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Even leaving aside the epochal title track, this is unmissable. Wildly original Jammys rhythms, cool as cucumber, with his old next-door-neighbour in full flow. Fire like E20, Like A Dragon, My Lord My God, Icky All Over…

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.

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.