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BRUJ 001EP
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Four riveting, deeply grooving digital-dub productions for his own Ujama label by the great deejay Prince Jazzbo -- widely celebrated for such toasts as "Imperial I," "Mr Harry Skank" and "Natty Passing Through Rome" for the likes of Coxsone Dodd, Glen Brown and Lee Perry. From the late '80s, sides like these announced a new era in reggae. "Replay Version" sets the mood here -- malevolent, sick and paranoid, but haunting, and funky like a train, with cruelly brilliant effects; really a stunning piece of music.
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BRCR 002EP
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2007 release, restocked. Another vicious, militant bad-bull from the Crat label out of Brooklyn, revived by Basic Replay. Emerging from the Stereo One sound, Courtney Melody ruled the dancehall -- with hits for Tubby, Jazzbo and Jammys and co. -- and, like the rhythm, is devastatingly focused. Two songs, both with dub versions, naturally; and top-notch remastering as always by Basic Replay.
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BRCR 001EP
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2007 release, restocked: new lower pricing. A rampaging bull of a Dave Kelly digital rhythm, originally released on Crat Production in 1989, faced down brilliantly by these two Jammys stalwarts, Chuck Turner and Professor Grizzly. Another death in the arena from Basic Replay.
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BROB 001EP
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2007 release, restocked: new lower pricing. Double-barreled digital onslaughts from producer Niney The Observer -- the "Dealing" rhythm is aka "Power-Saw," not for nothing -- and both vocalists are inspired: Gregory Isaacs sounds especially dazed, like he's been dealt; Ken Boothe -- the greatest soul singer in reggae -- is searing. The "Memories" version is a Basic Replay exclusive created by Niney.
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BRWM 001CD
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2006 release, restocked: new lower pricing. Born in 1970, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Allan Crichton aka White Mice is a graduate of three sound systems -- Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotion, Jammy's Hi Power, and his hometown Ticka Muzik. His first break came at the Sunsplash festival in 1985, when he and Little Kirk were called on stage to perform with Tenor Saw. Recording at King Jammy's and Channel One studios, with Junior Delgado at the controls, over the next few years Mice let off a series of records amongst the very deadliest of digital reggae -- nearly all on his brother Blemo's Intelitec imprint, out of Miami. This release collects cuts from White Mice's 1988 Intelitec album True Love as well as other never before reissued digital reggae classics.
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BRWM 002CD
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2006 release, restocked: new lower pricing. Essential instrumental dub versions of the tracks on BRWM 001CD. "More deadly digital reggae."
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BRWM 001EP
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This is the first installment in Basic Replay's reissue series of 7" singles by digital reggae heavy weight White Mice. This features a vocal and dub version of "It's A Shame."
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BRWM 004EP
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This is the fourth and final installment in Basic Replay's reissue series of 7" singles by digital reggae heavy weight White Mice. This features a vocal and dub version of "Tallawah," originally released on the Buffalo label.
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BRWM 003EP
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This is the third installment in Basic Replay's reissue series of 7" singles by digital reggae heavy weight White Mice. This features a vocal and dub version of "Try A Thing."
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BRWM 002EP
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This is the second installment in Basic Replay's reissue series of 7" singles by digital reggae heavy weight White Mice. This features a vocal and dub version of "Youths Of Today," originally released on the Incredible Music label.
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BRKC 001EP
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2006 release, restocked. Six murderous outings for Lloyd "Cuss Cuss" Robinson's immortal rhythm on this showcase EP collecting singles produced by King Culture in Toronto and Kingston, Jamaica, during 1980-81. Rod Taylor was voiced in JA; Barry Brown between both cities. Stamma Rank was mic man for the JA sound "Taurus": this was his recording debut. Mixing was done at Tubby's, assisted by his apprentices Professor and Puggy (an expert with the Delta 4 machine tape-delay). These versions tore up dancehalls at the time.
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BRJM 001EP
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2005 release, restocked. Ayatollah is an apocalyptic record, full of dread -- dubwise and deep from the first chords of Jackie Mittoo's interstellar keys, over classic Wackies-style steppers drum and bass -- with a dream-like atmosphere in which pain and suffering are swirled together with devotional mystery and redemption. Originally released on the Nefertiti label in the early eighties when Jackie Mittoo was between New York and Toronto. The B-side here is another essential, extended version of that rhythm -- dancefloor murder. Such a killer.
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BRVS 001EP
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2005 release, restocked: new lower pricing. Recorded in 1990-91 by Blacka, Keety and Tena at the Vibes studio in London, and originally released on Blacka's Vibes label. This is a soundsystem record -- played in the day by sound systems like Abashanti, Entebbe, Jah Warrior, and on the radio by Nick Manasseh. "Commercial Bwoy" is straight to the head of those systems, having success at the time introducing R&B into a less rootical reggae selection, while "Burial Tonight" is chilled and austere.
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BRIJL 001EP
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2004 release, restocked. Surely this is music-making of any kind at its most inspired. Recorded in 1975 in London's Gooseberry Studios by Dennis Harris, Ijahman Levi -- aka Trevor Sutherland -- remembers his unscripted performance "pouring out from inside." Maybe the short spell he'd just spent in jail has to do with it. This is the original, way superior version of a song later recut for his Island debut Hail I Hymn Chapter 1. The dub, too, is breathtakingly powerful -- a Shaka special.
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BRAT 1005CD
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2004 release, restocked: new lower pricing. Originally released in 1974 on Mamba, Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood is the most hallowed of all those reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson's key achievement in a career launched when, as a fourteen-year-old, he recorded members of The Skatalites on his "Shades Of Hudson" rhythm. After a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and the rest, this album projects Hudson's removal from Jamaica to London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, and inaugurates a sequence of albums -- classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool, Playing It Right -- which show his troubled experimentalism better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7" reggae format. Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate -- alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles -- Hudson's mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like "Darkest Night," "My Nocturne" and "Testing My Faith," where he struggles for Black senses of commitment --political, existential, religious -- at its breaking point. Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable.
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BRAT 1005LP
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Currently sold out, 2021 repressing forthcoming; LP version. Originally released in 1974 on Mamba, Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood is the most hallowed of all those reggae albums which remain unavailable, and Keith Hudson's key achievement in a career launched when, as a fourteen-year-old, he recorded members of The Skatalites on his "Shades Of Hudson" rhythm. After a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and the rest, this album projects Hudson's removal from Jamaica to London and New York studios and transatlantic audiences, and inaugurates a sequence of albums -- classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool, Playing It Right -- which show his troubled experimentalism better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7" reggae format. Anchored here by Santa Davis and George Fullwood from the Soul Syndicate -- alongside musicians like Augustus Pablo, Count Ossie and Leroy Sibbles -- Hudson's mood is tormented and dazed, as on titles like "Darkest Night," "My Nocturne" and "Testing My Faith," where he struggles for Black senses of commitment --political, existential, religious -- at its breaking point. Magnificently and deadly serious, hauntingly unique, unmissable and unforgettable.
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BRHW 003EP
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2004 release, restocked. This was recorded in 1986 and originally released on the Heavyweight label (an offshoot of the Heavyweight soundsystem, based in the Wood Green and Tottenham areas of north London), featuring Chester Roots at the controls and his nephew Ackie at the microphone. Raw and ballistic British dancehall.
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