previously unreleased wackies goodness carefully restored from original session tapes (w/ download code)

a couple of excellent wackie’s 12” sides from the 80s now paired together for maximum pressure.

rerelease of classic wackies production w/ fantastic unreleased cut (w/ download code).

terrific early 80s album, full of personality and charm, with timely freshness and hybridity (w/ download code)

deep, rootical lovers b/w thirteen minutes of blissed-out disco reggae (w/ download code)
deep, rootical lovers, darkly seething with one-step-at-a-time hurt and steely, vengeful self-esteem. hypnotic, stripped and desolate, with implacable drums and bass, dubwise from the start, the production is classic, unmistakable wackies, featuring fabian cooke’s scattered, abrupt organ stabs and minimal guitar-work, ras menelik’s masterful nyabinghi drumming, and harmonic commiseration by sugar minott and the love joys (with a strangled sob at intervals). over six minutes, the extended mix is different to the love power lp, and the additional dub, released here for the first time, is unmissable for its extra rawness and dubbed-out emptiness. plus thirteen minutes of blissed-out disco reggae on the flip: two contrasting dubs of the giorgio moroder/irene cara/flashdance cut from love power, both previously unreleased and a bit sick.

stone classic bullwackies, sensationally featuring two unreleased dubs (w/ download code)
stone classic bullwackies (as excursioned by rhythm & sound for burial mix), sensationally featuring two unreleased dubs, newly extracted from the master reels. both are equally unmissable but quite different, with contrasting effects: the second dub adds ninety seconds, including whip-dem spring reverb. drawn from the selective showcase lp, the vocal mix is more open and dubwise than the sing & shout lp offering, with less keyboards. asked whether it should be mash or march, after some pondering bullwackies replied: -that’s a good question

ace mid 1980s bullwackies album w/ revised track listing (w/ download code)

classic early 80 s wackies album

reissue of obscure wackies twelve, you re back by lloyd mctaggart is one of wackies earliest and most obscure 12-. recorded around the same time as the monumental revolution / the time is now by leroy sibbles / stranger cole, it features the love joys backing vocals, lots of 70s synth percussion, the weirdest trumpet part and a wicked version as part two on the flipside.

classic 80s lovers rock style album.

massive wackies dub album from prince douglas, originally released in 1980 - essential!

classic early 80 s bullwackie prod., smooth lovers rock w/ female vox

throughout the illustrious thirty-year recording career of horace andy, with its innumerable highs, his unmistakable falsetto has lit up just three albums of indisputable greatness - skylarking, for coxsone at studio one, in the light, for everton dasilvas hungry town label, in queens, new york, and - with the biggest original impact, by far the most contemporary of the trio - dance hall style, for bullwackies in the bronx. recorded at the turn of the seventies, dance hall style reworks songs first recorded by bunny lee (money money) and derek harriott (lonely woman) - alongside a version of lloyd robinsons cuss cuss - and births classics like spying glass (later covered by massive attack). the musicians include wackies regulars like owen stewart and oral cooke from itopia, ras menilik and jah t., also horaces multi-instrumentalist spar myrie dread from the hungry town sessions. at the desk, lloyd barnes, junior delahaye and douglas levy coax unequalled vocal performances from horace andy, showcased in ineffable extended mixes.

2011 repress of rereleased, sought after early 1980s killer album from wayne jarrett.

recorded in the late seventies, originally released in 1983, the a is irresistible, bubbling sufferers . as fluently as seventies curtis it combines rapture and engagement, soul and sophistication - with scatting, jazzy stylings by roland alphonso and guitarist barry vincent, and a drum-machine still fresh as a crisp biscuit. mystic revelation in all its glory appears likewise in both the original tape and the 1983 12 inch versions.

magnificent dub album out originally on the senrab label in 1976, when lloyd barnes spars at the desk were prince douglas and jah upton, in the first months of the white plains road headquarters, and indeed as upton - disheartened by the gang warfare that had crossed the path of the bullwackies disco sound - crifted away.the selection commemorates a series of brilliant sevens and twelves on labels like city line and wackies, and sister labels like upton, versatile, and munchie jacksons earth imprint. core rhythm tracks from jamaica - treasure isle mostly, and then mixed by tubby - had been worked over at the sounds unlimited studio on e 24th street in manhattan. there are few traces of singers, though: the sylvester brothers are singled out by the label artwork here.
baba leslies black horns - next piece to wayne jarretts african woman - is spun out of the opening track. the love joys are like genies in the stunning twin mixes of disco reggae. the track dub unlimited is john clarke s pollution (unlimited dub dubs singjay coverage of the ali-frazier thriller in manilla), bullwackies revenge is a version of the chin chow rhythm, a tribute to the restaurant next door, the chosen brothers talk to the father is represented, and andrew mccallas home by the sea... but it would be wrong to bog the album down in these details - an all-time great dub lp.

incl jah. t., adopted, joe auxumite, bullwackie and leroy sibles

four songs and their dubs ? slotting in lovers, bubblers and rockers, and well charge dub, with great playing and sugar brilliantly focussed throughout ? which originally appeared in 1983 as a picture - sleeved ten -inch on the singers black roots imprint. everyone played informer, all the sounds, recalls rae cheddie, who remembers selling more than five hundred copies straight from the wackies office in soho, london. it was international ? a couple of boxes went to japan, some to mad robbie at fotofon... special dedication to all dancehall fans, it says on the label.