Miraculously restored from the few remaining original copies, Khmer music from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Chapey, Romvong, Lakon Basak, Pleng Khmer, Ayai, and Ayai Reung, as well as classical, court-derived traditions such as Pinpeat and Mahori, and popular styles including Lamleav and Pleng Ka. With a sixteen-page booklet of detailed notes and vintage photographs.

Raw, unfiltered ceremonial gong ensemble music recorded in northeastern Cambodia, bordering Laos and Vietnam. Music to accompany animist rituals, and drinking the fermented rice alcohol called Tavei. Nipple and flat gongs, bamboo tubes, male and female vocals, drums. Very limited.

Last one.

This tough, stomping, militant tirade against abusive men was originally released in 1976 on the G Clef label, out of Toronto, where Sid ran a record store, studio and label at 917 Bathurst Street, in the beating heart of Little Jamaica.
Check the knockout dub. Stone classic Channel One.

Wow!
A ruff, in-your-face, first outing for the same tune the Heptone did over with Lee Perry a few years later, in the last days of the Black Ark, coming on the unforgettable Big Spanner Disco Ajax label.
Blood-and-fire horns, sermonizing organ; Sibbles’ urgent evangelism; boiling-hot, livewire dub. Killer.
Last few. Don’t miss this.

Scorcher!
Rothadam aka Errol Gayle tried out for Bunny Lee before following his brothers from Trenchtown to Toronto in the early-1970s. Here, his fellow-welder Sid Lovejoy also ran a record shop, label and studio, at 917 Bathurst Street; and in 1975 the first iteration of Rebel was unleashed on Sid’s LMP imprint (cut a little slower than this reissue), featuring none other than Leroy Sibbles on bin-wobbling bass; and massive, rearing, swinging horns (and melodica). The brass brings to mind the Otravis crew on Skyjack Version, also with Sibbles, for Half Moon; the hi-hats tick with the same serious-mindedness as at the start of Joe Higgs’ Creation; Rothadam channels Horace Andy to full effect.
Then Gayle reprised the song at Half Moon itself, with the Super Eight Corporation. Producer Oswald Creary passed the second recording — side two here — onto Ron Lewis, to put out on Ron-Lew. It’s more Upsetters in style, with a lighter touch; more limber, smoke-filled and cosmic, with a vibesing spoken intro and tasty percussion.
Both sides are raw, intense, inspiring roots.
Neither came with a dub… so dream on, rudie.
Hotly recommended.

Moody, suspenseful, funky electro by none other than Gerald Donald of Drexciya.