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DKR 310EP
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$15.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"This murder three track 12" is the next installment in the ongoing Park Heights series. The Heptones 'Get Up & Chant' is a certified roots anthem, FINALLY retrieved from album duty and now on a nice fat single for the first time, heavy anthemic roots with a killer mix and lashing reverb. Following this is another total gem formerly hidden away exclusively on an old Park Heights compilation -- Bobby Floyd's 'Need to Belong,' a beautiful soulful roots tune with harmonies by the Heptones. On the flip side is a total killer previously unreleased Stranger Cole roots tune from the early '80s, in extended discomix style."
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DKR 284LP
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$23.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"Following the well-received Prince Philip Presents 2LP compilation, here's a lovely overview of the second phase of Philip's career, as engineer and producer at his own studio, HC&F. These ten tracks comprise our favorites from his production catalog, spanning the mid '80s when the studio really got going, right up until 1996 and his last set of proper productions. The album holds a mix of well-known classics like the Garnett Silk, lesser-known album only cuts like the Frankie Paul, NY dancehall 12" staples like the Scion Success or Shelene, as well as some lesser-known gems. This album also contains two previously unreleased cuts -- a wicked mid '80s Tony Tuff, and the wild vocoder laden 1985 theme song for Philip's 'Get Smart' radio show, which ran for many many years on New York University's WNYU radio station."
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DKR 336EP
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$9.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"Third installment in the Bobby Aitken series, featuring long unavailable and previously unreleased works by one of Jamaican music's most elder statesmen. The A-side is the stuff dreams are made of, previously unreleased melancholy minor key rocksteady, featuring a young Glen Adams on vocals and cut at WIRL where Bobby & The Carib Beats did a lot of work. The B-side is the great 'Wonder Music,' an upful horns instrumental featuring Val Bennett sitting in with the band, finally back after being long unavailable since it first surfaced in the 1990s."
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DKR 349EP
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$9.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"Back to back deep roots here. Both sides produced by Niney the Observer on one of Augustus Pablo's all-time masterpieces, the 555 Crown Street rhythm. The A-side is Johnny Clarke chanting out 'Warrior,' then flip it over for Ranking Trevor, one of the most underrated deejays ever, breezing out over a dubbed cut with plenty of our beloved bleeps. These were undoubtedly dubplates at the time they were made in the '70s, but both first released later, the Johnny Clarke on CD in the 1990s, and the Ranking Trevor actually much earlier in 1979, when the late great Dave Hendley released it on his Sufferers Heights label. Both tunes have been issued in a couple forms since, but not in quite a while; top shelf essential material."
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DKR 340EP
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$9.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"Apex militant late '70s style here, if you think you are into steppers you should have this one firmly in your sights. One of Mr. Smart's hardest records, this originally appeared only as an album track, but also had some fame as a dubplate played at the time by Jah Shaka and others. The A-side features the raw dubplate cut vocal, no horns or other adornment, HARD to the point stepping drum and bass style. The B-side features the original Gussie Clarke dub mix aptly titled 'Hot Steppers,' also previously released only on album. This cut as well was run on dubplate back at the time, a killer mix with full horns but no vocal. Leroy Smart is an all-time favorite artists and Digikiller takes pride in having re-released a handful of his all-time best records, this one now added to that list."
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DKR 337EP
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$9.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"More excellent and previously unreleased instrumental 1970s roots from 12 Tribes musical director Pablove Black and cohorts. Side A has an instrumental cut of the sublime rhythm used for Ewan Naptali's classic 'Africa Awaiting Its Creator,' the flip side has another instrumental titled 'Sons of the Most High,' which we think was voiced by Dan Hutson but never released."
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DKR 338EP
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$9.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"Legendary 12 Tribes instrumental tune here, this is the alternate dubplate version with added instrumentation and different arrangement and mix. 12 Tribes musical director Pablove Black was the maestro of so much great music in the 1970s, from Studio 1 to the sessions for various producers operating in the 12 Tribes milieu at the time, such as his great work for Carl Fletcher's Uprising label. As with the original 45 release of this tune, this is a two-part instrumental spread over both sides."
