Babylon (1980) Restored DVDRip XviD Inc Soundtrack [flex]

Babylon (1980) Restored DVDRip XviD & Soundtrack


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080406/

Previously only available on VHS Babylon was restored, remastered and released in 2008. Old rips that I've downloaded are poor quality. This is ripped from the restored DVD release.


Babylon is set in South London at the start of the ΓΓé¼Γäó80s, a time when reggae music was at its peak, along with a distinctively British brand of xenophobia and racism.
The plot concerns Blue, lead chanter for Ital Lion Sound (played by Aswad singer Brinsley Forde), in the run-up to a competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka (who appears as himself).
Over the course of the film Blue socialises with his friends and clashes with his family, employer, and a local clan of racists, before going on a spiritual and physical journey through small hours London where he encounters a series of trials and temptations that set up the filmΓΓé¼Γäós violent climax.

Babylon remained an underground cult classic for years.
Audiences got little chance to catch it.
The censors were scared that black Britons under the age of 18 would misread the film as an incitement to violence.
The BBFC saddled it with a limiting 'X' certificate.
BBFC secretary James Ferman reassured, "We all believe that it will become a classic of its type and be around for many years, so that black youngsters who cannot see it today will have their chance before very long."
But following its cinema run, Babylon went underground. With no VHS or DVD release (even the soundtrack wasn't reissued on CD until 2005),
the film instead collected a cult following via second-generation recordings, taped off the TV after either of its two screenings on Channel 4 during the 1980s and then exchanged and passed around.


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DVD Release Date: 13 Oct 2008
English subtitles included.

Complete name : C:BabylonBabylon (1980) DVDRip XviD XandrA.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 701 MiB
Duration : 1h 31mn
Overall bit rate : 1 071 Kbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 31mn
Bit rate : 934 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 384 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.875
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 83.8 MiB (12%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves

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Soundtrack (thanks to the original uploader):
MP3 Constant bitrate @ 256Kbps

Tracklist:

01. Yabby U - Deliver Me From My Enemies
02. Michael Prophet - Turn Me Loose
03. Yabby U - Free Africa
04. I Roy - Whap'n Bap'n
05. Cassandra - Thank You For The Many Things You've Done
06. Aswad - Hey Jah Children
07. Aswad - Warrior Charge
08. Dennis Bovell - Beefy's Tune
09. Dennis Bovell - Manhunter
10. Dennis Bovell - Jazterpiece
11. Dennis Bovell And The Dub Band - School Skanking (Bonus Track)
12. Dennis Bovell - Living In Babylon (Bonus Track)
13. Dennis Bovell - Runnin' Away (Bonus Track)
14. Dennis Bovell And The Dub Band - Chief Inspector (Bonus Track)
15. Dennis Bovell And The Dub Band - B Flat Reggae Concerto (Bonus Track).
16. Dennis Bovell - Jazterpiece (Reggae Version)(Bonus Track)
17. Dennis Bovell - Beefy's Tune (Long Version)(Bonus Track)
18. Johnny Clarke + Jah Shaka - Babylon (12inch)(Dreadlion Bonus Track)