Trojan Presents....

 
Since the launch of the 'Trojan' series in the summer of 2011, UMC's widely acclaimed 2CD 'Presents' range has gone from strength to strength, with the range further bolstered by well received collections highlighting the best in Jamaican sounds from three more legendary labels, Treasure Isle, Island and, most recently, Top Deck.

The latter, which comprises two collections featuring the best of Justin 'Phillip' Yap's  Ska vocal and instrumental productions went on sale a few weeks ago, with initial press reaction universally positive.

Listen to Top Deck Presents Ska Vocal on Spotify Here
Listen to Top Deck Presents Ska Instrumentals on Spotify Here

Later this year, the series will be further expanded by two more Island sets, 'Roots' and 'Original Reggae', with buyers guaranteed no repeat of recordings across any of these sets, fans are assured value for money.

TROJAN PRESENTS ‘MOD SKA’

The early sixties bore witness to a mass British youth movement that promptly acquired the universally acknowledged name: Mod. Between 1962 and 1966, Mod culture dominated both the fashion and music landscape, with the look and sound of young Jamaica playing a significant role in its development.

Along with American R&B and Jazz, Ska music remained consistently high on the Mod agenda and it is this much loved genre that provides the focus of this collection.

Annotated and supported by the widely respected Mod Culture site, ‘Trojan Presents Mod Ska’ features 40 favourites of the original sixties scene, originally issued in the UK as such seminal record labels as Blue Beat, Island and Doctor Bird, 17 of which make their CD debut.

Trojan Presents ‘Mod Ska’

DISC #1:

1.                     Blazing Fire - Derrick Morgan

2.                     When I Call Your Name - Stranger & Patsy

3.                     Suzie - Top Grant

4.                     Doctor Kitch - Lord Kitchener

5.                     Wayward African - The Afro Enchanters

6.                     Luck Will Come My Way - Winston Samuels

7.                     Big Bamboo - Lord Creator

8.                     I Shall Wear A Crown - The Richards Brothers

9.                     Miss Dreamer - Stranger Cole

10.                  My Boy Lollipop - Millie

11.                  What A Life! - Sugar & Dandy

12.                  Two For One - The Vagabonds

13.                  Show Me How (To Milk That Cow) - Tony Washington

14.                  Garden Of Love - Don Drummond & The Skatalites

15.                  Number One (aka Drive It Home) - Eric Morris

16.                  Kitch You’re So Sweet - Lord Kitchener

17.                  Cork Foot - Baba Brooks & His Band

18.                  Want Me Cock - Owen & Leon Silveras

19.                  Stagger Lee - Jackie Edwards

20.                  Two Roads - Roy & Yvonne

 DISC #2:

1.                     Sea Cruise - Jackie Edwards

2.                     But I Do (Honky Tonk Ska) -  Tony Washington

3.                     Jo Ann - The Movers

4.                     Mount Zion - Desmond Dekker & The Aces

5.                     I’m In The Mood For Ska  - Lord Tanamo

6.                     King Size Ska - Baba Brooks

7.                     Something You’ve Got - Alton Ellis & The Flames

8.                     Time Will Tell - Winston Samuels

9.                     Contact - Roy Richards

10.                  Ska-ing West - Sir Lord Comic & His Cowboys

11.                  Doreen - Ben Levy

12.                  Storm Warning - Lynn Taitt & The Boys

13.                  The Higher The Monkey Climbs - Justin Hinds & The Dominoes

14.                  Faberge - Baba Brooks

15.                  Copasetic - The Rulers

16.                  Rudies All Around -  Joe White

17.                  Rudy Girl - Sonny Burke

18.                  Cool Down Your Temper -  Junior Smith

19.                  Do The Teasy - Joyce Bond

20.                  Let’s Do Rock Steady - Dandy

TROJAN PRESENTS ‘THE PRODUCERS’

More than that of any other nation, the development of Jamaica’s music has been shaped by its producers.  Over the past 50 years, these entrepreneurial individuals have not only found local talent and issued their music, but also established studios, retail establishments and even pressing plants, so significantly contributing to the advancement of the island’s recording industry.