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DKR 348EP
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$9.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"One of the best mid-'70s roots tunes, reissued the way Digikiller always wanted to see it. The Officials (later known as Earth & Stone) 'Babylonian' was released on a very rare Jaguar 45 as a solo vocal, but also had a lesser known release on a Dynamic Sounds compilation album. That album cut is a duo harmony vocal over a slightly different take of the rhythm, and never reissued on vinyl before. Both vocal cuts are now paired back to back in crisp master tape quality."
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DKR 315EP
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$15.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
"Six track 12" collecting all the cuts of Wayne's first recording for Wackie's, from 1976. A classic of raw underground vibes from the Sounds Unlimited studio early days of Wackie's productions. This 12" contains: the original NY 45 vocal and dub cuts, the second mix of the vocal from the first Reggae Goodies LP, the rare horns cut by Baba Leslie & Mark, the dub cut from the very rare Dub Unlimited LP, a finally a previously unreleased raw rhythm drum and bass dubplate cut."
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DKR 110EP
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2025 repress. "Part two of the Fox Fire series is here, with more killer 1970s roots from Clive Matthews and Trevor Byfield. 'Am Going Home', is the third and final cut on the legendary rhythm also employed for Clive's 'Apology' and Trevor's 'Tell Me That You Love Me', both of which were released in our first and previous set of Fox Fire tunes. 'Am Going Home' is just as killer as those two, and has its own unique dub side, different to either of the others."
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DKR 109EP
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2025 repress. "Part two of the Fox Fire series is here, with more killer 1970s roots from Clive Matthews and Trevor Byfield. 'My Girl Has Gone' is Clive Matthews' first recording, originally released in the mid '70s on the Percival label, and recorded at Dynamic Sound with the Now Generation Band."
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DKR 282LP
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"Previously unreleased. 12 song dub/instrumental LP. Another excellent find here, an unreleased dub/instrumental album compiled by Lloydie Slim at the end of the '70s, featuring exclusive dubwise & instrumental cuts to many of his rhythms from earlier in the decade. As a bonus we've added two more tracks to the original 10 track album tape -- the vocal & dub cuts to Johnny Clarke's 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again', one of Slim's personal favorites of his productions. This single was originally released in 1975 in JA on his Don One label, and again in New York a few years later on his namesake Ivanhoe the Conqueror label. This album is a great listen which reminds us of the classic Channel 1 Revolutionaries instrumentals of the mid/late 70s."
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DKR 108EP
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2025 repress. "Part two of the Fox Fire series is here, with more killer 1970s roots from Clive Matthews and Trevor Byfield. 'Jah Guide' is classic roots, originally released only on a UK 12-inch on the Ethnic Fight label."
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DKR 177EP
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2025 repress. "A mythical tune for all serious digital reggae collectors, finally reissued. The obscure Junior Khadaffy (various spellings!) released only a handful of tunes in the mid-late '80s, but all are fantastic. This one was cut for E&F Studios in the Bronx, ran by the late artist I-Plee. Stereo Fletcher happens to be family to I-Plee, producing several records by the artist for his own labels. But the works went both ways, and Stereo produced this one for release on E&F's in-house label. Slick but killer digital reggae, this one is reminiscent of the production style of Little Kirk's 'Weed Them Out,' a fantastic arrangement, great vocals and a complex head-nodding rhythm. The original press is extremely rare and the tune is simply too good to remain that way, so here it is, top top top shelf '80s digital, now available for all."
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DKR 305EP
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"An all-time favorite New York dancehall tune, finally back again. 20+ years ago, in a different era of reggae record collecting where there was little to no information to be found about so many '80s reggae records, the original 12" single of this one was a mythical tune. In fact, this one was on the earliest DKR wish lists, but all good things take time. Most followers know Junior's digital masterpiece 'Rampers Music.' But this one is his earliest and first tune, a heavy piece of a rub a dub cut at Munchie Jackson's Sunshine Studio in the Bronx, with Jackie Mittoo at the helm of the session. The original 12" was self-released by Junior on his own label in 1985. The lyrics are a great snapshot of mid '80s New York, a nod to all those making their way, for better or worse, thru the posses and cliques of the Jamaican scene of the day."
