We were going to post about a different Cutty Ranks album today, but after searching online for a better image than the one we already had, we stumbled across this Cutty Ranks Anthology that we had no idea had been released and we got so excited that we had to mention this instead – plus [...]
Rushing ourselves back to the present day with today’s post as we take a look at ‘Pon Di Gaza’ and ‘Pon Di Gaza 2.0′. Regardless of your personal opinion on Vybz Kartel and the recent Gaza Vs Gully fuss, you can’t ignore the guy and when he’s not acting up in his ‘Thug’ persona he [...]
Produced by Harry J and released on his own label in 1983, this is another entry into the hugely popular ‘DJ confrontation’ album format – which typically saw two popular DJs dropping 5 tracks each on one album (see Yellowman Vs Josey Wales – Two Giants Clash as another example of the genre). Little John [...]
This is Sugar Minott’s self-produced 1983 album on Black Roots records (it was also later re-issued on Wackies in 2008). It’s a great album of classic dancehall vocal cuts with each tracked backed with the dub version. I love the simplicity of the album sleeve (he probably shops at discount army stores looking at the [...]
One fact that every reggae artist faces, is that at some point, at some time, a Jamaican graphic designer will spell your name wrong on your big album release – so here’s when it happened to Cocoa Tea. I like this album sleeve though, there is something not quite right about the perspective in that [...]
