds – 3:09
  8. Two Sides Of Silence – 2:13


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