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!
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.
- 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?
Das brandneue 7. 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".
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.
- 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.
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.
Vinyl 1 LP, Sea Bluevinyl 2, LP, Orange Crush
Limited Edition ReissueStereo140g,30th Anniversary
Formed in London in 1993, Dreadzone’s name was coined by Don Letts, who
has contributed the foreword to this 30th anniversary pressing of their
second and most successful album; a boundary-breaking blend of
electronic instruments, folk and Celtic music, sampling and dub
experimentation conceived as a celebration of multicultural BritainWith
contributions from reggae legend Earl Sixteen and Miranda Sex Garden’s
Donna McKevitt, it features the group's biggest UK single, ‘Little
Britain’, here (at the request of the artist) in the vocal form that the
band have always played live, rather than the instrumental that was on
the original release.The lacquers have been cut from the original
analogue sources by long-time Dreadzone mastering engineer, Matt Colton,
at Metropolis Studios..
- Limited Edition- Numbered
LP version. The Ramones were punks before punk rock was even invented.
With their catchy, sing-along tunes, iconic hair styles and outfits,
Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy rewrote rock history and are now, as
part of the first wave of US punk, firmly considered part of the
subcultural world heritage. In the DUB-cultural world, on the other
hand, their footprint has been pretty slim, particularly if one
considers their stomping, three-chord songs, instantly recognizable
chants and laconic humor. There are a few reggae and Latin versions of
their songs online, but never before have the Ramones been honored with
an entire album in early reggae style -- until now. The label Echo
Beach, a bit of a specialist for missions such as these, got together
with Andre Meyer (production, bass) and Manougazou (production, guitar).
Also back in the team is keyboarder and DubXanne mastermind Guido
Craveiro, who plays Hammond organ and piano on half of the tracks. The
other two additions to the core team are singer and all-round
instrumentalist Sebastian Sturm and drummer Raul Pfeffer. Together they
homed in on some of the most iconic Ramones three-minute-singalongs,
including ''Blitzkrieg Bop'', ''I Wanna Be Sedated'', ''Pet Sematary''
and ''Rock'n'Roll Highschool'', and treated them to a reggae make-over.
From up-and-coming youngsters to living legends, everyone is included,
albeit with a focus on the elder statemen and stateswomen: the vast
majority of the guests are over 60 and look back on deeply impressive
careers! The artists come from Jamaica, the USA, the UK and Germany. All
contributed one or two songs, and all of them tackle the songs in pairs
with infectiously good humor, transforming legendary punk rock bangers
into unpredictable dub tracks. It almost goes without saying that the
lyrics have been adapted to everyday Jamaican life with a great deal of
fun and creativity.
- RSD 2025 Edition
- Limited Edition -
Reissue
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Tricolour Green, Gold & Red Vinyl
A Greatest Hits set spanning Peter Tosh’s complete Parlophone catalogue,
including Johnny B. Goode, Wanted Dread and Alive and Bush Doctor.
Originally released in 1987 in Brazil only, now being reissued globally
on Red, Green and Yellow tri-colour vinyl.