Bass Culture

Bass Culture
Studio album by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Released 9 May 1980 (UK)
Recorded Gooseburry Sound Studios, London
Genre Dub Poetry
Length 31:28
Label Island
Producer Linton Kwesi Johnson
Dennis Bovell
Linton Kwesi Johnson chronology
Forces of Victory
(1979)
Bass Culture
(1980)
LKJ in Dub
(1980)
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"Reggae fi Peach"
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Bass Culture is an album by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1980 on the Island Records label. It was produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell (credited as Blackbeard).

The track "Reggae fi Peach" laments the death of Blair Peach, an activist who was killed in London during a clash with police officers while protesting with the Anti-Nazi League against a British National Front meeting in 1979.

Track listing

All tracks written by Linton Kwesi Johnson

  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

Personnel

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