Classic, feel-good, disco-friendly Lovers Rock from 1980. Sonia is so happy she sings to herself.
Titfers off for Frankie Beverly. Don.
Hard to resist Junior Murvin in this teasing, saucy mood, on a lovely nyabinghi rocksteady rhythm.
With an alternate take.
Crucial Gil Cang re-do of the eighties classic, with the man himself at the mic.
The definitive version of this sufferers’ anthem, in the best format, with a killer dub following up the deejay cut on the flip.
A short-run reissue of this excellent roots production by Carlton Lewis. Same singer as Jazzbo’s Step Forward.
No particular theme this time around… except scorchers only admitted.
A fresh, personal selection, stuffed with bangers and welcome strays and surprises; like getting a killer mix-tape from an old friend.
Jazzbo riding a vicious mix of Sidewalk Doctor, for example, and Spear’s majestic Door Peep Shall Not Enter… Wiggle’s Diggles by Noel Bailey the Hippy Boy… two sublime Sugars…
The broom to sweep the room!
Tough, horny Jah Life rockers, perplexingly with the Mikey Jarrett / Channel One rhythm just recently revived by Digikiller, on the flip.
Three chilled, heavy dubplates deployed by Junjo’s Volcano and Hyman Wright’s Jah Life soundsystems, back in the day, on John Holt’s Chanting rhythm.
Stalag… and The Carpenters’ Top Of The World.
A hollowed-out, minor-chord rhythm… SB bubbling moodily about ‘if you’re having a problem and you don’t know to solve them, down the road there is a party’... a stripped, brilliant dub.
Classic Jammys from 1987.