Ain’t no house like Waterhouse for Black Crucial, Anthony Johnson, Junior Reid and co.

Retrieved from around 2010 — ‘the best album Prince made in the last two decades of his life’, according to The Guardian. ‘From its opening title track — stark, slow-motion funk in which Prince casts a weary eye over the state of the nation, a spiritual younger cousin of Sign o’ the Times — it gradually reveals itself to be of completely different quality to anything he deigned to release at the time: a collection of largely brilliant, socially aware songs. It’s often inspired by early 70s soul, most notably golden-era Curtis Mayfield.’

The Deluxe edition includes a CD, Blu-ray, poster, book, the works.

Nice, mid-tempo tune, Eek A Mouse style and fashion.

Thumping soundboy frightener from 1987, with nice Eastern flourishes.

‘Yes we nice, yes we nice… Hold them, music, hold them, yes, we control them… no we nah go let them stray.’ Dancehall manners — on the rhythm Delgado used for Rasta People — as clinically murderous as all-time EJ hits for Jammys like Rock Them One By One and Turn Up The Heat.

Congo Call, such a killer. With Sonny Simmons.