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It’s a shame he doesn’t stick to his theme, instead wandering into auto-pilot, but we’d happily listen to the great man recite a parking ticket.
Strikingly original UK reggae from 1983, self-produced by West Londoner Alex Robertson aka I Benjahman, for his own Lion Kingdom label. With contributions from legends like Rico Rodriguez and Horsemouth Wallace, Studio One and King Tubby engineers Sid Bucknor and Tony Asher, Zabandis crew and Dennis Bovell. Still, the music retains a kind of vibesing outsider idiosyncrasy descended from Keith Hudson.
Kicks off with the Shaka selection Give Love A Try.
This LP offering adds dubs; the CD adds 12” versions, dubplate mixes, dubs and other unreleased material.
An outstanding reissue. Vinyl back in; last copies.
Icho Candy & his brother Prince Junior go combination-style on this previously unreleased anti-apartheid missile, using the same sick rhythm as King Kong’s unmissable Agony And Pain.
A second helping as sublimely pleasurable as the first, with Prince Buster, Rupie Edwards, Derrick Harriott, Dobby Dobson and Joe Higgs amongst the singers.
‘Enthralling to anyone,’ according to The Guardian.
Monumental Tubbys digi terror. Tougher than Lee Van Cleef. Heavier than lead and cold as ice.
Nice gospelized harmonies… with a touch of The Lecture to the flip-side sufferers.
Brilliant digi dancehall rhythms — from Firehouse to Lenky — with some new stuff thrown in by the likes of Diplo and Harmonic 313.
Surely this is a Lloyd Campbell production of The Revolutionaries, not a Niney.
Either way it’s total murder, with a dub originally entitled The Rise And Fall Of The South African Regime.
Next cut to The Heptones’ almighty We Want It.
Total murder!
A stealth-weapon version of the classic tune — same sublime Gregory, plus fatter-than-your-mama trombone by Vin Gordon, and evilous Niney dub.
Dennis Brown and Dillinger incinerate the B-side, too… Jah Is Watching / Flat Foot Hustling.
Unmissable.
Tight, classy dubs of the Revolutionaries rhythms behind Cool Ruler killers like Black A Kill Black and Uncle Joe. Classic Jammys.
Mid-seventies Alvin Ranglin productions — an original LP, not a compilation — with the Revolutionaries deep in the groove, Sylvan Morris from Studio One at the controls, the Tamlins on backing vocals, and Deadly Headley and co chipping in tough brass.
Top Gregory, with classics like Jailer and Border.