Junior Roy and Dub Shepherds have taken their chances and announced the release of a showcase album this spring! TRODDIN ON, as it's called, brings together the best tracks from the fruitful collaboration between the young singer and the Shepherds. After a notable debut 12-inch single - Junior Roy at Bat Records - the three friends couldn't stop there. This new album confirms their long-term partnership, etching the grooves of five tailor-made tracks into wax. And since the Dub Shepherds don't do things by halves, the musical encounter is presented in a showcase format, associating each song with its Dub version, for a generous album, and always more Hardmix!

- Limited Edition- Green vinyl Wicked collection of early 70s Studio One tunes w/ highlights including alternate takes of Ken Boothe's Moving Away and Im and David's classic Heavy Beat. Also includes The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari's So Long Rastafari, The Heptones Suspicious Minds plus lots of rarities.This album was meant to come out on Bamboo in the UK in 1971 as a sampler for Studio One tracks released in the UK on Bamboo but never came out as the company went bust - but was instead released on Attack in 1974. Has been out of print for 50 years - Studio One are releasing the original album also with 2 bonus tracks. What's not to love?

Rock A Shacka presents the long-awaited third release of Prince BUSTER's treasured music! The album contains a total of 12 songs, covering everything from Jamaican funk to rock steady to early reggae. Including seven previously unreleased or alternate versions of songs, the selection is more than funky and does not betray its title. Buster chose the ghetto cemetery where the Rude Boys who had gone before him were laid to rest. He was a legendary man who never forgot his rude boy spirit until the end.

Building on the massive success of the Greensleeves and Channel One Soundsystem collaboration "Down in The Dub Vaults', we now join forces with the iconic Iration Steppas for another deep exploration into the world of Dubs, the second release in our "Soundsystem" series. - The masterful selector Mark Iration has been given full access to the Greensleeves archives, carefully curating a powerful selection of Roots and Dub treasures that have long been staples of the Iration Steppas soundsystem. - This collection features legendary Jamaican vocalists such as Michael Prophet, Johnny Osbourne, and Wailing Souls, among others. The second disc takes you into the Echo Chamber, show casing Dub versions from Heavyweights like Roots Radics, Augustus Pablo and The Revolutionaries-complete with Tony McDermott illustrated inner sleeves and photos from the Iration Steppas archives in this gatefold package. - The first edition of our Soundsystem series (with Channel One Soundsystem) flew off the shelves, with demand far exceeding supply-don't miss out this time!

Keith Hudson’s Nuh Skin Up Dub is a deep, heavyweight dub album that stands as one of the most potent statements in the genre’s history. Released in 1979, this sonic masterpiece showcases Hudson’s signature dark, almost mystical production style, where heavy basslines, echo-drenched drums, and ghostly fragments of vocals swirl together in a hypnotic haze. Unlike the more polished, accessible dub records of the time, Nuh Skin Up Dub is raw, unfiltered, and experimental, pushing the boundaries of rhythm and space. Tracks like "Nuh Skin Up" and "Felt We Felt the Strain" pulse with an eerie, almost menacing energy, while Hudson’s masterful use of reverb and delay creates a soundscape that feels simultaneously expansive and claustrophobic. Often referred to as the “Dark Prince of Reggae,” Hudson had an uncanny ability to craft music that was both deeply meditative and unsettling, and Nuh Skin Up Dub is a prime example of his genius. It's a record that rewards deep listening—every spin reveals new layers of sonic detail, hidden textures, and dub wizardry. For fans of heavy, atmospheric dub, Nuh Skin Up Dub is an essential listen, a landmark recording that solidifies Keith Hudson’s status as one of the most visionary figures in reggae history.