Their number have included such luminaries as Duke Reid, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Bunny Lee and Leslie Kong, all of whom developed their own distinctive sound, as evidenced on this collection.

‘Trojan Presents The Producers’ highlights the work of these and 36 other influential and popular Jamaican music makers and by so doing also illustrates the development of the island’s music over the past half-century, from Ska to Dancehall, with an incredible 26 of the recordings making their CD debut.

Trojan Presents  ‘The Producers’

DISC #1:

1.                Mash It, Part 1 – Owen Gray

2.                Million Dollar Baby – Chenley & Annette

3.                No More Wine From The Glass – Higgs & Wilson

4.                Up And Down – Winston Samuels

5.                The Chase – Yvonne Harrison

6.                Stepping Razor – Peter Tosh & The Wailers

7.                Put Down Your Fire – The Kingstonians

8.                Chain Gang – Winston Francis

9.                Easy Come, Easy Go (alt. version) – The Pioneers

10.             Reggae Girl (extended mix) – The Tennors with Karl Bryan

11.             Action Line – The Versatiles

12.             Musical Beat – Roy Samuels

13.             Fatty Fatty (x-tended version) – Clancy Eccles

14.             Cool Down – Winston Hinds

15.             Who Cause It (aka Why Everything Crash) – The Lyrics

16.             How Can I Love You - Ken Lazarus

17.             Cry A Little Cry – Dobby Dobson

18.             I Am In Love Again – Claude Sang

19.             Work It – The Mellotones

20.             Lollipop Girl – Derrick Harriott

 DISC #2:

1.                Teacher Teacher – Dennis Alcapone

2.                Dunce Cap – Herman The Teacher

3.                All That We Need Is Love (ext. version) - Alton Ellis & Big Youth

4.                I’d Love You To Want Me – Horace Andy

5.                Concrete Rock – Ansel Collins

6.                Swept For You Baby (extended mix) - The Heptones & U Roy

7.                Let Locks Grow – Barrington Spence

8.                I’m Your Puppet (extended mix) – Jimmy London & Skin. Flesh & Bones

9.                Jah Fire – Niney (as George Boswell)

10.             Too Good To Be Forgotten – John Holt

11.             Run Joe – Lloyd Charmers

12.             Feel Like Jumping – Marcia Griffiths

13.             Black Beauty – The Mindbenders

14.             Only Jah Love For I – Mystic Eyes

15.             I’m Not A Queen / Duck Boy - Marcia Aitken & Trinity

16.             The Same Song (ext version) – Israel Vibration

17.             You’ll Never Know (12” mix) – Gregory Isaacs

18.             It’s A Good Day – Pat Kelly

19.             Reggae On Broadway – Johnny Osbourne

20.             Principle – Charlie Chaplin

TROJAN PRESENTS ‘BOSS REGGAE’

The late sixties witnessed the development and rise to musical dominance of Reggae, with this new, dynamic style rapidly usurping the more languid sound of Rock Steady, which had reigned in Jamaica since 1966.

Early Reggae recordings were noted for their tempo and energy, but by the early seventies, the tempo had slowed significantly, with the mellow vibe commonly associated with the sound gradually established.

In more recent years, the inaugural, high-energy version of the genre that acquired a strong and dedicated following among Britain’s original Skinheads has become accepted as a sub-genre of its own, with the style acquiring the label, ‘Boss Reggae’.

‘This aptly-titled 2CD set highlights 40 of the most popular in the style, and with 18 of the tracks new to CD, this is most definitely the Boss of all Skinhead Reggae collections!

