Browse by Label: MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)

Artist:	COTTON, JOSEPH
Title:	Dancehall Days 1976-1984
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 001CD

Complete Moll-Selekta catalog now available again! Somewhat of a forgotten figure, Joseph Cotton was nonetheless right there at the height of late-'70s/early-'80s Jamaican reggae, recording alongside Errol Brown, King Jammy, Scientist, King Tubby, and Bunny Tom Tom at such hallowed studios as Treasure Isle, King Tubby's, and Channel One. Moll-Selekta has compiled many of his shining moments on Dancehall Days 1976-1984. It's an excellent collection -- assembled with plenty of tender loving care, serving well as an all-you-need, one-disc anthology of this forgotten figure, and the wonderful movement in which he participated. The son of the legendary Count Ossie with great pre-dancehall, rock steady, roots and his incomparable Sing-Jay-Style. Outstanding versions of old Treasure Isle, Channel One and Harry Mudie-classics. Bunny Lee was a contributing producer, and the backing bands were Roots Radics, Sound Dimension and the Revolutionaries.

Artist:	ELLIS, ALTON
Title:	Arise Black Man 1968 - 1978
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 002CD

A compilation of some of the best and rarest tracks from the "soul-groover," Alton Ellis -- the living legend of Jamaican soul. Lovers-tunes, soul classics (such as "It's Your Thing" by The Isley Brothers) and mystical African tracks -- a matter of interest for reggae, soul and world music fans. Sixteen timeless classics from the golden days of the genre when Alton Ellis was undisputedly no. 1 in Jamaica before Bob Marley and carried the respectful title "Mr. Soul Of Jamaica." Produced by the big names of the Caribbean island like C. S. Dodd (Studio One), Duke Reid (Treasure Isle) and Keith Hudson, recorded with the most important backing-bands of those times like Sound Dimension, Soul Vendors and Soul Defenders. 8-paged digi-pack packaging.

Artist:	BROOKS, MIKE AND FRIENDS
Title:	Just the Vibes 1976-1983
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 003CD

Just The Vibes 1976-1983 is a tribute to Brooks' powerful roots-style songwriting and a document of his time as a deeply religious social critic in Jamaica. Next to roots rhymes like "Holy Jah Jah," "Money Is Not All" and "Living My Culture," there's two rare Lee Perry/Black Ark versions every sound system will benefit from. This is a collection of timeless roots songs in remembrance of the days when Jamaican culture was on the verge of setting out for worldwide triumph, spreading its language and religion through reggae music. Both the CD and vinyl appear with extensive liner notes, and the LP will be delivered in a luxury foldout sleeve. Producer credits besides Brooks include Fatman, Joe Joe Hookim, Harry J., Jackie Mittoo, Moodie, Lee Perry, Prince Jammy, Scientist, and King Tubby.

Artist:	COLLINS WITH SLY & ROBBIE, ANSEL
Title:	Jamaican Gold
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 004CD

Moll-Selekta's fourth release showcases recordings by Ansel Collins, Jamaica's busiest and most famous keyboardist besides Jackie Mittoo. Laid down in 1979 with the legendary studio band The Revolutionaries at Channel One studios, whose members included the world-famous riddim twins Sly & Robbie, Jamaican Gold presents timeless roots and lover's reggae, dubs, numerous instrumentals, guest vocalists Tony Tuff and Roland Burrell as well as DJs Mr. Mystic and Jah Thomas. Growing up in the formative '60s, when this small Caribbean island offered the pop world the gifts of ska, rocksteady and the beginnings of reggae, Collins started out as a singer, then drummer before discovering keyboards. As a studio musician he participated in countless recordings with leading reggae producers like Clement "Coxsone" Dodd at Studio One, Bunny Lee, Leslie Kong, Phil Pratt and Prince Buster. This release offers an insight into Ansel Collins' vast creative range at the peak of his powers.

Artist:	CAMPBELL, CORNELL
Title:	Original Blue Recordings 1970-1979
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 005CD

Relive the crowning years of Kingston, Jamaica, 1970-1979 with Cornell Campbell at the peak of his powers. For more than four decades, Cornell Campbell has added jewel after jewel to the crown of Jamaican musical history, songs that can be heard in any good dancehall today, whether they come out of reggae, R&B or ska. Known as the "Sam Cooke of Reggae" due to his unique soul-infused falsetto timbre, Campbell remains remarkably unknown outside of his native Caribbean. Showcasing compositions by Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke and Curtis Mayfield, timeless soul, lover's and roots evergreen are to be found here. Renowned bands The Aggrovators, Soul Syndicate and the High Time Players provided the backing at Channel One, and Bunny "Striker" Lee was responsible for production. A must for serious reggae fans and a perfect introduction for the more casual observer.

