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BSR 831LP
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"Phill Pratt, whose full name is George Phillips Pratt, was a significant figure in the Jamaican music industry, particularly known for his contributions as a record producer, singer, and songwriter. Phil Pratt started his career as a singer in the 1960s and later transitioned into producing and songwriting. He worked with various artists, studios, and labels during Jamaica's golden era of reggae music in the 1960s and 1970s. As a producer, Phil Pratt was involved in creating numerous classic reggae tracks and albums. He collaborated with artists such as Al Campbell, Dennis Brown, Horace Andy, Ken Boothe, and others, producing hits that became cornerstones of reggae music. One of his notable productions is the album The War Is On featuring artists like Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, and others. Additionally, Pratt's work with artists like Dennis Brown on tracks such as 'Money in My Pocket' and Horace Andy's 'You Are My Angel' contributed significantly to the success of these artists in the reggae genre. Phil Pratt's legacy primarily lies in his production work, which left a lasting impact on reggae music. His ability to work with various artists and his knack for creating infectious rhythms and melodies cemented his place as a respected figure in Jamaican music history. The original Star Wars Dub album was released in 1978 on Burning Sounds and shows Phil Pratt's amazing talent as a record producer, singer, and songwriter."
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RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2024
"The Viceroys were a Jamaican reggae vocal group formed in the late 1960s. They were one of the numerous vocal trios that emerged during the rocksteady and early reggae eras in Jamaica. The group's lineup consisted of Wesley Tinglin, Neville Ingram, and Daniel Bernard. They gained popularity with their harmonious vocal style and catchy melodies. One of their most famous songs is 'Heart Made of Stone,' which became a hit in Jamaica and internationally. They worked with various producers, including Derrick Morgan, Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd, and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, recording songs that reflected the social and political issues of the time. While the original lineup of the Viceroys disbanded in the 1970s, Wesley Tinglin continued to perform under the Viceroys name with different members. Their music continues to be celebrated among reggae enthusiasts for its soulful harmonies and uplifting messages."
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BSR 835LP
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"1978 reggae album reissued on vinyl. Fred Locks, whose real name is Stafford Elliott, is a prominent Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter known for his spiritually infused and conscious lyrics. He was born on May 5, 1955, in Kingston, Jamaica. Fred Locks gained recognition in the 1970s during the roots reggae era, establishing himself as an artist with a distinctive vocal style and a deep Rastafarian influence in his music. His lyrics often revolve around themes of spirituality, Rastafarian principles, social issues, and cultural awareness. One of his most notable songs is 'Black Star Liners,' released in the mid-1970s, which became an anthem within the reggae community. The song encourages African unity and the repatriation of Africans to their homeland. Another popular track by Fred Locks is 'True Rastaman,' which further solidified his reputation for delivering heartfelt and conscious lyrics. Fred Locks' contributions to reggae music often embodied the spiritual and cultural aspects of Rastafarianism, and he remains respected for his dedication to promoting positive messages through his music. His work continues to inspire fans of reggae music and those interested in the deeper philosophical aspects of the genre."
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"The Viceroys were a Jamaican reggae vocal group formed in the late 1960s. They were one of the numerous vocal trios that emerged during the rocksteady and early reggae eras in Jamaica. The group's lineup consisted of Wesley Tinglin, Neville Ingram, and Daniel Bernard. They gained popularity with their harmonious vocal style and catchy melodies. One of their most famous songs is 'Heart Made of Stone,' which became a hit in Jamaica and internationally. They worked with various producers, including Derrick Morgan, Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd, and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, recording songs that reflected the social and political issues of the time. While the original lineup of the Viceroys disbanded in the 1970s, Wesley Tinglin continued to perform under the Viceroys name with different members. Their music continues to be celebrated among reggae enthusiasts for its soulful harmonies and uplifting messages."
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"Niney The Observer's Sledgehammer Dub In The Street Of Jamaica LP has always been considered a long lost gem with dub collectors. Originally released in early 1977 and pressed in a limited quantity of between 300 to 400 copies the record was a compilation of dubs devoid of vocals but high on rhythms -- mixed with feeling and showcasing the talents of both musicians and mixing engineers. King Tubby's involvement is clear, as is that of all the other parties involved such as Niney, The Soul Syndicate, and The Cimarrons to name but a few. The actual LP title was derived from how King Tubby mixed his tracks. Niney described the sound coming from the speakers as like having a sledgehammer hitting you on your head. Niney himself is steeped in reggae history, making songs for the likes of Lee Perry, Bunny Lee, Joe Gibbs, and Coxsone, producing the masterful Blood And Fire cut and being one of the first to experiment with sound in early reggae. Sledgehammer Dub In The Street Of Jamaica was pressed on Niney's own Observer label without a jacket and has become something of a holy grail for collectors of dub."
