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Release: 1984 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (On High)

The Heptones

Cool Rasta

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LP | 1982 | UK | Original (Greensleeves)

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Cool Rasta is an album by The Heptones, which consisted of Earl Morgan, Barry Llewellyn, and Leroy Sibbles. Brought up in the Trench Town area of Kingston, their first successful record was Fatty Fatty, first released in 1966. Since then, they have had several hits including 'Country Boy,' 'Mama Say,' and 'Book Of Rules.' At the guiding hand of top producer, Harry Johnson they recorded Cool Rasta, which came out in 1976. The title track of the album is a typical example of The Heptones at their brilliant best.

Remastered and pressed on audiophile virgin vinyl for your listening pleasure.

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Wayne Jarrett

Chip In

Andres Cotter & Bebe Ferreyra

Release: 1982 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Tributo A Rico Rodriguez Big Band

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Liquidator)

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7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Sticky Buttons)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Emmanuel Rodriguez (Rico), was born in La Habana, Cuba, on October 17th 1934. He was one of the most important trombone players from Jamaica. He learned to play trombone at Alpha Boys School, the music school from where most of the best Jamaican musicians has come from, such as Johnny Moore, Yellowman, Lester Sterling or Roland Alphonso. His tutor was another pupil, Don Drummond, who later was one of the biggest Ska musicians. Rico continued his musical training at Stoney Hill Music school and joined the Rastafari culture of Wareika Hills along with drummer Count Ossie. Jazz influence was decisive his style, as well as the Cuban music from the 50’s. On 1961 he moved to the UK where he joined some reggae bands. On 1976 he recorded with Island Records his most important album: Man From Wareika. During the 70’s he joined the 2 Tone movement, being part of The Specials. From 1996, besides of other projects, was a member of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. On August 2015, being 80 years old, Rico Rodriguez entered in the hospital in London, after some time of convalescence, he passed away on Friday September 4th 2015 at, nearly, 81 years old. Andrés ‘Ska Beat’ Cotter is a well known bass player and producer, born in Buenos Aires in 1971. From 17th years old has been been playing Ska and Reggae, being founder of bands such as Riddim, Satélite Kingston and Ska Beat City. In this record Andrés Cotter, along with the prestigious Argentinian trombone player Bebe Ferreyra, decides to pay tribute to the great Rico Rodriguez in a Big Band format. They have selected four tunes from Rico’s repertoire, with some of the best local musicians, having as result 15 minutes of the highest musical level.

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Natacha Fink

Pirarublue

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Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Irresistible Brazilian blues reggae from the heart of the Amazon rainforest. A psychedelic guarana induced trip and ode to the fading indigenous cultures and shifting hegemony in Brazil. This one-off release by Manaus native Natacha Fink was originally written in 1986 as the lead track on Nossa Musica - a compilation celebrating regional music from the Amazon. Emerging out of the dictatorship, Natacha and her fellow artists rejected the aesthetic standards driven by internal colonialism and sought out new ways to express themselves away from the styles of the dominant Rio-São Paulo axis. What surfaced was a melodic blend of genres, with Natacha’s haunting vocals and playful lyrics gliding over an arrangement of guitars and double bass. Vocal backing is led by Torrinho, well known for his layered composition style, whose song ‘Porto de Lenha’ is recognised throughout Amazonas as an unofficial anthem. Hidden within the Amazon, Pirarublue lies in that wonderful space between innocence and honesty. Proudly exploring cultural and ecological spaces through a refreshing, ghostly infectious groove. For fans of Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Chico César, Jorge Ben Jor and Joni Mitchell.

Accompanying Natacha’s beguiling single is the field recording “Unseen Songlines” by artist and academic Nimalan Yoganathan. The composition immerses the listener in the soundscapes of Mamori Lake, a remote village inside the Brazilian Amazon. Nimalan explores the ambiguous perception of sounds emanating from the dense rainforest and deep beneath the Amazon River, where we hear the sounds but cannot see their sources: an acousmatic concert performed by the rainforest itself. Processed field recordings of birds and frogs, as well as underwater hydrophone recordings of dolphins and fish subtly weave throughout electroacoustic textures and beats. The listener is invited to hone in on the musical subtleties hidden throughout the environment. The compositional methods employed in this piece draw on the concepts of sonic rupture, presence, absence and memory found in the dub music tradition.

This limited edition 7” by Sticky Buttons puts these two outlying works together for a unique listening experience, combining the human and more-than-human experience of life at the heart of Brazil. Both uniquely Amazonian but with a universal appeal.

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Ken Boothe

Lonely Teardrops

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One was founded by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd in 1954, and the first recordings were cut in 1963 on Brentford Road in Kingston. Amongst its earliest records were "Easy Snappin" byTheophilus Beckford, backed by Clue J & His Blues Blasters, and "This Man is Back" by trombonist Don Drummond. Dodd had previously issued music on a series of other labels, including World Disc, and had run Sir Coxsone the Downbeat, one of the largest and most reputable sound systems in the Kingston ghettos.

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Alf And Teep

Freedom Equility Justice

7" | 2004 | JM | Original (In The Streetz)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Glen Washington

None Can Compare

Release: 2004 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 2006 | US | Original (Black Shadow)

Wayne Marshall

Dis Weed

4,99 €*

Release: 2006 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 2005 | JM | Original (H2O Productions)

Wayne Marshall

The Right Herb

Junior Kelly / Glamourous

Release: 2005 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Don't Go / One Day

7" | 2007 | SE | Original (Pleasure Beat)

7" | 2003 | JM | Original (In The Streetz)

Release: 2007 / SE – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Mad Cobra, Macka Diamond

Money-Washing Machine

Release: 2003 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Mus Bun Dem Out / Future Plans

Determine / Lady G

7" | 2004 | JM | Original (In The Streetz)

Release: 2004 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Daddy Freddy / Bongo Chilli

Fatal Attraction / Naa De Focus

7" | 2001 | UK | Original (Humal)

Release: 2001 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 2004 | JM | Original (40/40 Productions)

Wayne Marshall

No Man Curse

Release: 2004 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 2007 | JM | Original (40/40 Productions)

Zumjay / Geoffrey Star

The One / With You

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At Studio One - Reggae Mash Ups 2024 Random Colored Repress

Release: 2007 / JM – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Jay-Z

LP | 2010 | US

22,99 €*

John Holt / High Power Music Gang, Sly & Robbie Ft,Dean Fraser

Release: 2010 / US

Genre: Hip Hop, Reggae & Dancehall

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Jay-Z's 'Black Album' acapellas mashed up with classic Studio One riddims striaght out of 70s Kingston.

