http://www.timec.net/index.php fr 2006-07-21T18:52:25-04:00 daily 1 2006-07-21T18:52:25-04:00 http://www.timec.net/index.php?lone-ranger-au-portugal-en-mp3 2005-11-19T09:27:19-05:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger Lone Ranger au Portugal? Oui, mais en mp3... takemybeat.blogspot.com Je cite : "Sacou o nome de um heroi solitário, Lone Ranger, a um western de TV Anthony Waldron apareceu em Kinsgton, depois de ter vivido muitos anos em Inglaterra . Já na ressaca do rocksteady, Lone Ranger abraçou o... Lone Ranger au Portugal? Oui, mais en mp3...
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Je cite :
"Sacou o nome de um heroi solitário, Lone Ranger, a um western de TV Anthony Waldron apareceu em Kinsgton, depois de ter vivido muitos anos em Inglaterra . Já na ressaca do rocksteady, Lone Ranger abraçou o Studio One e lá gravou e produziu a maior parte dos singles. No entanto, cedo se fartou e começou o tal "toasting" que o caracterizou até hoje. A título de exemplo, esta faixa, um original de Slim Smith's com o nome de "Rougher Yet" foi [re]batizada por Lone Ranger como "Love Bump" e vendeu mais que o próprio original. Seguiram-se exemplos destes vezes sem conta e foi votado como o melhor SoundSytem de 1980. O segredo e a originalidade de Waldron estava no uso de efeitos sonoros pouco usuais, como poderão ouvir nesta faixa. ("oink"; "bim", "ribbits") Lone Ranger é estilo, humor e pura classe."
]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?seven-dub-it-doesn-t-matter-african-daughter-mix-feat-lone-ranger-angelique-on-rock-with-me 2005-05-22T14:24:12-04:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger Seven Dub - It Doesn't Matter (African Daughter mix) feat. Lone Ranger & Angelique on Seven Dub - Rock With Me (CD) Play Label PLAY010CD, 2005-05-22 Expect a podcast on parisdjs.com in feb 2006 ! Tracklisting : 01. Seven Dub - Running Away (Leave The World Behind mix) feat. Angelique 02. Seven Dub - U And Dem (Bredren United mix) feat. Paul St Hilaire 03. Seven Dub - Rock With Me (rocker's Delight mix) feat. Angelique & Zakeya 04. Seven Dub - Ashes (exclusive for japan) 05. Seven Dub - It Doesn't Matter (African Daughter mix) feat. Lone Ranger & Angelique 06. Seven Dub - Untitled Tribute (Your Own Way mix) feat. Angelique 07. Seven Dub - Stranger (Magic Maker mix) feat. Paul St Hilaire 08. Seven Dub - Wake Up (Beware mix) feat. Angelique 09. Seven Dub - Eden/War (Original Drummer mix) feat. zakeya & Angelique 10. Seven Dub - Yokozuna Dub (exclusive for japan) feat. Angelique 11. Seven Dub - My Only Lover (Lover's Rock mix) feat. Angelique 12. Seven Dub - Rockers Revenge (exclusive for japan) feat. Angelique 13. Seven Dub - Yvo Riddim feat. Angelique Bonus Tracks : 14. Seven Dub - Running Away (Dub mix) 15. Seven Dub - U And Dem (Little Tempo exclusive mix for japan) 16. Seven Dub - Untitled Tribute (Quante Jubila exclusive mix for japan)
Seven Dub - It Doesn't Matter (African Daughter mix) feat. Lone Ranger & Angelique
on Seven Dub - Rock With Me
(CD) Play Label PLAY010CD, 2005-05-22

Expect a podcast on parisdjs.com in feb 2006 !

