Soul Jazz Records Presents - Studio One Down Beat Special - VINYL LP

New one-off press limited edition transparent orange coloured triple vinyl edition (+ download code) of Soul Jazz Records long unavailable Studio One Scorcher featuring a blistering collection of rare and classic cuts recorded at Studio One. // Studio One Scorcher is one of the most important collection in Soul Jazz Records' Studio One series, bringing together an unmissable collection of stand-out cuts from many of the finest players ever in Jamaica and in reggae music. // Featuring The Skatalites, Jackie Mittoo, Tommy McCook, Cedric Brooks, Tommy McCook, The Sound Dimension, Don Drummond, Brentford Road All Stars and more - this triple album is the bomb. Heavy, heavy tunes from start to finish! All killer no filler! // These tunes encompass ska, rocksteady, roots, dub and more. Studio One instrumentals are the foundation of Reggae. They literally define reggae music! Many of these classic recordings became the basis for everything that followed in reggae music, replayed and versioned 1000s of times. // Here you will find Jackie Mittoo's seminal 'Sidewalk Doctor', Don Drummond Jnr's classic 'Heavenless', The Soul Vendors' Ringo Rock' and the Sound Dimension's 'Heavy Rock'. All original artists and original classic tunes, all on one album. Not to mention a host of utterly superb rarities from the mighty vaults of Studio One. 100% essential!A1. The Skatalites - Coconut RockA2. Cedric I'm Brooks & The Sound Dimension - Mun-Dun-GoA3. Tommy McCook, Richard Ace, The Skatalites & Disco Height - Shockers RockB1. Soul Vendors - Ringo RockB2. Jackie Mittoo & Ernest Ranglin - Jericho SkankB3. New Establishment - The People SkankingB4. Karl Bryan & The Afrokats - Money GeneratorC1. Lester Sterling - Afrikaan BeatC2. Sound Dimension - Heavy RockC3. Sugar Belly - In Cold BloodD1. Don Drummond & The Skatalites - HeavenlessD2. Soul Bros. - BugalooD3. Vin Gordon - Red BloodE1. Pablov

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes . This Studio One 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!

Limited double vinyl LP pressing. Soul Jazz Records' presents the soundtrack to the feature-length documentary Studio One Story. Studio One Story is a documentary this is both a staggering slice of musical history and a definitive guide to Studio One, Jamaica's greatest ever record company, and it's legendary founder, Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd. Described by Chris Blackwell as the Motown of Jamaica, or 'The University of Reggae', Studio One is where the careers of literally hundreds of reggae artists began. The movie is the true story of reggae music and it's Jamaican roots told from the inside. This soundtrack includes tracks by Sugar Minott, Ken Boothe, Marcia Griffiths, Jackie Mittoo, Skatalites, King Stitt and Coxsone Dodd himself.