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DKR 313EP
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"Previously unreleased. Both sides with dub. A-side is mastertape mixes, B-side is the original early 1980s dubplate mixes. Comes in Bond Export company sleeve. Killer previously unreleased early 1980s Mighty Diamonds straight from producer Gussie Clarke, tuff steppers cut of the Heptones classic. This tune made the rounds on dubplate back at the time, but never ended up seeing release. On the A-side comes the mastertape mix, a hard but spare mix of this canon JA tune, that recalls the dry and heavy 1980 Taxi style. On the B-side comes the original dubplate mixes which were around on plate at the time, mixed down in proper plate style like you would have gotten from Slipe Road if you had the juice."
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DKR 314EP
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"After their epic run with Channel One beginning in the mid 1970s, the Mighty Diamonds moved to producer Gussie Clarke for a string of albums starting in 1979 and running thru the 1980s. Among the many great tunes from this run, the title track of their 1982 album The Roots Is There is simply one of the Diamond's best ever, and probably the most lyrically militant tune they ever made. This tune was never released as a single at the time, though new mixes were released as a single in 2017. Now, this release is presented on Music Works' original early 1980s dubplate label design, just like the original slate would have been adorned with."
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DKR 307EP
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"Clement 'Minkie' Moore's introduction to the music business came via his friend the great deejay U Roy. Back in the mid-1970s, Minkie and U Roy were both living in the Tower Hill area of Kingston, and U Roy was resident deejay on King Tubby's sound system. Minkie followed his friend and the sound, and occasionally U Roy let him hold the mic and deejay on Tubby's set. U Roy encouraged Minkie to take music more seriously, and with that encouragement, his first record Wickedness was made. He returned to Harry J studio, adding some choice new instrumental overdubs on the rhythm for this new cut, 'Every Time I Do My Thing.' In the decades since, astute roots collectors have honed in on this excellent rhythm and its several cuts, not least of all this pair of them by Mr. Clement "Minkie" Moore. It should be noted that in the manner of the day, other associates of Tubby's studio, Prophets Yabby You and Alric Forbes, also utilized this rhythm."
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DKR 306EP
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"Clement 'Minkie' Moore's introduction to the music business came via his friend the great deejay U Roy. Back in the mid-1970s, Minkie and U Roy were both living in the Tower Hill area of Kingston, and U Roy was resident deejay on King Tubby's sound system. Minkie followed his friend and the sound, and occasionally U Roy let him hold the mic and deejay on Tubby's set. U Roy encouraged Minkie to take music more seriously, and with that encouragement, his first record Wickedness was made. Minkie got a cut of a rhythm from his friend the late Sydney Wilson, and voiced and mixed the rugged deejay tune 'Wickedness' at King Tubby's studio. In 1980, Clement revisited the great rhythm of 'Wickedness,' deciding to this time sing rather than deejay on the rhythm."
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DKR 318EP
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"Better-than-before new edition of the long out of press previous 10" from 2014, now with something extra. This release corrals three excellent vocals that originally appeared on a couple different compilations. For this new 12" release, with 'Home To Africa,' instead of the cut from Wackie's Selective Showcase Vol. 1 LP as before, the tune comes in a different mix straight from the original session tape, plus a nice raw rhythm version, newly mastered by Bullwackie himself just for this re-release."
