The Universal take on Trojan
July 21, 2008 – 10:48 pm
Trojan Records under the ownership of Sanctuary lead a bit of a schizophrenic existance, some great and inspired reissues always vied for shelfspace with cheap and nasty box sets and compilations of the same old tunes by celebrity deejays that very few people had even heard of.
Since Trojan was bought by Universal a good few months ago there had been very few new re-issues from them until recently. In April there was a box of 7″ singles featuring the earliest releases on the Trojan label and in August comes a “Deluxe edition” re-issue of the first Tighten Up LP on double CD. This is kind of nice at it collects together the B sides of the original singles that went to make up the compilation and a load more similar tunes, 47 in total. there is nothing especially rare and a few week tunes look like they will disrupt the flow but all in all this promises to be a solid collection of rocksteady and early reggae.
We hope they remember to pay the royalties to all those involved.
From ska tunes for Justin Yap, to 70’s roots masterpieces to now, the singer Claudius Linton tells it all in this interview at 
Though the Tighten Up monthly sessions are no more, Mistah Brown, Champian and Tim P are still round and about. The crew will be guesting on the Gladdy Wax Sound System at Notting Hill Carnival again this year. We’ll be playing on the Sunday, the time is not confirmed but we’ll be in the area pretty much all day so come down and join in the festivities.
Continuing in their irregular series of 12″ discomix re-issues Greensleves have the following slated for early August release:
The latest issue of Wax Poetics magazine (No 29 June/July) has an interesting looking feature on Cedric Brooks, it spans several pages and has some great photo’s with it. Unfortunately the magazine sells for around £7/8 in the UK which is mad. 