Artist:	BROWN, BARRY
Title:	Rich Man Poor Man 1978-1980
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 007CD

The sixth release from Moll-Selekta presents one of the greatest Jamaican roots singers and songwriters, Barry Brown -- who was famed for the direct and uncompromising lyrics which earned him so much street credibility and the nickname "The Jamaican Bob Dylan." Before digital sound locked on to reggae in the '80s, Barry Brown was already a dancehall star with a proven track record of hits like "Step It Up Youthman," "Politician" and "Put Down Your Guns." He worked with many of the producer greats: Bunny Lee, Joe Gibbs, Sugar Minott and Clement "Coxsone" Dodd from Studio One. The incredibly deep and detailed roots soundbeds come courtesy of some of the finest backing bands of the era. The Aggrovators with Sly & Robbie, Roots Radics, The Revolutionaries and the High Times Players -- the perfect foil for Brown's sharp and dextrous tongue. This release presents Barry Brown in his most creative and potent phase, bringing together for the first time some of his best songs on one album.

Artist:	KING TUBBY
Title:	The Roots Of Dub & Dub From The Roots
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MOLL 008CD

This release combines two of the most essential dub albums in a 2CD/2LP set, both originally released in late 1974 and early 1975. As a re-release, this edition contains for the first time every track on the original LPs in an incomparable sound quality. Both albums are part of the historic and epoch-making early phase of dub and demonstrate more than any other recordings the great pioneer collaboration of the duo King Tubby (engineer/mixer) and Bunny Lee (producer). Many of the most important riddims of all times are included here, including Bunny Lee's biggest hits. The music was played by The Aggrovators in their best line up, featuring Robbie Shakespeare, Chinna Smith, Carlton & Aston Barrett, Tony Chin and Augustus Pablo. These songs have lost nothing of their atmospheric depth over the years, and as musical statements they are as magical as ever. Double CD in an eight page digi-sleeve-pack with liner notes and a picture of the original LP covers.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Don't Give Up Your Culture
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 009CD

Don't Give Up Your Culture is the ninth release by Moll-Selekta -- an essential roots sampler with many brilliant and previously unreleased tracks by The Mighty Diamonds, Johnny Clarke, Jacob Miller, Horace Andy, Wayne Jarrett, Linval Thompson and Rod Taylor. This release features the "sweet high voices of Jamaica," especially characterized by the totally unknown Flick Wilson, with his exceptionally high falsetto voice. The title track with its roots & culture lyrics is a perfect example of the religious and political statements of the times. Beside The Aggrovators and Roots Radics, most of the tracks were recorded with the rather unknown Ring Craft Posse whose line up also included the essence of Jamaica's studio musicians. Recordings took place at Channel One, King Tubby's and Sinclair's own Mr. Tipsy studio in Kingston, Jamaica, between 1972 and 1984, the most important and most exiting years of reggae.

Artist:	RING CRAFT POSSE
Title:	St. Catherine In Dub 1972-1984
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 010CD

St. Catherine In Dub, the 10th release by Moll-Selekta, is a collection of the best dubs from the '70s and early '80s by producer Blackbeard and the backing band Ring Craft Posse. Rodguel "Blackbeard" Sinclair, Tappa Zukie's brother, was Bunny Lee's right hand man for many years and owned King Tubby's old studio in Kingston. Ring Craft Posse never quite achieved the fame of The Aggrovators or The Revolutionaries, but their line-up included Jamaica's most elite session musicians.

Artist:	BROOKS, MIKE
Title:	The Earth Is The Fullness
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 011CD