Das brandneue siebte Album der dänischen Rocksteady-Combo:Leave Me Here To My Quixotic Moods“ enthält elf neue Originalsongs in der bandeigenen Mischung aus Ska, Reggae, Soul und Rocksteady

Many reggae music historians feel that the rocksteady period of Jamaican music only lasted for a brief period of time from the years 1966 to about 1968. Clearly, they have not been in tune with what the legendary rocksteady duo of Keith & Tex have been up to in this modern era of reggae music. Since reuniting in the late 1990’s, Keith & Tex have released four albums of original material grounded in the solid foundation of the sound called rocksteady, with their newest album, ‘Gun Life’, being number five, following that same traditional path. During this reformation and reconnection of these longtime childhood friends from Kingston, Jamaica, Keith & Tex have traveled the globe thrilling audiences in the US, Mexico, South America, Japan and across the European continent with their version of modern rocksteady. Their performances are full of mega hits of the 1960’s like 'Stop That Train,' ‘Tonight’, 'Don’t Look Back,' and 'Down The Street,' as well as the new songs they have penned, embrace timeless themes that always play well to audiences young and old. ‘Gun Life' is another collaboration with the highly regarded and proficient producer from Spain, Roberto Sanchez, and his Lone Ark Riddim Force. The band backs Keith & Tex with authentic, bubbly, driving rocksteady riddims freshly created for this project. The music carries the gamut of universal topics of life such as the trials and tribulations of love with songs like 'She’s Gone' and 'Gave You My Heart.' The track 'Give Me One Reason,' where Babylon has taken the resources of Africa under false pretenses -- 'Give me one good reason to trust you...the good book in one hand and a weapon in the other'-- is an example of a song that gives a common theme a new twist.

''Sulla Rotta Dei Venti'' (On the Route of the Winds) is the brand-new album of Italian ska-jazz maestros North East Ska*Jazz Orchestra (NESJO). A collection of eleven own-penned original tracks, written and composed between 2020 and 2023, that frames a new chapter in the ten-year career of the band. In this record, NESJO bravely explores other worlds through music, which, as we know, is always also an inner quest. It is at the same time an effort to place their own music at the centre of the time and space in which they live, even at the cost of going beyond the stylistic limits linked to the band's chosen musical genre. Although, these new 11 cuts are built around rhythms that are undeniably of Jamaican origin, melodies are tainted with music from other traditions and sometimes also feature pop elements. Somehow, in this new album, NESJO has chosen to let the jazz big-band out of the orchestra pit and to mix with the popular sound of the street. Through the tracks of the record, NESJO creates mixed ensembles with the use of instruments such as strings, accordion, flute, clarinet, horn, tuba… together with the band's regular branding of sax, trumpets and trombones. Another novelty of this work is that the non-instrumental tracks are sung in Italian by the three singers Freddy Frenzy, Michela Grena and Rosa Mussin. And the musical journey takes us to exotic but at the same time very close sounds in 21st century Europe: Balkan (“Piazza Della Liberta”, “CiganSka #1”), Arabic (“Petrolio”), African (“Nimi Muzima”), Italian (“Roma Tokyo Paris”), and ska (“Donna Di Chi”) and a sophisticated ska-jazz suite (“Sulla Rotta Dei Venti”). The opening words of the first track of the album give us a glimpse of the feeling of vindication, brotherhood and hope contained in this set of songs: "Where is the empathy for those in difficulty / in the streets of Trieste that shout with vitality / indifference hearts of stone / dense black Balkan agony".

- Blue Vinyl Limitiertes blaues Vinyl! Über vier Alben hinweg hat sich Pachyman als meisterhafter Handwerker des Dub-Reggae bewiesen. Inspiriert von Legenden wie King Tubby und Scientist, nutzt er Vintage-Equipment, erschafft monumentale Klangwelten und versteht intuitiv die hypnotische Kraft der Wiederholung. Mit 'Another Place' geht er einen Schritt weiter: Er verbindet Dub mit den vielfältigen Einflüssen moderner Musik - von der Synth-Pop-Ästhetik eines William Onyeabor und Yellow Magic Orchestra bis hin zu den tiefen, atmosphärischen Klängen von Basic Channel’s Dub-Techno. Ein Album, das Tradition ehrt und zugleich neue Klangräume erschließt.

Must have für Roots und Dubfans. Social Living eine der größten Roots-LPs, hier mit Living Dub Vol. 1 einer der besten Dub-LPs ever als Bonus. Supersound Inkl.

CompilationGatefold Originally released in 2019 by Soul Jazz as a box set of 7”s for Record Store Day but now issued as a standard double LP compilation, Studio One Showcase 45 Expanded Edition reads as a veritable who’s who of great reggae artists whose careers began at Kingston’s legendary Studio One run by Clement “Coxsone” Dodd. Features tracks from the likes of The Skatalites, Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, Freddie McGregor, Horace Andy and Bob Marley & The Wailers.