Unmissable rocksteady: a magnificent version of the Curtis; and a hard-rocking Never Let Me Go.
Superb late-eighties digi, with all the trimmings.
Al Campbell in top form at the mic; classy horns and backing vocals; rollicking rhythm; masterful, frolicsome Niney production.
Surveying 1974-1978 at King Tubby’s studio, with Scientist in particular coming through. Randy’s and Channel One rhythms — Anywhere But Nowhere, No No No — featuring the likes of Robbie Shakespeare, Lloyd Parks, Sly, Carlton Barrett, Augustus Pablo, and Chinna. A bouquet of exclusive cuts, only issued once before, in the mid-nineties, by Zola & Zola.
After Lee Perry’s party-starter Return Of Django crashed the UK charts at number five in 1968, Trojan rounded up the best of his other instrumentals, as an LP under the same title. Brilliant boss organ heat like Cold Sweat and Night Doctor.
They swiftly followed up with another bunch of lean and mean JA funk — still dressed as a Spaghetti Western soundtrack — culminating in the astounding Tight Spot.
In-a-state TWENTY-EIGHT original Upsetters here.
All mint or near enough; labels as pictured.
This one is prime Dennis Alcapone.
Copper-bottomed rocksteady do-over of Take Five, by Buster’s go-to saxophonist. The title is nicked from a comedy film directed by Norman Jewison, out a couple of years beforehand in 1966.
Plus Glen Adams having a not so shabby go at an Eddie Holman, on the flip.