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Stealing Stealing / Version

7" | US (Hi Power)

15,99 €*

Release: US

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Larry Marshall+Peter Austin / Johnny Moore, Tommy Mccook & Supersonics

No One To Give Me Love

7" | EU (Caltone)

11,69 €* 12,99 € -10%

Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2x12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Mysticisms)

Trance Vision Steppers

Dubplate #8: Timeless

35,99 €*

Clarendonians / Michael Martin+Hippy Boys

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Mysticism's Dubplate series has got a couple of great drops lined up at the moment and this is one of them - a boule pack from German digidub pioneers TVS aka Trance Vision Steppers. This was a project that never made it out of the studio but still cooked up some brilliant sounds, which in the case of this collection come from their earlier period between 1995 - 1999, all of which land on vinyl for the first time here. Fans of Adrian Sherwood, Dennis Bovell and Mad Professor will be head over heels of these dub delights - they are deep and atmospheric, with lush ambient pads, downtempo vocals and stoner synths next to more twisted rhythms.

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Betrayal / Betrayed By The One You Love

7" | EU (Drum Beat)

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Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Clarendonians / Ewan Mcdermott & Soul Cats

Baby Baby / Hold Your Love

7" | EU (Shockin' Austin)

10,99 €*

Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Doc Alimantado / Doc Alimantado

One Trouble / First Cut Is The Deepest

7" | EU (KC Soul Proff)

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Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rio Grandes / Rio Grandes

The One You Love

7" | EU (Revelation)

11,99 €*

Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Elijah Salomon, John John, Joe Ariwa

Salomon Dub

LP | EU (One Camp)

25,64 €* 26,99 € -5%

Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Billy Dice+Tennors / Bernard (Touta) Harvey

Groovy Lover / Groovy Lover

7" | EU (Tennors)

12,99 €*

Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Ken Parker / Johnny Moore & The Cobbs

It's Alright / It's Alright

7" | EU (Pressure Beat)

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Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One Down Beat Special Expanded Edition

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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I Am A Robot 2024 Repress

Pupa Jim

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Jahtari)

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Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Obscure digi dub gem from 2010 by French one-of-a-kind vocal scientist Pupa Jim, available on wax for the first time since its initial short run 14 years ago.

Programmed by the Maffi crew, the Copenhagen riddim experts of the myspace era, this relentless 7″ module aged oddly well, with its futuristic AI-theme and timeless simplicity.

Jahtari main electrician disrupt is taking a closer look into the strippped down riddim schematics on the flip side, kicking it with a minimum set of transistors to wreak maximum havoc dubwise.

>> Run this program:

10 DUB 20 A 30 Goto 10

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LP | 1981 | UK | Reissue (On-U Sound)

Psychotic Jonkanoo

Release: 1981 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Meets The Bush Chemists: Dubs From Zion Valley

Jonah Dan

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mania Dub)

19,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1979 | UK | Reissue (On-U Sound)

Rebel Vibrations

Release: 1979 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Close Encounters Of The Third World

LP | 1978 | UK | Reissue (On-U Sound)

Release: 1978 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1978 | UK | Reissue (On-U Sound)

Dub From Creation

Release: 1978 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1980 | UK | Reissue (On-U Sound)

Starship Africa

Release: 1980 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Old Boys In Town

Our Present World

LP | EU (Rusty Knife)

19,99 €*

Release: EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Creation Rebel / New Age Steppers

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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King Most is a revered American edit and remix master who is back with yet another big vinyl drop. This one is the first on his own new KM label and has already, we're told, been getting some high-profile plays from the likes of A-Trak. The A-side pairs off two epic classics - 'Bam Bam Tom Tom Club' has that languid, ass-wiggling groove you know and love with a twisted reggae vocal to make for something brilliantly original. The B, meanwhile, is a vinyl-only exclusive pack with Jamaican sunshine. 'Reggae For Roy' is perfectly organic and horizontal with its new reggae beat delivered under a classic Roy Ayers vocal.

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Threat To Creation

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Anthology)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Gee)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Released on Cherry Red in 1981, Threat To Creation spotted the collaboration between two mystical entities : Creation Rebel and New Age Steppers. Forerunners of the british dub scene the two bands shared several members, a who’s who of the On U-Sound school and key figures of the Bristol and London scene. Adrian Sherwood is – obviously – the man behind the desk a craftsman on its own, a character with no borders and one of the most sought after producer of the time. The supergroup is ran by post-punk stalwarts Bruce Smith (The Pop Group) on drums and Keith Levene (PIL) on guitar. Ari Up of The Slits sits on piano and organ, while masters Crucial Tony is both on bass and guitars. Members of African Head Charge – bass player George Oban, Eskimo Fox and Style Scott on drums – are welcomed addition to the line-up. Threat To Creation is still recognizable as an album ahead of its time, a futuristic blend filling the gap between the Jamaican heritage, the so-called (post) industrial revolution and the studio witchery of the whitey man.

