- 7"£7.00In stockAdd to Bag
- Junior Murvin – Police & Thieves
- The Upsetters – Police & Thieves Version
Stone cold reggae classic, the sound of the streets in Jamaica & England 40 odd years ago..
Lee Perry capturing The Wailers in all their early 70s funky miliant glory, killer stuff!
- – African Herbsman
- – Version
- 1. – African Herbsman
- 2. – Version
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- 7"£7.00In stockAdd to Bag
All time classic reggae tune from Dave And Ansel Collins originally released in 1970. Huge hit at the time, A side plays at 33rpm with a version then flip the record over for Ansel Collins killer organ version "Nuclear Weapon" released on original repro of Jamaican label release. Should be in every box..
- – Double Barrel
- – Version
- – Nuclear Weapon
- 1. – Double Barrel
- 2. – Version
- 3. – Nuclear Weapon
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- 7"£5.99
All time classic from 1969 with Lee Perry's Upsetters mashing up the skinhead dancefloor.
- – Return Of Django
- – Dollar In The Teeth
- 1. – Return Of Django
- 2. – Dollar In The Teeth
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- 7"£8.99
All-time classic Studio One tune. 100% ESSENTIAL
- Horace Andy – Skylarking
- Dub Specialist – Sky Rhythm
- 1. Horace Andy – Skylarking
- 2. Dub Specialist – Sky Rhythm
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- 7"£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Next two vocal cuts using the same rhythm as Max Romeo's classic "Chase The Devil" featuring Lee Perry and Prince Jazzbo...rare repress on 7" get em' while you can!!
- Lee Scratch Perry – Disco Devil
- Prince Jazzbo – Croaking
- 1. Lee Scratch Perry – Disco Devil
- 2. Prince Jazzbo – Croaking
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- 7"£8.00
LAST COPIES!
This is the new 20th anniversary edition of one of Soul Jazz Records’ classic Studio One releases now available as a one-off pressing special blue vinyl very limited-edition pressing ( 2000 copies worldwide).
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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 Skatalites' seminal 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 (Honest 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.
REVIEWS:
"Having established himself as one of Jamaica's top producers the day Studio One opened its doors in the early '60s, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd was unable to maintain his status during the roots era of the subsequent decade. This can be attributed to a couple of factors. One was Dodd's apparent reluctance to record the new, overtly Rasta-inspired music. The other was an infusion of new blood into the Jamaican music business. Eager to make a name for themselves, producers like Joe Gibbs, Bunny Lee, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Winston "Niney" Holness managed to supplant the island's "big three" (Dodd, Duke Reid, and Prince Buster) in the process, driving the music's evolution in the '70s.
There isn't a weak number across these 16 tracks, from the Gaylads' ode to "Africa" and Devon Russell's version of the heavyweight "Drum Song" rhythm, to a trio of stunning instrumentals: Jackie Mittoo and the Cyclones with nyahbinghi drummer Count Ossie on "Meditation," Lenny Hibbert's sparkling vibe work over Mittoo's "Ghetto Organ" ("More Creation"), and Sound Dimension's "Congo Rock."
The music of this compilation is of a rare, rare beauty and is essential to anyone's reggae collection." All Music
- The Cyclones With Count Ossie – Meditation
- Cornell Campbell & The Brentford Rockers – Natty Don't Go
- Freddy Mcgregor With The Sound Dimension – Africa Here I Come
- Bunny & Skitter – Lumumbo
- Willie Williams & The All Stars – Addis A Baba
- L.Crosdale With Drummond Bago & the Rebel Group – Set Me Free
- Leroy Wallace & The New Establishment – Far Beyond
- Lennie Hibbert – More Creation
- Alton Ellis & The Sound Dimension – Blackish White
- Winston Jarrett & The Sound Dimension – Fear Not
- Devon Russell – Drum Song
- The Gaylads – Africa
- Black Brothers & The New Establishment – School Children
- Linton Cooper & The Brentford Disco Set – You'll Get Your Pay
- Sound Dimension – Congo Rock
- Zoot Simms – African Challenge
- 1. The Cyclones With Count Ossie – Meditation
- 2. Cornell Campbell & The Brentford Rockers – Natty Don't Go
- 3. Freddy Mcgregor With The Sound Dimension – Africa Here I Come
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- New 2×LP (Coloured Vinyl)£30.00Limited edition blue coloured vinyl + inners + downloadIn stockAdd to Bag
- CD£12.00In stockAdd to Bag
- MP3 Release£8.99In stockAdd to Bag
It's the bomb! Two massive Studio One cuts back to back.