Tracklisting :
01. Seven Dub - Running Away (Leave The World Behind mix) feat. Angelique
02. Seven Dub - U And Dem (Bredren United mix) feat. Paul St Hilaire
03. Seven Dub - Rock With Me (rocker's Delight mix) feat. Angelique & Zakeya
04. Seven Dub - Ashes (exclusive for japan)
05. Seven Dub - It Doesn't Matter (African Daughter mix) feat. Lone Ranger & Angelique
06. Seven Dub - Untitled Tribute (Your Own Way mix) feat. Angelique
07. Seven Dub - Stranger (Magic Maker mix) feat. Paul St Hilaire
08. Seven Dub - Wake Up (Beware mix) feat. Angelique
09. Seven Dub - Eden/War (Original Drummer mix) feat. zakeya & Angelique
10. Seven Dub - Yokozuna Dub (exclusive for japan) feat. Angelique
11. Seven Dub - My Only Lover (Lover's Rock mix) feat. Angelique
12. Seven Dub - Rockers Revenge (exclusive for japan) feat. Angelique
13. Seven Dub - Yvo Riddim feat. Angelique
Bonus Tracks :
14. Seven Dub - Running Away (Dub mix)
15. Seven Dub - U And Dem (Little Tempo exclusive mix for japan)
16. Seven Dub - Untitled Tribute (Quante Jubila exclusive mix for japan)

Press Release :
Rock With Me is Seven Dub's third album and is packed with no less than 16 solid tracks. It features guest appearances from Berlin-based Paul St Hilaire (a.k.a Tikiman), and once again, the smooth and distinctive vocals style of Angelique Willkie (a long-term collaborator since their first album, Rock Me Tonight).

Also featured are the rough ragga vocals of Zakeya from Dominica and Jamaican sing-jay legend Lone Ranger, who collaborated with the band on a recent visit to Paris.

The title track Rock With Me is a bouncy lover's rock tune featuring the gorgeous vocals of Angelique making an offer no sane man could refuse, Paul St Hilaire (a.k.a Tikiman) lends his distinctive vocals to U and DEM which comes with a special Japan-only remix by Little Tempo propeling it into outer-space dub territory. Paul St Hilaire also contributes to the light, uptempo Stranger, a tale of true love found. A similar uplifting vibe is shared by It Doesn't Matter, a love song to the island of Jamaica sung by Angelique (of Jamaican descent) and Jamaican reggae legend Lone Ranger.

Seven Dub, however, are not a group to shy away from serious topics: "Wake Up" is a call to nations of the world to be aware of America's hidden (or not so hidden) agenda behind it's recent foreign oil-driven conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan. Inner-city problems of drugs, violence and prostitution are dicussed in Eden/War.

Play label's own Quante Jubila have remixed the traditional Caribbean -sounding Untitled Tribute and added a quirky, contemporary flavor of their own.

Also for the dub-heads there are some driving instrumental such as Marathon Dub, Peanutsand Ashes Dub which although essentially reggae-driven display Seven Dub's mastery at naturally blending in the feel of authentic funk and jazz.

Leave it to Seven Dub to show you just how sexy dub can be.


Reviews :
Japantoday.com
Roots reggae may have gone into retirement in its native Jamaica, but in in far-flung countries like France, the home of Seven Dub, and Japan, the base of Play label, it continues to thrive. On their third album, Seven Dub turn in 15 beguiling tracks of fat drum'n'bass, lightened with touches of jazz and R&B and filtered through a sophisticated European lens. Paul St. Hilaire (a.k.a Tikiman) and Angelique Willkie sing high and sweet, while Zakeya from Dominica and Jamaican sing-jay legend Lone Ranger add the right amount of "ruff'n'tuff." Angelique plays the seductress on the title track, while "Wake Up" roasts America's post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Japanese dub unit Little Tempo put "U and Dem" through the FX remix blender, while Play label's own Quante Jubila give a contemporary spin to the Caribbean-sounding "Untitled Tribute." DG
]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?lone-ranger-european-tour-2004 2005-01-02T11:11:09-05:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger THE LONE RANGER - TOUR DATES No tour currently annouced. Come back soon for new 2005 tour dates ! Here's a few flyers and pictures from 2004 Europe tour + Israel new year's eve show : THE LONE RANGER - TOUR DATES

No tour currently annouced. Come back soon for new 2005 tour dates !

