Tomorrow, June 23, is the two-year anniversary of the launch of burningdervish.com.

To celebrate, I have decided to re-post all 24 (2 years, 24 months, 24 hours, etc…) of the mixtapes I have made for the site, one each hour, starting at 12:01 AM tomorrow.

Bookmark this URL and start checking in at 12:01 ET Monday, June 23…

Cheers.

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Download BURNING DERVISH VOL 24: THE MCCOY TYNER BLUE NOTE YEARS, 1967 - 70

McCoy Tyner

I have seen this bio used unattributed on a few different websites as well as in Barry's wikipedia entry, so here goes:

"Barry Brown was one of a number of singers to find success in the 1970's under producer Bunny Lee. One of the most successful artists of the early dancehall era, Brown worked with some of Jamaica's top producers of the time, including Linval Thompson, Winston 'Niney The Observer' Holness, Sugar Minott and Coxsone Dodd, as well as releasing self-produced material. After releasing eleven albums between 1979 and 1984, Brown's releases became more sporadic, although his work continued to…

OK, maybe this one is not fair to promote since it is another blog I maintain but what the hell, I make the rules around here…

I actually started this new blog because I wanted to play around with some new features in blogger (the platform I use for my blogs), experiment with some search engine stuff and just have a site I could monkey around with. I wasn't sure I would keep it going but after two months and 100+ posts I guess we know how that is shaking out…

I usually create all of the posts for an…

I assure you its a coincidence…two old-school Jamaican vocal group posts in two days…The Heptones don't shine as brightly for me as John Holt, the subject of a previous post, but there are some great jams to be dug out nonetheless…

In the rocksteady era and early-mid reggae period The Heptones were most closely aligned with Coxsone Dodd and Studio One. By the mid/late 70s they were securely in the Scratch camp. In between they worked with Joe Gibbs, Danny Holloway and others.

They didn't make the Rasta transition as well as John Holt did and by the late…

This som' bitch always gave me the creeps…between his ugly mug (guess which one he is here) and (usually) filthy lyrics, I've never known what to make of him…but catchy as hell, right?

Trash talk aside, he's a pretty amazing cat. Dig.

This is a great jam from his 1983 record Zungguzungguguzungguzeng…today's version is from the Greensleeves 12", GRED 119 (B-side, the A-side was Zungguzungguguzungguzeng)…Produced by Henry 'Junjo' Lawes…backed by Roots Radics…Recorded and mixed at Channel One…Engineer: Soldgie…riff is "three blind mice"…can't go wrong…

Yellowman - Who Can Make the Dance Ram - Greensleeves 12" GRED 119

Dub Boom is the B-side track to Fattie Boom Boom, Greensleeves 12" GRED 065 from 1981…Produced by Ranking Dread, mixed by Scientist at King Tubby's, backed by Sly & Robbie…dig that…

Side A was a big hit for Ranking…especially great if you appreciate songs about the dirty bits…let's go with the B-side dub today, though:

Dub Boom by Ranking Dread from Greensleeves 12" GRED 065

From MySpace:

"In 2006, all-round hip hop maestro Jneiro Jarel set off on a pan-American voyage to assemble a team of rappers and producers who shared his aim… to create a unique hip hop record unbothered by trend, time and location. In 2007 Shape of Broad Minds is a force to be reckoned with.

Bringing together Dr Who Dat? (producer of the Beat Journey album), multi-instrumentalist and rapper jAWWAAD from Houston, Panama Black from Atlanta, Rocque Wun from NYC and of course JJ himself.

Their debut record, The Blue Experience features none other than rap super-villain MF DOOM and is…