Reggae & Dancehall 5627 Items

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Jackpot Of Hits

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Jackpot Of Hits compilation features the best of the mid-to-late Sixties reggae sounds. It kicks off with The Pioneers “Jackpot” and is followed up by three other tracks of this popular Jamaican vocal trio. Also included on the 12-track set are The Mellotones “Feel Good”, Lynn Taitt & The Jets “El Casino Royale”, Stranger Cole “What Momma No Want She Get”, Hugh Malcolm “Good Time Rock” and Cool Sticky “Train To Soulville” amongst others. Jackpot Of Hits is available as a limited edition on orange coloured vinyl.

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Jah Children Invasion Volume 6

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Wackies)

30,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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New compilation and long overdue next entry in the long running 'Jah Children Invasion' compilation series! This volume focuses on Wackies' foray into digital reggae, with a killer selection of tracks from the late '80s and early '90s. There are three previously unreleased tunes alongside seven others culled from prior rare and long out of print releases. In DKR style this comes in a 2 sided hand silkscreened jacket.

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Zed2dizee Music)

Jah Jah Time Riddim

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Jamaican Beat - Duke Reid Sessions - Original recordings 68-73 - The Supersonics & Friends

CD | 1992 | FR | Original (Culture Press)

Release: 1992 / FR – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Jamaican Rare Groove

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rare Groove CollectionExplore the fusion of world music with soul, funk and disco through the Rare Groove Collection.With this new volume, discover unique groove tracks straight from Jamaica!Fully remastered original versionsJamaican Rare GrooveFrom the beginning of the 60s to the end of the 80s, Jamaica had a worldwide influence with ska, rocksteady, dub and reggae, but the small Caribbean island did not escape the global trends of funk, soul and disco.This mix of influences has given birth to unique groove songs, highlighted by this Jamaican Rare Groove. Double vinylJamaican Rare GrooveFrom the beginning of the 60s to the end of the 80s, Jamaica had a worldwide influence with ska, rocksteady, dub and reggae, but the small Caribbean island did not escape the global trends of funk, soul and disco.This mix of influences has given birth to unique groove songs, highlighted by this Jamaican Rare Groove.

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Jamaicat Volume 2 Jamaican Sounds From Catalonia

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Liquidator)

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Jump To The Bar / Rum & Buckfast Riddim

12" | 2018 | UK | Original (Swing Ting)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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SWINGTING017 is a bouncy JA-to-UK bashment banger that features a hefty combination of producers and vocalists from both the Equiknoxx & Swing Ting camps. The tune finds each artist at their most playful, riding the sparkly, jiggy riddim impeccably.

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Jumping With Mr Lee: Reggae Classics From The Vault Of Bunny "Striker" Lee

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Kingston Sounds)

16,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The period of 1967 – 1968 when Rocksteady was in full flow, would also be a turning point for Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee, when he became a producer in his own right. Many of the great tunes during this eventful year came out of his stable and initially saw the light of day on his own imprint label ‘Lee’s’. This album has been assembled from some of those fine tunes and tells the story of reggae in what was a stellar time for both reggae and Mr Bunny Lee.

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Junjo Presents The Evil Curse Of The Vampires

2LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Greensleeves)

38,99 €*

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Jura Soundsystem Presents Transmission Three

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Isle Of Jura)

33,24 €* 34,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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The third and concluding edition of the Transmissions compilation series curated by IOJ Jura Soundsystem. The compilation focuses once again on rarities no longer available on Vinyl and touches upon Reggae & Dub, Ambient House, Downtempo and Leftfield Disco. Mixmaster Morris in his Irresistible Force guise opens the album with the Ambient Electronica of ‘Lotus Position’, a long time favourite that’s been unavailable on Vinyl for nearly 30 years. Full Moon Scientist pick up the Ambient Dub baton with ‘Lunar Base Dub’ segueing into Australia’s Rude Band, featuring Oz radio royalty Doug Mulray on the aptly titled ‘Doug’s Dub’ originally released on Oz Sounds in Australia in 1982, a true Balearic gem recorded long before the genre had been widely discovered. Other highlights include Mary House’s ‘Ambient’, a chuggy slo-mo piano houser originally the last track on a 7 track EP released in 1991 on Italian label Technology, and ‘Do It’, an obscure South African track by Inspiration which covers the music from Sylvester’s ‘I Need Somebody To Love Tonight’ paired with new vocals using the refrain ‘Do It’. Jean-Michel Bertrand gave his blessing to a special Jura Soundsystem version of ‘Dream Reggae’ which features long time collaborator Mike Burn adding lead and rhythm guitar to an extended edit of the song. The album closes with some Ambient Tools which should serve to raise a smile at the end of the series.

