Digitally remastered edition of this classic Reggae album. As the '60s drew to a close, the British charts were rocked by an explosion of Reggae sounds that established the genre and Trojan Records as a credible force in the mainstream music Industry. Among the most popular of these pioneering hits was a pumping instrumental entitled `Return Of Django' by the mysteriously named Upsetters. The single's success led to a promotional tour of the UK and while on British shores, the quartet were taken into the studio by enterprising promoters-come-producers, Bruce White and Tony Cousins, who had them record a series of driving instrumental tracks that ultimately saw issue on the Trojan LP, The Good, the Bad & The Upsetters. Hugely popular on the thriving Skinhead scene, the album became an instant best seller, yet despite its popularity, it has never seen reissue on CD in its original form. Now, at long last, the situation has been redressed and fans can finally hear this must-have set. Spectrum.

Digitally remastered edition of this classic Reggae album. In 1976, leading UK independent, Island Records secured the services of arguably Jamaica's greatest producer, Lee `Scratch' Perry. This significant event was marked soon after by the release of one of the greatest Reggae albums ever to see issue: Max Romeo's War Ina Babylon. Romeo had been active on the music scene since the Rock Steady era, yet his collection of hard-hitting Roots tracks, spawned in Perry's famed Black Ark studio, was undoubtedly his Magnus Opus, with the title track, `One Step Forward', `Chase The Devil' and `Norman' among its many highlights. Spectrum.

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Digitally remastered edition of this classic Reggae album. In 1976, leading UK independent, Island Records secured the services of arguably Jamaica's greatest producer, Lee `Scratch' Perry. This significant event was marked soon after by the release of one of the greatest Reggae albums ever to see issue: Max Romeo's War Ina Babylon. Romeo had been active on the music scene since the Rock Steady era, yet his collection of hard-hitting Roots tracks, spawned in Perry's famed Black Ark studio, was undoubtedly his Magnus Opus, with the title track, `One Step Forward', `Chase The Devil' and `Norman' among its many highlights. Spectrum.

This 2012 collection pulls together undocumented Jamaican singles (and one Dub plate) that beautifully showcases Perry's development as a producer. It was his desire to push musical boundaries that set him apart from other Reggae producers.

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Double vinyl LP pressing. This 2012 collection pulls together undocumented Jamaican singles (and one Dub plate) that beautifully showcases Perry's development as a producer. It was his desire to push musical boundaries that set him apart from other Reggae producers.

On Blackboard Jungle Dub, Lee Perry and the Upsetters produce another fine example of their subversive brand of dub with a unique blend of murky rhythm tracks, warbling guitar effects and distant-sounding horns. Although it does not quite match the quality of the classic Upsetters album Super Ape, Blackboard nevertheless impresses with both the brevity of "strictly" drum and bass cuts such as "Dreamland Dub" and "Kasha Macka Dub," and expansive touches like the animated DJ toasting on "Cloak A Dagger (Ver. 3)." Living up to the "Upsetter" moniker, Perry wreaks his inimitable brand of mayhem during "Fever Grass Dub" with a half-baked MC intro, lion roars and air raid siren imitations; effects which blend in well with other eccentric features like the spastic trombone solo on "BlackBoard ver. 2" and reverb-heavy percussion on "Cloak a Dagger." Just standard technique for Perry really, and part of the sound which made his productions instantly recognizable amongst many '70s and '80s dub releases. Blackboard Jungle contains classic dub taken to the outer limits and is one of the highlights of the Lee Perry catalog. ~ Stephen Cook, Rovi