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Soul Sugar

Just A Little Talk

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Authenticity is important in music culture, at least to those whose relationship with it is a lifelong love affair. As listeners, we instinctively respond to artists whose musical output is an authentic representation of their inspirations, experiences and working methods.
By any measure, Guillaume Metenier’s collaborative Soul Sugar project oozes authenticity. It began in the late 2000s as an outlet for the virtuoso organist and producer’s updated takes on ‘60s and ‘70s soul-jazz and Hammond funk, but over the years it has evolved into something entirely different: a vehicle for classic dub and reggae inspired musical fusions made in collaboration with friends and like-minded musicians. As a result, Soul Sugar albums mix impressive musicianship with great grooves and untold nods to the sounds and artists that have helped shape Metenier’s musical outlook.
This authentic approach and soul-enriching sound is naturally in evidence on Soul Sugar’s firth studio set, Just a Little Talk, which is set to be released by Metenier’s own Gee Recordings label in March 2024. This time round, Metenier’s close circle of musical collaborators includes Blundetto, Samuel Isoard, Yvo Abadi, Jolly Joseph, Jahno, Shniece, Slikk Tim and Leo Carmichael. While many are old friends who have appeared on previous albums and singles, there are some first-time collaborators too.
This familiar-but-also-fresh approach is mirrored by the blend of tracks on offer on Just a Little Talk. New songs and instrumentals sit side by side with a small selection of on-point cover versions – something Metenier has been doing since the inclusion of Jimmy Smith and Dr Lonnie Smith covers on 2009 debut album Nothing But The Truth. Memorable covers since have included ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’, ‘I Want You’ and ‘Never Too Much’, all featuring the honeyed voice of Leo Carmichael.
This time round, the headline-grabbing covers are undeniably special. You’ll find takes on Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Makings Of You’, re-framed as a languid roots reggae song featuring voiced by the returning Carmichael, and Donald Byrd’s ‘Blackbyrd’, which Metenier has brilliantly re-imagined as a fabulous fusion of Studio One dub and Blaxploitation funk.
Yet it’s the album’s original compositions that arguably stand out. For proof, check lovers rock-influenced reggae-soul treat ‘The End of Your World’ (featuring heart-aching roots style lyrics and Junior Murvin-esque lead vocals by Jolly Joseph), the similarly conscious ‘Just a Little Talk’ and recent single ‘Top of My List’– an effortlessly emotive gem marked out by Metenier’s weighty dub bassline and Shniece’s incredible lead vocal.
The original instrumentals, in which Metenier often trades licks and solos with guitarists Slick Tim and Samuel Isoard, are similarly impressive – and, to return to our theme, as authentic as they come. Fittingly, one of these – ‘Tubby’s Ghost’ – was originally written and recorded in 1998 with bassist Patrick Bylebyl, who was then Metenier’s partner in a project called Seven Dub. It is, then, a new cover of one of Metenier’s own tunes – and a pleasingly heavyweight one at that. It delivers a genuinely pleasing conclusion to Soul Sugar’s most true and authentic album to date.

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12" | Original (Not On Label)

PhatMix Volume 4

Release: Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Xmas Specials

12" | US (Not On Label)

Release: US

Genre: Hip Hop, 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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King Of The Remixes

12" | US (Not On Label)

8,99 €*

Release: US

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | 2024 | UK | Original (333)

Cooly

Freedom

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Partial)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rare as hen's teeth digital dancehall from out of late 80s/early 90s NYC, via Cooly aka Koolindian aka Super Cat's cousin Andrew Maragh, originally released on his own Mad Indian Records - reissued here for Death Is Not The End sub-label 333.

Maragh sang in church choirs and on soundsystems in Jamaica before moving to New York in the 1980s where he quickly became involved on the underground music circuit, taking inspiration from his cousin the legendary Super Cat. "Freedom" was penned while he was incarcerated, and details the unfairness of the judicial system at that time, alongside the heartfelt need to "hustle everyday to make ends meet, whether that's picking up scrap metal or cutting lawns or voicing dubplates, whatever you do to make a dollar", says Maragh.

Having bought an Ampex tape in Manhattan, Maragh headed over to the legendary Philip Smart's Hc&f studio on Long Island with the intention of laying down his lyrics on the version to Dennis Brown's "Children of Israel". After hearing the song however, Smart went ahead and built this one-away "Freedom" rhythm on the spot. The track was then carried to Count Shelly's Super Power Records where it was then pressed & distributed as the first and only release on the Mad Indian label around the turn of 1989/1990.

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Alpha And Omega

Pure And Clean

One Man Against The World

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Bass-heavy spiritual vibrations from dub duo Alpha and Omega with one of the biggest dub tunes from the last 30 years or so.

* Championed by Jah Shaka on dubplate from 1991 and released on a Partial 7” over 10 years ago, rapidly selling out.

* Along with the original cuts from the 7”, this 12” release features two extra mixes, including the Shska dubplate (`Dubplate Mix’).

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Gregory Isaacs

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Kingston Sounds)

Why You So Craven Remastered Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Gregory Isaacs (b.15 July 1951, Kingston, Jamaica) the Cool Ruler as he became known, grew up in the ghetto district of Kingston Jamaica. His influences lay not only in the American singers he heard on the radio such as Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, but also local singers such as Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson, and John Holt. His debut release ‘Another Heartache’ was recorded for producer Winston Sinclair and was released under Winstons’ name in the U.K. This saw Gregory move on to work with producer Rupie Edwards forming a vocal group called The Concords alongside two local singers Bramwell and Penros Releasing ‘Buttoo’, I Need Your Loving’ and ‘Don’t Let Me Suffer’ as a trio on Rupies’ Success label. Then as a solo artist with ‘Far Beyond The Valley’, ‘Too Late’ and ‘Black and White’. The latter track becoming a big hit in the U.K. for the group Greyhound. Gregory Isaacs always had his sights on forming his own label which he did in 1972 alongside Errol Dunkley, called African Museum. Working out of his record shop of the same name on Chancery Lane in Kingston town itself. Gregory carried on working with various other producers throughout his career,work that helped fund his own label. One of these producers was Tappa Zukie.

Tappa Zukie (b.1956 , David Sinclair, Kingston, Jamaica.) was also raised in the rough and tough areas of Kingston Jamaica, and very much like Gregory Isaacs found music as a way out of the tough environment in which he was surrounded. Music seemed like the only way out of a life of crime and gang culture. A path that Tappa Zukie found and by the mid 1970’s was establishing himself as a named star on the DJ Roots circuit. Back home in Jamaica he was also getting a name for his production work for other local singers such as Prince Allah and the group Knowledge. To release his own productions, like Gregory Isaacs, he formed his own label called `Tappa Records’. These two artists working

together was a match made in heaven and resulted in this set of songs.

