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Melbourne Vic 3000
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JART 01233-03
Formats
1x Vinyl LP Album Reissue Remastered Stereo
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Release date
Feb 17, 2022
Genres
Styles
Limited Gatefold issue with great sleeve notes from Dr. Buster Dynamite of this lesser known 1976 LP produced by Alvin Ranglin w/ two additional tracks
Alvin Ranglin's memories about his productions with U-Roy
"At the time I started working with U-Roy on the LP Dread In A Africa in 1975, I already recorded a few good songs two-three years before with him. But sometime after this project with U-Roy my Record Village shop at 5 Hope Road -on Half Way Tree- got broken into, and these thieves set the place on fire. At the back of the shop, I had a storeroom in which I kept many of my tapes. So some tapes were destroyed with songs from artists like Eric Morris and also some of the U-Roy project. I rented that place from a Chinese lady and she wasn't insured so I lost a lot of money there! At that time this all happened I was in England for business. So it was very stressful to me as you can imagine. Anyhow, I decided a year later on to release the five songs which I still had on tape with some instrumentals from the backing band Skin, Flesh and Bones, as a kind of a showcase album. I don't know what at Dynamic Sounds where the album master was cut by Carlton Lee. Something went wrong as the stamper didn't came out 100% how it should have been. Anyhow, I pressed a very small number of the album, around 12 copies or so, and put them in blank jackets as I didn't made a printed jacket yet. As I rented a shop to TonyRobinson on Slipe Road it make sense a few of the U-Roy albums are carrying his sticker. It got a good reception on the test pressing so I just disbanded it as I thought it was better to concentrate on recordings I did with Gregory Isaacs and Maytones, which were big sellers at that time. U-Roy was of course going strong with Tony Robinson as his producer in 1976, so I'm glad after so many years passing by this album is finally getting a proper release on the Jamaican Art label.
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A1
Children Of Jah Jah
2:20
A2
Move Out Of Pharoah Land
2:17
A3
Dread In A Earth
3:12
A4
Dreadlocks In A Africa
3:39
A5
Nana Banana
2:44
A6
354
3:23
B1
Idlers Rest
3:27
B2
Ghetto Dub
3:27
B3
Rental Skank
2:48
B4
Danger's Track
3:15
B5
War In A Jam Down
3:10
B6
Dreadlocks Dub
3:14
Wax Museum Records
250 Flinders St (downstairs)
Melbourne Vic 3000
+61451216310