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Rare rocksteady from Glen Adams and Val Bennett -- a beautiful and soulful vocal and instrumental rhythm rediscovered by Pressure Sounds! "She's So Fine" has a raw, moving Bunny Lee production at the core, but it's the vocals from Glen Adams that really push it into sublime territory -- ...

A deeply soulful classic from one of the great reggae vocalists -- Slim Smith of the mighty Uniques -- a masterful number produced by Bunny Lee! On "Let's Get Together" Smith brings an emotional depth to his solo vocal number that cuts real deep, and drenched in emotion -- over a steady ...

Jah Wobble brings some moody heavyweight grooves to Roy Budd's theme from "Get Carter" -- and quite a bit of own personal stamp in the ominous rumble of the bass and reggae steeped rhythms! There's actually a diverse bed of influences laid underneath, from spare global percussion , ...

A surprisingly wonderful of blend of classic era Miles reverence and slow simmering reggae grooves -- a record that delivers on its promise, and effortlessly discards any novelty stigma you might be expecting! Jazz musician and educator Jeremy Taylor was teaching at NYU in the early 80s, after he ...

Some of the deepest dubs ever dug up and put out by Pressure Sounds -- Clancy Eccles' produced dubs featuring early King Tubby touched rhythms by The Dynamites and others -- hypnotically twisting and turning the grooves with sublime results! It's fantastic stuff, with rhythms that draw you in ...

Some of the deepest dubs ever dug up and put out by Pressure Sounds -- Clancy Eccles' produced dubs featuring early King Tubby touched rhythms by The Dynamites -- hypnotically twisting and turning the grooves with sublime results! It's fantastic stuff, with rhythms that draw you in deeply, with ...

Woah! Don't get caught in the crossfire! I Roy takes on Prince Jazzbo, and luckily for us, Tubby's not taking sides, cutting mad versions and heavy dubs as the two Dee Jays trade barbs, rhymes and witty rejoinders for a battle on wax that lasted quite a few rounds! This great set by Pressure ...

The striking debut album from one of the architects of reggae, a musician who cut precious few solo records in his lengthy tenure as the godfather of Jamaican music! A key figure behind the careers of reggae's mega stars like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, Higgs issued few albums and singles under ...

A treasure trove of dubbed up numbers from Tommy McCook & The Supersonics -- Errol Brown cuts of classic rocksteady rhythms produced by Duke Reid for Treasure Isle Records -- trailblazing 70s dubs of the first order that are as slow burningly brilliant today as ever! The set features the best ...

Of all the Prince Far I dub encounters, this one's the most essential -- a modern dub classic! A young Adrian Sherwood mans the desk over Far I's driving rhythms with a helping hand from British reggae great Dennis Bovell. Though this doesn't get as way out as some of the spaciest ON-U dubs that ...

One of our favorites in the colossal reissue and compilation series put together by Pressure Sounds. Deep soulful roots cuts, all produced by Derrick Harriott, one of the finest producers of Jamaican music, with a feel that is at times reminiscent of some of the best soul cuts coming out of Motown ...

Excellent! You're probably familiar with the Aquarius Dub set, an early, early dub LP, featuring some great rockers from Herman Chin Loy and Augustus Pablo -- this groovy set from Pressure Sounds collects many of the vocal, dee jay and instrumental tracks that those rhythms laid the base for! 2 ...

A tripped out organ groover from Jackie Mittoo! This one's much more laidback than some of his work on the Studio One compilations -- a dub-heavy number, especially on the flipside, which has piano echoing about mad heavy bass. The main mix has Jackie tippling the keys on the Hammond -- working ...

Another mighty batch of dubness from Pressure Sounds! Oiginally issued as 20 Golden Hits, this fat batch of dubs takes some of Delroy Wilson's smoothest easy rocking numbers produced by Striker Lee, and hands them over to Prince Jammy at Tubby's for a clean spare dub reading, aimed straight for ...