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"180-gram red vinyl. Includes insert with extensive sleeve notes. Dillinger's sparring partner on this album is Trinity aka Wade Brammer, who was active during the 1970s and 1980s. Trinity as Dillinger, is best known for deejaying over reggae and dancehall tracks. 'Clash' albums became very popular at the tail end of the 1970s and into the 1980s with both singers and deejays competing against each other track by track."
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"Michael Palmer is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. Michael Palmer's music has been part of the cultural and musical history of Jamaica and has a dedicated following among reggae enthusiasts. Michael Palmer Meets Kelly Ranks At Channel One was originally released in 1985. Now re-issued on 180 gram including comprehensive sleeve notes by Burning Sounds."
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"Two dub versions on 180gram vinyl taken from Lee 'Scratch' Perry's final studio album Heaven, recorded shortly before his passing in October 2021. Recorded and mixed at Secret Lab's studio by Olivier Gangloff assisted by Romain Gangloff. Voices recorded by Olivier Gangloff at Studio God LSP."
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"1979 heavy dub album produced by Prince Jammy, reissued on CD. Murder Remix Style by Prince Jammy at King Tubby's Studio."
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"1979 heavy dub album produced by Prince Jammy, reissued on 180gram vinyl."
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"This is Lee 'Scratch' Perry's final studio album recorded shortly before his passing in October 2021. Lee was one of 'the major cultural figures' of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. His contribution to the furtherance of Jamaican music as producer, arranger, writer and artist is beyond compare. He played a pivotal role in, and was the inspiration behind, many of the key movements in the development of reggae throughout the sixties and seventies."
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"Released on 180gram vinyl for the first time. Filmed and recorded live at The 100 Club London, 13th September 2008. Derrick Morgan Band: Derrick Morgan -- vocals; Antonio Phillips -- guitar; Kenton Brown -- bass; Brian Edwards -- sax; Carlton Ogilvie -- keyboards; Winston Williams -- drums; Patrick Tenyue -- trumpet." Includes slipcase CD.
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"1983 reggae album from Earl Sixteen pressed on vinyl."
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"This is Lee 'Scratch' Perry's final studio album recorded shortly before his passing in October 2021. Lee was one of 'the major cultural figures' of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. His contribution to the furtherance of Jamaican music as producer, arranger, writer and artist is beyond compare. He played a pivotal role in, and was the inspiration behind, many of the key movements in the development of reggae throughout the '60s and '70s. Released on 180m gram vinyl, including a booklet with extensive sleeve notes by Noel Hawks, plus photos."
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"Re-issue of 1978 album Welcome to my World. Featuring Jimmy London (vocals), Aston 'Family Man' Barrett and Robert 'Robbie' Shakespeare (bass), Carlton Barrett and Lowell 'Sly' Dunbar (drums), Bertram 'Ranchie' MacLean (lead guitar), Radcliffe 'Dougie' Bryan (rhythm guitar), Ansell 'Pinkie' Collins and Bobby Kalphat (keyboards), Tommy McCook (tenor saxophone), Felix 'Deadly Headley' Bennett (alto saxophone), Vincent 'Don D Junior' Gordon (trombone), Christopher 'Sky Juice' Blake, Noel 'Scully' Simms and Uzziah 'Sticky' Thompson (percussion). Recorded at Channel One Recording Studio."
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"Ephraim 'Jerry' Baxter recorded Love Train under the name Well Pleased And Satisfied with The Revolutionaries backing him. Recorded at Channel One and Randy's with a mix done at King Tubby's, Love Train highlights The Revolutionaries 'rockers' sound and is a 'showcase' album which means the corresponding dub follows each vocal track. The album contains the original vocal cut of 'West Man Rock' which was dee-jay'ed over by Ken Quatty under the same title, plus some outstanding Revolutionaries dubs of Jerry's vocal tracks. Love Train was originally issued by Burning Sounds' sub-label Burning Rockers on red vinyl in 1979. Burning Sounds have on this re-issue album kept the original color and label."
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"This classic double album with extensive sleeve notes is a collection of top-notch vocal, DJ and dub tracks adding to the growing body of music from a time often dismissed by commentators and critics, and includes vocalists and DJs Anthony Johnson, Bobby Melody, Junior Moore, Nemo, Triston Palmer, Early B, General Trees, Lee Van Cliff, Lone Ranger, and Ranking Trevor, with backing from The Roots Radics and The Midnight Rock Crew Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare."
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"Opening with Jah Walton who would go on to greater success as Joseph Cotton in the nineties, followed by Big Youth who had made some of his earliest records with Phil Pratt. I Roy, Jamaica's most literate and articulate DJ, steps forward with two big hits, 'Ital Dish' and 'Musical Air Raid' before two tracks from King Sighta, a young DJ who apparently lost an eye in a factory accident, and who released the eponymous King Sighter The One Eyed Giant album on Terminal that year. Very little is known about Little Wicked, but Big Joe recorded extensively during the seventies for Studio One, Harry Mudie's Moodisc Records and many other top producers although this is his sole recording, released on Chanan Jah in London, for Phil Pratt. The set concludes with Jah Stitch, DJ for Tippertone and Black Harmony sound systems."
