Scorcher. Ska at the threshold of rocksteady. Mittoo and Dizzy Moore do it to it.
God’s own ska. Cornerstone of the Far East in reggae. (No Augustus Pablo without it.) We put a dubplate mix on Studio One Scorcher; first ever time out for the second take here.
Previously-unreleased takes of this ball of fire hurtling East with no survivors (from the second Ska Authentic). Pitiless, wondrous companion-piece to Last Call, from the same session.
A masterful, sublime cover of the Young Holt by the newly-formed Sound Dimension; backed with Roy Richards’ classic harmonica version of Summertime.
Two all-time ska masterpieces: back-to-back fire.
A Skatalites charger and a jolt of vintage Ethiopian ska rumpus.
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.