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Great and often overlooked album produced by Alvin GG Ranglin in 1983 utilising a cast of top class musicians including Willie Lindo, Lloyd Parks, Winston Wright and Mikey Boo Richards at Channel One. Another great reissue from Onlyroots.

Hard to find 1988 Uptemo Digital Roots album from Blacka T, Produced by Augustus Pablo for his label Message. Recorded in Jamaica at Music Works & Tuff Gong with Sylvan Morris & Soljie and in the U.K. at Dub Vendor / Class A studios by Chris Lane.

Easily one of the greatest roots reggae albums of all time, Soul Rebels resulted from the intensive partnership brokered by the group and maverick producer, Lee 'Scratch' Perry. It was the first Wailers 'concept' album, conceived as a long-player based on a rebellious theme, rather than a collection of isolated singles, and the presence of the Barrett Brothers in the rhythm section pointed the way for greater glories to come. The Wailers first formed as an unruly 5-piece in 1963, with Junior Braithwaite as lead singer and Beverley Kelso an early member, sometimes replaced by Cherry Green. During their long tenure at Studio One, Bob Marley gradually shifted to the lead vocal role and the robust core of Marley, Peter Tosh and Neville Livingston, aka Bunny Wailer, soon emerged as the mainstays of the group. Perry was involved with the Wailers at Studio One, using their talents for backing vocals on some of his solo work, but the partnership that yielded Soul Rebels was in an entirely different league. The title track, Tosh's anguished '400 Years and 'Corner Stone' are legendary for their intense power; 'It's Alright' set the template for the later 'Night Shift,' 'My Cup' was an individual barebones reading of James Brown's 'I Guess I'll Have To Cry Cry Cry,' while the playful 'Try Me' and 'No Water' are suggestive odes. Tosh's dejected 'No Sympathy' and the spirited 'Soul Almighty' are other winners and the 'Cloud 9' revamp 'Rebel's Hop' is another joy. All killer, no filler!

In the early 1970s, top-ranking toaster Lester Bullock got his start on the El Paso sound system in the mean streets of western Kingston. Initially known as Young Capone, since he was a protégé of the better-established Dennis Alcapone, he was renamed Dillinger by Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the first producer to record a significant number of tracks with the youth. 'Dub Organiser' and 'Tighten Up Skank' were somewhat popular when released in 1973 and there were individual tracks cut for Phil Pratt, Augustus Pablo, Prince Tony Robinson and Joe Gibbs, as well as Studio One, who issued debut LP, Ready Natty Dreadie, in 1975. By then, Dillinger was recording a series of singles for hit-making produce Bunny 'Striker' Lee, particularly on Johnnie Clarke's rhythms, though recordings for Channel One and the CB 200 album were what catapulted him into overseas consciousness in 1976, once the outstanding single, 'Cokane In My Brain,' reached the European pop charts. Marijuana In My Brain dates from 1977 and placed the toaster over some of the Striker's hottest rhythms, previously utilised for Johnnie Clarke scorchers like 'Satta' and 'Poor Marcus' (along with the odd Ronnie Davis track); Clarke's reading of 'Going To A Ball' is here transformed into an ode to the Bouncing Ball, then one of the most popular clubs for black Londoners, and his 'African Roots' anthem gets the Dillinger treatment too. Of course, the title track was the biggest hit of the bunch, an ode to the 'wisdom weed' driven by cosmic space synth overdubs.

Lowell Dunbar and Robert Shakespeare are the renowned Jamaican rhythm section that has worked with a range of international stars, including Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Joan Armatrading, Garland Jeffries and countless others. They first came to know each other in the early 1970s, when both were based in rival bands playing in clubs on Kingston's Red Hills Road and started working together at Channel One studio in the mid-1970s, when Sly was musical arranger for the Revolutionaries house band and Robbie the main bassist for Bunny Lee's Aggrovators. After a stint of international touring in Peter Tosh's Word, Sound and Power band, which exposed them to the tastes and markets of overseas audiences, the pair joined forces more concertedly with their Taxi label, producing hits with Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Sugar Minott and the Wailing Souls. At the same time, as the driving force behind the Compass Point All Stars, they brought Grace Jones to prominence worldwide and made Gwen Guthrie a star through reggaefied disco, and then brought Black Uhuru into the top spot in the wake of Bob Marley's passing. Then, when Jamaican music went digital with the 'Sleng Teng' craze of the mid-1980s, Sly and Robbie made the shift in that direction too, becoming among the most prominent producers as the 80s gave way to the 90s. Dubs For Tubs: A Tribute To King Tubby is a digital dub salute to the King issued shortly after his terrible murder; it is mostly comprised of synthesizer re-cuts of classic Jamaican rhythms, with 'Dub For Joy' being a tough re-working of the Heptones' 'Love Me Girl' and 'Dub To Make You Move And Groove' a take on their 'Party Time'; Dennis Brown's 'Here I Come' is here mutated to 'Dub For Roots People' and his 'Here I Come' anthem shifted into the spongy 'Dub For All Seasons.' An intriguing offshoot of 'Sleng Teng' is among the other highlights.

