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Acid Jazz group label Roots Records is set for first-time reissue of reggae legends Robert French and Anthony Johnson's collaboration album ‘Meets…’ was produced by ‘Jah’ Thomas and recorded at the legendary Channel One recording studio in Kingston, Jamaica, with the reputed Roots Radics Band It includes Johnson’s... -
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Led by the dynamic Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, the Maytals are rightly regarded as one of the greatest singing trios in the history of Jamaican music During an incredible recording career that spanned six decades, the group scored hit after hit on the island’s music charts, with their inimitable, unique blend of fervent...
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During the early 1960's, the sound of ska exploded upon Jamaica's musical landscape, with the driving dynamic sound championed by arguably the greatest ensemble of musicians ever to have performed and recorded on the island Fronted by legendary saxophonist Tommy McCook, The Skatalites also comprised a veritable who's who of...
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The Jamaican saxophonist Tommy McCook was a founding member of The Skatalites, but also directed The Supersonics and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or The Revolutionaries As a producer, McCook also released several album on his own name, including Reggay At It's Best The album's selection of top Reggae tunes perfectly suit...
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Culture is the Jamaican roots reggae group who founded in 1976 The trio was led by Joseph Hill and also featured Kenneth Dayes and Albert Walker Not long after releasing their classic debut album Two Sevens Clash, a dub version followed This version having the tunes produced by Jamaica's first female producers Sonia Pottinger and...
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Scratch The Super Ape is the 1976 studio album by Lee Perry's studio band The Upsetters The lineup consisted of Boris Gardener on bass, Mikey Benbow on drums, Earl Smith on guitar, Keith Sterling on keys and the horn quartet Bobby Ellis, Dirty Harry, Herman Marquis, and Vin Gordon The album is recorded at Lee Perry's studio and is...
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A welcome reissue for this herbal-influenced Zion Train album, originally released on Universal Egg in 1995 A spaced-out, worldwide dub excursion into the Wonderful World of Weed For 30 years, Zion Train have been at the forefront of the UK dub and festival scene and still take their sound and message worldwide The Tasilli...
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Absolutely ESSENTIAL album from reggae dub legend Lee Perry originally released in 1980 - final work to emerge from the Black Ark studio, before its permanent destruction The last in a series of such LP masterworks as Super Ape, War In A Babylon, Police And Thieves, and The Return Of The Super Ape! Enthrallingly, it crosses...
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Originally only available as a digital release on Nightwind Records, LIES Records now provides the vinyl edition of what is sure to be a cult classic in the vast Legowelt catalog: Last December Danny Wolfers met up with Japanese digital dub legend Taka Noda aka Mystica Tribe to produce this Far East style heavy digital dub album...
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Superb new compilation from Pressure Sounds with rare and unreleased productions by Lee Perry 24 Tracks from the sound lab The Black Ark between 1972 - 1978 Featuring U Roy, Junior Byles, Dillinger, Tinga Stewart, The Ethiopians and many more Deep roots music at it's finest, play loud and...
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Studio One Soul tracks the link between American Funk and Soul and Jamaican Reggae at the legendary Studio One Records Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, The Temptations, King Floyd, Booker T and The MGs - all these artists had a huge influence on Jamaican artists and this CD contains versions of songs by all of...
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By the late 1970s, dub was firmly established as a favorite subgenre of the reggae canon, with every Jamaica-based record producer devoted to the style Sonia Pottinger was no exception, and with Treasure Isle Studios sound engineer Errol Brown, she had one of the best exponents in the business His dub master talents reflected in a...
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Specially selected 8-track vinyl version of Soothsayers' project with New York-born, São Paulo-based producer-engineer-bassist, Victor Rice Soothsayers Meets Victor Rice & Friends features 8 instrumental recordings, lovingly assembled between London, São Paulo and Lisbon Four uplifitng instrumentals plus their sumptuous...
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First time vinyl reissue, originally released on UK label Arts & Crafts in 1982 This legendary Johnny Clarke recordings is something you wouldn't miss Completely written by the Jamaican singer himself -- backed here by Roots Radics (the Channel One studio session group) -- and arranged by Clarke and Stafford Douglas (alias...
