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Immortals (Bobbie Sharkie) - Babylon / Version
Don One / Bond Export / Deeper Knowledge US 1975
N/A
Producer Danny Ffrench's DON 1 label only had a trio of releases, but all were stellar.
Various - Pressure Sounds Record Store Day Box (7"x 5)
Pressure Sounds UK 1973- 1975
¥9800 (US$62.95)
Wailing Souls - Very Well / Version
Channel One / Digikiller / Deeper Knowledge US
N/A
An undeniable classic straight from 29 Maxfield Avenue. The Wailing Souls' "Very Well", all-time epic roots reggae, and as impassioned a song about repatriation as ever sung. This 12-inch reissue replaces the B-side "Fire Coal Man" from the original release with a full extended dub of "Very Well"!
Leroy Smart - Love Me Tonight; Dub / Super Chick - Bees Man; Dub
Channel One / Digikiller / Deeper Knowledge US
N/A
A great double-sider, Leroy Smart's "Love Me Tonight" and Super Chick's "Bees Man." The Leroy is on the same killer riddim, which we call "Over Me", as tunes we've previously released by Barry Brown and Horace Andy. The Super Chick tune is the deejay cut to the "fight fight" riddim and one of our all-time favorite female deejay tunes. Both sides with dubs!
Sir Harry - Power House / Version
Sir Collins / Digikiller / Deeper Knowledge US 197-
N/A
"Power House" by Sir Harry, another rare beast from the vaults. This track is alternately know by several names, usually based on the cryptic words spoken by Sir Harry in the intro, and bears no real official title, the original release being only on a blank label. The title "Power House" comes from Charlie Morgan's excellent Studio 1 discography, and we've used it here as a nod to his invaluable work. But on to the music, Sir Harry's tune is not so much his own, as the old time chatter only interjects a few odd phrases here and there. Really the tune is a phenomenal instrumental workout on the same rhythm as "You Touch My Soul", with organ and bongo drum overdubs propelling the awesome rhythm forward, while the Invaders' vocals are heard ever so faintly in the background, bleeding thru from the other track on the 2-track master.
Barrington Spence - Wake You Shake You / Where Your Footsteps Led
Pressure Sounds UK 1973
¥1580 (US$10.15)
Invaders - You Touch My Soul / Version
Sir Collins / Digikiller / Deeper Knowledge US 197-
¥1680 (US$10.79)
Though little is recalled about this harmony group from Trenchtown & Greenwich Farm, their small output during the 1970's was deadly enough, cutting records for Studio One (mostly as harmonizers), Prince Jazzbo, GG's, Lloyd 'Printer' Campbell, and most notably, Sir Collins. "You Touch My Soul" is something of legend among collectors and Studio 1 fiends alike. Sir Collins had the distinction of being among a handful of outside producers to have rented Coxsone Dodd's Studio 1, and produced his own music there. "You Touch My Soul" is one such record, unmistakably by its sound, cut at Brentford Road. A deep, uptempo rhythm underpins the Invaders beautiful vocals, while a majestic trombone comes in and out of the mix. The flipside of the record features a straight instrumental version of the rhythm, as originally only released on the very rare NY issue of the tune on the Waricka label (the UK issue on Sir Collins' own Music Wheel label was on a 4-track EP including other vocal cuts by other artists, and no version).
Johnny Clarke - Every Knee Shall Bow / King Tubby, Aggrovators - King Tubby's Dub
Jackpot UK 1975
¥2980 (US$19.14)
I Roy - Sky Juice & Festival Dumpling / Dub
Channel One / Digikiller / Deeper Knowledge US
¥1180 (US$7.58)
All Channel diehards should know this tune, as it's the deejay cut to our man Enforcer's all time classic roots tune, "Pay Them" and is of course, well heavy. This one is backed with a previously unreleased dub of the rhythm, different again from the "Pay Them" single dub side.
