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29 September 2024

Various Artists - Rise & Shine Showcase 12"


This EP Showcase features some of the best deep roots music recorded at Federal Studios between 1971-78 by the late Stare McCallum


The Soulites - Rise & Shine (Extended)
Youth Man Earron - A Poor Man's Life (Extended)

African Son - Dread Red Dread (Extended)
African Son - Repatriation Song (Extended)

Dennis Brown - Kollektion


Compilation of his early 80's tunes, tracks 8 to 13 are taken from the "Stage Coach Showcase" album


Got To Have Loving
Foot Of The Mountain
Tribulation
Foundation
Love, Love
Open Up The Door
If I Have To Fight
Stage Coach
Why Fools (Fulfilment)
Little Green Apples
Can I Change My Mind
I Love You Madly
Perhaps

28 September 2024

King Tubby - Never Run Away (Dub Plate Specials)


Featuring The Aggrovators with Cornell Campbell, Johnny Clarke and Tommy McCook
Produced by Bunny Lee and Count Shelly

Prince Philip Presents : Dubplates And Raw Rhythm From King Tubby's Studio 1973-1976


Compilation of the early works of producer Philip Smart from his personal tape archive, featuring Jacob Miller, Johnny Clarke and Hugh Mundell

Various Artists - Freedom Sounds Redemption Dub


70's dub featuring session band The Soul Syndicate and produced by Bertram Brown


Right Way Version
Right Way Version 2
 Lot's Wife Version
Lot's Wife Version 2

Black Rose Version
Come Away Version
Single Man Version
Rasta Man Version

27 September 2024

Charlie Chaplin - Sound System (Expanded Version)


Produced by Henry "Junjo" Lawes


We Hot
Small Days
Afraid of You
Bounce, Pon We Corner
Why the World Say So
Screwface People
Principle
Tribute to Marvin Gaye
Ginal
International Robbery
Yan Kee Skank aka Yankie Skank
Chalice
Face to Face
Eden Ah Try
Tell Me Why
Hey Youthman

26 September 2024

Various Artists - Hit Rockers of the 80s - Reggae Love Vol. 1


Sunny dancehall lovers rock tunes from the label run by Willie Lindo


Wayne Wade - You Are Everything
J.C. Lodge - Kiss and Say Goodbye
Tyrone Taylor - Come to Me
Boris Gardner - Guilty
Rudy Thomas - Sitting Out Night Time
Tyrone Taylor - Stranger
Beres Hammond - Talk of the Town
Wayne Wade - Lady
Cynthia Schloss - Sad Movies
Lynval Stanley - I Need Your Company
Barbara Jones - Please Mr. Please
Boris Gardner - I Wanna Wake Up With You
Carlene Davis - First Words In Memory
Cynthia Schloss - All the Way In
Boris Gardner - Let's Keep It That Way
B. B. Seaton - Everyday People
Sugar Minott - It's All In the Game
J. C. Lodge - Make It Up
Beres Hammond - Stuck On You
Wayne Wade - Sixteen
Raymond Levy - Love Will Take You Back
Kashief Lindo - You're Gonna Need Me

24 September 2024

The Clarendonians - The Best Of


First US repress of the album so it doesn't have the overdubs the CD version and all the later issues added


You Can't Be Happy
Darling Forever
Ten Guitars
Rudie Bam Bam
Sunshine
He Who Laughs Last

Sho Be Do Be
Do Good
Rudie Gone A Jail
I Can't Go On
Good Bye Forever
You Can't Keep A Good Man Down

21 September 2024

Rico Rodriguez - Live at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival 2006


Hi Kingstonians, today we have here a live FLAC recording from Rico backed by The Robotics at the festival in Boonville, California


This Day
You Must Be Crazy
Ramble
Lulumba
Africa
Man From Wareika
Rasta
Over The Mountain
Gunga Din
Dial Africa

