• Anthony Red Rose / Firehouse Crew - Tempo / Version

Anthony Red Rose / Firehouse Crew - Tempo / Version

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What can we say... Tempo.
A massive, massive classic digital dancehall tune, Anthony Red Rose's first official release, out of King Tubby's then-new studio, at the turn of the 'digital explosion' when dancehall went digital, and Fire House was burning red hot.

Originally Anthony Red Rose was singing the tune on soundsystems around Kingston, to big up the sound, recording the vocal as dubplate specials, for the dance only.
The story goes, that Red Rose went round to Tubby's new studio at the time, to record one of the dubs, that's when King Tubby heard it and said it needs to get pressed up. An answer to Jammy's Sleng Teng riddim, this cut on the equally fresh Tubby-engineered Tempo riddim became became a big hit. Still is, in fact. And the rest is history.

A-Class use of delay effects and mixing desk trickery to robotize the voice and just toughen things up in a real oddball way. Truly avant-garde dancehall of the time. Unbeatable stuff. If you're a dancehall head you might have heard the tune a lot, but there is a reason for that.

Pressed up on a Fire House 7", vocal and version.

Anthony Red Rose - Tempo



Fire House Crew - Version