Gorgeous…and backed with rudeboy anthem A Man Of Chances.
Two counts of murder.
‘You think you can hold me down, you think you can tie me down… I’m a man for chances.’
Sublimely versioning the almighty Curtis anthem; with another rocksteady clarion-call on the flip, brassy and more stern, by The Hamlins.
Dynamite, previously unissued rocksteady version of the monumental Skatalites scorcher from a few years earlier.
Stone cold murder. Archetypal, slow-mo, eastern-sounds post-ska from Jackie Mittoo, Dizzy Moore, Roland Alphonso and co, around 1965.
An expert sampling of the original Studio One dub LPs, plus a couple of wild cards.
A brazenly irresistible blend of unlikely secret weapons and stone cold classic killers, Soul Jazz style and fashion.
Deliriously creative wordplay overflowing some of the mightiest reggae rhythms of all time.
Surely a must.
The truly iconic compilation from 1965, when ska was in its full, irrepressible, post-colonial glory.