Go straight to the head-spinning dub. Magnificently zonked, killer music emanating from the wildly creative seismic crack which links the Upsetter in Kingston to Bullwackies in New York, and both to Half Moon in Toronto. Man called Fitty leads the Ishan Band, on flute and saxophone; Jerry aka Keith absolutely smashes it, at the controls. From 1978.

Jerry Brown was a founding member of rocksteady aces The Jamaicans, long before migrating to Canada. He helped Oswald Creary establish the Half Moon label; he set up his own Summer imprint in 1974. Both labels shared the same studio, in the basement of Creary’s house, on a dead-end street in Malton, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Local and visiting reggae alumni would hang out and make music: Jackie Mittoo, Willie Williams, Johnny Osbourne, Prince Jammy, Stranger Cole, Alton Ellis…