Nine of these songs originally saw the light of day in 1988 released on Tappa Zukie’s `Tappa Records’ initially called ‘Red’. We had added some additional material also produced by Mr Zukie around the same time to expand that release and make their work together more of a complete story. The CD edition of this release carries the version sides to ‘Tickle Me’ and ‘One Man Against The World’. The title track of this release seems to suit Mr Isaacs stance perfectly. A great set of songs worked by two of the great names in reggae. Songs that we think deserve to be put out again to enjoy.

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Israel Vibration

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (RAS)

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Partial)

The Disciples

The Rush

7" | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Top Ranking Sound)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Heavyweight dubplate style from The Disciples with two prime cuts.

* First up is `The Rush’, originally released on the Jah Tubbys label in 2009.

This re-issue presents the two original mixes, plus one previously unreleased dub cut.

* Flip over for `Table March’. As expected from the title, it features some subtle Indian percussive flavours over three cuts of a meditative bass-rumbler.

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Freddie McKay

Bag Over Shoulder

11,99 €*

Rikitakeman Meets Hummingbird

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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In the ongoing Harry J reissue series, we present Freddie McKay's 'Bag Over Shoulder,' one of his final recordings in 1986 before his untimely passing. Freddie, a truly talented singer, seamlessly navigated from the early Ska days right up to the Digital era. Check out this outstanding tune, giving a shout-out to all the backpack posse.

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Party Time

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Open)

14,24 €* 18,99 € -25%

7" | 1988 | US | Reissue (Digikiller)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Rikitakeman Meets Hummingbird's second release is, as the title suggests, a party tune!! The message, however, is as strong as ever. "Life is a party, let's have some fun before we get old!" - This is a call that resonates with those of us who have experienced the pandemic. The melodica on the familiar rhythm track is provided by Anna Ozawa, who has also worked with THE Slits and DRY & Heavy, and the dub mix by Hummingbird is unexpected, but also has a deep, lingering feel. The debut single was so well received that it almost sold out, so we recommend you get this one as well as soon as possible!

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Everton Chambers

This Love Of Mine

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Dub Me Crazy Part 3: The African Connection

Release: 1988 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Finally here, the first release in our long planned Parish label reissue program. Students of late '80s digital reggae know that Edgar Whyte's Parish label is one of the finest labels of the period, issuing many singles and albums, with a unique selection of artists and a bunch of killer original rhythms. We've been working on this program a long time and are very pleased it's finally here. There will be a killer selection of reissue and previously unreleased tunes coming in 2024, all from master tapes. We figured it's only fitting to start off with what is likely the most in demand Parish single for '80s digital collectors, and from one of the label's signature artists. Everton Chambers' "This Love of Mine" came out in 1988 and is extremely tough to find, a ruff piece of stepping digital, even favored for play by the late great Jah Shaka.

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Mad Professor

LP | 1983 | UK | Reissue (Ariwa Sounds)

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Just-Is)

Release: 1983 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Pt. 3 of the 'Dub me crazy' series by Mad Professor. This one features the much played killer, Bengali Skank .. TIP! Originally released in 1983 on the same Ariwa imprint. True D.I.Y. business from this UK dub pioneer.

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Jah Screechy

Walk & Skank / Dubwise

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Uni Music)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Massive reworking in a killer Digi style of Jah Screechy’s 1984 classic Walk & Skank. Widely known for the SL2 sampling ‘On A Ragga Tip’. This one rerecorded and blessed by the man himself.

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David Cairol

Verse

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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One Africa + Three Wicked Men

Fikir Amlak Mts Kai Dub

10" | 2021 | US | Original (Blackheart Warriors)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Christine Salem & Dub Across

Kadjembawe

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Basscomesaveme)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Get ready to unleash another fine release on BCSM Records. We present you a powerful tune
and version by singer Christine Salem from Reunion Islands and danish dub wizard Dub Across Borders (DAB) ,
combining the best of world music and dubwise business.

The characteristic, deep and powerful voice of Christine Salem first made its way to
the speakers in the Dub Across Borders studio one winter night in 2018. Through a musical
friendship in Brazil, DAB was presented with a recording of one of Salem’s live concerts.
Instantly, the stripped down vocal/percussion style arrangements of the songs resonated with a
raw authenticity and nerve which sparked inspiration. Shortly after, with a sort of ‘bootleg-approach’,
DAB was found reworking the song “Kadjembawe” into a heavy dub version, adding several other instruments
like, organ, bass, guitars, etc. Some years later when the rework had gone rounds with friends and alike,
it was presented to the Swiss bass clarinet virtuous Eloi Cálame.
From his studio in Switzerland he then transcribed and recorded the horn arrangements
with trumpeteer Jaronas Hoehener. After many e-mails with Christine and her management,
the song being reborn into its dubby self. Then it was presented to Tino from BCSM who took charge
in the endeavour to present it to the world.

The song 'Kadjembawe'' is an ancient incantation to connect and pay hommage to our ancenstors.

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2LP | 2024 | US (Bad Time)

This Is New Tone

25,41 €* 40,99 € -38%

| 2009 | EU | Reissue (Trojan)

Release: 2024 / US

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Catbite, WE ARE THE Union, Kill Lincoln & More Combine FOR A Modern DAY “dance Craze” Showcasing THE Current State OF SKA 2xLP Gatefold With 11x17 Poster on Doublemint Green Vinyl Recorded live across the 24 dates of the 2023 Bad Time Records tour, “this IS NEW Tone” captures the energy and diversity of the modern ska punk scene through 24 brilliant tracks from some of the genres best and brightest bands. With Catbite, We Are The Union, and Kill Lincoln highlighted as the tour headliners, you get a taste for what makes each of these bands so special live... the songs have a unique energy, you can feel the crowd responding, and it’s easy to imagine being packed into a club somewhere across the country sweating it out to your new favorite bands. Joined by fellow label mates BAD Operation, J. Navarro & The Traitors (Jay of The Suicide Machines), JER, Omnigone, Eichlers, The Pomps, Joystick, and Thirsty Guys, each of the bands contributes their unique brand of ska and punk to this jam packed celebration of one of the best live genres in music. With the help of engineer / mixer Rick Johnson (Mustard Plug, Jeff Rosenstock), the album captures the raw experience of being at the club while also maintaining a high audio fidelity in order to truly document these bands properly. The record also accompanies a live concert film / documentary of the same name which will premiere in Spring 2024. If you’re looking for evidence that ska is still alive and thriving, look no further than “this IS NEW Tone”.

