A1: Joe Higgs - Creation
A2: Stranger Cole - Freedom, Justice & Equality
A3: Super 8 Corporation - Freedom Version
A4: Louis O'Connor - Lonely & Black
B1: Pluggy Satchmo - What Rasta Say
B2: Stranger Cole & Jah Levy - I'm Living
B3: Dill Smith - Set Me Free
B4: Super 8 Corporation - Free Version
C1: Rothadam - Sampson
C2: OJ - Things Felt Right
C3: Blenders - Why Did You Run Away?
C4: Johnny Osbourne - Danger In Your Eyes
D1: Bingi Kicks & G. Campbell - Black Society
D2: Leroy Sibbles & Otravis Band - Sky Jack
D3: Bongo Ossie & Moonlights - Sky Jacking Version
D4: Pluggy Satchmo - 23rd Psalm
D5: Carl Dawkins - Luv Is Needed
The gnarliest reggae compilation in Christendom, drawn from the seventies and early-eighties heyday of this Toronto-based label, when it played host to stars like Joe Higgs, Augustus Pablo, Johnny Osbourne and Leroy Sibbles, and home to locals like Pluggy Satchmo and Dill Smith.
Raw, twisted, compelling, time-and-again staggering productions by Oswald Creary, in the tradition of his childhood-friend Lloyd Bullwackie Barnes — and Lee Perry and Keith Hudson — but utterly themselves. Rough, tough, mystical roots.
Brilliant mastering by Moritz von Oswald. Both formats come in silk-screened sleeves (and the artwork is Will Bankhead’s finest hour).
Just awesome. Hotly recommended.