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"Ivan 'Lloydie Slim' Smith is one of the unsung movers and shakers of 1970s reggae Slim worked for a time as both in-studio producer & record promoter for Bunny Lee and Channel 1, the two biggest and most significant producers of the 1970s At the same time, he quietly built his own catalog and released a relatively small but...
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Originally released in 1977 this Dennis Brown LP is a true roots classic The Mighty Two on production with house band The Professionals Includes roots favourites "Deliverance", "Malcolm X" and "Milk And Honey" plus many...
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Originally released in 1996 UK deep space dub music from The Disciples, limited press of 500 from Partial...
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"Soul Jazz Records’ long out of print classic ‘Studio One Women’ collection is being re-released in three new one-off limited-edition coloured pressing 18th anniversary format editions! Firstly a heavyweight special limited edition one-pressing only yellow 2xLP vinyl + download Secondly, there is also a new special...
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Like Sun Ra's Arkestra and John Coltrane are to jazz, the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari are to reggae - the ultimate expression of roots music and Rastafarian ideology in reggae music, music functioning at a high level of spiritual consciousness combined with an equally avant-garde and forward-looking approach to sound The...
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'EARLY DANCEHALL PRODUCTIONS FROM BUNNY LEE' - Pressure Sounds' first foray into Mr Lee's transformative rub a dub work from the late seventies to mid-eighties Bunny "Striker" Lee was always attuned to even the slightest change in the musical landscape of Kingston He quickly picked up on this shift in taste and knew he had to...
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What is the sound of Russian dub There is a storied history of attempts to adapt roots music to the Russian soil, but most of them can be attributed to reggae (the so-called 'northern' variety) rather than dub Gost has history with the town of Smolensk It's home to Gamayun, whose great album Filterealism was released on our label...
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The Lost Albums In Jamaican Bass Player, Bandleader, Songwriter, Singer And Producer Boris Gardiner's Discography - First Official Issue Of These Impossibly Rare Albums 1970s Jamaica suffered an unprecedented stretch of political turmoil and violence, and as the country’s economy and morale collapsed, reggae and its offshoots...
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Reissue, originally released in 1984 Cult reissue from this short-lived Bristol project Their debut four-track EP was self-released on Restriction Records in 1984 giving birth to a collective experience fueled by several members: Andrew Clarke (AMJ Almighty Groove, AMJ Dub Collective) Clive Smith, Rob Smith (co- founder of the...
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Radiation Roots present a reissue of Delroy Wilson's Captivity, originally released in 1973 Delroy Wilson was one of Jamaica's most soulful vocalists, and over a 40-year career the singer unleashed a flood of hits and a multitude of masterpieces Born on October 5, 1948, in the Kingston neighborhood of Trenchtown, Wilson's...
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Percussionist who created the first orchestra del solsa band in Japan Percussionist, Pecker Power, the first dub made in Japan by Pecker in 1980, originally released at 10 inches, Ryojiro Furusawa’s “Moonlight Slumber” featuring Minako Yoshida was added to “Instant Raster” on the record, and this time it is released...
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Phillip Smart was one of the great engineers to learn his trade as understudy to the legendary dub master himself Osbourne'King Tubby'Ruddock Alongside other luminaires such as Prince Jammy and Scientist,Phillip Smart would step in at the controls when demand for King Tubby studio dubs grew to such an extent that each single...
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The lineages of American soul and disco music on the one hand and Jamaican reggae on the other are so intertwined that its unsurprising that disco reggae – or reggae disco if you prefer – is such a winning and straightforward combination American and Jamaican music has been influencing each other back and forth for many...
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The lineages of American soul and disco music on the one hand and Jamaican reggae on the other are so intertwined that its unsurprising that disco reggae – or reggae disco if you prefer – is such a winning and straightforward combination American and Jamaican music has been influencing each other back and forth for many...
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The seed for this album comes from a tape compiled but never released by Vivian “Yabby You” Jackson, labelled “The Best Of Patrick Andy” On the tape were three unreleased tunes, one unreleased dub, and stereo mixes of several singles which had only been heard in mono before So “Living In Mount Zion” is in full stereo...
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Honey Machine were a Nigerian boogie/funk outfit who released one self-titled album in 1982 The band featured keyboard player Nkono Teles, keeping things funky on clavinet and electric piano, and drummer Jojo Kuo, who has played with such luminaries as Manu Dibango and Fela Kuti Shades of Michael Jackson’s ‘Off The Wall’ and...