Pressure Sounds does it again, with another fine collection of mighty, mighty dub! A much needed Blackbeard retrospective collecting 16 hard to get cuts from British dubmeister Dennis Bovell, rare dubs and instrumentals, plus a couple of outstanding vocal tracks from the man at the epicenter of ...

A selection of rare Lee Perry moments -- not much to go on in the way of details, but some great music nonetheless! Titles include "Judgement Day", "Grumbling", "Supersonic Man", "Run Around Dub", "Wind Up Doll"," Army Dub", "Flames ...

The pioneering reggae compilation series from Trojan -- documenting the great singles that were busting boundaries and paving the way for the worldwide love of Jamaican music! This first volume in the Reggae Chartbusters series features a fantastic collection of singles from 1968 and 1969 --remaste ...

The pioneering reggae compilation series from Trojan -- documenting the great singles that were busting boundaries and paving the way for the worldwide love of Jamaican music! The second volume in the Reggae Chartbusters series features a fantastic collection of singles from 1969 and 1970 --remast ...

The pioneering reggae compilation series from Trojan -- documenting the great singles that were busting boundaries and paving the way for the worldwide love of Jamaican music! The third volume in the Reggae Chartbusters series features a fantastic collection of singles from 1970 and 1971 --remaster ...

The continuation of the pioneering reggae compilation series from Trojan -- documenting the great singles that were busting boundaries and paving the way for the worldwide love of Jamaican music! This fourth volume in the Reggae Chartbusters series is a newly created continuation of the series ...

The continuation of the pioneering reggae compilation series from Trojan -- documenting the great singles that were busting boundaries and paving the way for the worldwide love of Jamaican music! This fifth volume in the Reggae Chartbusters series is a newly created continuation of the series that ...

The continuation of the pioneering reggae compilation series from Trojan -- documenting the great singles that were busting boundaries and paving the way for the worldwide love of Jamaican music! This fifth volume in the Reggae Chartbusters series is a newly created continuation of the series that ...

A nice compilation of some of the best tunes from one of the one great male & female pairs in all of classic reggae -- the sparklingly soulful duo of Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths! The duo managed an crossover hit with their cover of Nina Simone's "Young, Gifted & Black" -- but ...

One of many posthumous compilations of Marley's work with the Wailers, and not a bad one at that. Without setting out to be a greatest hits, this compilation focuses on some of Marley's more topical, political songs, including the classics "Get Up, Stand Up" & "Them Belly ...

How this burningly bad set has remained under wraps for so long is beyond us, but thanks to the folks at Honest Jon's, it's been brought to the much needed light of day! An excellent set collecting work from throughout the career of Cedric Im Brooks, spanning a wide assortment of styles, but all ...

No need to waste your time with treasure maps looking for buried gold, this fine 3 CD set collects an outstanding cache of Duke Reid's finest cuts! There's 54 tracks of seminal ska and rocksteady from one of the first labels to put Jamaica on the musical map, with titles that include "Love Is ...

An essential reissue of an essential roots album! A mid 70s landmark of harmony roots, the Abyssinians' Satta Massagana, aka Forward To Zion, is hard to beat for hardcore, spiritual roots delivered over hypnotically pulsing rhythms, and Heartbeat ups the ante by digging deep for some excellent and ...

Lee, ever the entrepreneur, looks to capitalize on the huge stateside disco trend with this album, though there's little disco here, and mostly workman like reggae, that's not particularly outstanding. The sole disco effort is a take on "The Hustle", and the rest of set includes "Roc ...

Essential -- probably Marley's most well known work. This is his breakthrough 3rd album, just after Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh left the group, replaced by the female harmony group the I-Threes. Not nearly as slick as some of his other Island recordings, this one was still recorded in Jamaica, at ...

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 tons of classics, like "Get Up Stand Up", "Exodus", ...

Another lost, but great chapter in the career of Laurel Aitken, originally issued on the Pama label, but brought back to light by the excellent Pressure Drop imprint. Aitken teams up with female foil Girlie on most of the original LP's tracks, and gets a helping hand from trombone great Rico ...

