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Tempo Explosion
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Moving between New York and Kingston, Jamaica, in the mid-to-late-1980s, the revered Black Victory label is a perfect storm, crossing the sainted ranks and deep lineages of Studio One and Bullwackies, together with the first, most celebrated strikes of the digital revolution in reggae.
The musicians — for the JA recordings presented as The Studio One Band, in NYC as the Black Roots Players — include Brentford Road legends like bassist Bagga Walker and keyboardist Pablove Black, alongside White Plains Road aces like sax-man Jerry Johnson and percussionist Ras Menilik. The studios were Bullwackies, in the Bronx, where the genius Lloyd Barnes produced Tempo Explosion with Sugar Minott, and Music Mountain, in Stony Hill, Kingston, where David Rowan was the recordist, and the heavyweight Crucial Bunny (from Channel One) mixed the Nitty Gritty LP, General Penitentiary.
Business was run from two New York record shops: Madison Records at 125th Street in Harlem, and Wackies.
- Sugar Minott - Devil Is At Large
- Chris Wayne - Don't Worry Yourself
- Willie Williams - Solid Rock I Stand
- Ras Menilik DaCosta Free South Africa
- Jerry Johnson - Tribute To Prince Knight
- Black Roots Players - Temp Dub
- Black Roots Players - Slow Tempo
- Black Roots Players - Up Tempo
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