- Johnny Osbourne – Truth and Rights
- Prince Jazzbo – Crabwalking
- 1. Johnny Osbourne – Truth and Rights
- 2. Prince Jazzbo – Crabwalking
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- 7"£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Analog Africa release 'Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat Of Cameroon 1976-84' an explosive compilation highlighting the period when funk and disco sounds began to infiltrate the Makossa style popular throughout Cameroon. Features essential cuts by the likes of Pasteur Lappe, Eko Roosevelt, Mystic Djim and more!
- Dream Stars – Pop-Makossa
- Mystic Djim – Yaounde Girls
- Bill Loko – Nen Lambo
- Pasteur Lappe – Sanaga Calypso
- Eko Roosevelt – Monguele Mam
- Olinga Gaston – Ngon Engap
- Emmanuel Kahe & Jeanette Kemogne – Ye Medjuie
- Nkodo Si Tony – Mininga Meyong Mese
- Pasteur Lappe – Sekele Movement
- Bernard Ntone – Mussoliki
- Pat´Ndoye – More Love
- Clement Djimogne – Africa
- 1. Dream Stars – Pop-Makossa
- 2. Mystic Djim – Yaounde Girls
- 3. Bill Loko – Nen Lambo
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- 2×LP£23.99
- CD + Book£18.99
'O Ronco Da Cuica' originally appeared on prolific guitarist Joao Bosco’s ‘Galos de Briga’ LP released in 1976 on RCA Brazil. Previously unreleased on 7”.
'Transamazonica' is a piece of all time classic Brazilian Jazz Fusion. Taken from the hard to find 1971 self-titled LP by Antonio Adolfo E A Brazuca on Odeon Brazil. Never before released on 7”.
- Joao Bosco – O Ronco Da Cuica
- Antonio Adolfo E A Brazuca – Transamazonica
- 1. Joao Bosco – O Ronco Da Cuica
- 2. Antonio Adolfo E A Brazuca – Transamazonica
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- 7"£7.99
Forward thinking, electronic, digi-dub / dancehall 12", that surfs across soundsytem culture and experimental R&B. Another winner from the SKRS!
- – Sum Bout U
- – Dub Shoulda Known
- – U Knw What 2 Do
- – Gunshot Riddim
- – Undercover Lovers
- – Rollout Riddim (Dj4free)
- – 4uversion
- – Give Dem (Style)
- 1. – Sum Bout U
- 2. – Dub Shoulda Known
- 3. – U Knw What 2 Do
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- 12" EP£10.99
Seminal dub album produced by Winston Edwards. In 1974 Edwards left Jamaica to reside in the UK and through his strong connections with such reggae luminaries as Joe Gibbs, Lee Perry and King Tubby began to travel back and forth between London and Kingston (JA) to bring back recordings to issue on his Fay Music label here in the UK. In 1974 he released this controversial, seminal dub set, shunned by some at the time due to the spurious marketing device employed. The whole album appears in fact to have been mixed at Tubby’s, while the rhythms were possibly built at Perry’s Ark and maybe Gibbs’ studio, but at this length memories are stretched. Now of course, it sounds like what it is, a classic early Tubby’s dub album, musical, tuneful, heavy dubwise set with Vin Gordon’s unique trombone lines well to the fore. Essential dub.
- – Blood Of Africa
- – Rain Roots
- – Luke Lane Rock
- – Crime Wave
- – 300 Years At The Grass Roots
- 1. – Blood Of Africa
- 3. – Rain Roots
- 5. – Luke Lane Rock
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- LP£12.00
Originally pressed on a now hard to find 7", this gem crosses over the dub, disco, rock and new wave. This reissue via Music From Memory features new remixes by Lipelis and a killer dub from Androo - alongside the two original issue tracks from the 45.
