29th March 2008

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DISCOGRAPHIES BACK IN PRINT

Both Downbeat Special and Never Grow Old have been reprinted and are available for sale on the Shop page. The cover of Downbeat Special returns to its original colour scheme of maroon ink on grey card, while the Never Grow Old cover remains unchanged.

The latest release from Soul Jazz:

MOJO ROCK STEADY BEAT - Sound Dimension
Featuring musicians of the calibre of Ernest Ranglin, Jackie Mittoo, Eric Frater, Leroy Sibbles, Don Drummond Jnr, Deadley Headley and more, the Sound Dimension existed from around 1967-70 and all the recordings included here were originally released during this period. Together they recorded some of the most important songs in Reggae music; songs such as “Real Rock”, “Drum Song”, “Heavy Rock”, “Rockfort Rock”, “In Cold Blood” – all classic songs that have become the ‘foundation’ of Reggae music, endlessly versioned and re-versioned by Jamaican artists since the time they were first recorded to the present day. Played and re-played by every house band for every producer on the island, these iconic rhythms became the basis for dancehall and laid the foundations for the future of Jamaican music. This album can be seen as a companion to the earlier Sound Dimension release “Jamaica Soul Shake” and together these two albums make a unique and definitive document of a seriously important set of recordings.

The latest release from Heartbeat:

CHICKEN SCRATCH DELUXE EDITION - Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Lee 'Scratch' Perry is one of the most important musical figures of the 20th Century and a unique entity whose works have forever changed the way we think about recorded sound. Perry is rightly hailed as a true originator through the sonic innovations he pioneered at his legendary Black Ark studio during the late 1970s. However, few have heard the incredible first set of recordings he made in the ska years at Studio One during the early to mid 1960s. CHICKEN SCRATCH was first issued in 1989, and Heartbeat now present the Deluxe Edition with a number of bonus tracks from the same era and, for the first time on CD, the original single mixes of 13 of these ska scorchers.

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