V/A - Studio One Music Lab (2 LPs)

This new Studio collection on Soul Jazz Records delves deep into a melting pot world of reggae and funk and dub created at the music laboratory of 13 Brentford Road, Kingston in the 1970s – an intense collaboration of crack musicians, singers, DJs and engineers under the guidance of producer Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd. Here you will find some of the deepest and rawest cuts to emanate out the Studio One factory – truly hypnotic rhythms, powerful funk guitar and bass, soaring horns and more interspersed with occasional vocals and toasting as musicians reach for the highest heights and deepest roots of reggae music. All of these sit beside super-deep roots and dub cuts that exemplify together how Studio One was unique in Clement Dodd's pioneering vision of reggae, the music created functioning with a continuous level of experimentation that blurred the lines between genres and pushed the outer limits of reggae music at all times. This album is deep! The album comes with extensive sleevenotes by Steve Barker (Wire magazine) and comes as a double gatefold vinyl + download,

tracklisting

• 1. Hortense and the Sound Dimension - People Make the World Go
• 2. Leroy Wallace and the New Establishment - Far Beyond Version
• 3. Sound Dimension - Face Man Version
• 4. Fabian & the Vibes - Mother and Child (Part 2)
• 5. Lennie Hibbert - Go For Yourself
• 6. Dub Specialist - Chainey Roots
• 7. Brentford All Stars - the World is a Ghetto
• 8. The Jay Tees and Brentford Rockers - Forward To Jah (Part 2)
• 9. Roy Richards - Summertime
• 10. Lennie Hibbert - Snow Bird
• 11. Pablov Black - Dread Head
• 12. Cedric Im Brooks - Glory To Sound
• 13. Jackie Mittoo - Lazy Bones
• 14. Dub Specialist - Message From Dub
• 15. Jackie Mittoo - Sunshine of Your Love
• 16. Roland Alphonso - Tenor Man Trip
• 17. Ernest and the Sound Dimension - Surfin' (Part 2)