The Lennie Hibbert Combo - Moonlight Party


Reissue of this relaxed latin jazz album by vibraphonist Lennie Hibbert recorded 1961 at Federal Records Studio, also with Sheila Rickards 

Various Artists - Niney The Observer Presents Killer Versions 1977 - 1978




The Observers - Hammering Observer Style (Ambric Version)
The Observers - Natty Chariott (Natty Dread Come Over Version)
The Observers - Poor Man Style (Materialist Version)
Niney - First Cut (We Want It Version)
The Observers - Under Tight Raps (Flat Foot Dub)
The Observers - Clean Heart Rasta (Instrumental)
The Observers - Hotter Fire
Niney - Jah Come Here (Here I Come Version)
The Black Stallions - Stampede aka Mutiny (Mutiny Version)
The Observers - Hold Not Thy Version (Hold Not Thy Peace Version)
The Observers - Jordan River Second Cut (Roll River Jordan Version)
The Ethiopian Eunochs - East African Herb Vendor (W-e-e-p-i-n-g Version)
The Observers - Have No Fear Version (Come Dub)
Ossie & The Revolutionaries - War of the Stars (7" Mix; Mr Know It All Version)
The Observers - Jah Jah Higher Than I (Version)
The Observers - Shot from the Pistol (Sufferation Version)
The Observers - Two Thousand Version (Trodding Along Version)
Morwell Unlimited - Woories (Mix Up Version)
The Observers - Killer Version (You Send Me Dub)
The Observers - Judge Not Observer Style

18 September 2024

Pat Kelly - The Best Of Pat Kelly


Produced by Bunny Lee


It's A Good Day
I Wish It Would Rain
Just Like A Girl
No Love
My Ebony Eye
There Comes A Time
I Started A Joke

We Are The Israelites
Sentimental Reasons
Kiss Me Each Morning
Good Friends
My Love Is Growing
One Night Stand
Angel Of The Morning

Osbert Maddo - You Wanna Turn Me On



With Sly & Robbie, recorded at Channel One, Harry J's and Joe Gibbs


Badder Than Them
Lost For You
You Wanna Turn Me On
Freedom Fighter
Put It Down Gunman

Low Bum
Public Enemy
Herb Tree
Dance In Your Area
Cocaine Jane

16 September 2024

Various Artists - Roots From The Record Smith In Dub



The near companion dub album to "Roots From The Record Smith"


Sparkes & The Upsetters - Unity Dub
Agrovators - World By Myself Part 2
Solid Explosion Band - Mountain Dub
Lloydie Slim & The Agrovators - Jah Jah Dub
Lloydie Slim & King Tubby - Clearly State Dub

Lloydie Slim & The Agrovators - Dub Wise (Mr. Lee)
Lloydie Slim All Stars - Why Did You Version
Lloydie Slim & The Agrovators - Version Stormy Weather
Lloydie Slim & The Agrovators - Festival '75 Version
King Tubby - King Tubby In Fine Stile

13 September 2024

Niney & The Observers - Tubby's Want the Channel (Dubbing With The Observer 1976-1978)


40 rare and highly sought-after 70's dub mixes from master Jamaican producer Niney The Observer


11 September 2024

Various Artists - Rock Steady Coxsone Style




Bad Mind Grudgeful - Winston & Robin
Puppy Love - Bennett & Dennis
Bad Treatment - Cannon & The Soul Vendors
A Get A Lick - Bumps Oakley
Hip Hug Her - The Sultans
Let Me Love You - Jacob Miller

Rub Up Push Up - The Termites
Wailing Time - Winston & Robin
Venus - Eric Frater
Norwegian Wood - Marshall Williams
Love Me Girl - The Soul Vendors
You Shouldn't Be The One - Winston Holness

10 September 2024

Bim Sherman - Live At Jardin Du Rivage Festival, Vevey 7.08.97


Hiya Kingstonians, today we have here a Bim Sherman live concert SBD FLAC, enjoy!


