Various Artists - Studio One Music Lab - 2x LP Vinyl

(No reviews yet) Write a Review

Options

$40.79
Or

Info

SKU:c0027999 ,UPC:

Info

SKU:
c0027999
UPC:
5026328005034

Specifications

Artist, Album, Batch, Format,

Specifications

Artist:
V/A
Album:
Studio One Music Lab
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
5026328005034

Description

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.

Some of these tunes here are rare and classic versions to seminal Studio One vocal cuts from the likes of Horace Andy and Hortense Ellis. There is also a wealth of cuts from simply the greatest musicians ever to come out of Jamaica (let alone Studio One). These include Jackie Mittoo, Roland Alphonso, Cedric Brooks, Ernest Ranglin and the Brentford All-Stars. You will find straight up funk bombs such as Lennie Hibbert's mind-blowing 'Go For Yourself' (sounding like The Meters meets James Brown!), the Brentford All-Stars covering War's classic 'The World is a Ghetto', and Jackie Mittoo showing how to make Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love' into a reggae funk bomb!

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.
A1Hortense Ellis, Sound Dimension - People Make The World Go Round (Version)
A2Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, The New Establishment - Far Beyond (Version )
A3Sound Dimension - Face Man (Version)
A4Fabian Cooke, The Vibes (5) - Mother And Child (Part 2)
A5Lennie Hibbert - Go For Yourself
B1Dub Specialist - Chainey Roots
B2Brentford All Stars - The World Is A Ghetto
B3Jay Tees, Brentford Rockers - Forward To Jah (Part 2)
B4Roy Richards - Summertime
C1Lennie Hibbert - Snow Bird
C2Pablove Black - Dread Head
C3Cedric "Im" Brooks - Glory To Sound
C4Jackie Mittoo - Lazy Bones
B1Dub Specialist - Message From Dub
B2Jackie Mittoo - Sunshine Of Your Love
B3Roland Alphonso - Tenor Man Trip
B4Ernest Ranglin, Sound Dimension - Surfin' (Part 2)