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John Holt

1000 Volts Of Holt

9,99 €*

Release: 2009 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Isle Of Jura)

Ronnie Lion

Spanish Town

25,99 €*

Live At The Record Plant 73 Green Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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180g Pressing
The debut solo album from Ronnie Lion, one half of Ambient Warrior, is a homage to Spanish Town the capital of St Catherine in Jamaica. As the title suggests the Spanish guitar features heavily from both Ronnie and lead guitarist Sean Wilkinson. The album has a reggae palette at its core with the rhythm section of Ronnie on Bass and Horseman on drums providing a rock solid foundation for the intricate and memorable hooks provided by Sean’s Spanish Guitar. The album’s fusion of Reggae with Bossa Nova & Flamenco Guitar creates another special album that will appeal to fans of Ambient Warrior and beyond.

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Bob Marley & The Wailers

LP | 2024 | EU (The Vinyl Champ)

18,99 €*

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Digikiller)

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Bob Marley is considered one of the pioneers of reggae. The Jamaican singer and songwriter formed Bob Marley & The Wailers in the sixties, with worldwide success following in the 70’s. By 1973, Marley was a superstar. Reggae's most transcendent and iconic figure, Bob Marley was the first Jamaican artist to achieve this international level of superstardom. This live studio recording is the peak of his career and features hits like ‘Get Up Stand Up’ and ‘Lively Up Yourself’.

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Errol Dunkley

Want No More

Liard N Theef / The Twilight Horns Version

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Killer mid '80s 'live digital' tune made at Aquarius Studio, released for the first time ever. A rarity to get Dunkley on this type of rhythm, this one was great to unearth.

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Ras Tweed

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Samuel)

13,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Zero Grace Sea Glass Vinyl Edition

Liam Bailey

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Big Crown)

26,99 €*

LP | 2001 | UK | Reissue (Jamaican)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Big Crown Records is proud to present Zero Grace, Liam Bailey's sophomore album on the label. Following the success of 2020's Ekundayo album, the tried and true chemistry of Bailey and producer Leon Michels (El Michels Affair) is on full display again as they take the sound they established and push it further. On Zero Grace they lean more into the bleeding heart singer-songwriter side of Liam. The result, much like Bailey himself, is impulsively honest without reserve. Born and raised in Nottingham, England, the son of an English mother and 2nd generation Jamaican English father, Liam will admit his early childhood was fairly chaotic and filled with "all the cliche racism that happens when people started mixing up in the '80s in England." Liam got his early influences from his mom's record collection. Bob Marley and Dillinger, Stevie Wonder and The Supremes, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix would eventually shape the singer/songwriter we know today. Fast-forward to 2005, Liam is in London performing at every open mic and acoustic night he could, hustling with hopes of landing a record deal. It was through this time that Liam first teamed up with Michels, musician/producer luminary, and the co-founder of Brooklyn's own Big Crown Records. Liam flew out to New York and those first sessions together produced the now classic tunes "When Will They Learn" and "I'm Gonna Miss You" which still gets spins at Reggae spots around the globe and were co-signed by heavy hitters like David Rodigan & Don Letts. That first trip to NYC brought a lot of industry attention to Liam, including being noticed by a just-famous Amy Winehouse who heard one of Liam's apartment-made, lo- recordings, and liked what she heard. Regardless of the audio quality, Liam's particular sound shone through - all guitar, warm-rough and genuine soul. Eventually Liam signed to Polydor and wound up bumping against the typical major label industry obstacles. They already had an idea of the Liam they wanted to make, promote, and push With the typical large advance enticement, Liam did his best to trust that path. "Maybe I can make it work,' that's what you're thinking," Liam remembers, "but, you quickly find out that you can't." Zero Grace is full of freedom and love, in fact, working with Leon Michels and Big Crown Records has encouraged Liam to be himself. On album opener "Holding On '' Bailey speaks to his observations & fears when looking out at the world in front of him and also to the dedication it has taken to get on the other side of his personal trials & tribulations. "Dance With Me" is an instantly infectious two-stepper that nods to those incredible soul records that were coming out of Jamaica during the early Reggae days. Bailey steps into the dance with hopes of finding a new love and pulls us all out on the dance oor with him. "Disorder Starts At Home" is another close to the chest tune that addresses the difficulties he struggles with from his early chaotic childhood and his progress in getting past them. "Mercy Tree" is a powerhouse of Reggae Rebel Music. Bailey addresses the racial tensions that plague humanity and encourages everyone to step up and do their part to help foster equality. What starts out as a declaration of injustice turns into a call for action and an inspiration for hope.

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Augustus Pablo

Dubbing With The Don

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Scoops)

Release: 2001 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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If anyone in the reggae circles could be described as having their own sound it would have to be Mr Augustus Pablo, born Horace Swaby 1954 St Andrew Jamaica. He took the humble melodica a wind blown mouth keyboard and made it shine. His musical journey started one sunny day in 1969. Walking into Herman Chin- loy's Aquarius Records shop and on playing his melodica so impressed its owner that he was taken off to Randy's Studio 17, the very next day to cut his first record 'Iggy Iggy'. But it was his second tune under the guidance of Clive Chin again cut at Randy's, the seminal 'Java ' that put the young Augustus Pablo on the map. Clive Chin continued his work producing Pablo's debut album 'this IS Augustus Pablo' . An instrumental affair on which the neo-mystical ''Far East'' sound synonymous with Pablo's work emerged. Having worked with most of the top producers of the time,Lee Perry,Keith Hudson, Bunny Lee, Augustus decided to set up his own label "Rockers", named after his brothers sound system. Where many of his tunes would first be heard.The label came to define a new and exciting chapter in reggae history.Even when versioning acknowledged classic Studio One rhythms there was a precious maturity and depth to Pablo's productions that kept him at the top throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s. His 'King Tubby meets the Rockers Uptown' set which featured some of these rhythms reworked; Swing Easy[Skanking Easy], Frozen Soul[Frozen Dub], stands as one of the true dub classic albums of any reggae education. This set of dubs are taken from his classic 70's period.All rare dubs straight from the masters. You may have heard the tune, but not these versions. So sit back and enjoy the Original Rocker..... Still Sounds Sweet. RESPECT....JAH Floyd.