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"Long out of print reggae soul album from 1978 now back in vinyl."
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"This album was issued in 1980 in a limited edition of 300 copies on a blank label in a plain sleeve with no credits. It has never been repressed since then and has become a seriously in-demand collectors' item with copies changing hands for between £100 and £200... Now available on LP and CD with bonus tracks Dub mixed at: TMC (Tooting Music Centre) Recording Studio, 118 Mitcham Road, Tooting, London by Chris Lane We probably did it in all in about two hours and ten minutes, despite not having a lot of time, or perhaps precisely because of not having a lot of time, the resulting album, God Sent Dub proved to be a masterclass in dub mixing aimed directly at the roots market... it went back to the roots of dub and echoed the stark style of some of the very first dub albums from the mid-seventies."
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"Extremely rare dub album from 1980 now available on CD. This album was issued in 1980 in a limited edition of 300 copies on a blank label in a plain sleeve with no credits. It has never been repressed since then and has become a seriously in-demand collectors' item with copies changing hands for between £100 and £200... Now available on LP and CD with bonus tracks Dub mixed at: TMC (Tooting Music Centre) Recording Studio, 118 Mitcham Road, Tooting, London by Chris Lane We probably did it in all in about two hours and ten minutes, despite not having a lot of time, or perhaps precisely because of not having a lot of time, the resulting album, God Sent Dub proved to be a masterclass in dub mixing aimed directly at the roots market... it went back to the roots of dub and echoed the stark style of some of the very first dub albums from the mid-seventies."
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"1978's Slum in Dub album re-issued on 180 gram red vinyl in its original cover. Coupled with the succinct Revolutionaries band and Isaacs quality songwriting, the deconstructed cuts, weave and flow like any good quality dub album should. with some of the track names giving more than a hint of the original song title such as Public Eyes, which was one of the major hits off The Cool Ruler as John Public. The dense Slum originated as Party In The Slum, while the brighter Reform Institution began life as Uncle Joe. Word Of The Farmer becomes Croft and Tam Tam began life as One More Time. One of Gregory Isaacs's early hits, 'Black A Kill Black' is translated into 'Leaving' while Leggo Beast using an updated old Studio One rhythm, 'Swing Easy', probably refers to Trevor 'Leggo' Douglas who ran the Cash & Carry label with Isaacs. The track 'N*gger' also uses an old Studio One rhythm track updated and this time it's The Heptones breezy 'Party Time' which gets the Jammy treatment as too Embarrassment which again revitalizes a Studio One gem; 'Frozen Soul' by The Soul Vendors band."
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"Originally released in 1984, back on vinyl. The eighties were a particularly difficult time for Jamaican singers: reggae music, on record and live and direct, was dominated by deejays and a singer had to be very, very special to encroach on the talking artists' monopoly on popularity. Only a handful of singers had the style and stamina to take on the challenge and musical maestros such as Barrington Levy, Frankie Paul and Michael 'Lick Shot' Palmer stood head and shoulders above the competition. Michael Palmer, also known as Palmer Dog, was one of the most popular and successful vocalists of the dance hall era and had risen to prominence on the sound system circuit by "employing similar improvisatory techniques at the mic. He certainly needed them to stay ahead of the fierce competition from the sound system deejays who were turning reggae music away from its international ambitions and returning it to its origins in the dance halls of Jamaica."
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"All tracks produced by A. Ranglin, except 'Hard Times' and 'Only Your Picture' produced by V. Buckley. Recorded and mixed at: Channel One Recording Studio, 29 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston 13, Jamaica. The Maytones are: Gladstone Grant and Vernon Buckley. Original cover by C More Tone. First released 1983."
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"180 gram vinyl LP of Freddie's 1979 album with extensive sleeve notes. Produced by: Winston 'Niney The Observer' Holness. Recorded, voiced and mixed at: Channel One Recording Studio, 29 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston 13. Engineers: Anthony 'Crucial Bunny'/'Bunny Tom Tom' Graham and Lancelot 'Maxie' McKenzie/ Musicians: drums - Max 'Feelgood' Edwards amd Leroy 'Horse Mouth' Wallace; bass guitar - George 'Fully' Fullwood; lead guitar - Earl 'Chinna' Smith; lead guitar and rhythm guitar: Albert Valentine 'Tony' Chin and Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont; keyboards - Jamaba Johnson and Keith Sterling; tenor saxophone - Enroy 'Hot Train' Grant; trumpet - Arnold 'Willie' Brackenridge and Donald Vidan-Greaves; percussion - Herman 'Bongo Herman' Davis and 'Brooksy'."
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