- – Amerikan Dread
- – Amerikan Dread (N.Y.C. Dub)
- – Amerikan Dread (Lipelis Extended Dub)
- – Amerikan Dread (Androo Dub Remix)
- 1. – Amerikan Dread
- 2. – Amerikan Dread (N.Y.C. Dub)
- 3. – Amerikan Dread (Lipelis Extended Dub)
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- 12" EP£12.99
One of Barrington Levy's best tunes over a killer militant roots rhythm from 1983 produced by George Phang with version on the flip.
- – Praise His Name
- – Praise His Name (Version)
- 1. – Praise His Name
- 2. – Praise His Name (Version)
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- 7"£8.99
Back in stock...Super deep roots from the late Barry Brown but King Tubby's dubplate mix is the killer! full of heavy echo and reverbed to the max. BUY BUY !! DON'T LET THIS GO....Comes with heavy reproduction of original card sleeve
- Barry Brown – Let Go Jah Jah Children
- King Tubby – Leggo Jah Jah Children Dubplate
- 1. Barry Brown – Let Go Jah Jah Children
- 2. King Tubby – Leggo Jah Jah Children Dubplate
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- 10"£13.00
Far Out reissue Mora! I&II by Mexican-American percussionist and former member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Francisco Mora Catlett originally recorded and released his debut solo album as a private press in 1987, but the sequel he recorded over the course of the next few years with an expanded Detroit jazz brass section was shelved for decades to follow. A pan-American melting pot of hypnotic afro-cuban rhythms, frenetic batucadas and fiery sambas; both Mora I & II are essentials of latin jazz, masterminded by an unsung hero of the genre!
- – Prelude Welcome
- – Afra Jum
- – Rumba Morena
- – Five A.M.
- – Samba De Amor
- – Cultural Warrior
- – Epilogue Conga Hasta La Vista
- – Afra Jum
- – Amazona Prelude / Dawn
- – Amazona
- – Samba / Conga Do Amor
- – El Moro
- – Old Man Joe
- – Por Que Paro
- – Afra Jum
- 1. – Prelude Welcome
- 2. – Afra Jum
- 3. – Rumba Morena
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- CD£12.00
Studio One anthem!
- Dawn Penn – No No No
- Jackie Mittoo – Ghetto Organ
- 1. Dawn Penn – No No No
- 2. Jackie Mittoo – Ghetto Organ
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- 7"£10.00
"Bitteschon, Philophon!" is a "best of" selection taken from the fifteen 7" releases by the Berlin-based label Philophon. Features Jimi Tenor, Alemayehu Eshete and Hailu Mergia as well as new discoveries such as Guy One, Alogte Oho and Y-Bayani. Recommended!
- Guy One – Estre (feat. Florence Adooni)
- Alemayehu Eshete – Alteleyeshegnem
- Jimi Tenor – My Mind Will Travel (Teen Party Edit)
- Y-Bayani and Baby Naa & their Band of Enlightenment Reason and Love – Rehwe Mie Enyim
- Bajka – Invisible Joy
- Lee Dodou & The Polyversal Souls – Basa Basa
- Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy – Mam Yinne Wa
- Hailu Mergia – Yegle Nesh
- Y-Bayani & His Band of Enlightenment Reason and Love – Asembi Ara Amba
- The Polyversal Souls – Portrait of Alemayehu (daytime)
- 1. Guy One – Estre (feat. Florence Adooni)
- 2. Alemayehu Eshete – Alteleyeshegnem
- 3. Jimi Tenor – My Mind Will Travel (Teen Party Edit)
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- LP£16.99
- CD£11.99
BACK IN STOCK - All time vocal roots classic mid 70s from Junior Byles with dubwise on the flip. Clean and loud pressings.
- – Fade Away
- 1. – Fade Away
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- 7"£5.99
- – Roast Fish And Corn Bread
- 1. – Roast Fish And Corn Bread
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- 7"£7.00In stockAdd to Bag
More quality from the Trax vaults. One of the biggest all time house music anthems from Marshall Jefferson, mixed by Ron Hardy and produced by Virgo.
- – Move Your Body
- – Dub Your Body
- – Drum Your Body
- – House Your Body
- 1. – Move Your Body
- 2. – Dub Your Body
- 3. – Drum Your Body
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- 12" (Coloured Vinyl)£10.99Limited red vinyl repress of 300 copies
Rare mid 70s deep roots tune from Boston Jack, repressed here with colourful original label art and backed with 1969 tune "Starvation" Double header on limited press..Don't delay!