Here's a few flyers and pictures from 2004 Europe tour + Israel new year's eve show :











]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?the-lone-ranger-discography-albums 2004-12-29T11:50:11-05:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger - Albums discography 1979 On The Other Side Of Dub 1980 Barnabas In Collins Wood 1980 M-16 1981 Rosemarie 1981 Hi-Ho Silver, Away! 1982 Badda Dan Dem 1984 D.J. Daddy 1985 Learn To Drive (compilation) 1994 Collections (compilation) 2002 Top Of The Class 2004 Dub Salvador... The Lone Ranger - Albums discography

1979 On The Other Side Of Dub
1980 Barnabas In Collins Wood
1980 M-16
1981 Rosemarie
1981 Hi-Ho Silver, Away!
1982 Badda Dan Dem
1984 D.J. Daddy
1985 Learn To Drive (compilation)
1994 Collections (compilation)
2002 Top Of The Class
2004 Dub Salvador Vol.1&2 (compilation, mixed)
2004 Kulchaklash w/Grant Phabao
]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?track-by-track-commentary-of-the-kulchaklash-album 2004-12-21T11:14:10-05:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger Kulchaklash track-by-track commentary with Lone Ranger 01. Sweet Talking This is Ranger doing some Sweet Talking for his daughter. Bouncy riddim. 02. Braeton Killings This one has a more european crossover flavourish. Ray I is doing the original element. 03. Aya So We Deh A chanting thing....
Kulchaklash track-by-track commentary with Lone Ranger

01. Sweet Talking
This is Ranger doing some Sweet Talking for his daughter. Bouncy riddim.
02. Braeton Killings
This one has a more european crossover flavourish. Ray I is doing the original element.
03. Aya So We Deh
A chanting thing. An old Studio One roots tune I wanted to do for years. In this one we kinda have a singjay style...
04. High Grade
Wicked! Baad. A reasoning track. If you listen to it, smoke a spliff and go into meditation, you will go deep, very deep. It's a subliminal message for you to roll a big joint while listening to the album and relaxing. A goog meditation tune, this can soothe the mind.
05. Music Weh Dem Wan
Wicked. Wicked! Big tune! I'm trying to define a hip hop/reggae crossover there. Plenty style.
06. Rasta Roll Call
This one's alright. It has it's own flavour.
07. Fever
My favorite song on the whole album! For all these years I wanted to do "Fever" and I had to wait until I met Phabao and TIMEC to get it right. It's a combination style of Ranger, singer and deejay. Counteracting styles. Gliding in deejay style. Original 70 deejay style of Lone Ranger, you know.
08. Ethiopia
Chanting style. Inspiration style. Dedicated to my friends. With a wicked sax part. Late-ska/rocksteady flavour.
09. A Who
There's a lot of wool in a sheep's clothing. Rastaman, who are you?

It's a wicked album.
This a first one.
Many more coming, original Phabao style, but better!
]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?lone-ranger-interview-conducted-by-djouls 2004-12-20T10:59:57-05:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger - Interview - Dec. 2004 (the interview takes place in Grant Phabao's appartment in Paris) Any historical biography details to mention? Chester (Synmoie, Ranger's friend and manager) should be the one with the details, the likkle parts that I might have missed out... :-) How did you meet (with Phabao)? Through Fata (from the Soul Stereo Sound System, with whom Lone Ranger has been touring in Europe these recent years), who said "my friend is coming to Jamaica, you two should meet". So Phabao went to Jamaica, and that's where we met up. He wanted to do some recording with me and the crew.
The Lone Ranger - Interview - Dec. 2004
(the interview takes place in Grant Phabao's appartment in Paris)

Any historical biography details to mention?
Chester (Synmoie, Ranger's friend and manager) should be the one with the details, the likkle parts that I might have missed out... :-)

How did you meet (with Phabao)?
Through Fata (from the Soul Stereo Sound System, with whom Lone Ranger has been touring in Europe these recent years), who said "my friend is coming to Jamaica, you two should meet". So Phabao went to Jamaica, and that's where we met up. He wanted to do some recording with me and the crew.
The Crew?
My friends Danny Dread, Ray I... the crew!

