Review: In 2001, Keith Finch and reggae manager Othman Mukhlis began retro reggae projects at Stanley House Studio. JA13 collaborated with 60s reggae legends like Alton Ellis, Derrick Morgan, Winston Francis, and Rico Rodriguez, leading to two solo albums with Rodriguez, championed by David Rodigan and Ranking Miss P. Their music appeared in TV shows and films, including Hawaii 5-0, Tesco ads, BBC programs, and 'Death in Paradise' and they've also contributed to a forthcoming Shaggy documentary. Finch worked with artists like Bob Andy, General Saint, and Madness and JA13's latest project is 'World Radio Dub - Chapter One.'
Review: A heavyweight slab of UK roots and dub, originally released on the Jah Warrior label in 1997 and which now hears a welcome reissue via Partial Records. Presented in a showcase style, with each vocal followed by the dub counterpart, One Of These Days was produced by Jah Warrior and mixed by Dougie Wardrop in London. Clean but oppressively weighty in the sub-200-hertz range, every vocal and version here slaps harder than a frozen fish round the dome, but as evidenced by the top end, Warrior sees this as no excuse not to work in endearingly cute flute, Melodica and sci-fi motifs, to which the delays are applied liberally in almost every case. Prime your ears for snappy SFX-laden snake-rattlers such as 'One Of These Days', amid headier, heavier cuts like 'Pollution Dub'.
Review: Slyly reissued for the new millennium, Lowell "Sly" Dunbar hears his flame relit as both the front face and back beat of Sly & The Revolutionaries, on this reissued 1980 collaboration with Jah Thomas. The second LP to be released by the in-house Channel One Studios band, then under the auspices of Chinese-Jamaican exec Joseph Hoo Kim, this is a red-and-black insurrection in sound, induing beret, spliff and bayonet. Dunbar, the prolific reggae drummer, is heard in almost crystalline sound here, reflecting the scrupulous recording quality of Channel One employ in the late 70s. Each track is a tribute to a drug or paraphernalia, and our faves have to be 'Rizla' and 'Cocaine'.
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