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Vibronics

Woman On A Mission 2

Bob Soul / King Tubby / Billy Hutch

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Vibronics teams up with an army of top female Reggae & Dub artists to collaborate on the new album “Woman On A Mission 2” .. to celebrate the rise of women in the Reggae & Sound System Dub scene Vibronics invited Carroll Thompson, Sandra Cross, Marina P, Sisters in Dub, Sista Habesha, Empress Shema, Koko Vega, Vanya O & SoulSteppa into the Dub Cupboard Studio to create this epic double album of Vo-cals & Dubs for 2024. The album features fine vocal tracks & heavyweight instrumental Sound System style dub style tracks.

Vibronics is one of the most established names in UK Dub/Reggae music achieving millions of views on YouTube, millions of Spotify streams and many tens of thousands of vinyl record sales. Collaborators include Michael prophet, Macka B, Iration Steppas, Soom T, Aba-Shanti and more.

Meet some of the amazing artists involved in this album:

Carroll Thompson is the official ‘Queen Of Lovers Rock” - the biggest name in UK Reggae here showing her amazing versatility by singing a roots-reggae anthem for the Sound System generation

Sandra Cross is the award winning UK Reggae legend famous for her work with Mad Professor on the Ariwa Label

Marina P from Italy via Paris teams up with Vibronics following her success with Glasgow bass heavy beat legends Mungos HiFi.

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Message From The Congo / Ten Long Years

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Digikiller)

Get Up Natty, Dub / No Peace, Dub

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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At long last, in proper quality and officially licensed, here's a pair of records long worked at, historically important, largely unheard, and most of all, musically brilliant. Above all, the dub mixes on these records are known among connoisseurs as being among a handful which can not only be considered a definitive King Tubby's style statement, but also among the most radical, transformative and forward thinking mixes ever committed to tape by the King himself. This is proper King Tubby's music; Tubby the man, not just Tubby's the studio. These two 12"s represent most of the known cuts of this brilliant rhythm, played by the Wailers' Barrett brothers, alongside Earl Chinna Smith, Augustus Pablo and Gladdy Anderson, all together truly a rhythmic force to be reckoned with. "Message from the Congo" and "God Is Love" are two vocals cuts produced via the mid 1970's partnership of Milton "Billy Hutch" Hutchinson and the late Linton "Bob Soul" Williamson. Together these upstart artist-producers operated from a base of operations on King St. in downtown Kingston, nothing short of a historic location that was both concurrent with and adjacent to both the Wailers own record shop and Channel 1's first pressing plant.

With the Barrett brothers at the helm of the session, the rhythm was laid at Randy's studio with Errol Thompson as engineeer, then brought to Tubby for voicing and mixing. "Message from the Congo" finds Bob Soul & The United Stars chanting a message of rastafari over the propulsive uptempo rhythm driven by the late Carly Barrett's masterful drumming. The harmonizers in the "United Stars" as they are dubbed on this record, were actually members of both the Righteous Flames and Rocking Horses vocal groups. The dub mix, "Congo Dread Chapter 1", is actually worthy of the type of genre cross-referencing hyperbole I normally decry in music writing. In hindsight we find in this track, Tubby prefiguring not only the remix and the 'edit', but also the frantic yet orchestrated chaos of a lot of the complex electronic dance music that would being to come into its own a full decade later. To try and describe the magic herein would be pointless, you must simply listen to Tubby deconstruct and reconstruct the rhythm using a melange of his now famous tools and techniques to devastating effect. Indeed, it is tracks like this one which made the man himself and those very techniques now so famous. These two tracks were originally released in Jamaica on both the Gemini and Danger Zone labels (in identical mixes). On the flip side of this first 12" we find Billy Hutch's little known vocal on the rhythm, entitled "Ten Long Years." The soulful vocal finds Bill in top form, and this track was originally released on Bill's very first album "Reggae Showcase", released only in NYC and extremely tough to track down. Rounding out the 12" is a real treat, a previously unreleased different take of "Message from the Congo", with different harmonies, and a background voice telling you "this is a messageâ€¦", bringing the title of the song sharply into focus.

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Icho Candy

12" (Tasha)

Barrington Levy / Sister Terrie Nairobi

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The A-side "Get Up Natty" was cut at Channel 1 in the mid '80s with the Gifted Roots Band, like much of Tasha's best material. It is released here for the first time. The B-side features a new tune, recently recorded, with Icho still in fine voice, over a tuff new rhythm licked by Danny Bassie of Firehouse Crew and long time Channel 1/Tasha associate, the one and only Barnabas.

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Black Heart Man / Left With A Broken Heart

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Jah Life)

Big Leg Mary / Wasn't It You (2nd Cut)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Disco mix sides from the Jah Life archives. On the A side we have one of Barrington's best, "Black Heart Man", in its original disco mix from 1983, with killer Scientist dub wise. On the flip is one of the all time sleepers from the Jah Life catalog, way under the radar since its original release in the early '80s. Terrie from the Nairobi Sisters voices the immortal "Left With a Broken Heart" on the killer original cut of the rhythm, which follows into a dub wise melodica piece, which sounds to us like the maestro Augustus Pablo. Both sides are pressed using new stampers made from the original mothers, so what you get is identical to the original pressings.

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John Clarke

7" | 1978 | US | Reissue (Digikiller)

20,39 €* 23,99 € -15%

Can't Fool I, Dub / Easy Skanking, Dub

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Double sided killer Wackie's from 1978 - Both sides fully smoked out dubwise trademark Wackie's style, essential.