Oh. And how did you introduce him (Phabao) to "The crew"?
I simply told them "someone of my people is here". That's enough. 'Cause Fata sent him. And Fata is my crew, my people, from the musicians, studio business. So Phabao is from my people too. But he wanted to do some recordings of new songs, not specials. So I told my friends to listen to some tracks and choose a riddim.

Did you finally record some sessions all together in Kingston that summer 2003?
Yeah! We located a studio in St Thomas, a studio which was facing the sea, on the east coeast. We were there, played tracks. I recorded, then Danny Dread recorded, then Ray I recorded. Some good work. You could have the choice on your riddim to sing on. Nice. Phabao had brought 3 CDs full of riddims! But at one point, all of us were on the same track... :) Anyway Phabao kept two takes on this riddim and back in Paris he reconstructed both of them in two wicked trakcs! Eh eh...

This was different from the (Studio One) riddims you're used to?
Yeah, kinda different flavours, a lot of ideas. Once a Japanese guy came to us with some techno. Four years ago. It was weird. Wizzz kritchchpluk pfffisss... But I managed. I voiced it! It's wacko... "Kill and Die" was the name i think.

At the end of the year (2003) you came to Europe for a new tour. What's the reaction from the european audience to the art of the Lone Ranger?
Hexstatic! Yeaaah! Many shows were booked, but a lot of them finally didn't confirm. What saved the tour was Germany. Feedback is excellent there. Good response. They're into rub-a-dub flavour. They love it. They're into it.

You did some sessions in Paris at that time?
Yes, with Guillaume (Méténier), with Seven Dub meets Boxohm Station. We did "Ain't No Sunshine", "the Herb" and "It doesn't Matter" with a girl singing... Angélique. Guillaume gave me a CD this year but I gave it to Carlton (Livingston), who left with it before I could even listen to it! I need to get another copy from Guillaume...
We did some tracks with Phabao too. "Fever", "Sweet Talking", "Ethiopia", "A Who", "Aya So We Deh".

What did you think of "La Pinède"? (TIMEC studios in Paris)
Wicked! A good studio. Clean studio. Good vibrations working in there.

Can you tell us a bit about this new european tour you're into right now? (Dec. 2004)
It's like a roadshow. "Lone Ranger & Carlton Linvingston - The Rub-A-Dub Partners". Eighteen show for the two of us plus 2 extras for Ranger. i'm going to Israel. I will be steppin' in the fatherland for the first time. :)) I'll do a show at new year's there. If it's good, the rest of the year will be good!
In Italy, Roma was wicked. A mashed-up place. Jump-up audience. People came to party that nite! We did Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, South of France... Douarnenez! On the edge of the sea, on the edge of the world! It's a village under the sea, artists who play there call it the melting pot.

What did you have for food there?
Hum... Just french fries. And ketchup. They drink everything there! A lot!!

You told me you enjoyed the Spain shows?
Spain was incredible. The audience was incredible. Hot. In valencia there was a guy showing pictures on the wall with a computer thing. There was a big picture of the Kulchaklash album, all over the wall, and my logo from the website besides it. I hadn't even stepped in Spain that images and music of The Lone Ranger were already spreading there. Man it's another country where people know me there before I even go there!! :-))

What do you think of this "Kulchaklash" album by the way?
The Kulchaklash concept-album is very good. This is the Lone Ranger going back to some original flavours, recreating the original rub-a-dub vibe flowing... The artwork is really beautiful. TIMEC did some good work on there: you can't miss Chester! Ray I you catch him good too.

You did some sessions again this year with your people?
Yes, we did some tracks with (Grant) Phabao and Carlton (Livingston). But I kept it the original flavour this time. I choose different riddims (than last year), more for Carlton to sing on. It's a different vibe. Those tracks are Jamaican tempo this time, not Phabao tempo. More based on original Jamaican tracks, so...