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Stix Records, a sub-label of Favorite Recordings, proudly presents Jazz-Funk Dub Tribute, a new project by Mato with exclusive Dub versions of some of the most famous Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Funk & Fusion tracks After the amazing success of his Summer Madness / Maiden Voyage (2021) single, respectively covering Kool &...
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Sought after rarity in the On-U Sound catalogue Last pressing was done in 2016 and is long gone so grab this opportunity to add this Science Fiction Dancehall Classic to your record collection Originally released in 1984, this is one of the most envelope-pushing records on the On-U Sound label: a rhythmic collision of noise,...
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This new Studio collection on Soul Jazz Records delves deep into a melting pot world of reggae and funk and dub created at the music laboratory of 13 Brentford Road, Kingston in the 1970s - an intense collaboration of crack musicians, singers, DJs and engineers under the guidance of producer Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd Here you...
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“one of the hardest dub albums ever released” Reggae The Rough Guide There's not a lot we can add to that brief description of this set which features the production talents of Jimmy Radway and the mixing skills of Errol Thompson Dub music simply doesn't get any better than this The set has been totally remastered,...
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A perfect showcase of the remarkable production skills of undisputed dub master Lee “Scratch” Perry, this is the final Upsetters LP to be recorded at The Black Ark studio before its closure! "There are rare instances of a sequel being better than the original, and while some might argue that Lee Perry’s muggy mid-’70s...
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Two Sevens Clash is the debut album by roots reggae band Culture, recorded with producer Joe Gibbs at his own Joe Gibbs Recording Studio in Kingston in 1976, and released on Gibbs' eponymous label in 1977 The album's title is a reference to the date of 7 July 1977 Singer Joseph Hill said Two Sevens Clash was based on a...
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LA based reggae drummer, Shakaman presents two solo productions featuring completely unorthodox drumming journeys losing all sense of time or realityhakaman on the drums, is all the credits you will find on this solo release of his, previously unreleased material he recorded deep in the unknown of his home studio A pure honesty is...
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Strut present the first ever official compilation bringing together the complete in-demand reggae / disco singles of Risco Connection between 1979 and...
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Reissue, originally released in 1982 Officially the latest album released by the British super group, Lows & Highs is the triumphant epilogue to these fascinating adventure in rhythm Featuring vocals from Crucial Tony and Lizard Logan this is probably the most straight-ahead reggae album in their whole discography Producer...
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Originally released in 1985, this is a compilation of classic Horace Andy, including covers of Tappa Zukie's "Better Collie" and Leroy Sibble's "My Guiding...
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1970s Jamaica suffered an unprecedented stretch of political turmoil and violence, and as the country’s economy and morale collapsed, reggae and its offshoots exploded worldwide Boris Gardiner enjoyed great success leading bands, issuing albums that mixed reggae, ska, soul and funk, and collaborating with the likes of Lee...
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Horace Andy's Midnight Scorchers on On-U Sound "A companion album to the critically acclaimed Midnight Rocker, this is Adrian Sherwood’s ‘sound system’ take on the original sessions Featuring new tracks; radical dancehall re-works with MC interjections from Daddy Freddy and Lone Ranger; and stripped back instrumental...
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Reissue of 1979 album by Ras Michael & The Sons Of...
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Following on from 2020s acclaimed album Vodou Ale (and preceding the release of a new album in 2023), Chouk Bwa turn up the heat for this exhilarating trip into their bush of ghosts by introducing a new stripped down line- up to fire up the dance floor, based exclusively on the drums and rhythms of the Haitian kongo rite and deep...
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The city of Bristol has undoubtedly a rich reggae heritage The criminally neglected Talisman finally benefits of a long overdue release, collecting their first efforts plus a series of extra tracks You'll get their first two singles released on Recreational Records -- Run Come Girl/Wicked Dem and Dole Age/Free Speech, both...
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Arguably the greatest Jamaican record producer of all time, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was instrumental in transforming the island’s national sound throughout the Sixties and Seventies, with his unique approach to music making pushing the music beyond previously perceived boundaries To mark the first anniversary of his passing,...
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