Originally released on the Jumbo Caribbean Disco label from Brooklyn. "Big Leg Mary" is on the same rhythm as Wayne Jarrett's killer "Come Let's Go" (same rhythm as Dkr-125 ). Wasn't It You is a different cut from the earlier one on the Senrab label (a different cut of DKR 132), but equally as killer.

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Prince Alla

12" (Tasha)

7" | US | Reissue (Jah Life)

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Features the roots veteran Prince Alla, school mate of producer George Nicholson. "Can't Fool I" has Alla voicing over a killer rhythm cut at Channel 1 with the Revolutionaries back in 1978, at Tasha's first ever recording session. Finally voiced and mixed again over 40 years later, to great effect. The flip side "Easy Skanking" has Alla in fine style over a great new rhythm licked by Danny Bassie of Firehouse Crew and long time Channel 1/Tasha associate, the one and only Barnabas. Both sides previously unreleased.

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Peter Ranking

Love Up

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Another previously unreleased killer from the early '80s Radics / Scientist days, this one was played on dubplate by Volcano in JA and Jah Life in NY, alongside other cuts of the rhythm (also eventually to be released). This is Peter Ranking the singer, not the more well known deejay.

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2LP | 2004 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Studio One Disco Mix

Release: 2004 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Warrior Transparent Vinyl Edition

O.B.F X Iration Steppas

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Dubquake)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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No time to rest at Dubquake Records HQ! Freshly recovered from the release of O.B.F's brand new 'mixxtape', the Dubquake team kick off 2024 with an explosive double drop; putting all their energy into one of dub’s most exciting project: Iration Steppas and O.B.F's joint album 'Revelation Time' due to release on April 5th.

The label unleashes 'Warrior' & 'Serious Time', the first two singles built by Mark Iration, Dennis Rootical & Rico O.B.F. Putting the massive to work while they prepare for the double LP and live show to kick-off.

Both tracks are taken from the album, mixed octopus-style, dubplate-style and pressed onto transparent vinyl in screen-printed sleeves. Exclusively available on Bandcamp and in record shops. Strictly sound system material!!

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2LP | 2002 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Studio One Story

Release: 2002 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One Roots - 20th Anniversary Edition

2LP | 2001 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Release: 2001 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Studio One Roots set the standard for Soul Jazz Records" long-standing series of Studio One collections and features many of the classic artists from Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd"s mighty roster of reggae. This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining crack-session men groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. As ever the album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road. Stand-out tracks include Alton Ellis"s Blackish White, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie Nyabinghi and Rastafarian drummers genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs "Meditation", Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of the Skatalitesseminal Rastafari anthem Addis Ababa and many, many more.This album has been fully digitally remastered, analog cut and packaged complete with the following: Original sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of When Reggae Was King), compiled by Mark Ainley (Hones Jons), high-quality Soul Jazz mastering, wicked images of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on the cover, and a rare image of Clement Dodd and musicians inside the studio at Studio One on the full colour inner sleeves.

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LP | 2005 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Studio One Lovers

Release: 2005 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Studio One series features a roll call of nearly every important Reggae artist to ever come out of Jamaica. Artists featured on these releases here include John Holt, The Heptones, Ken Boothe, Alton Ellis, Carlton and the Shoes, Bob Marley, The Wailers, Marcia Griffiths, The Wailing Souls, Dennis Brown, The Skatalites and more. Six bestselling titles in Soul Jazz Records" Studio One series all back in print. These are 1000 edition black vinyl only of each title. Get up to speed with these classic releases from the most important stable in the history of Reggae music.

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LP | 2004 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Studio One Dub

Release: 2004 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Serious Time Transparent Vinyl Edition

O.B.F X Iration Steppas

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Dubquake)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2002 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Studio One DJ's

30,39 €* 31,99 € -5%

Ethiopians / Soul Brothers

Release: 2002 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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For this Studio One release we return to the roots of Reggae music - The Soundsystem. Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s Soundsystems played throughout the city of Kingston, Jamaica. They were the birthplace of much of Jamaica"s musical culture í Soundclashes, Dancehall and the idea of the Toaster who sang over records - the DJ. As ever Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd led the field.

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Freeman / Shanty Town

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Beautiful Song from the Studio One Archives (First Release 1966)

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Larry Marshall

Lonely Room

Everything I Own Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Beautiful Song from the Studio One Archives (First Release 1969

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Ken Boothe

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

LP | 1988 | EU (Radiation Roots)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Limited to 750 numbered copies!

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Audrey Scott

Step By Step

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (333)

Release: 1988 / EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Willie Williams is one of those outstanding reggae individualists who has carved out his own musical niche, making a lasting impact as a beloved roots vocalist and lyricist. His unusual vocal tone is distinctive and affecting, and he has taken a singular approach to music production which parallels his uncommon spiritual beliefs; like his friend and collaborator, Yabby You, Williams is one of a select coterie of reggae figures who wear dreadlocks and celebrate the culture of rastafari, but who reject the notion of Haile Selassie’s divinity, standing firm in their belief in Jesus Christ. He will always be best remembered for his landmark Studio One recording “Armagideon Time,” which was memorably covered by The Clash, but Williams’ career has been long and varied, his story taking in many different twists and turns. Another truly original reggae great.

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Stanford Shirley

The System

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Before Zero)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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333 reissues a massive sought-after and obscure Jazzbo-produced 45 from Stanford Shirley. The System was recorded at Harry J's studio and released in 1987 on the late Linval Carter's Ujama label. Though one of the lesser known cuts from Jazzbo's late 80s production stable, it is surely up there with one of the best. Killer archetypal digi business.

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Akae Beka

Living Testament

26,99 €*

Double Dekker Gold Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Vaughn Benjamin, the voice of Midnite and Akae Beka, was one of the best and most prolific reggae vocalists of the modern era. He was a scholar, poet, teacher, and solver of mysteries. A voracious reader, he was incredibly creative - constantly writing poems and songs. Those close to him advise that he had a photographic memory, which helps explain the broad field of topics he discussed with precise detail in his work. He released over 70 albums in a 20-year period.