The Earth Is The Fullness is the second release by prolific reggae producer Mike Brooks on Moll-Selekta, following the predecessor Mike Brooks And Friends: Just The Vibes 1976-1983. This eleventh release by Moll-Selekta is the ultimate roots-reggae album in Mike Brooks' long-lasting career. From roots to R&B, The Earth Is The Fullness collects many previously unreleased singles that portray the ways in which reggae was changing both musically and in the social context of the '70s and '80s, as recorded in the legendary Channel One studio. This album contains some of Brooks' best and most important songs, amongst them the title track recorded in 1972 in the early days of the Black Ark studio as mixed by Lee Perry. In addition to founding the Teems label with Jah Lloyd in 1969, as a producer he worked with the famous session group The Revolutionaries and produced The Mighty Diamonds' successful song "Shame And Pride." The artists he recorded at Joe Gibbs' studio and at Treasure Isle, include Bim Sherman, Blacka Morwell, Earl "Chinna" Smith, The Soul Syndicate, Hortense Ellis, Pat Kelly, Bobby Melody and Gladstone Anderson. Despite the fact that he was never a household name in reggae history, his falsetto is one of Jamaica's best, though he only sang on a handful of records in thirty years. The Earth Is The Fullness contains a wealth of politically-conscious rasta tunes and poetically subtle social comment, opening with the powerful "Jah Is My Light," with Errol "Flabba" Holt and Mike Brooks at the controls. Amongst its other highlights two other songs deserve special mention: the two long versions of "Who Have Eyes to See," produced by Prince Far I, the famous "voice of thunder," and the Phil Pratt-produced "No Brother Man." The circling loop of these rhythms have a meditative quality which seeps into the senses, perhaps the quintessence of reggae songs. It symbolizes what good reggae music is all about -- no beginning and no end, a continuous flow, the rhythm and pulse of life.

Artist:	PERRY & THE WHITE BELLY RATS, LEE "SCRATCH"
Title:	Panic in Babylon
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 012LP

LP-only on Moll-Selekta (the CD version of this album is on the Damp Music label; we don't carry it). After over 150 albums (!) as a producer, innovator and artist, the legendary founder of reggae and dub strikes back with his new album. Moll-Selekta are part of the Lee Perry universe and are very proud to announce the release of the double-vinyl of this great album with the freshest and strongest performance of the "Mighty Upsetter" in years. With the support of the White Belly Rats, (a new dub combo who composed the musical landscape) Panic in Babylon offers up powerful dub songs essentially inspired by Perry's spiritual journey and the critical world situation. Pegged as Perry's new dub poetry project, this release is a collection of spontaneous verse where rough lyrics and prophetically-inspired songs meet simpler lyrics, as in the famous "Inspector Gadjet." The totality of the record is executed with such a clearness, realism and humor, that both longtime fans and newcomers to Perry's universe will get to know an authentic and engaged artist with an unlimited genius. Furthermore, the title track "Panic In Babylon" includes a solo by the famous Rico Rodriguez, the great master of the reggae trombone. Composed by DJ Startrek and his combo The White Belly Rats (DJ Startrek on bass, Lax Delux on guitar and Senator Spahni on drums), produced by P. Brunkow and mastered at Sterling Sound NY, Panic In Babylon is the essence of the new dub of the third millennium.

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Bunny Lee Rock Steady Years
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 013CD

For fans of reggae and soul alike, this compilation is devoted to the concentrated phase of rocksteady, circa 1967-1969 -- the Caribbean's most productive era of all time. The rocksteady beat took its lead from the melodic bassline, in an ongoing invitation to dance, linking up with the drums to leave ample space for immensely talented singers and vocal trios who frequented the studios at the time. As Studio One proprietor Clement "Coxsone" Dodd described, "Rocksteady was more like a melodic rhythm. The bass would be playing a steady sort of melody in the background. We tried to make it rock steady with a real catchy beat and steady for dancing. Rocksteady was when we realized how important a steady catchy bass line was -- just as important as the vocals." Never before had such sweet melodies, inspiring rhythms and beautiful love lyrics come together. Numerous soul hits by the likes of Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions, and The Supremes all received the bass-driven, Jamaican-style treatment. The Bunny Lee Rocksteady Years collects some of the most essential and rare songs of that era -- in a better sound quality than ever before! It showcases a wealth of soulful singers, ranging from top acts like Slim Smith (also lead-singer in The Techniques and The Uniques) and Alton Ellis to the rather unknown Cynthia Richards and the Webber Sisters. All songs were produced by Bunny Lee, one of the greatest Jamaican producers of all-time, who had one rocksteady hit after another, finally earning him the nickname "Striker."

Artist:	MINOTT, SUGAR
Title:	The Roots Lover: 1978-1983
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MOLL 014CD

