Bass Culture
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| Bass Culture | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 9 May 1980 (UK) | |||
| Studio | Gooseberry, London | |||
| Genre | Dub poetry | |||
| Length | 31:28 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dennis "Blackbeard" Bovell | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B+[2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [3] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 7/10[4] |
Bass Culture is an album by the Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1980 on the Island Records label. It was produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell (credited as Blackbeard). Bovell, Lloyd "Jah Bunny" Donaldson and Webster Johnson were members of Matumbi.
The track "Reggae fi Peach" laments the death of Blair Peach, an activist who was killed in London during a clash with police officers while protesting with the Anti-Nazi League against a British National Front meeting in 1979.
