{"id":137,"date":"2009-12-03T05:09:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/?p=137"},"modified":"2022-04-27T05:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T10:39:24","slug":"pre-release-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Pre-release 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have one of the oldest tapes I have around &#8211; dates back to the good days at Better Badges when we&#8217;d just got our Alpha hi-speed cassette duplicator. The great thing about this was that it was a magnet for rare and unreleased material, such as this, brought in by Steve Jameson &#8211; who long worked the counter at Rough Trade. I don&#8217;t recall details but he arrived from some studio (Street Level?) in a high state of excitement with this one containing brand new mixes of the Twinkle Brothers, Undivided Truth, Prince Hammer, and more importantly, Jah Shaka&#8217;s masterpiece &#8216;Kunte Kinte&#8217;. When I played it on Streamola even Ras Kush, who has got every single thing that Shaka has done, asked for a copy. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6276\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-137-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/mp3\/pre-release_1979.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/mp3\/pre-release_1979.mp3\">https:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/mp3\/pre-release_1979.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/mp3\/pre-release_1979.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=137-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/mp3\/pre-release_1979.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"pre-release_1979.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have one of the oldest tapes I have around &#8211; dates back to the good days at Better Badges when we&#8217;d just got our Alpha hi-speed cassette duplicator. The great thing about this was that it was a magnet for rare and unreleased material, such as this, brought in by Steve Jameson &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[54,55],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jah-shaka","category-old-tape","tag-jah-shaka-2","tag-twinkle-brothers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pD6Ru-2d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}