Intro - Sound Check
Must Be A Dream
Power Of Confusion
There Is A People In America
Lightning & Thunder
Sharks
Survival
Missing You
Jahovia
Nightmare
Ska
Solid As A Rock
Over The Rainbow

Ken Boothe - I'm Just A Man


With Sly & Robbie, Chinna Smith, Willie Lindo and Tommy McCook
Recorded and mixed at Channel One and King Tubby's
Produced by Bunny Lee


I'm Just A Man
Not For Sale
Ain't That Loving You
Gonna Take A Miracle
Ain't No Love

The Train Is Coming
Artibella
Memories By The Score
Duke Of Earl
You Came Running Back

08 September 2024

Ken Boothe - Show Case Volume 2


Produced by The Now Team


Love Is So Strange
It's Time For Me To Go
Just Say You Love Me

You Are No Good
Moving Away
Puppet On A String

Nigger Kojak And Liza - Showcase L.P.


Recorded and mixed at Channel One and King Tubby's


Kojak & Liza - The Posse
Kojak - Down By The Riverside
Nigger Kojak - Nice Up Jamaica

Kojak & Liza - Black Skin
Kojak & Liza - Two Bad Duppy
Kojak - Penitentiary

06 September 2024

Vernon Maytone - Different Time


Compilation of big tunes in various (reggae) genres, like DrumPan Sound, Give I Jah Jah, Ghetto Woman, Time Is Now and the title track Different Time
 

Various Artists - Niney The Observer Presents Confusion in a Babylon - '77 Style




Junior Byles - Weeping
I Roy - Water Rate
Horace Andy - Materialist
Leroy Smart - Jah Is My Light (7" Mix)
Hubert Ford - Hold Not Thy Peace Oh Jah
Junior Byles - Can You Feel It
Little Bop - Natty Dread Come Over
I Roy - Camp Road Skanking
Horace Andy - Them Never Tell I aka Dem Never Tell I (7" Mix)
Tyrone Taylor - I Got a Feeling
The Soul Syndicate - Zimbabwe
I Roy - Jamaican Girl
Junior Byles - What Kind of World
The Rockstones - Burn Me Out
I Roy - Jah Come Here (Here I Come)
The Observers - Head Shot
Niney - Jah Fire
Tyrone Taylor - Sufferation
Dhaima - Jah Jah I
Niney - Roll River Jordan
The Jewels - Jah I (7" Mix)
Junior Byles - King of Babylon
Dillinger - Nebuchadnezzar
The Messiahs - Confusion In a Babylon (7" Mix)
I Roy - Native Land

Creole And Chinafrica - Journey From Creation 1975-1985


LP1 Vocal LP2 Dub Versions
Heavy roots rocking album recorded in Kingston and New York by Wayne Chin, Philip Smart and Sylvan Morris

02 September 2024

Various Artists - King Size Reggae




Chicken George - Hong Kong Reggae
J.J. Bennett - Leaving Rome
Barry Biggs - Side Show
Keith Beckingham - Woman In Love
Elki And Owen With The Rim Ram Band - A Groovy Kinda Love
Laurel Aitken - Popcorn
Chicken George - King Of Reggae (In Dub)


Bamboos Of Jamaica - Reggae Man
The Jamaica Corporation - Egyptian Reggae
The Mexicano - Move Up Starsky (I'm Still Waiting)
Laurel Aitken - Mr. Reggae Popcorn
Barry Biggs - Work All Day
Ethiopians - Train To Skaville
Prince Buster - Dance Cleopatra

Lone Ranger - Top Of The Class


Lone Ranger's third album for the label, after On The Other Side Of Dub (1978) and Badda Dan Dem (1982)


Studio One Style
Dance Cork
Mad In A De Head
Bump To Bump
Oh Baby
Got To Be True
Ganja Man

Rose Marie
Studio One History
Brand New Second
Happy Birthday
African Land
Queen Omega
Talking Spanish