The dub is tough, funky drum-and-bass business, with stiff shots of guitar and brass.

Classic, feel-good, disco-friendly Lovers Rock from 1980. Sonia is so happy she sings to herself.

Titfers off for Frankie Beverly. Don.

Brawny, get-onboard rocksteady, with nyabinghi drumming throughout — including a tasty break. A first sighting of Solomon, from Police And Thieves.

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.

Vintage Tikiman. Instrumentalist, singer and producer; laying back in both analogue and digital settings.

Stupendous rendition of a Chinese folk song over red-hot rocksteady, produced by Ronnie Narsalla in 1967. Aimed at the Chinese community in Kingston; super-rare ever since.
Pure worries. The guaranteed musical detonation of any kind of dance or party.
Cheng, evidently, not Chang. Essential reading, here.

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.