- – Great God Over In Zion
- – Starvation
- 1. – Great God Over In Zion
- 2. – Starvation
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- 7"£6.99
- – Created By The Father
- – Created Version
- 1. – Created By The Father
- 2. – Created Version
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- 7"£9.49
‘Conquering Lion’ stands as one of the few truly essential albums of the roots era. As devotional as anything by Burning Spear, as polemical as Bob Marley, and as militant as the Mighty Diamonds, the album also communicates a haunting spiritual quality that is uniquely its own. Amazingly, for such a coherent work, the tracks were recorded over a period of at least four years, yet come together to present a single coherent vision. The album was first issued in Jamaica by Micron, and in the UK with a different tracklisting as ‘Ram-A-Dam’ on the Lucky label in 1976. Here the album is presented for the first time in expanded form, together with its dub counterpart. Vivian ‘Yabby You’ Jackson is often portrayed as a strange, otherworldly figure. Yet his life was filled with two opposing forces, the spiritual and the earthly. Even as Yabby was yearning for a higher plane of existence, he was scratching out a difficult living in the ghetto. Whilst warning of sinful secular behaviour, he was working at the race track taking bets. As well as creating some of the most powerful and heartfelt music to come out of Jamaica, Yabby was busy cutting deals with studios and musicians, and hustling round the record shops to sell his products. And these contradictions seem to have fuelled some of his best music, pushing him into places that other artists shied away from.
* CD Bonus Tracks
- – Run Come Rally
- – Jah Vengence
- – Conquering Lion
- – Covetous Men
- – Anti Christ
- – Carnal Mind
- – Jah Love
- – Love Thy Neighbour
- – Love Of Jah
- – The Man Who Does The Work
- Dubs – Rally Dub
- – Hungering Dub *
- – Tubby's Vengeance
- – Version Dub *
- – Conquering Dub
- – Big Youth Fights Against Capitalist
- – Anti Christ Rock
- – Jah Love Dub
- – Warning Version
- – Love Thy Neighbour Version
- – Love Of Jah Version Version
- – Work Without Pay Dub
- 1. – Run Come Rally
- 2. – Jah Vengence
- 3. – Conquering Lion
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- 2×LP£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
- CD£12.00
Heavyweight roots vocal cut from Peter Broggs, originally released in 1980. B-side has vocal from Dexter McKintyre, both tracks have extended mixes.
- Peter Broggs – Jah Golden Throne
- Dexter McKintyre – 144,000 Saints
- 1. Peter Broggs – Jah Golden Throne
- 2. Dexter McKintyre – 144,000 Saints
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- 12"£12.99
A Killer selection of ultra rare vocals and Rocksteady productions from Prince Buster with previously unreleased tunes from Larry Marshall & Errol Dunkley plus early songs from Freddie McKay, Dawn Penn, Hortense Ellis and more. With full sleeve notes by Chris Lane..Don't let this go..
- Prince Buster – Lets Go To The Dance
- Dawn Penn – Blue Yes Blue
- The Righteous Flames – You Dont Know
- Larry Marshall – Suspicion
- Prince Buster – Love Oh Love
- Larry Marshall & Roland Alphonso – Wooden Heart ～ Rocking To The Field (unreleased Full Length Version)
- The Daltons – Walking Down The Avenue
- Prince Buster – Love Each Other
- Dawn Penn – Long Day Short Night
- Freddie Mckay – Red Eye Gal
- Prince Buster – All My Loving
- Prince Buster – To Be Loved
- The Righteous Flames – Young Love
- Larry Marshall – Broken Heart
- Prince Buster – Rock & Shake
- Freddy Mckay – Giving You A Try Girl
- Errol Dunkley – My Future Lies Ahead Of Me (unreleased)
- Teddy King – To Be A Lover
- Hortense Ellis – Somebody Help Me
- Prince Buster's All Stars – Miami Beach
- 1. Prince Buster – Lets Go To The Dance
- 2. Dawn Penn – Blue Yes Blue
- 3. The Righteous Flames – You Dont Know
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- 2×LP£29.99Limited 2xLP edition
- CD£19.99