2 track Single from Baba Brooks / Patsy Millicent Todd released by Gay Feet/Dub Store Records

2 track Single from George Beaufort / Twelve Tribes Of Israel Band released by Orthodox Muzik/Dub Store Records

2 track Single from Patsy Millicent Todd released by Gay Feet/Dub Store Records

2 track Single from Patsy Millicent Todd / Leslie Butler & Count Ossie released by Gay Feet/Dub Store Records

2 track Single from Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers / Tommy McCook released by Studio One/Dub Store Records

2 track Single from The Afrotones / Lynn Taitt & The Jets released by Gay Feet/Dub Store Records

2 track Single from The Conquerors released by Gay Feet/Dub Store Records

2 track Single from The Gaylads released by Gay Feet/Dub Store Records

Die lebenden Legenden des Reggae, Toots & The Maytals enthüllten ihr erstes Akustikalbum im
Sommer 2012 zum 50. Jubiläum des jamaikanischen Unabhängigkeitstages. Der Grammy
Gewinner Toots Hibbert war der erste, der das Wort "Reggae" auf seinem 1968er Klassiker Do
The Reggay auf Band benutzte. In den letzten sechs Jahrzehnten hat er den Sound maßgeblich
beeinflusst. Mit seinem Akustikalbum Unplugged On Strawberry Hill wird die Legende
fortgeführt. Toots verzaubert den Hörer mit seinen Performances; die ganz große Besonderheit
dieser Veröffentlichung, ist die rein akustisch gespielte Musik. Jede Minute dieser Aufnahmen
kommt von Herzen. Das Album stellt seine soulige Seite heraus und sein roher Gesang klingt, als
wäre er gerade 20

The polish dub master Radikal Guru is back to Moonshine Recordings with a heavyweight 12" vinyl on a 160bpm tip. This time he joins forces with two very talented MC's - Parly B and Baptiste to deliver yet another future classic. Tell dem fi run!

Digital Dub masterpiece ! A classic O.B.F. Style with one ruff side and one Dub psychedelic side :) FAT CUT !

Superb Ragga Jungle tune from Krak In Dub, remixing the famous OBF title "Mandela" sang by Mr Williams

first part of the tune brings the remix and second part brings the instrumental.

Next up from OTIS, SWEET ECHOES vol.1 the first in a series of compilations exploring music for the modern age framed through the lens of music past. Vol 1 is a blissfully disorientating trip through the sounds of dub music in it's many forms. Due early Nov '18.

At the controls - Sleep D (Melb), Mali-I (UK), Midnight Tenderness (Melb), Rings Around Saturn (Melb), Cousin (Syd) and Low Flung (Syd)

First released 1969, the year Derrick returned to England to work with the three Palmer Brothers, Harry, Jeffrey & Carl, whose Pama Records were giving Trojan Records serious competition in purveying the brand new

faster, more aggressive, reggae beat not only to the expatriate Jamaican audience but also to the music's latest adherents... the skinheads. A number of his greatest hits from the period were included on this classic

'Derrick Morgan In London' album, although actually all tracks (were) produced by Derrick Morgan in Jamaica. The set was originally released on the Pama Economy subsidiary which is rather

ironic considering prices for an original copy of this excellent album now start at £100.

180 gram vinyl reissue of 1978 album.

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This release came about when Mad Professor and Luciano were spending some downtime in Gambia. A mixture of vocal cuts and Dub cuts mean this record is very much a meeting of two great minds. Similar in feel to some

of the classic Roots albums of the 70's where vocal cuts were then followed up with the dub versions. Luciano is the messenger...spreading the word of love and deliverance.

Featuring Black Steel on guitar, Mafia on bass and Rico. This album is paradise!

Stepper Instrumental Rolling Sound !

Ruff dub Sound !

Jah love will conqueer !

A brand new tune in a collaboration style between two of the UK's most formidable dub / reggae labels.
* Featuring Ojah from Alchemy Dubs and Liam from Partial Records, with the former on production and mixing duties and the latter laying down some tasteful guitar licks.
* `Forward' is an instrumental that has one toe in the 90's UK dub style but has its footprint firmly in the present time.
* Backed with a compulsory dub mix.

* New 7' from ultra-cool Helsinki-based roots, dub and reggae label / sound system Intergalaktik Sound.
* Featuring the vocals of the legendary Sandeeno who sadly passed away in September of this year.
* Produced by IGS Riddim Force, mixed, voiced and dubbed up by Dougie Conscious.