What are your plans for 2005 with TIMEC?
I hope to get a big deal to produce 2-3 albums a year a do a big tour all together. It could happen if Kulchaklash happens big time...

What do you think of your artist website?
It's a plus in a career. PLENTY, plenty of fans are WORLDWIDE. They must be wondering where the Ranger is, what's he's doing. This is where the answer is. People sharing musig is just promotion.

So you don't feel robbed by downloaders and file-sharers?
Not really. It's what's going on. You have to live with it. When the web thing started you felt "Damn! I'm being robbed!". But now it's common. It's like listening to the radio. That's what I see in it. It's no problem: the more people hear my songs, the more I'll be requested for live shows.

You told us Dancehall was not happening that much anymore in Jamaica, the New Roots is what's hip now?
Yeah, some rasta youth are rising up now, like I Wayne, Natty King or Warrior King!...

Where do you fit in between all this?
We're the teachers! The young can listen to old riddims and tunes, find the love, peace and good vibes there is in there, and educate themselves with the songs and riddims, you know. So in the end the business is coming right back to my hands... :)
]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?lone-ranger-dans-ragga-magazine 2004-12-10T11:06:54-05:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger Ragga 58 - Dec. 2004 THE LONE RANGER Dancehall Legend text & photos by David Commeillas... Ragga 58 - Dec. 2004

THE LONE RANGER
Dancehall Legend
text & photos by David Commeillas
]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?lone-ranger-official-website 2004-10-15T19:52:04-04:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger Pour tout savoir sur The Lone Ranger: rangerstyle.com...
The Lone Ranger

Pour tout savoir sur The Lone Ranger:
rangerstyle.com
]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?the-lone-ranger-dub-salvador-vol12 2004-09-14T11:21:57-04:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger ALBUM Lone Ranger Dub Salvador Vol. 1&2 (promo CD) T.I.M.E.C. TIMEC078, 2004-09 Mixed by Grant Phabao Tracklisting : 01. Badda Dan dem 02. Jamaican Weed 03. Can't Stand It 04. The Answer 05. Every Likkle Ting 06. Barnabas Collins 07. Fish Tea 08. Plant Up A Vineyard 09. World War I 10. My Number 11. Natty Dread On The Go 12. Love Bump 13. Johnny Bad So 14. Don't Mess With Natty Dread
Lone Ranger
Dub Salvador Vol. 1&2
(promo CD) T.I.M.E.C. TIMEC078, 2004-09
Mixed by Grant Phabao

Tracklisting :
01. Badda Dan dem
02. Jamaican Weed
03. Can't Stand It
04. The Answer
05. Every Likkle Ting
06. Barnabas Collins
07. Fish Tea
08. Plant Up A Vineyard
09. World War I
10. My Number
11. Natty Dread On The Go
12. Love Bump
13. Johnny Bad So
14. Don't Mess With Natty Dread
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Full mix available as separate tracks on all cool p2p networks like Soulseek - look for 'lone ranger', 'grant phabao' or 'dub salvador'...

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]]> http://www.timec.net/index.php?biography-lone-ranger 2004-01-01T10:54:05-05:00 fr TIMEC Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger - Biography From "Reggae - The Rough Guide - The Definitive Guide To Jamaican Music, From Ska Through Roots To Ragga" (Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton) "Before Yellowman rose to dominate the early 1980s, the way was paved by the arguably more talented Lone Ranger (b. Anthony Waldron), who - along with Welton Irie, Ranking Joe, Nigger Kojak, Mikey Dread, Clint Eastwood and Ranking Toyan - negotiated the shift from the 'cultural' chants of the mid-1970s, as exemplified by Big Youth, to pure 1980s dancehall chat.
The Lone Ranger - Biography
From "Reggae - The Rough Guide - The Definitive Guide To Jamaican Music, From Ska Through Roots To Ragga" (Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton)