Pure West Indian ex-pat delights Laurel Atken on the Pressure Drop imprint! Like the previous releases on te label, this set showcases Laurel Aitken, reissuing his excellent 1970 effort for the Pama label, and then loading the set down with a mountain of equally great bonus material! The original ...

A second great installment in Blood and Fire's rhythm collections, it's like you've died and gone to heaven, riding a Black Ark driven boat of deep sea niceness! You get two dozen takes on Lee Perry and the Congos mighty , mighty classic, "Fisherman", each one guaranteed to blow your ...

Classic roots style and vocals from Barry Brown -- slow burning, easy grooving, drum echoing dubs and from the dawn of the 80s! Barry's impassioned and gritty delivery is in the mode of his most popular 70s recordings and those unstoppable rhythm King Jammys productions are as effective as always. ...

With a title like this, we can easily guess what Peter Tosh is smoking in his pipe on the cover! But that iconic 70s dorm room image aside, the album's a real classic in mainstream reggae -- the first full length set from Peter Tosh after his earlier singles with The Wailers! The record's till ...

Peter Tosh's great, militant, second solo LP, one of the best of his career! Equal Rights is up to par with the finest Wailers LPs, although this is a bit heavier than the groovy, mellow Legalize It, the predecessor. A vital, hugely important, essential set of mid-to-late 70s reggae on Columbia. ...

The title on this one says it all -- Mojo Rocksteady Beat! The Brentford Road big timers come correct on this explosive Soul Jazz revisitation of their 100% Studio One dynamite tracks! The names of the heavies that rotated through this bunch are already well known: Jackie Mittoo, Vin Gordon aka ...

Solid!! 19 burning shots of prototypical island jams! The sounds of Studio One have been passed down from generation to generation of musicians, even being sampled by some of today's digital producers, and recut in version after version, and with their series of Studio One reissues, Soul Jazz ...

Soul Jazz have done it again! As with their classic NuYorica, Strata East, and Black Jazz comps, this one's a definitive sampling of rare funky stuff that you'll never find otherwise. The set brings together 14 classic Jamaican tracks from the 60's and 70's -- and unlike a lot of the other weak-as ...

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 bits, and ...

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 essential ...

The confluence of dynamite dancehall reggae with strains of hip hop -- from the Big Apple to Jamaica -- blazing material from the compilation kingpins at Soul Jazz UK! 100% Dynamite NYC does a great job of bringing together material from the late 80s and the 90s that bridged the worlds of boom bap ...

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' ...

One of our favorite Wailers LPs -- as solid a statement as Marley had made, and to our ears, the finest moment of his later career. The album features classics like "Natural Mystic", "Three Little Birds", "One Love/People Get Ready" and the excellent, driving title ...

Produced by Soljie Hamilton. ...

How this burningly bad set has remained under wraps for so long is beyond us, but thanks to the folks at Honest Jon's, it's been brought to the much needed light of day! An excellent set collecting work from throughout the career of Cedric Im Brooks, spanning a wide assortment of styles, but all ...

Positive messages from the Greensleeves vaults -- roots classics from the early 80s and beyond -- featuring Wailing Souls, Johnny Osborne, Earl Sixteen, Barrington Levy, Prince Jammy, Roots Radics and more! The cuts were selected by the legendary showcaser Jah Shaka -- positive roots anthems with ...

Melodic and soulful early 80s material from Michael Prophet -- produced by Henry Junjo Lawes at Channel One and backed by the Roots Radics! Prophets vocals are passionate and soulful, never too pretty, and more about conveying genuine feeling, and there's a melodic sensibility to these numbers ...

A breath of fresh air from top notch selector Dave Rodigan! BBE have never been slouches when recruiting compilers for their collections and mixes, and they keep up the pressure with this dynamite batch of reggae! Unlike so many of the other compilations you may have come across, this set goes ...

A wide ranging platter of dub tracks, both older material and more recent sounds -- and an extra fine selection of numbers at that! Includes tracks from Niney The Observer, Bush Chemists, Dub Trio, Bad Brains, Bill Laswell and more -- from straight up dub to more atmostheric and experimental! ...