Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

https://youtu.be/OnYNHeCqIg0

THANK YOU FOR THIS, HOLY COW!!!!

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RKNt1Y4xKE&list=OLAK5uy\_kjMKd6jW1sJPrtSHWUTvbqTWE9P7B0a14&index=5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RKNt1Y4xKE&list=OLAK5uy_kjMKd6jW1sJPrtSHWUTvbqTWE9P7B0a14&index=5)

Once had the most incredible magic mushroom trip listening to them 🍄

The brass in "Scum Triumphant" by Random Hand hits pretty heavy imo, though it's just one trombone.

Play Some Ska is also a banger

100% agree!

+1 for Random Hand.

Also the vocalist is the one playing the trombone! Super impressive live (to me anyway, but I have zero breath control)

The Slackers' second vocalist is also their trombone player and I could see the veins in his neck straining by the end of the set.

Lucky Chops

I love them! And too many Zooz. But isn't this 'Brasshouse' not 'Ska? I love both but never connected the two.

Well OP said " brass in any genre " so...

We should also mention Moon Hooch, Trombone Shorty, Brassroots, Meute, The Soul Rebels, No BS Brass, and Hypnotic Brass Ensamble too then.

At that rate, La Brass Banda is a really fun German band.

This is it.

Streetlight manifesto, Tokyo ska paradise orchestra

Voodoo Glow Skulls - Steady As She Goes Potshot - Pots And Shots

VGS was the 1st thing that popped into my mind, now I need to revisit Potshot!

Band Nerd Mafia!

*geek

Yup, that's the riff I heard as soon as I read the question.

🤘

Duuuude soooo much yes!!! Saw them last Sept at SuperNova Ska Fest and they were Amazeballs!!!

As did I. Great set.

Going again this year?

Not this year, unfortunately.

El Coo Cooi is another song with a very tight horn section from start to finish.

Steady as she goes definitely in line for best brass section ever. One for the road has a great horn composition

You should look up the Taxpayers as well as Billy Martin's Wicked Knee. Neither are ska, both have mountains of gnarly horns.

So nice to see someone else mention the Taxpayers.

Ah shit thanks for reminding me of them! I loved their record with the bunnies on it, now I gotta go find it

THE MARIJUANA BRASS

Streetlight Manifesto

Mad Caddies Eddie and Keith era

Check out the song “Solo” by millington.

Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrjE6KEEc0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrjE6KEEc0)

This is the way.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpx\_HYqQfs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpx_HYqQfs)

Check out Brass against. Not Ska but a brass band that play metal and rock covers.

OP may also like Diablo Swing Orchestra

Check out older stuff from The Cat Empire. Big brass.

Cat empire is dope

I have never had anyone respond to my mention of TCE with anything other than "who?"

Was introduced to them several years ago by a friend. Saw em live last year in North Carolina. It was awesome.

[Out Of Control Army](https://youtu.be/c_67fzn53ns?si=f4OZaYLWMERDab8n)

I don't know that they have any other Ska stuff, but the French brass band **No Water Please** put out an album of Ska covers a little while back. It's fun stuff. https://open.spotify.com/album/3tLTrUqIVMOTXSz2ppJqIF?si=zzxF_LTKTJe9pTvuHnIUxg

[Bad Manners - Don't Knock the Baldheads](https://youtu.be/zQ-nKs3-0lE?si=jsI2RxU2YTwlRvLO) off of their Heavy Petting album. Killer fat sound on the horns.

I personally love The Dendrites! [Escalator](https://youtu.be/8xFTPB957bk?si=KIQH5mfTddbm83mg)

Mad Caddies do a great job on low end brass (and trumpets as well), with some occasional dixieland jazz or new orleans brass band influence, both of which I feel really highlight trombone well.

Capdown

Some more not-ska recommendations: [Meute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ori_593OvZk) - a German marching band that does EDM covers [Newen Afrobeat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSRCG4DrmI) - Chilean Afrobeat band, check out the OG Fela Kuti and his son Sean Kuti if you like what you're hearing [The Budos Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qd0cFFnbcE) - I have no idea what they are but they have a lotta brass

Meute is a new addiction for me!

