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    Symbols Motherless Children

    Archive Recordings
    • Symblos – Motherless Children
    • Symbols – Version
    • Ranking Caretaker – No Dash It Way
    • 1. Symblos – Motherless Children
    • 2. Version
    • 3. Ranking Caretaker – No Dash It Way

    BENCHMARK STEPPERS FROM 1979, NEXT CUT TO TONY TUFF'S RUMOURS OF WAR. COMES COMPLETE WITH RANKING CARETAKER'S DJ "NUH DASH IT WEH" ON THE FLIP SIDE, PLUS EXTENDED VERSION MIXES

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    Donovan Joseph on lead vocals on this wicked relick from 1994 of their late eighties tune "Free Up The Youths" with unreleased and version mixes, backed...
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