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A great set of purely classic level Studio One material – great stuff from the early 60s onward to around 1980 – and unfailingly amazing all the way through! Studio One opened up in the fall of '63, and soon after, the best of the best of Jamaican music greats of the time were wanting ...

Incredible! This is quite possibly the best of this legendary series of Jamaican soul, funk, and reggae tracks – and it's a masterpiece! The track selection is amazing, and the set has a bit more crackle than earlier volumes – with loads of great 70s production, including nice dubby ...

Another essential batch of Studio One Soul, every bit as great as the first! 18 more astoundingly great Jamaican renditions of soul and R&B numbers from the hands of Coxsone Dodd and his extraordinary stable of artists, some deeply soulful, and others with a more rootsy, raw grain to them. ...

The soundtrack to the excellent Dub Echoes documentary and a wild trip across the landscape of dub, both new and old! Syncopated rhythms, deep, dark bass, and cosmic reverb and echo abound on this fine set that connects the modern dubstep scene with heavyweight Jamaican originators of the sound. ...

Fantastic! This set features reggae and rocksteady versions of American soul and funk tracks from the late 60s and early 70s – quite fitting, considering how much of Jamaican reggae began as an attempt to copy American hits for the local market. The set may well be the best-ever in the ...

To say this one's been a long time coming would be an understatement! This awesome set features a 4 hour (!) DVD, loaded with rare footage of the Skatalites, Jackie Mittoo and Ernest Ranglin, plus in-depth interviews with Dodd and a whole host of artists that had worked their way through the ...

Sweet Jamaican harmony! Harmony groups form a major piece of the Jamaican music tapestry, and Soul Jazz casts their Studio One-centered spotlight on one of the finest batches of Jamaican ensemble soul around! Covering everything from the rocksteady years on up through the late roots era, the ...

Def Jam and collides with the dancehall new school: "Straight Off The Top" by Dipset, "Anything Goes" with CNN, Wayne Wonder and Lexxus, "Mardi Gras (rmx) by Tanto Metro & Devonte and Joe Budden, "Lyrical .44" by Method Man & Redman with Damian Marley, ...

A later effort from Robert Nesta Marley, though nowhere near past his prime. By this point in his career a lot of purists were criticizing Marley for crossing over too far, but there is no shortage of either conscious lyric and intent, nor heavy, rootsy rhythms here. The hit was "Roots, Rock ...

A landmark in Jamaican soul and one of the albums that helped break reggae onto the world stage. A nice, nice selection of early '70's reggae, mostly performed by Jimmy Cliff, but with a few equally wonderful numbers by the Maytals & Desmond Dekker, too. Includes classics like the Maytals' ...

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A solid little collection of classic reggae singles of the late 60s & the 70s – soulful numbers that were instrumental in the resurgent UK ska scene of the early 80s! Includes numbers by Dandy Livingstone, The Pioneers, Symarip, The Maytals, Clancy Eccles, Desmond Dekker, The Ethiopians ...

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The rare Stepping Tiger album from the Keyboard King – a late 70s set of instrumentals with a core of dubby riddims with keyboards that range from roots enhancing to straight up spacey – very cool stuff! The vinyl turns up in collectors forums from time-to-time and fetchs a pretty ...

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While we're not big on career retrospective best of's, especially artists like Marley, whose been collected over & over, this is actually a respectable set, and the vinyl's pretty darn hard to get ahold of anymore. Includes 14 classics, like "Get Up Stand Up", "Exodus", ...

The late 70s full length from Althea & Donna – featuring production by Karl Pitterson & Revolutionaries rhythms. Titles include "No More Fighting", "Ja Rasafari", "Make A Truce", "The West", "Jah Music", "Sorry", "They ...

Essential! The mighty debut album from African disciples Culture pairing up with the Mighty Two, Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson is one of the landmark sets of roots reggae, a defining moment of the genre dropped during the year when two sevens clashed. And though the apocalypse didn't rain down ...