TRACKLISTING

 Trojan Presents ‘Boss Reggae’

DISC #1:

Reggae Hit The Town – The Ethiopians

A Live Injection – The Upsetters

John Jones – Rudy Mills

River To The Bank – Derrick Morgan

Drink Milk – Justin Hinds & The Dominoes

Rhythm Hips – Roland Russell

Sufferer – The Kingstonians

Reggae In The Wind – Lester Sterling

Strange – Dobby Dobson

Throw Me Corn – Winston Shand & The Sheiks

How Long (Will It Take) – Pat Kelly

Worries (A Yard) – The Versatiles

Rich In Love – Glen Adams

On Broadway – Slim Smith

Love Was All I Had – Phyllis Dillon

Hang ‘Em High – Richard Ace

Loving Reggae (aka My Love And I) – The Maytones

Come Into My Parlour – The Bleechers

Walking Proud – Martin ‘Jimmy’ Riley

Liquidator – Tommy McCook & The Supersonics

DISC #2:

Moon Hop – Derrick Morgan

Red, Red Wine (extended version) – Tony Tribe

Moon Walk – Sprong & The Nyah Shuffle

Reggae In Your Jeggae – Dandy

Music Box – The Big L

Too Experienced – Owen Gray

Black Panther – Sir Collins & The Black Diamonds

Jungle Fever – George Lee

Rocco – The Rudies

My Love And I – Millie

Dog Your Woman – Patsy & Peggy with The Cimarons

Ghost Rider - Musical Doctors

Pack Of Cards – Nat Cole

Revenge Of Eastwood, Vers. I & 2 – The Prophets

Lead Them – Desmond Riley

Memory Of Don Drummond - Don Drummond Jnr.

No More Heartaches – The Coloured Raisons

Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye – Gene Rondo

Queen Of The World – Lloyd & Claudette

Leave Pum Pum – Pama Dice

Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Disco Devil - The Jamaican Discomixes

By the latter half of the seventies, disco-mixes – extended versions of tracks - were de rigueur throughout popular music. The trend was particularly suited to Reggae, as vocal cuts could be spliced with DJ or Dub cuts to create long-playing versions singles. And there was no greater exponent of the disco-mix format than Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.

From 1976 to 1980, Perry created some of the most outstanding 12” singles ever to see issue and the very best of these works are collected here on this long over due collection.

Aimed not just at Perry enthusiasts, but also those wishing to discover the very best in Roots Reggae sounds, this is undoubtedly the finest collection of Reggae disco-mixes yet to see issue.

DISC #1:

1.Norman – Max Romeo & The Upsetters

2.Bad Weed – Junior Murvin

3.I Forgot To Be Your Lover (aka To Be A Lover) – George Faith

4.Know Love – Twin Roots

5.Rainy Night In Portland – Watty Burnett

6.Disco Devil – Lee Perry & The Full Experience

7.City Too Hot – Lee Perry

8.Words – Sangie Davis & Lee Perry

9.Roots Train - Junior Murvin & Dillinger

DISC #2:

1.Open The Gate – Watty Burnett

2.Neckodememus – The Congos

3.Rasta Train – Raphael Green & Doctor Alimantado

4.Ketch Vampire – Devon Irons & Doctor Alimantado

5.History (Of Civilisation) – Carlton Jackson

6.Sons Of Slaves – Junior Delgado

7.Party Time – The Heptones

8.Free Up The Prisoners – Lee ’Scratch’ Perry

9.Garden Of Life – Leroy Sibbles

Available on Trojan Records

Club Reggae Re-released

Out again one of Trojan’s best selling reggae collections. If you owned this album the first time around then it’s a no brainer way to update one of your prized assets and if you didn’t it still makes for a solid compilation that captures a thriving time in UK reggae history when just about every teenager in the UK had at least one of reggae record in their musical collection.

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The Story Of Trojan Records - 5CD Box Set

Trojan is a name that personified reggae in the UK during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and since its heyday back then and the advent of CD’s it has had its name somewhat sullied as various companies have held the rights to its immense catalogue and flooded the market with lots of brash and fairly tawdry releases. Over the last twelve months or so present owners Universal Music have gone along way in putting the some gloss and pride back in to this one of the most important reggae labels ever with their limited edition 7” vinyl series, of obscure and previously unreleased material, re-issued classic albums on CD in their original guise and brought out an improved ‘Trojan Presents’ 2CD albums series. Now, on August 29th, they about to release a 123 track, 5CD box set ‘The Story Of Trojan Records’.

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