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Jura Soundsystem Presents Transmission Three

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Isle Of Jura)

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Kash & Deliver - Mutual Exchange

LP (Jahman)

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Jah Life)

Kaya Dub

29,99 €*

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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First time reissue of "Kaya Dub" from 1975, noted as the first ever proper dub LP pressed and released in New York City. The eponymous LP is among the first set of releases on the KAYA label. This imprint was the first to showcase the partnership of Percy Chin and Hyman "Jah Life" Wright as producers and cornerstones of the burgeoning NYC reggae scene of the day.

Though these tracks originate from Jamaica thru a connection with Pat "Jah Lloyd" Francis and have also been released elsewhere, this is none the less a killer selection of dubs from King Tubby's and Randy's studios. In sound and visuals, "Kaya Dub" serves as a fantastic snapshot of the music and vibes of roots reggae in the mid '70s, among the best dub LP's of its time.

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King Of The Remixes

12" | US (Not On Label)

Release: US

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Echo Beach)

King Size Dub 25

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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There is a dub series that has been causing a furor for years, and that since the release of "KING SIZE DUB 1" (then in cooperation with the cult magazine SPEX) in 1994! In the series there were always excursions to obscure counting methods (Vol.69) and specials about certain regions (Dub In Germany), labels (ON-U Sound Records from London) or bands (Dubmatix from Toronto)! Wonderfully, now KSD 25 is another compilation of the series Dub as a multi-layered art of sound mixing. In this edition, old and new friends of Echo Beach dub each other or present their own versions of pop and reggae hits by the Ramones, Bob Marley, Blondie, Robert Palmer and David Bowie, among others. The music suggests sunshine and sound systems, hot sand and cool drinks, the bass shuffles serenely but also provocatively rebellious. Dub is the art of the disc jockey, which they first elevated to stardom in Jamaica. In the fifties, music mobiles there, the "sound systems," were the substitute for missing radio stations. The DJs, intent on exclusivity, soon recorded their hit singles themselves, with instrumental backings for jokes and announcements. By the end of the sixties, this dub took on a life of its own as technology advanced. King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry played with reverb, echo and regressing tapes. Dub broke away from Jamaica and went to New York or London, where its militancy fit in well with punk.

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Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Stingray)

Lead Us EP

9,09 €* 13,99 € -35%

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Prolific London based reggae label presents four killer cuts on one rhythm.

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Let's Do Rock Steadythe Soul Of Jamaica

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Trojan)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | 2024 | Original (Live History)

Lhrv07

21,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1986 | US | Original (I.R.S.)

Live! For Life

Release: 1986 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | UK | Original (Lord Koos)

Love Goes

11,99 €* 19,99 € -40%

Release: UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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CD | CA | Original (JR Music)

Love X Love

2,69 €* 17,99 € -85%

Release: CA – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Lovers Rock Revisited Volume 2 - Delroy Witter & Friends

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Drum & Bass)

33,24 €* 34,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The second volume of "Lovers Rock Revised," a compilation series selected by Zunggu Zunggu, author of "Lovers Rock Record Guide", is now available for pre-order!! This time it is a collection of works by Delroy Witter, the owner of Success Sound System based in Harlesden, North London, and one of the most important reggae producers in the UK. This is a compilation of selected works from his D-Roy label, omitting those licensed from Sly & Robbie, and only the pure "Sound of Success". This is a gem of a collection that includes both familiar songs for lovers rock fans and maniacal choices that are typical of Zunggu Zunggu's thorough knowledge of the label's works.

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Lovers Rock (The Soulful Sound Of Romantic Reggae)

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Trojan)

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Lucha Amada III - A Luta Continua

4LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jump Up)

45,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Magnetic Buzz Riddim Black Vinyl Edition

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Fruits)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Merritone Rock Steady 2: This Music Got Soul 1966

2LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Dub Store)

47,49 €* 49,99 € -5%

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Midnight Rock's Secret Tapes

LP | 2021 (Roots)

20,99 €*

Release: 2021

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Midnight Rock's Secret Tapes

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

28,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2CD | 1997 | UK | Original (Global Television)

MODrophenia

Release: 1997 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Reggae & Dancehall

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Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

CD comes in a soft case, instead of the original crystal case. All booklets included.

