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September 5, 2012, at 9:19 pm

Pressure Sounds meet Bunny Lee

Out now on Pressure Sounds four 7″ singles featuring Bunny Lee productions, three from the early 70′s and a single 60′s rocksteady double sider. They all come on impressive replica labels and with printed die cut sleeves.

Slim Smith – Turning Point/The Aggrovators – Version (Lee’s) One of two Slim Smith sides in this [...]

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October 9, 2010, at 6:02 pm

Studio First On Ebay

An almost regular look at the last seven days of reggae vinyl sales on ebay returns after a couple of weeks off.

Studio One has always been a difficult one. Though rightly popular it’s a mine field for people chasing down original tunes due to the myriad of different Jamaican labels and the very variable [...]

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October 5, 2010, at 8:18 pm

Unique Pressure Sounds

When I first heard that Pressure Sounds were putting out a compilation of material from the Uniques I was a little dubious as they had already released a CD of the group around a dozen years ago called Watch This Sound. As I noted when first mentioning this release there was little to worry about [...]

Category: Early Reggae, Re-issues, Rocksteady | 3 comments |
September 21, 2010, at 12:23 am

Ebay Watching (10 from 7)

An almost regular look at the last seven days of reggae vinyl sales on ebay.

Though reggae music is absolutely not about who has the most money to pay for tunes I thought it would be interesting to look strictly at some of the heighest selling prices in the last week.

Wayne Marshall And The [...]

Category: Digital, Early Reggae, Rocksteady, Roots | 2 comments |
April 26, 2010, at 10:30 am

A rocksteady style: Jump And Shout

So here is another old mix from my old podomatic site. This is called Jump And Shout. As I said in Feb 2007 when this first appeared: A Rocksteady mix focussing mainly on the later period circa 1968 just as the music was turning into Reggae.

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Who Will [...]

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March 5, 2009, at 11:38 pm

Watch These Sounds at Tighten Up

To celebrate the return of Tighten Up this Saturday I thought I’d put up one of the most popular mixes I previously featured on the podomatic site. Enjoy.

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Watch These Sounds – a third Rocksteady mix Rocksteady turns Reggae circa 1968

Uniques – Beatitude (UK Island) John Holt [...]

Category: Downloads, Rocksteady, Tighten Up | 3 comments |
January 26, 2008, at 3:14 am

Peter Tosh sevens box

Clive Chin is putting together a box set of late 60′s Peter Tosh singles with help from UK record dealer Bob Brooks from Reggae Revive. All will be Randy’s productions except record 2 which is a Lee Perry production. The release date is slated for early March.

Record 1 A. You Can’t Fool Me Again [...]

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