Going on fifty Duke Reid ska and r&b sides.
Tommy McCook, Eric Morris, Bongo Man, Stranger Cole, Baba Brooks, Don Drummond…

Terrific roots plodder from 1982, with Bertram Brown and King Tubby at the controls.

Everton is compellingly beside himself, over a dazzling, bare-bones, digi do-over of the rocksteady classic Tonight.
Previously unreleased.
Fire.

Lloyd Forest, Tommy Thomas and Samuel Bramwell at Joe Gibbs.

Presumably Aston aka Charlie from The Ethiopians, over a stately, meditative rhythm, with bare-bones piano, insistent woodblock, and lovely, floating horns, including a jazzy saxophone solo. Masterfully mixed by King Tubby, like all these stone-classic Yabby You sevens.

Carlton Barrett at the Black Ark in 1975, on a spare Upsetters rhythm, with Pablo playing clavinet. Lovely stuff.

Ace, earnest cover of the Barry White killer. Tight backing by the Dragonaires, with horns in full effect.

Good grief, it’s actually The Chi-Lites, on a John John update of Sleng Teng.

Chinafrica was Wayne Chin’s next project, after his group Creole disbanded in the early-eighties.
Two shark-attack do-overs of foundational tunes, startlingly different: a deadly, sick, atmospheric Declaration Of Rights, with shades of Wackies; and a sprightly, in-your-face, digi Baba Boom Time, originally stepping out on Thunderbolt in 1987.

‘Politics have failed.’
Stone-classic Bullwackies (as excursioned by Rhythm & Sound for Burial Mix), sensationally throwing in two unreleased dubs, newly extracted from the master reels. Both are equally unmissable but quite different, with contrasting effects: the second dub adds ninety seconds, including whip-dem spring reverb. Drawn from the Selective Showcase LP, the vocal mix is more open and dubwise than the Sing & Shout LP offering, with less keyboards.
Asked whether it should be mash or march, after some pondering Bullwackies replied: ‘That’s a good question.’