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12" | Original (Murder Riddims)

Murder Riddims Part 4

5,99 €*

Release: Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Writing on labels.

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2LP | 1982 | EU | Original (WEA)

Music And Rhythm

Release: 1982 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1992 | JM | Original (Xterminator)

Muslim Vol. 2

29,24 €* 38,99 € -25%

Release: 1992 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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My House Is Not Your House II

12" | 2016 | DE | Original (Acido)

7,19 €* 7,99 € -10%

Release: 2016 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

No More Heartaches

19,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Orange vinyl seems unplayed. Cover has beginning seam split. Limited edition numbered.

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (No Wahala Sounds)

No Wahala In The Dance!

20,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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A collection of contemporary reggae, dub and electronica, which marks a broadening of musical horizons for the label beyond reissues of lost African guitar dance music. The LP covers a range of Jamaican inspired sounds, including roots reggae, dancehall, dub and jungle, which may act as a taster for potential future releases.

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Chrome)

Now Thing 2

13,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Dancehall knowledge Felix Hall presents a momentous 20 year follow-up to Mo Wax’s pivotal, highly influential 2001 instrumental showcase ‘Now Thing’ a blueprint of sorts for the likes of Equiknoxx almost two decades later. This new set - almost two years in the making - reunites original comp players Lil Toby, Will Bankhead and Oliver Payne (on compiling and artwork duties) and features 16 prime Jamaican bullets for Felix Hall’s shockout label, Chrome. Resetting the timeline to 1997-2020, ‘Now Thing 2’ expands on the crucial first set - which was a gateway to the world of dancehall for many heads - with deadly cuts from the scene’s leading producers; spanning Dave Kelly to Steely & Clevie, from NYC’s Bobby Konders to Ward 21, and including killer side-spins on ‘90s rave and R&B. bTwo decades since the first set, it’s astute to say that dancehall has exerted a huge degree of influence over dance and club music of all stripes over the interim. Much like how roots reggae and dub influenced disco and post-punk in the ’70s; Dancehall, with its origins in the digidub of Jammy’s ‘Sleng Teng’ riddim, has irrevocably informed jungle, rap, garage, and even pop and techno for the past generation, and ‘Now Thing 2’ is the strongest primer you’ll likely come across.. It’s a proper sound-system thing, deeply rooted in the competitive, inventive nature of Jamaican music, which would, according to ‘Bass Culture’ writer Lloyd Bradley’s liner notes “constantly reinvent itself as a way of staying ahead of the sound system on the next corner.” With access to new technology, producers persistently pushed their paradigm along the axes of function and distinction, with each asserting their individuality in a syncretic style and its permutations of tresillo drum patterns, all at the service of bringing bodies to the dance and keeping them there.

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Nowhere Like Here: Love Songs From The Caribbean & Diaspora

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Emotional Rescue)

26,59 €* 27,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Emotional Rescue is delighted to debut a first. Rather than a straight reissue of an (obscure) classic or a collection of music by an artist or label, here presented is a compilation of various artists centered around a sound and movement reggae-tinged music and how it influenced and spread from the Caribbean and diaspora.

Drawn from the off kilter digging of archivist, DJ and collector Bruno (perfectliv.es), Nowhere Like Here is not a follow up, but a sideways accompaniment, to his recent and already cult like 'Perfect Motion' collection of left field pop and new wave, recently self-released with Flo Dill (nts).

This is a special release to celebrate the label's 10th year and beyond, offering a treasure trove of lo-fi and often pop inspired reggae cuts, mixing heartfelt Lovers Rocks style paeans and quirky private press oddities, all guaranteed to 'make-a-move and tap', these are, in the main ridiculously rare or impossible to find alternative bombs, that are just as sound system rocking and massive bass line quaking showcases of the enduring legacy of this Jamaican music phenomenon. As with much of the early 80s period, the music community was in the throes of a Do-It-Yourself cultural renaissance as small labels, where crazy limited, one off White Labels Onlys came and went. Songs like Avalanche 's 'Your Love is Such a Good Thing 'or Warp Speed's 'Take It To The Night' were part of the claiming the means of production in to their own hands, pressing up the records and self-distributing. This raw, naive exuberance can be heard in the songs themselves. This is not reggae or Lovers as known, but something more expressive. Musical, simply produced, but with intelligible and uplifting optimism that is just superlatively catchy.

