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Ska grew out of a Jamaican song form called █ mento, which is still performed on the island today. Mento was █ essentially a kind of light topical song, something like Trinidadian █ calypso, and it was the popular music of choice in Jamaica until █ American rhythm-and-blues (R&B) hit the island in the 1950s. At that █ point, mobile sound systems grew to dominate the musical market, as █ more and more people sought the imported sounds of their favorite █ American bands. The first ska recordings were essentially made in █ response to the immense popularity of R&B and the growing need among █ sound system operators for fresh material. From the very outset, █ then, ska was a form of music that was produced in studios for █ distribution on record, rather than one that was meant to be played █ in public by flesh-and-blood musicians. lts insistent shuffle beat █ (reminiscent of American boogie woogie) was ideally suited to dancing, █ and it was most often played by a standard R&B line-up that included █ piano, guitar, bass and horns. Some of the early sound system operators, █ like the colorfully titled Prince Buster, Sir Coxsone and Duke Reid, █ eventually founded their own studios and went on to exert a powerful █ influence on both Jamaican and British popular music. When the political █ and economic climate in Jamaica took a turn for the worse in the late █ 1960s, the complexion of ska changed as well. Shorn of some of its █ rhythmic density, its punchy horns and its frenetic energy, ska █ evolved into rock steady, the music favored by that class of █ disaffected urban youths known as "rudeboys". And rock steady, █ in turn, helped pave the way for the development of reggae. Ska █ was hardly down for the count, however. From the start, it had been █ enthusiastically received by the large Jamaican community in Great █ Britain, where imported records were played on local sound systems █ just as they were back home. In addition, ska was taken up in the █ 60s by those young Britons known as "Mods", who called it bluebeat █ (after the Bluebeat record label). Eventually, as occurred in Jamaica, █ ska came to be replaced by rocksteadyand reggae. In the late 1970s, █ however, a ska revival of sorts occurred. Multiracial bands began █ combining reggae and punk with elements of both ska and rock steady, █ resulting in an appealing combination of both old and new sounds called █ two-tone. Two-tone was both the name of the first label devoted to █ such music, and an apt description of a musical movement that drew █ together black and white performers at a time of substantial racial █ tension in the U.K. Groups like The Beat and The Selecter featured █ both British and Jamaican-born musicians, some of whom had rather █ aristocratic ska pedigrees - like The Selecter's redoubtable █ trombonist, Rico Rodriguez, who had been a founding member of the █ seminal ska group, The Skatalites. Two-tone itself went on to inspire █ a bewildering array of musical styles. As a result, the characteristic █ syncopations of ska - a music born in Jamaica during the 50s - have █ been wedded to everything from Celtic music to contemporary jazz. ░ █ ▒ █ Enjoy this great release by BaBi of mCZ ;-) ▓ █ █▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ █ █ news.and.greets █▀█▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▓ █ NEWS: ▒ █ ░ █ █ We are small group of friends dedicated to bring █ the best music to you! We are 100 percent non-profit. █ All what we do is for fun. Oops maybe the fun is not the █ right word. Good music is a drug we need to be alive. █ █ We do not share our releases to public with p2p sharing █ networks, web sites, irc networks or other ways. █ We take from Scene and we want to give in return. █ █ MusiCZ was formed out of the merging of two czech mp3 █ groups: Kartel & aXe. We mainly focus on .cz & .sk bands, █ to support this part of scene. 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