From 1967 Ras Michael occasionally sat in on recording sessions with Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Vendors at Studio One. Instead of getting paid for his work, he requested studio time for his own Zion Disc recordings as the Sons of Negus Churchical Host…
‘Reggae is a vision. Reggae is the word that hits at the heartstrings the mind can’t control. I and I get the message of Rastafari out through reggae. It is the black music line of message to the world. It is the black Rastaman line of message to the world. It is the metaphorical Black Star Line’ (Ras Michael).

Hard-to-find sides, including a handful of Upsetters and Tubbys, and a late sixties offering — as Winston Cool — engineered by Andy Capp.

On a Jimmy London; with a Peter Tosh melodica version.

An eighties set of Tado’s dubs of rhythms recorded at Ariwa and Easy Street by the Mad Professor and Sid Bucknor.

A chacteristically up-for-it and punchy next cut of the Yabby You, with a concussive dub; first out in the mid-eighties.

Fabulous rocking Saharan trance from this band — five women and four men — formed in a refugee camp during the Tuareg uprising of the early nineteeen-nineties. Via the team behind Congotronics.

Romping-stomping, fuck-this-shit, soulful Detroit house.
An Aaron Carl remix doubles the trouble, fervently animated by the spirit of Prince.

Stone classic Detroit techno. Cosmic, fierce and free. Still thrilling.
Utterly essential.