While Paul Thompson's 'Can I Take You Home' and Ras Ibuna's 'Black Beauty' are more straight-ahead Lover's style cuts, there is the parallel dance pop private pressing vibrations of the two Keith Robinson songs and Majority's 'Caroline' included all part of a thread; a joining the dots that Nowhere Like Here is at its most basic, a warmth the whole album exudes.

This is not a Lovers Rock Hits of some, but a left-of-center versioning, spread across Double Pack and cut loud for DJ play, fitting the ethos of Emotional Rescue by presenting something most will not have heard before and all the better for it.

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Old School Reggae

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Operazione Sole - Italian Pop Reggae, Dub & Summer Love Affairs

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Maledetta Discoteca)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall, Pop

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Operation Sole like the summer, hopefully, imminent; “Operazione Sole” like the 1967 song by Peppino Di Capri, considered, perhaps wrongly, the first ska in Italy, but certainly the first to talk about Jamaica and upbeat rhythms. The record you have in your hand is intended to be a testimony to how much the sounds born in Kingston between the '60s and '70s had a significant influence on local pop. With the first explosion of reggae in England between 1968 and 1970, as well as with the rise of Bob Marley to a worldwide cult phenomenon, parallel to the all-English phenomenon of Two Tone and the ska revival, Italy, always attracted by the new trends not only English, he certainly couldn't stay on the sidelines. Therefore these innovative and unknown upbeat sounds, derived from the blues of the 1950s and mixed with a Caribbean sauce, have also taken hold in the Bel Paese. It began as early as 1959 with the song “Nessuno” by Mina, considered to all intents and purposes a Jamaican shuffle, to arrive in a few years at blue-beat (I4 di Lucca, Claudio Casavecchi) and ska (Margherita, Peppino Di Capri , Silvano Silvi, Renzo and Virginia) and be exposed to the first reggae (for example Jo Fedeli and his Italian version of “Israelites” by Desmond Dekker). Thus, we quickly reach the end of the decade of the economic boom and the culture, styles, references change: everything becomes more busy (on a cultural, artistic and political level). After a stalemate phase that lasted more than five years, Bob Marley's reggae (considered a sort of new Messiah) conquers the planet, including Italy: the producers and artists, even at a high level, for a few years do not remain at all indifferent to this novelty and decide to introduce the "upbeat", primarily reggae, into the various pop repertoires: well-known names such as Loredana Bertè, Mario Lavezzi, Rino Gaetano, Ivano Fossati, Ilona Staller, Adriano Celentano, Edoardo Bennato throw themselves headlong into new sonic adventures, in a pioneering way, but often with excellent results. The "Operazione Sole" collection wants to take the credit, instead, of proposing and discovering lesser-known artists (with the exception of Gino Santercole, former associate and relative of Il Molleggiato), often real meteors in the Italian musical panorama, who have tried to achieve (or achieve again) success by adapting the pop that was so popular in those years to the new black sounds prevailing in the West. We are in the early 80s and we range from the most classic reggae, to Italo-disco contaminated by dub up to the true Neapolitan style which, on more than one occasion, in its being endemically "black" and full of groove, has wrung out the watch out for agreements made in Kingston and London. “Operation Sun”: a pleasant philological work, but surrounded by an equally pleasant aura of disengagement.

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2x12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Above Board Projects)

Optimo 25 (Part 1)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Optimo (Espacio) started life as a weekly club night. It was born at The Sub Club in Glasgow on a wet, windy, wintry November Sunday night in 1997. Run by JD Twitch and partner in crime Jonnie Wilkes. Optimo was a reaction against what felt like an increasingly conservative musical soundtrack in clubs here at that time. Clubland felt as if it had become very bland and a bit too serious; it was the era of the dawn of the Superstar DJ. Clubs often felt like bastions of male energy. It seemed dance music and culture was going somewhere far, far away from where it was meant to be. The notion of fun had got lost.

It was no longer the world they had devoted ten years of their lives to already, and lots of their friends felt the same. When the opportunity came up to do a Sunday night at The Sub Club it felt like the perfect opportunity to rip it all up and start again. So they did. There was nothing in the city (or possibly anywhere) like it. As the club believed wholeheartedly in what they were doing, there was no pressure from The Sub Club to fill the club. So, they embraced the freedom. Groups of people who had never been in the same room at the same time before came together. A community of kindred spirits started to emerge.