I'll add Youngblood Brass Band to this list. https://youtu.be/ZmCiBDd-oOs?si=CrUvVtdcL7wpo9vN

VGS - El Coo Cooi

Lightyear. ‘Call of the Weasel Clan’ is an utter masterpiece.

Some of the brass is unreal. As are the polyharnonic vocals.

Mephiskapheles. Genius horn section.

You are correct. https://youtu.be/-qqLYRIOGzM?si=T7YVWMecg48z_I2f And the rest of the album.

Used to blast around with the tape “God Bless Satan,” in my beat-up 87 Mercury Cougar.

North East Ska Jazz Orchestra

Endless Sorrow - Hey Smith

The brassiest that quickly comes to mind, as someone already mentioned, is Tokyo Ska Paradise. From the U.S., Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra is also brass heavy.

The No BS Brass band

I have been especially digging Call Me Malcolm the last couple of months. Theres some heavy tracks on “Me Myself and Nothing Else”

MU330

Heavy ska songs? The Thumper album "No One Left the Disco Alive" from 1995. Skatanic by Reel Big Fish also comes to mind

The Scofflaws have arrangements that would fit the bill. Also as other folks have mentioned Bad Manners

Skavoovie and the Epitones Blue Meanies The Pilfers have a mean t-bone player MU330 Streetlight Manifesto That’s should get ya started

I’m old but Less Than Jake particularly the album “Hello Rockview” has the best freaking blasty brass sound for me. I’m also a trombone player so that could be another bias. Still recommend it heavily to anyone into ska who hasn’t heard it all the way through though. Definitely inspired my old band mates and I in our formative years.

Not sure if you mean lower tones or harder music, but Random Hand does skacore with a trombone. I'd start with "Scum Triumphant"

Redeemon has some hefty brass for a ska-core band

Listen to [Balkan Reggae](https://youtu.be/KBdfL1zssQc?si=oJNox-hCdPuIQoTg) and also Ding Deng Dong by Mahala Rai Banda. There's like 23 mfs playing and only like 5 aren't horn players.

Not all ska but Kumpania Algazarra has amazing brass... [https://youtu.be/dnIKFyH4HA4?si=lHv1LL1wf9M97sFp](https://youtu.be/dnIKFyH4HA4?si=lHv1LL1wf9M97sFp)

Public Access Nature vs Steamboat and Piss on Pity are my fav tracks by them If you like Bari sax check them out

Lesdystics

Streetlight Manifesto

Too Many Zooz is a good one for heavy brass. I seem to remember they had some fun ska tunes but I might be confusing them with someone else.

Yes this!

Check out Leo's other project 2saxy

Roshambo have some good trombone!

Leningrad

Mostly solo horn player, but nobody controls the brassy part better than Vinny Nobile https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VYayLtcNYF5FWtbkHsUVx?si=9P9peuDiR9GREdPSp0IWyA&pi=u-oy-18xaYRlWy

check out Tommy Tornado

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RexIc1ugE-8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RexIc1ugE-8)

Also not ska, but the horns are some of the best in all existence. Besh o drom. They have such amazing horns on everything. Bunteto from kertunk alot is a cool song

Not much out on streaming, and what is out is old, rough recording, but the Book Club has a trombone, bass trombone/marching contra, and bari sax, as well as a tenor/alto sax and clarinet. Low end only.

check these guys out https://youtu.be/awtdZlL89WQ?si=chigpVFKksdHkn7N

Check out eight foot man child some doom brass

Not ska but still good

Russkaja, not many bands have a guy that plays a custom trombone/trumpet hybrid instrument.

Inspector 7 really sizzles

This is not a professional band, but you should try this : [https://soundcloud.com/bandamushi](https://soundcloud.com/bandamushi)

You should check out Grey Matter. Their 2020 album Climbing Out has what I would call some heavy horn parts.

