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Western Special – Moonlightin’ (2020) Vinyl Album LP

Western Special – Moonlightin’ (2020) Vinyl Album LP

12 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Roots Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

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Western Special – Golgoth System / Godzilla Stomp (2020) Vinyl Album 7″

Western Special – Golgoth System / Godzilla Stomp (2020) Vinyl Album 7″

2 Tracks – Ska, Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

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Western Special – Moonlightin’ (2020) CD Album

Western Special – Moonlightin’ (2020) CD Album

12 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

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Western Special – Hot Jamaican Mixture (2020) Vinyl LP

Western Special – Hot Jamaican Mixture (2020) Vinyl LP

13 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

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Western Special – Ska And Reggae !!! (2020) Cassette Album

Western Special – Ska And Reggae !!! (2020) Cassette Album

6 Tracks – Ska, Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

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Western Special – Of Miles And Crowds (2020) CD Album

Western Special – Of Miles And Crowds (2020) CD Album

5 Tracks – Ska, Rock. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

4 years ago
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Western Special – Hot Jamaican Mixture (2020) CD Album

Western Special – Hot Jamaican Mixture (2020) CD Album

13 Tracks – Rocksteady, Ska, Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

4 years ago
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Western Special – Road To The Roots (1998) CD Album

Western Special – Road To The Roots (1998) CD Album

11 Tracks – Ska, Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

4 years ago
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Western Special – Hot Jamaican Mixture (2020) CD

Western Special – Hot Jamaican Mixture (2020) CD

3 Tracks – Ska, Reggae. French Ska & Reggae band from Reims.

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Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.
Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s; the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain, which fused Jamaican ska rhythms and melodies with the faster tempos and harder edge of punk rock forming ska-punk; and third wave ska, which involved bands from a wide range of countries around the world, in the late 1980s and 1990s.