Word spread, slowly. Lots of people checked it out. Many loved it, some hated it. The core of the Optimo idea was to embrace music they loved that might work on the dancefloor from whatever era or genre they thought felt right. It might not seem very radical now but at that time it was revolutionary.

After about a year and a half, the club went from having 100 people attending most nights to suddenly one week having 500 people turn up. It was very weird. It was as if a collective light bulb went off in people’s heads in Glasgow. From that week on, until the very last weekly Sunday night at the Sub Club, in 2010, over a decade later, it was packed.

There were 550 Sunday Optimo nights. A LOT of music was played. So, what was the music? People often find it hard to pin down exactly what Optimo is. This has been a positive but also a negative as we live in a world where people want easily defined “brand identities”. The simplest definition of the music played is “music for dancing”, which of course is a very broad definition. Even better than trying to define it in words, we have these 2 volumes of music that give a hint of what that might be.

This is not a “Best of Optimo” or a “Greatest Hits of Optimo” compilation. For people who come to, or used to come to the nights there are of course “Greatest Hits”. But, over such a long timespan they are “hits” belonging to a certain moment in time and space. Someone who came to Optimo in 1997 would have a completely different notion of the big tracks at the club to someone coming in 2003, or 2010, or today. This compilation is just a snap shot missing several genres that might make up the DNA of Optimo. There is though a broad sweep through lots of music Optimo loves, that they believe is amazing. Music that they know will rock a dancefloor, that they have played between 1997 and 2023. Of course Optimo nights were not all about rocking the dancefloor. The first hour was always a time for them to play music they loved that often was far removed from the dance. Side 1, Volume 1 of this compilation is the kind of music one might hear at the very start of an Optimo night.

Optimo have always loved a good slogan. The most long lived, and fitting Optimo slogan is "We Love Your Ears", which is in essence what it is all about to them.

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2x12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Above Board Projects)

Optimo 25 (Part 2)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Original Soul Reggae Classics

LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Trojan)

31,99 €*

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Mango)

OST The Harder They Come

29,99 €*

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall, Soundtracks

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10" | 2023 | US | Original (Jump Up)

Our Way - The Rat Pack

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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UK ska/reggae charity collection tributes the crooner RAT PACK style, inc FRANK SINATRA & TONY BENNETT songs! Ten trax from RUDE GIRL REVUE, CRAZY BALDEAD w/JESSE from THE AGGROLITES, KING DJANGO, SPECIAL BREW, SKAPONES, EASTERN STANDARD TIME, MR KINGPIN and many more. Generic white sleeve.

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Pay It All Back Volume 8 Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (On-U Sound)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | Original (Not On Label)

PhatMix Volume 2

4,99 €*

Release: Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | Original (Not On Label)

PhatMix Volume 4

3,99 €*

Release: Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Poorman Dub Sound - Roots Mash Up

LP (Flower Of Life)

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Presents Digi-Kal 4 The Hard Way Vol.2

LP (Conscious Sounds)

10,79 €* 11,99 € -10%

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Promise Land: Vocals & Version

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Freestyle)

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Puffer's Choice Volume 2

LP (Scotch Bonnet)

24,99 €*

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Pura Vida Presents: Beach Diggin' Volume 2

2LP | 2014 | FR (Heavenly Sweetness)

96,99 €*

Release: 2014 / FR

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Pura Vida Presents: Beach Diggin' Volume 3

2LP | 2015 | FR | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)

22,99 €*

Release: 2015 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83 - From Nyabinghi, Burry And Groundation To Rooty And Revelation

2LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

44,99 €*

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Baco)

Real Step

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Red Gold Green & Blue

25,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Red Red Wine

24,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Redman International - We Run Tings Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (VP)

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Accapellas Vol. 10

Release: US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Accapellas Vol. 11

Release: US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Accapellas Vol. 4

Release: US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Accapellas Vol. 5

Release: US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Accapellas Vol. 6

9,99 €*

Release: US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Accapellas Vol. 7

12" | 2008 | US (RAC)

9,99 €*

Release: 2008 / US

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Accapellas Vol. 8

9,99 €*

Release: US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Reggae Anthology

51,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Take a trip to Jamaïca with this selection of the finest tunes played by the masters of Reggae. A nice 5 LP vinyl boxsett with Bob Marley, Lee " Scratch " Perry, Max Romeo, Black Uhuru....