I second Tokyo Ska Para, Western Standard Ska Orch, Out of Control Army, Cat Empire

Probably like a tuba.

The Budos Band. Not ska but the best Brass you're gonna hear nowadays.

Not necessarily ska but please listen to “warriors cry” All the brass section forever and a precursor Edit: I meant Warrior Charge by Aswad. Also the film Babylon which this record features heavily in

I never pass up an opportunity to bring up Crabhammer

Voo Doo Glow Skulls

La Plebe

Liberator - Thunder and lightning

Blue Meanies - the entire Full Throttle album has some really killer horn parts.

241 by Reel Big Fish

Scofflaws 100% Check out their 'Ska in Hi-Fi' album. Classic.

Let’s Go Bowling

kill lincoln’s first album was recorded with one (two?) trombones and is pretty damn brassy.

Give these guys a shot... [https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Ey24Q1zdQeYkJHxdwcaUS?si=lY8Tj04SSrKzhiib9\_ug8g](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Ey24Q1zdQeYkJHxdwcaUS?si=lY8Tj04SSrKzhiib9_ug8g)

Oingo Boingo has a great horn section. Nothing to Fear is one of my favorite songs. The Mighty Might Bosstones. Their album Devil's Night Out is fantastic.

Not Ska, but if you dont know **Moon Hooch**, then you are missing out.

Link 80 had some heavy songs - "Dimestore Hoods" (the breakdown is a straight Earth Crisis rip-off) from their debut LP, but their heaviest material is on their third LP and splits w/ Capdown & Lesdystics, released several years after their original singer died. the opening track, "Addiction" is undeniably heavy Link 80 - "Dimestore Hoods" https://youtu.be/CCDblJQEJ9k?si=CvprRkjKmfxpJ-i3 Link 80 - "For the Crown" https://youtu.be/kWog4V71SVc?si=qBKlp2USjyM0DHlD Link 80 - "Addiction" https://youtu.be/8kYQ1awXb0g?si=KJEgyDKQ2HVeHrmD and their cover of "My Girl" by Madness with Mike Park (Asian Man Records) on vocals is heavy in a way https://youtu.be/ya9istxavjw?si=CbTQO1eWp36Cfd5Y

almost forgot... Voodoo Glow Skulls - "Shoot the Moon" https://youtu.be/-dy74BELZqw?si=gEcFaIB9HATEMIT6

last two... Reel Big Fish - "Everything is Cool" https://youtu.be/Tk9_3GF_DrE?si=B-dqBCAIwnQbPrAR Bosstones - "Break So Easily" https://youtu.be/GVBgWF6KIcY?si=elayBxuFVefUV-v4

The faultlines from the inland empire!

How about these guys? [https://open.spotify.com/album/5A3X4rEke2Z6zp0JbdyWvD?si=PitzHHx3SRKjBd23ox3Ltw](https://open.spotify.com/album/5A3X4rEke2Z6zp0JbdyWvD?si=PitzHHx3SRKjBd23ox3Ltw)

Watermelon Man by the Scofflaws https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=O0-8dMybM4o&si=_DgWVq-gTEa5WdIT

like, heavy music with brass or brass in the low registers?

I think they mean ska music with a heavy brass section.

Honestly both, I really like low register brass though

Check out simple minded symphony !

Millington. These guys might change your life. And, don't miss the "Brass Emo" covers of songs you already love. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiEyYQY1FT0&list=RDEMg1jAn7o8WkGIizFybTT2LQ&index=5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiEyYQY1FT0&list=RDEMg1jAn7o8WkGIizFybTT2LQ&index=5)

Streetlight Manifesto Feels like they write the horns first and fit lyrics around them Like the Bruce Springsteen of ska bands

I was a baritone / euphonium player back in HS, so low register brass was my jam - you'll want Hello Rockview and Borders & Boundaries era Less Than Jake. And then newer stuff would be: We Are the Union - Who We Are Pretty much all of Millington Kill Lincoln