The stellar early 70s collection of Pablo instrumental sides, tracked between the groundbreaking Java, Java, Java and East Of The River Nile LPs! Like those, this album features Pablo's melodica prominently, over some nice roots rhythms laid down by an all star cast, including Carlton Barrett, ...

The undisputed King, even to this day! 10 more blazing Tubby dub rubs, ample evidence to why he's remained enthroned to this day: space echo drops and reverb adding some tasty dub sauce to chugging rhythms from Sly & Robbie, Fully Fullwood, Santa Davis, Wire Lindo, Chinna Smith and others. ...

Rootsy material from Prince Jazzbo! Includes "Mek I Tell You", "Donkey". "Freedom", "Get Together Brother", "You're A Boy I Roy", "In Jah Jah Name", "Hard Times", "Love Potion Dub", War & Fighting" and more. ...

DJ Diplo plays selector for Greensleeves – compiling and mixing this excellent set with riddim classics by Tristan Palma, Rankin Dread, Prince Jammy, Eek-A-Mouse and more! Diplo takes to this task from a standpoint of utmost respect for the original material, much of it rootsy riddims from ...

A nice collection of early Bob Marley & The Wailers singles – all produced by Lee Perry! The music's a great meeting of two important reggae talents – quite different than both in later years, especially Marley – as the music has a great rawness that would get glossed over in ...

Depending upon who's history of the Jamaican recording industry you subscribe to, this is considered by many to be the first dub LP, but even if it wasn't the first, it is among the first. But forgetting that, it's still a mighty set with some raw early dub style workouts at the hands of Errol ...

A classic slice of Jamaican roots! No collection of Lee Perry's work is complete without this chapter, which has been hard to get in spite of being reissued in a number of different formats. This version features a slight twist on the original cover art, but is an expanded double LP set with a ...

4 massive discs of dub, one nice box! A hefty little box of dubbed out goodness, compiling some of the heaviest, rootsiest, spaciest dub albums of all time, in a smart reissue series – with three producers and two mad dub engineers highlighted in this first volume! First up is the rare dub ...

One of the ultimate moments from the legendary Lee Scratch Perry – the set of recordings that shut down the Black Ark studios – and which helped build a bridge to the European scene that would help keep Perry's music alive for the next few decades! The sound of the album is even more ...

Hypnotic, organic and spiritual music from Rastafarian singer and hand drummer Ras Michael – organic, echoey, atmosheric drums, bass and trippy bits of keyboards – a very spacious backdrop for the freedom seeking lyricism! It’s very unique stuff, grounded in the spiritual vibes ...

One of the ultimate moments from the legendary Lee Scratch Perry – the set of recordings that shut down the Black Ark studios – and which helped build a bridge to the European scene that would help keep Perry's music alive for the next few decades! The sound of the album is even more ...

A far reaching anthology of Gregory Isaacs – the king of lover's rock – spanning the early 70s through the end of the 80s – a great batch of many of his greatest recordings from 17th North Parade! As great as his best albums could be, Isaacs is probably most beloved for a number ...

A mighty dub session from Bunny Lee & King Tubby – taking a spacey, echoey and sublime approach to the more mellow, and laidback sax heavy reggae of Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators on '75's Brass Rockers! McCook's tenor sax is nicely prominent in the mix, with dubbed out riddims and ...

Lost Lee Perry dubs from Black Ark – classic echoing atmosphere and hazy dub genius from an incredible period of the mid-to-late 70s! Shortly after the stellar Revolution Dub album of 1975, the groundwork was laid for some pretty special dub records. This set features material Lee Perry cut ...

Heavy dubs from Scientist & Jamaica's Crazy Mad Professor (not to be confused with the non-crazy, London via Guyana Mad Professor) – a pair of mixers & producer who came up working with the Legendary King Tubby – turned loose on a classic riddims on this joint compilation! ...

A nice set from Prince Fatty for Mr Bongo – seen to fruition with some of fellow leading lights of the contemporary London scene and some legends alike – including Little Roy, Winston Francis, Hollie Cook, Horseman and others. Include some rootsier sound cuts, dubs and more. Includes ...