Living Testament is the final album Vaughn Benjamin recorded before he transitioned in November of 2019. In late October of 2019, he travelled to Grass Valley, California, recording this 11-track album at Ras Biblical’s studio, Trinity Farm, over a period of 2 days. The producers gathered 11 masterful musicians on these tracks, including Manuel “Go A Chant” Guerra, Denfield “Ras Pulse” Potter, Walker Pillow, Scott Lynwood Davis, Befekadu Assefa and Tuff Lion. Together, these musicians weaved together a powerful family of songs that that tell a timeless and truly unique story, a masterpiece of roots reggae.

Living Testament includes the single ‘Who Will Go For Us’ which was released on January 6th 2024 with a video filmed on location in Ethiopia. In the coming weeks, we’ll be speaking with Go A Chant and Biblical, who were present for the creation of this album. We’ll learn about these recording sessions and what happened behind the scenes.

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Desmond Dekker

2LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (On The Corner)

Champagne Dub

Rainbow

27,99 €*

7" | 1965 | JP | Reissue (Drum & Bass X Rock A Shacka)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Champagne Dub is a collective of selected artists who come together to practice psychedelic dub rituals. Lysergic weather front top-loaded via betamax"s hippocampus trapdoor melding Catto"s studio into a rainbow of textures, formless places, and emotional sonics awash with resonant poy-rhythms. Champagne Dub is a mission in space-dub whose "crew" took a few too many wrong turns. "We are here to bring raw metamorphic rock-rituals that escaped our minds."

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Lord Tanamo

If You Were Only Mine

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pressure Sounds)

Release: 1965 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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"If You Were Only Mine" is one of Tanamo's most popular songs. Lovely ska vocals start with a beautiful, flowing, gentle horn theme. A great song backed by the Skatalites in their prime. The coupling is a killer ska tune by Don Drummond. "Bellevue" is the name of the mental hospital where Don Drummond spent his life until his death in 1969, after he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Margarita on New Year's Day, 1965. This is the last recording of the greatest trombonist in Jamaican history, who lived up to his name as a genius. You can hear Don's heartbreaking cry along with another take of "No More" recorded on the album.

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The Skatalites

Ska-Boo-Da-Be

7" | 1990 | JM | Original (Jammy's)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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a Sino/Japanese twist.

In the early 1960s Justin Yap and his brother Ivan [aka ‘Jahu’] ran the Top Deck sound system from their family’s ice cream parlour and restaurant in Barbican, Kingston. The local success of the sound system encouraged them to venture into the recording business, and by 1962 Justin had recorded singers Larry Marshall, Ephraim ‘Joe’ Henry and Ferdie Nelson. The fledgling label enjoyed a modest local Jamaican hit in 1963, with trumpeter Baba Brooks and the Trenton Spence Orchestra's “Distant Drums” issued on Top Deck Records as the b-side to Larry Marshall’s hit “Too Young To Love”. As a fan of exotica composer Martin Denny, Justin had heard “Jungle Drums” on Denny’s 1959 LP “Afro-Desia”. His liking for Martin Denny would prove fruitful later, when Justin recorded the Skatalites in a mammoth all-night session in 1964 at Clement Dodd’s Studio One on Brentford Road.

By 1963-1964, hundreds of ska tracks were being recorded by Clement Dodd, Arthur ‘Duke’ Reid, Vincent Edwards, Vincent Chin, Leslie Kong and Prince Buster and others. Justin had linked up with Allen ‘Bim Bim’ Scott, a friend of Clement ‘Coxson’ Dodd, owner of the Studio One label who had already recorded the musicians who became the Skatalites.

Justin and Ivan organised a session in November 1964 at Studio One; it lasted 18 hours. The length of the session allowed for alternate takes to be recorded, but the highlights of the sessions were the five original compositions by Don Drummond – “Marcus Junior”, “The Reburial”, “Confucious”, “Chinatown” and “Smiling”. The first two are in tribute to the Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey; “The Reburial” refers to the occasion of his interment in Jamaica in 1964, his remains having been brought from the cemetery in Kensal Green London, where he was originally buried in 1940, and reburied in King George VI Memorial Park Kingston [later renamed National Heroes Park].

Along with these originals were some well-chosen cover versions. Two came from the Duke Ellington songbook: “Ska-Ra-Van” is of course Ellington and his trombonist Juan Tizol’s classic composition “Caravan”, while “Surftide Seven” is Ellington’s “In A Mellotone”. The LP title track “Ska-Boo-Da-Ba” is a version of Bill Doggett’s 1958 “King” US 45 “Boo-Da-Ba”. “Ringo” had also appeared on Arthur Lyman’s “Taboo” LP [1958] as “Ringo Oiwake”. Originally it was sung by Hibari Misora – a very famous vocal song in Japan, recorded in 1952, the melody composed by Masao Yoneyama. Yet another tune copped from Lyman’s “Taboo” LP is “China Clipper”, composed by the pianist / arranger / orchestrator Paul Conrad.

The last track on this fine LP is “Lawless Street”, a feature for Roland Alphonso. Unlike the other Skatalites, Roland wasn’t a graduate of the celebrated Alpha School, like many of Jamaica’s top musicians from Bertie King to Yellowman. Alphonso was a graduate of Boys Town School in Denham Town. “Lawless Street” was another tune that was recorded twice at the session – the second version features vocal ‘peps’ and exhortations by DJ King Sporty.

By late 1966, Justin emigrated to the USA, settling permanently in New York. There he took up US citizenship and was called up to serve in the US Army in Vietnam, In the early 1970s he worked in computers and eventually drove a New York cab. In his all too brief involvement in the competitive Jamaican music business he certainly left his mark as a producer. He produced some of the best ska ever made, and the LP reissued here is perhaps the most coherent LP in that genre, deriving as it does from a single session.

The celebrated record producer at Randy’s Studio, Clive Chin:

“It wasn’t the fact that they [the musicians] really love Justin; it was the fact that Justin used to pay them the right money and make them comfortable. Make sure them have them smoke, them food, them drink, and after them finish they got paid.” Unlike many other producers, Justin actually attended the sessions.

It stands as his defining legacy in Jamaican music history.

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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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