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31 March 2021

Ranking Joe - Disco Skate


Tracks laid at Channel One Studio, musicians are the Roots Radics


Automatic System
Old Friend (featuring Matthew Lizer)
Western Kingston Style
Want Some Money
Disco Skate

All Over The World Them Love I
We Have To Forward Home
Jah Guide And Protect I
Me Have No Luck In Gambling
Cus-Cus Women

Slim Smith - Keep The Light Shining



30 March 2021

B.B. Seaton - Best Of Gun Court Dub Vol. 1 & 4


Kingston Roots compilation featuring the best five dubs of volume 1 and volume 4 


26 March 2021

24 March 2021

Leroy Smart - Musical Don


SKD LP 1988 (Skengdon)
Produced by Kenneth Black


She Love To Dance
I Want Your Love
Release The Chain
Me Nah Leave You
Come A We

Number One
Bad Minded People
Collie Man
Worries Tonight
Fisherman

21 March 2021

Blooblo - Reggae Party Time


From the UK, rare and nice album
"On this album The Blooblo's have taken a selection of numbers that have been Chart Hits and given them a new lease of life in the Reggae style."

Tommy McCook - Tommy McCook


Ska! Recorded in 1969 and produced by Duke Reid


Yard Broom
Carry Go Bring Come
Twelve Minutes To Go
Magic
Strolling In
Dan De Lion

Apanga
Eastern Standard Time
Rough And Tough
Musical Store Room
When You Call My Name
River Bank


Dub From Jamaica Roots - Studio 1 Band Meets High Times Band



Produced by Neville Beckford (Jah Woosh)

20 March 2021

The Aggrovators - Aggrovating The Rhythm At Channel One, Rare Dubs 1976-1979



Produced by Bunny Lee
Some of the tracks on this compilation were recorded in 1980, '81 and '82. Jamaican Recordings did some mixing here of their own which can be heard by the use of the delay control, that is certainly not done only at King Tubby's. Otherwise the music, though digitally mixed, is very enjoyable.

12 March 2021

Sly & Robbie - Master Of Ceremony Dub


Recorded at King Tubby's and produced by Bunny Lee
Including versions of the riddims Storm, Liquidator, Death In The Arena, Legalize It, Roots Natty 

11 March 2021

Delroy Wilson - Reggae Classics


Recorded at Dynamic Sounds and Music Mountain


Island In The Stream
Wish You Were Here
Hard To Say I'm Sorry
(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me

New York City
You've Lost That Loving Feeling
Letter To Mummy And Daddy
Suspicion

Skin, Flesh & Bones - Singles


Here is a collection of thirteen 7" sides by this Jamaican backing band formed by bass player Lloyd Parks, that featured many of the players that would go to form the Revolutionaries. In the early and mid seventies they backed artists such as Merlyn Webber, Al Brown, Cynthia Richards, Earl George (Faith) and many more. Included are versions of  "Holy Mount Zion", "Don't Call Me Nigger", "Kung Fu Fighting (Bruce Lee)" and other more rare tunes of that time. 





General Echo - 12" Of Pleasure




If you download this album from the link above and unpack the RAR you will soon notice that in the folder there is a back cover included that depicts a banana. For one thing this perfectly innocent and single banana did not make it to the back cover of this album only by its sex appeal, but fact is that in general bananas are very receptive to the basic human brain because of their attractive looks, sweet taste and quick nutrition. I love bananas! They are the golden giraffes in the geometrical zeropoint field of the world of fruits, a winning combination of the early dew of earth, the sun and celestial forces, analogically compared to the bright color yellow, tall animals and multi-functionality for consumption. But that is just to eat them in different ways when they are ripe, not to stick them up in ones ass or exploit them for being the beautiful creatures that they are.

Once ago a friend of mine told me that she had experienced something awkward and embarrasing with her boyfriend. It went like this: It was on a morning after breakfast and she said that she was gonna buy some groceries. So she left the room they were living in and went to the supermarket, but while noticing on her way that she'd forgotten her money she returned home early. She got back in to the hallway to their door, turned the key, and opened the door to their rental room and there in the middle sat her boyfriend, half naked bending over with a big yellow banana pounding up his ass. Afterwards, when the shock was gone much later, and we made a joke about it her friend admitted that he was a banasexual.

Since bananas are a very primal kind of fruit, as opposed to avocados or pineapples they are more subject to misuse. Long time ago I read in the news that plantation slave owners in West-Africa grant their child slaves only two bananas per day. Did you know about that? OMG, those are some greedy slave owners. If I could have been such an African child slave owner I'd give my workers at least six bananas a day; two in the morning, two in the afternoon, and two during night time to keep them up with the production speed.

But let's get BACK TO BANANAS, in order to highlight this wonderful enticing yellow little fruity friend of mankind. This, after stone, wind & fire, etc.. Being the first real intelligent evolved fruit that earth has given us might have well possibly been the banana, for it's so outspoken, easy to peel, flexible and accomodating.
For instance, whenever you feel alone at home, perhaps nowadays during medical lockdowns and you have no girlfriend, a pet or a goldfish. One does not make friends with the spiders, but why not get a banana and draw a little smiling face on it with a black marker, including lush eyebrows and ruddy cheeks? Eventually your personal banana just wants to be eaten, that is the natural synthesis between man and banana: Manana Ab Banana (Al Mannah Kabbanah Bananah).

In general and to round off I am not ashamed to say that I love bananas. They are the number one fruit for me, and next in the hierarchy line of fruits is 2 the orange, 3 the pear, 4 is the plum, 5 may be the peach, 6 the olive and last is cranberries and that kind of simple fruit. Back to the music on this album "12 Inches Of Pleasure", it was played by the Roots Radics and recorded at Channel One. Long time ago General Echo took a day off from his job at the Banana Yard Producing Company, to go and record this album for the big studio Channel One. That was on a beautiful Monday morning in the second half of April 1980, early in the season when fruits like bananas reach their adulthood and get ready to be reaped.

10 March 2021

Johnny "Dizzy" Moore - Live And Love


Recorded and mixed @ Leggo Recording Studio
Fourteen tracks of instrumental dancehall and ska, a few jazz influences

08 March 2021

Various Artists - Inner London Rockers



Rare UK roots album also featuring Alton Ellis

01 March 2021

Leslie Butler Plus 3 - We've Only Just Begun


Leslie Butler is a Jamaican piano player, brother of Harold Butler. In 1975 he recorded three albums of which two as a solo artist (Ja-Gan and Ganja, both reggae) and this jazz/funk ensemble album presented here. It was recorded for Federal Records and reissued in 2015 by Dub Store Records. 
 

Shocking Vibes Presents! Judas Meets Ninja Ford


Recorded and mixed at Penthouse Studios
Musicians are Firehouse Crew, Sly Dunbar, Steely, Dave & Tony Kelly, André Tyrell