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LP | 1992 | JM | Original (Taxi)

Reggae Bangara Vol 2

14,99 €*

Release: 1992 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Reggae Dub

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Vintage sounds collection is well known for all the albums gathering the best of a musical style in a beautiful vinyl ! Theses two albums introduce two important trend part of huge Music Family - Reggae Dub and French Rap by introducing the best of the artists that create or influence each style.

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Drum & Bass)

Reggae Funkyfied

30,39 €* 31,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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"Reggae Funkyfied" is a new series compiling soulful, funky and disco style reggae from Mid 70's to Late 80's! The new series includes reggae covers of classic songs by Barry White, Ohio Players, McFadden & Whitehead, The Temptations, etc., familiar to soul and rare groove fans, and the rare lovers' rock "Lot Of Love - Sheila Hylton" and other sexy crossover reggae 12-tracks that will heat up the floor. These are not just easy covers that are simply backed by soul, but excellent arrangements that showcase the abilities of the producers and musicians of the time, and crossover tastes that successfully incorporate the trends of the time, such as funk and new wave.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Reggae Greatest Hits

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Clocktower)

Reggae Hits 1

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Reggae Legends

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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All the great Reggae Classics by the Reggae Masters in a nice 3LP vinylboxWith Bob Marley, Yellowman, Max Romeo, Greogry Isaacs, Horace AndyâÇ¦

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Reggae Rigby

7" | 2006 (Not On Label)

Release: 2006

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae, Roots & Culture Volume 2

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Global Beats)

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Reggae Style

20,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Sunsplash '81 A Tribute To Bob Marley

2LP | 1982 | JP | Original (Elektra)

14,99 €*

Release: 1982 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggae Versions Classics Hits Turned Into Reggae Music

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Reggae Vibrations

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reggay Undercover Volume 1: 14 Scorching Hot Covers From Jamaica 1964-1973

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Harlem Shuffle)

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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In the 1950s, Jamaican dancehall regulars were crazy about the haunting sounds of American Rhythm & Blues. But in the mid-1950s, Rock 'n' Roll began to replace RnB in America, and Jamaican dancehall owners like Duke Reid and Clement Dodd turned to local musicians to record their own versions of American RnB. The trend of covering foreign hits exploded during the Ska heyday of the early 60s and continued through the Rocksteady and Reggay eras. Jamaican musicians have covered virtually every genre of music, from jazz and rock to film scores, television soundtracks, pop, classical music and more. Over the years, they have also recorded many "versions" of already existing covers. Cover of cover of cover… Admittedly, some of these covers were futile but many were sublime as this new and eclectic collection of Ska, Rocksteady and Reggay nuggets, compiled by the very competent and very charming D.J. Héléa, brilliantly demonstrates. Attention we are here "undercover", there are no well-known covers. Some of the tracks selected are rare, others unknown or forgotten - but all are excellent and blended in an impeccable mix, in line with previous the Harlem Shuffle compilations... All Killer, No Filler! Reggay Undercover is an exciting musical kaleidoscope of Jamaican and Reggae music from the early 60s through to the mid 70s. We hope you will enjoy listening to this album as much as we had composing it for you. All aboard for Reggay Undercover!

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LP | 2003 | UK | Reissue (Jamaican)

Return To Orange Street

Release: 2003 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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From 1968 through to the mid 1970’s the reggae beat began to slow down,some say due to the extreme heat hitting down onto Kingston Town and its surrounding enclaves. People needed something less strenuous to dance to. The Ska and Rocksteady Sounds (see 101 Orange Street Ks007) that rocked Jamaica previously, had now found a slower tempo and become more ‘Dread’ lyrically to suit the times. Reggae music has always moved within the social climate it found itself in and this set here, as we ‘Return To Orange Street’ was Roots Rock Reggae Time....

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LP | 1990 | US | Original (Justice)

Rhythm Six

6,39 €* 7,99 € -20%

Release: 1990 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1990 | US | Original (Justice)

Rhythm Three

Release: 1990 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Riddim Machine Volume 2

LP (Superfly)

16,99 €*

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rise Jamaica:Jamaican Independence Special

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Trojan)

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Hungry Town)

Rockers Inna Hungry Town

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

Rocksteady Got Soul

28,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rocksteady - Take Place At The Heart Of

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

21,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Music Lovers collection bring you a cool selection of Rockesteady anthems, get ready to party!

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Rocksteady Taking Over Orange Street

LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Jamaican)

16,99 €*

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rocksteady - The Roots Of Reggae

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Moll-Selekta)

23,99 €*