The Roots Lover 1978 - 1983 is the first collection of Sugar Minott's best maxi-singles with extended versions (plus two additional intros). Lincoln "Sugar" Minott played a major role in the story of Jamaican music as a singer, songwriter, producer, label man and sound system instigator. His singing voice was as sweet as honey (hence the nickname) and graced both roots and lover's rock compositions in equal measure. Born Lincoln Barrington Minott in 1956 in West Kingston, Jamaica, his career actually began as part of the vocal trio African Brothers in 1970. After departing with the group in 1976, Sugar signed a solo contract with Studio One, and Sugar set about writing his own lyrics over the classic riddims of Jamaica's most famous label, as well as penning his own songs. Sugar's way of working on covers laid down the foundations for the later coming dancehall movement, and his debut album Live Loving can lay claim to being the very first dancehall album, with Roots Radics or the Revolutionaries, top class musicians in their own right, accompanying Sugar on many of his songs. His uniquely sweet, almost hushed vocal style became his trademark. Bob Marley loved it and declared Sugar to be one of his favourite singers in Jamaica. Three albums (Live Loving, Showcase, More Sugar) and a number of singles later, he set up his own Black Roots Production and Youth Promotion Company labels in 1978, along with the Youth Promotion Soundsystem, which was a springboard for ghetto kids to get to work in the studio. In 1980 he moved to London, where the UK was under the spell of lover's rock, which Minott took full advantage of whilst masking the fact that he was equally at home in Jamaican roots. Sugar would later go back to his roots in Jamaica scoring a hit with the ganja hymn "Herbsman Hustling" -- one of the founding elements of rootical dancehall. In 1988 he turned increasingly political and his African Soldier album (1988) is dedicated to the freedom fighters in South Africa opposing Apartheid. Throughout much of the rest of his career, he drew attention to Africa's rich history, its culture and perception of Ethiopia as the promised land of Zion. Venturing away from conventional reggae into crossover territory in the '90s, he started to address themes of love and cultural awareness, showing himself to be a singer who moved easily between the poles of roots reality and the poetry of love. Here is the ultimate roots reggae collection, chock full of unearthed extended versions to round off a portrait of Sugar Minott which confirms him as the greatest Jamaican protagonist of roots and lover's rock, captured at the most important moments of his musical story.

Artist:	MINOTT, SUGAR
Title:	The Roots Lover: 1978-1983
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	MOLL 014LP

Double LP version. The Roots Lover 1978 - 1983 is the first collection of Sugar Minott's best maxi-singles with extended versions (plus two additional intros). Lincoln "Sugar" Minott played a major role in the story of Jamaican music as a singer, songwriter, producer, label man and sound system instigator. His singing voice was as sweet as honey (hence the nickname) and graced both roots and lover's rock compositions in equal measure. Here is the ultimate roots reggae collection, chock full of unearthed extended versions to round off a portrait of Sugar Minott which confirms him as the greatest Jamaican protagonist of roots and lover's rock, captured at the most important moments of his musical story.

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Mighty Striker Shoots At Hits
Label:	MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MOLL 015CD

The Moll-Selekta label presents a compilation of vintage tracks from legendary Jamaican producer Bunny "Striker" Lee (b. Edward O'Sullivan Lee). Along with Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (Studio One), he is probably the Jamaican producer with the largest reservoir of songs. In the rocksteady and roots reggae years, from 1967 up until the late 1970s, he produced one hit after another. With his productions shooting into the charts with clockwork regularity, his colleagues and competitors nicknamed him "Striker." The Mighty Striker Shoots At Hits celebrates the boomtime of roots reggae from 1973-1979 in its many guises. Roots ballads by Jackie Edwards and Honey Boy meet up with the considerably tougher roots rockers Barry Brown and Johnny Clarke. Some are originals, others are cover versions but each and every one is a hit. Jackie Edwards, the man with the silken soul voice, wrote hits for the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s. Johnny Clarke enriches this collection with a track heavily influenced by Hopeton Lewis' rocksteady classic "Rocka Shocka." Horace Andy was a product of the Studio One talent school, and the original 12" version of "I Don't Want To Be Left Outside," also known as "Zion Gate," has spawned numerous dancehall covers. Barry Brown also has a fair few Studio One hits to his name. His combative protest songs earned him the title of "the Bob Dylan of reggae." These two tracks are testimony to his Rastafarian beliefs and spiritual influence, inseparable from the social critique in his lyrics. Hortense Ellis is one of reggae's great female vocalists. The cover version of her brother's (Alton Ellis) classic hit "I'm Still In Love" is rhythmically similar and lyrically close to the original. Delroy Wilson was a star in the Studio One firmament, and one of the finest reggae singers ever to set foot in a Jamaican studio. Leroy Smart's first recording sessions were in the early 1970s with Jimmy Radway and Bunny Lee, and later with Joseph Hookim at Channel One. His hits raised him to the level of cult status and his live appearances were the source of animated controversy. The hard working Don of reggae still divides opinion today, but "Love In My Heart" should calm the most agitated of souls. Other artists include: Cornell Campbell, Roy Shirley, Ras Murray and Ronnie Davis.

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