We'll be the first to admit we're not the quickest to get behind contemporary roots and reggae acts, but darn if this Prince Fatty disc doesn't do justice to the golden days of Kingston's musical scene! Mike Pelanconi aka Prince Fatty jumps back to the classic sound of mid 70s easy rockers and ...

Clocktower dubs of numbers by Burning Spear, Augustus Pablo, Cornell Cambell, Keith Rowe and more – with Carlton Barret, Sly Dunbar, Carlton "Santa" Davis, Robbie Shakespeare, Aston Barrett and Tony Chin. Includes "Walking In Dub", "Bushweed Corntrash In Dub", ...

Clocktower Classics from Naggo Morris, Linval Thompson, Upsetters, Horace Andy, Susan Cadogan, Carl Dawkins, Rod Taylor and more! "Careful Girl" by Diamonds, From The Ghetto" by J Riley, "Delilah" by Horace Andy, "When Knotty Came" by Silverstones, "Fire ...

Incredible! This is quite possibly the best of this legendary series of Jamaican soul, funk, and reggae tracks – and it's a masterpiece! The track selection is amazing, and the set has a bit more crackle than earlier volumes – with loads of great 70s production, including nice dubby ...

A nice little collection of classic dubs from uber-innovators – as well as a few more recent material by younger artists that are steeped in the tradition – raw, echoey rhythms and hazy sound creations from Keith Hudson, King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Sly And Robbie, Da Grynch, Errol T And ...

You could go 'round and 'round with music historians arguing whether or not this album, or Java Java Java or Aquarius Dub was the first full length dub LP, but it makes no difference to us, this is one mighty set of Perryisms, wrought in the pre-Black Ark era. There's a dozen of the Upsetter's ...

Soul Jazz keeps up the pressure, dipping deep into the never ending well of Studio One niceness for a second set of dub goodies rendered by Coxsone Dodd's alter dub ego, The Dub Specialist. Unlike some of the other dub vendors, Dodd doesn't go too nuts with the effects and so forth, keeping ...

Uber-classic dub from Augustus Pablo! Dubbing In A Africa was produced by Pablo and features a rhythm section of Bingy Bunny, Sly & Robbie and Gladdy. Here they deliver a nice, tight set of tunes which like many of Pablo's other classics, veer closer to rhythm workouts than deep space dub ...

The second volume of essentials from the ascension era of Jamaican Dancehall on Soul Jazz Records – some of the best 45 numbers from the early 80s and the preceding and proceeding number of years in a 2CD set – some of the most wonderful Jamaican music of the era! Like the first volume ...

If you're looking for a definition of dub, this album may well be it – and it's clear proof why Tubby could proudly wear the crown of a King! The set's beautifully bassy and muddy all the way through – a heady brew of bottom-level sounds – all layered wonderfully with lots and ...

Classic Studio instrumentals from the hottest house band in the history of Jamaican music! Alongside the Skatalites the Sound Dimension were responsible for crafting the tunes and rhythms that emanated from Coxsone Dodd's Studio One label from the very dawning of the reggae age, and what better ...

Rocksteady numbers from 60s heavy and comparably lesser remembered groovers alike – featuring Tommy McCook, The Emotions, Ken Boothe, Heptones, Diplomats, Danny & Group, Honey Boy Martin, Lloyd Jackson Groovers and more! Soulful rocksteady from many of the great singers, players and ...

A nice little collection of classic dubs from uber-innovators – as well as a few more recent material by younger artists that are steeped in the tradition – raw, echoey rhythms and hazy sound creations from Keith Hudson, King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Sly And Robbie, Da Grynch, Errol T And ...

A massive hit for Dennis Brown , the track that would go on to become his signature number throughout his career, and why not – it's an easy loping, laid back rocker with a heavy Niney rhythm and Dennis's sweet vocals! ...

Spacey 80s reggae numbers, one with the great Horace Andy singing lightly over the top! ...