We can write all about it but just play them tunes. Frenk Dublin. 140 dubwise stepper. Jamming on the mic is Clinton Sly. Dropping full good vibes.

Originally pressed on a now very hard to find 7'', this gem crosses over the dub with disco with the rock and the wave. More Talking Dreads than Heads. Dug out for MFM by Satoshi Yamamura. Comes with original Dub mix and new remixes.

Long Out Of Print Tune Produced By Rupert Billy Green For His Hard Rock Imprint, Out Of Waterhouse, Kingston Jamaica. Taken From The Original 1986 Metalworks.

ZamZam 67 sees the eagerly-awaited return of the man called Versa (AKA Michael Nickless AKA Michael Versa). Over 10 years deep in the dub game, Versa came to prominence through a string of mesmerizing releases, notably a pair of singles on VIVEK's System label. His first outing on ZamZam (alongside partner Rowl on the B side) went down a treat worldwide - hard to believe it was fully two dozen ZamZams ago! It's always a special kind of pleasure to have an artist back for a second chapter, and this one is a must.

'Seed' opens with the sound of distant thunder, minimal pads, and a time-honored bass & kick combination, elemental steppers for the ages making no concessions to fashion or trend. Melodica drives through the storm, with delicately plucked guitar and FX bubbling to the surface in a reverb-soaked landscape. Much more than the sum of its parts, 'Seed"'s power is in its restraint, its knowledge of its roots, and its confidence in the timeless quality of well-tuned instruments and careful dub mixing.

'Planting' inches the tempo up yet feels much slower, lulling us into a hazy world of lurching half-time magic, with all the same instrumentation in dynamic play, yet creating wildly contrasting results. With chasms of reverb, smeared snares and guitar taking a much greater role in the shimmering dubwise play of absence and presence, dappled light and twilight dark, 'Planting' will pitch up nicely for an unforgettable appearance in a next 140 set.

Versa's deep knowledge of dub and reggae, along with his masterful approaches to techno and deep bass music more generally, makes every release a powerful yet understated event for sound system addicts.

Marina P. and Stand High Patrol collaboration delivers here a very musical album. A very Peaceful experience for the listeners... An intense pleasure of sweetness. One step ahead with Stand High Patrol to explore possibilities... incuding this kind of Rhythm and Dub sound !

* The 'ISR Rootspective' compilation focuses mainly on earlier Iron Sound Records Reggae Roots vinyl releases. The majority of tracks appear on Cassette for the first time and many are still available on 7' and 10' (see ISR website for details). Peter 'Roots' Lewis'- It's A Road Block is due to be released on 7' vinyl (IRON 10-07).

Featured throughout the album we have contributions from a variety of artists including: Monkey Jhayam (Brasil) (Vocal) Asha B (percussion & vocal work), Alvin Davis (sax & flute), Kendrick Andy (vocals), Stephen 'Marley' Wright (guitar) and Peter 'Roots' Lewis (vocal).




















1. Monkey Jhayam * Alvin Davis, Asha B, Alien Dread. **Alien Dread. ***Kendrick Andy. + Peter 'Roots' Lewis.

Landing on Alchemy Dubs is our seventh release on 7' format, a special collaboration between Ojah and Nikolaj Torp Larsen 'Nik Torp', keyboard player from The Specials.

The A side contains the track 'Mindset', a Hammond and melodica version of Ojah's 'Mind' riddim, both played by Nik Torp and masterfully recorded through an MCI desk that used to belong to Island Records (hundreds of seminal records where recorded through it, including for example Bob Marley's Exodus). Next up on the label will be a 12' featuring versions of this riddim with vocals by Fikir Amlak ('On my mind') and flute by Don Fe ('Remind').
On the B side we find a dub version as usual, mixed in analog live by Ojah in classic style & fashion.

Limited edition of 500 copies, hand-stamped and hand-numbered, served in a thick custom reversed kraftliner sleeve.
Produced by Ojah, recorded at Alchemy Dubs Studio, London
Hammond & melodica by Nikolaj Torp Larsen 'Nik Torp', recorded by George Murphy at Eastcote Studio 1, London
Mixed & mastered by Oscar Pablos 'Ojah" at Alchemy Dubs Studio, London
Graphic design by Victor Castro

Originally released in 1980

New CRK on La Chinerie's COMICSANS Imprint !! more Breakbeat & Jungle from those two Lyon's babies. We also step into a more serious design thanks to our girl cm-dp, she's the best. Anyway, enough words, let the music and the awesome cover speak for themselves, and follow Comic Sans Records, 'cause we are just getting started !! zahef 69 la trik !