Back to Black' was the second studio album by English recording artist Amy Winehouse, released October 4, 2006 on Island Records.It incorporates 1960s soul music styles and modern R&B production, with subjective lyrics that concern relationships and reflect on Winehouse's experiences with drinking, sex, and drugs. The album produced several singles, including 'Rehab', 'You Know I'm No Good', 'Back to Black', 'Tears Dry on Their Own', and 'Love Is a Losing Game'.'Back to Black' received positive reviews from most music critics, earning praise for its classicist soul influences, Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson's production, and Winehouse's songwriting and emotive singing style. At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, 'Back to Black' won five awards, tying the record (with Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé Knowles, Norah Jones, and Alison Krauss) for the second-most awards won by a female artist in a single ceremony. The album won Best Pop Vocal Album, while 'Rehab' won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Song of the Year and Record of the Year with Amy Winehouse winning Best New Artist. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year. To date, 'Back to Black' has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

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!

- 10th Anniversary

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.

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.

- 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

Purple Vinyl.

''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".

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.

Santa Cruz's sensational soul stompers The Inciters are back once again with the new five-song EP I Give You My Soul on Pirates Press Records. The veteran 10-piece band have kept very busy since their fan-favorite 2023 LP Bring Back the Weekend, and they entered the studio with a batch of fresh new material that was still taking shape, allowing each member's contributions to truly shine!

- 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.

Wer Fan des Hamburger Fußball-Regionalligisten Altona 93 ist, der kann kein schlechter Mensch sein. Und wenn eine Band dem Verein sogar eine Vereinshymne schreibt, dann hat sie bei mir schon mal einen Stein im Brett. Erstaunlich ist nur, dass einige Leute aus meinem Bekanntenkreis NO LIFE LOST erst durch das besagte Stadionlied kennengelernt haben, denn die Ska-Punk-Truppe aus Hamburg existiert schon seit über 18 Jahren, und neben diversen Singles ist die Band mittlerweile bei ihrem immerhin vierten Album angelangt. Angefangen mit überwiegend englischsprachigen Punkrocksongs wendete sich die Band Mitte der 90er Jahre zunehmend deutschsprachigen Texten zu und integrierte Ska-Elemente in ihren Sound. „Von Santa Fu bis Saint Tropez“ verdeutlicht, dass sich NO LIFE LOST auch in ihrer Ska-Punk-Zeit kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt haben: Zwar hat sich die Art und Weise, rockige Punkriffs mit Ska-Offbeats und Bläsersätzen zu kombinieren seit dem letzten Album „Melodien gegen den Abstieg“ nicht großartig verändert, doch während mich bei diesem nur wenige Songs richtig überzeugen konnten, wirken die Lieder auf „Von Santa Fu bis Saint Tropez“ insgesamt deutlich harmonischer und ausgereifter, was unter anderem auf eine gesteigerte Dosis Soul in den Stücken zurückzuführen sein könnte. Es muss nicht immer nur direkt nach vorne gehen, sondern es darf zwischendurch auch mal gegroovt werden, und dies steht der Platte ziemlich gut zu Gesicht. Die äußerst fußballaffinen Texte wissen auch diesmal wieder zu überzeugen, denn egal, ob man das sensible Thema Frauenfußball anschneidet, von der eigenen Profi-Karriere träumt oder Kevin Keegan eine längst überfällige Hymne zusammenzimmert – NO LIFE LOST schaffen es stets mit Bravour, humorvolle Zeilen zu dichten und dabei albernen Plattheiten charmant auszuweichen. Fassen wir also zusammen: Du hast Humor? Du gehst zum Fußball? Du hörst gerne Ska-Punk? Dann brauchst du wohl dieses Album!