"Before Yellowman rose to dominate the early 1980s, the way was paved by the arguably more talented Lone Ranger (b. Anthony Waldron), who - along with Welton Irie, Ranking Joe, Nigger Kojak, Mikey Dread, Clint Eastwood and Ranking Toyan - negotiated the shift from the 'cultural' chants of the mid-1970s, as exemplified by Big Youth, to pure 1980s dancehall chat.
There were lines of continuity linking the new breed of deejays with the music's immediate past. Lone Ranger's first records, for instance, appeared on historically the most important of all jamaican labels, Studio One. His version of Slim Smith's rocksteady classic "Never Let Go" was "The Answer", which subsequently became the much-recorded rhythm's favoured title (as confirmed by a popular Channel One cut from U-Roy apostle, Ranking Trevor, called "Answer Me Question"). Other moderate successes came in the form of "Screw Gone A North Coast" (over Horace Andy's "Skylarking"), "Three Mile Skank" (the Sound Dimension's "Full Up") and, in the company of Welton Irie, "Chase Them Crazy" (Horace Andy's "Mr Bassie"). These Studio One 45s established him as a deejay of interest, but the real breaktrough came in 1980. Not only did Virgo Hi Fi, with which he was associated, win an award as the best sound system of the year in Jamaica, but he moved on to another producer, Alvin Ranglin, who gave the masked stranger his biggest hit to date, "Barnabas Collins" (GG). The lyrics were inspired by a vampire character from an american TV series called The Dark Shadows, but no character in the show ever had lines like:
"Gal, out the candle, lock your door tight
Turn ya neck pon your right angle
Hedem the best in the business
Chew ya neck like a Wrigley's".
The disc reached #1 in both the Jamaican chart and the UK reggae one. This was soon followed by a return to Studio One, and hits which involved more humour, and were built around the various abstract "oinks", "bims" and "ribbits" that were to be associated with the men - and women - at the mike for the next couple of years.
The success of the new hits from Brentford Road - "Love Bump" (over Slim Smith's "Tougher Yet"), "Natty Chalwa" (the Gladiators' "Roots Natty Roots"), and "Tribute To Marley" (the Studio One cut of Derrick Harriott's "Solomon") - owed something to the new style of mixing that gave a brighter feel to the studio's seminal music, whether in the form of new 'versions' or re-releases of the originals that practically every other label was 'doing-over'. The Lone Ranger's other important hits included "Fort X" (also for Ranglin), with its approriate Western theme, and "Rose Marie" (for Winston Riley's Techniques label), "M16" and "Fist To Fist Days Done" (for Channel One), "Trod On" (for Ossie Thomas's Black Solidarity), and "Tribute To All Mothers" (for the US Absissa label, though over the Sly & Robbie rhythm used on Dennis Brown's "Hold On To What You've Got" hit). No performer was more responsible for ushering in the new era than the Lone Ranger, and his influence on a whole generation of deejays (particularly in the UK) was incalculable."

Lone Ranger would especially like to thanks the T.I.M.E.C. crew for their innovative work in spreading his music and tunes


More Lone Ranger articles on the web
[reggaecd] Anthony Waldron, the Lone Ranger, versioned some of Studio One toughest riddims on two essential albums for Coxsone Dodd in the early 80s. He was one of Virgo Hi-Fi sound system's best deejays, but the release of the Alvin Ranglin album 'Barnabas Collins' established him as the major deejay of the time. Sessions for producer Niney and Winston Riley proved almost as popular.