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DKR 302EP
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"Previously unreleased; four track 12" with two different vocal takes, each with dub. Comes in Bond Export company sleeve. Another cold case solved! One of DKR's early victories was finding a tape of the drum and bass cut of the legendary dubplate 'Rocks & Mountains.' Rumor had said the artist was the Mighty Travellers, but this didn't really add up chronologically or audibly. More astute listeners mostly agreed the artist was likely the Majesterians, a little recorded group who had made a couple other records for Taxi circa 1980. When the label first issued the song on a 10" back in 2011, even Sly himself couldn't recall for sure who sang the tune. There were two mysteries at work here -- one, confirming the identity of the group, and two -- finding the other cut of the tune, which features fuller instrumentation and a different vocal take. Both cuts were around on dubplate circa '80/'81, and the latter cut can be heard ever so briefly in the infamous UK Sound Business documentary film from '81. In the course of a mere 13 years, both questions came to be solved ? Digikiller obtained a pretty clean plate cut of the fuller mix, and we confirmed the identity of the group. The Majesterians were a vocal trio consisting of Everton Dacres, Roderick Perkins, and Paul Mitchell. 'Rocks & Mountains' was their tune, cut in Channel 1 at a Taxi session featuring a host of other artists. Indeed, these were the heady days of 1980 with Channel 1 booked round the clock for locked-in sessions, with the Taxi Gang and the Roots Radics laying down future classic after future classic."
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DKR 312EP
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"Killer previously unreleased mid '80s Tetrack tune finally out on road. Astute dubplate fiends may have heard this played by Rodigan back in the day, and others may know the Mighty Diamonds' later recording of the song. But the original cut is this one, written by Carlton Hines and performed by his group, the great Tetrack. Here it is in pristine quality straight from Gussie Clarke's master tapes, and mixed faithfully in style to the original dubplate cut, by Music Works' associate Curtis Lynch. Comes on the lovely 'Dubwise Made in Jamaica' version of the Music Works label, which was used exclusively for dubplates cut at Gussie's original studio back in the early to mid '80s."
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DKR 311EP
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"Both sides previously unreleased alternate takes/mixes. This is a top five all time tune in the soul reggae canon and maybe Leroy Smart's best ever. An early one for Mr. Smart, this is the first cut of one of his most classic tunes, recorded in 1972 for producer Gussie Clarke and originally released on the early Tuff Gong label via Wailers' associate Alan 'Skill' Cole. This alternate vocal take is the one partially used for the 1979 remix cut on a heavily overdubbed rhythm. In comparison to the original released cut, it's a more spare take sans the opening harmonizing, and the lyrical changes give the tune a more pleading and less stubbornly declarative mood. For the B-side version comes an alternate mix again, which is actually the one Big Youth deejays over for his tune 'Pride & Joy Rock.' Consider this release a prime example of DKR's 'never too much of a great thing' philosophy."
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12"
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DKR 316EP
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"A-side previously unreleased single mix with dub. B-side previously unreleased 2024 re-mix with instrumental cut. Comes in Wackie's company sleeve. The late great Milton Henry was a stalwart of Wackie's studio in the early '80s, and his album Who Do You Think I Am? remains one of the jewels in the Wackie's canon. The A-side features one of the best tracks from the album, in its previously unreleased single mix, matched with its unreleased dub cut. The B-side features a new 2024 remix of 'Make It Right,' a mid '80s tune we recently featured on the Digital Dawn compilation. Mr. Barnes is still hard at work in the Bronx producing, editing and mixing, and after revisiting this song in 2024, he liked it so much he had to touch it again. This new mix features a great horn part from Wackie's mainstay Jerry Johnson, who takes center stage on the instrumental/dub mix that follows the vocal."
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DKR 303EP
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"Previously unreleased mixes. Part 2 of Digikiller's 1980 Taxi showcase, and it's heavier than the first. Here is one of Sly & Robbie's most loved productions, in its initial raw dubplate form. In August 1980, this raw cut of the haunting lovelorn classic first started to make its way out there on dubplate, in this spare, cavernous heavy mix without the synthesizer and syndrum sounds that would eventually adorn the final released mix. As tapes of these type of early mixes made for sound systems more often than not were not saved or archived, the label is overjoyed to have located this one and brought it out. Like the previous Viceroys Taxi releases, this is some of the heaviest music of its day, in its pure initial form like you would have heard Shaka or other serious sounds playing thru the end of 1980."
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