Excellent uptempo digi, with burning horns and a decent dub. No sitar and tablas, unfortunately.

Mesmeric, spare, funky, forward-looking dubs led by the Soul Syndicate drummer.

Winston’s daughter, on a vintage Channel One rhythm; produced last year by Franklin ‘Steamers A Bubble’ Irving. Straight to the head of all nationalists and xenophobes.

A rockers update of Bob Andy’s almighty scorcher, mimicking Marley’s yodeling vocalese for extra authority.

Freddie in his heyday like this was one of the greatest singers in reggae history.
He’s in soaring, inspirational form here, riding a hard-as-nails Niney rhythm.
The organ-led dub is dazzling. Mark Ernestus from Rhythm & Sound recently opened a set with one of its incarnations, at the already-legendary Open Ground club in Wuppertal.
Both sides, classics.

Not a best-of compilation, this is the great singer’s fine fourth LP, squaring up to Roots in 1977, with the Revolutionaries.

First time on 45 for this excursion on the heavy Roots Radics rhythm used for Barrington Levy’s Englishman.

Two songs from the Weh Dem Fah album — Wicked Can’t Run Away and Sleng Teng excursions.

Riding a new version of killer Roy Dobson roots with the lyrics of his Photographer classic… but actually it’s the flute-led dub which does it for us.

Tough, dismissive, soundboy digi. A King Tubby dubplate from 1986.