[centrohd] Born Anthony Waldron, the Lone Ranger was one of the most lyrically inventive late '70s DJs, with a considerable influence on the British school of MCing. Waldron spent a large proportion of his formative years in the UK, which perhaps accounted for his radically different stance, and, like so many others, he began his own recording career at Studio One. Welton Irie partnered him at first, but he soon graduated to working solo, setting himself loose on several classic Studio One rhythms, after which he became virtually unstoppable. His version of Slim Smith's seminal "Rougher Yet", re-titled "Love Bump", was a major success. So too his reading of Slim Smith's "Never Let Go", a version known as "The Answer", which has become more famous than the original. As top DJ for Kingston's Virgo Sound, he kept up appearances in the dance halls and Virgo Hi Fi were voted the top sound of 1980. His recordings for Alvin GG Ranglin assured his legendary status. "Barnabas Collins" (about a vampire show on television) contained the immortal line: 'chew ya neck like a Wrigley's', and was a UK reggae chart number 1 in 1980. His additional work for Winston Riley and Channel One, which included the memorable "M-16", proved almost as popular. His tour of the UK that year reiterated that he could do it on stage as well as on record and for the sound systems. Any performer who could deliver priceless lyrics such as 'Lightning clap and thunder roll... Noah at the ark control', would always be guaranteed a receptive audience. His repertoire of strange voices, 'oinks' and 'ribbits', were widely imitated. Ranger recorded sparingly, sometimes branching out in keeping with other DJs into self-production, and his catalogue has always been assembled with style, class and a dash of great humour.

[bigupradio] Anthony Waldron a.k.a. 'Lone Ranger' was born in Kingston Jamaica. He migrated to England during the 1960's and returned to Jamaica in 1971. During 1974 he embarked on a DJs career by working as a Disc-Jockey for a sound system located in Dunkirk. This was the period when Jamaica's music style depended on the cultural and what was called Rub-a-Dub style. It was also during this period that DJs music took its greatest leap into Jamaica's music market. Lone Ranger had become one of the most versatile sound system DJs in Jamaica. Between the year 1976 & 1979 while working for the Soul to Soul Sound System he received the honour of being selected the number one DJ during this period and made a couple of appearances on sun splash concerts.
After many successes as a Sound System DJ and with a few good hit records to his credit, Lone Ranger was not satisfied with his record producers. That decision lead him to Mr. Dodd of Studio One Records where he has done his best work to date, and has remained the public's favorite DJ.

[allmusic] Borrowing his stage name from the popular TV Western hero of the same name, the Lone Ranger was one of Jamaica's most influential early dancehall DJs. He helped pioneer a newly rhythmic, on-the-beat rhyming style that led DJ toasting into the modern age, and punctuated his lyrics with bizarre exclamations and sound effects ("bim" and "ribbit" were his favorites) that made him perhaps the most imaginative stylist of his time. The Lone Ranger was born Anthony Waldron and spent a good portion of his childhood in the U.K., later moving to Kingston. He first recorded in tandem with Welton Irie at Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's famed Studio One, but soon went solo, toasting over the rhythm tracks of past Studio One hits from the rocksteady and roots reggae eras. He also became the top DJ for the Virgo Hi Fi Sound System, resulting in its being voted the top sound system in Jamaica in 1980. The Lone Ranger's breakout hit was "Love Bump," a Dodd-produced version of the rhythm from Slim Smith's "Rougher Yet". His signature song, however, was "Barnabas Collins", an ode to the vampiric main character of the TV series Dark Shadows. Produced by Alvin "GG" Ranglin, "Barnabas Collins" was a massive hit in 1980, topping charts in both Jamaica and the U.K. An album of the same name (aka "Barnabas in Collins Wood") followed on Ranglin's label, and established him as one of the top recording DJs of the time. Over the next two years, the Lone Ranger recorded prolifically for Studio One, issuing albums like "On the Other Side of Dub", "Badda Dan Dem", and what many regarded as his strongest LP, "M-16". "M-16" featured further hits in the title track, "Natty Burial", and "Fist to Fist". He also recorded with other producers, including Channel One's Winston Riley (1981's "Rosemarie") and himself, in tandem with Clive Jarrett (1982's "Hi Yo Silver Away"). With the ascent of Yellowman and the recording debuts of other prominent early DJs (Brigadier Jerry, Josey Wales, Charlie Chaplin, etc.), the Lone Ranger found his popularity challenged; he also found some of his signature gimmicks appropriated by imitators. After his initial burst of activity, his pace had slowed considerably by the mid-'80s. He cut another album, "DJ Daddy", for Winston Riley in 1984, and followed it with "Learn to Drive", a low-profile album for Bebo Phillips' label, in 1985.
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