Barrington Levy, Poor Man Style; Roots Radics, Scientist and Jammy Strike Back; The Viceroys, We Must Unite; Tristan Palma, Settle Down Girl

The four albums — The Birth Of Ska, Latin Goes Ska, The Skatalite!, and Don Drummond Greatest Hits — plus nineteen extras.

Barrington Levy’s Poor Man Style album, Scientist & Prince Jammy Strike Back, The Viceroys’ We Must Unite, Tristan Palma’s Settle Down Girl… and a couple of Majestarians.

A jackpot of no less than forty-four late-seventies toasts, produced by Errol T and Joe Gibbs.
Brilliantly exuberant wordplay over classic Mighty Two rhythms.
Droopy drawers, 44; stuffed with winners.

Wildly creative and exuberant, and seismically innovative, here are all Daddy U-Roy’s Treasure Isles — the two LP collections Version Galore and eponymous U-Roy from back in the day, plus seventeen well-chosen bonus tracks, including the spare sevens, alternate takes, studio chat, and a bunch of deadly instrumentals. Deliriously great music; absolutely indispensable.

A staggering haul. One Train Load of murder.
Fire bunn!

The Ethiopians’ Slave Call LP and two Freddie McGregors — Mr McGregor and Showcase aka Lover’s Rock Jamaica Style — plus a dazzling haul of singles from 1978, revealing Niney at the peak of his genius, and easily worth the dough by themselves.

Niney and Tubby’s dubs from 45s, 1976-1978. Total murder. Heavyweight genius.

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.

Coupled with Ken Boothe’s Boothe Unlimited LP, another Lloyd Charmers production.