Trojan Rocksteady Box Set, The - Various Artists

Advantages: Timeless classics; 50 tracks for £7
Disadvantages: Recording quality of older tracks

...---WHAT'S THIS THEN?--- It's a 3CD, 50-track box-set collating early reggae tracks from a record label called Trojan. Set up in Britain in the mid-1960's, as a subsiduary of the Island label, it was intended as a menas of bringing the hot new sounds of Jamaica over to the ex-pats living in the UK. With a growing Caribbean community in the UK, the label couldn't fail. It continued to function through to the mid-1980's and enjoyed a boom in the early 1970's when first the burgeoning skinhead movement and then, later, the punks, grasped the similarities between their ideals and reggae's. The Clash were probably the most high-profile punk band to use reggae''s influence in their music, most notably with the dubby Bank Robber. In the mid-70's Trojan fell behind the times and subsequently went into administration. They were... Read review

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...This is one of the first compilation CD's I ever bought. At the time I thought it was fantastic, but over the years I've seemed to have grown a little sick of some of the songs. If anyone remembers the days of Shaggy and Oh Carolina, well, you'll like this compilation as it's full of old songs like that, (and that song sure does bring abck quite a few memories!) Artists include: Reel 2 Reel, Haddaway, M People, Aswad, Sister Sledge, Shaggy, Robin S, 2 Unlimited, Capella, Prodigy, The Shamen, Snap, Seal, S'Express and Black Box.... As you can tell by some of the above names, most of them are the oldies! Brilliant to keep for 'old time sakes'.... Read review

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Advantages: Well Mixed, with famous garage MCs
Disadvantages: None

...(ramsey & fen remix) * 10. DJ DUBZ VOL 4-SOUND SYSTEM CHECK * 11. TKS-FLY BI * 12. RYDER PROJECT 4 FEAT MC KIE & SPARKS-JOY(dub plate mix) * 13. UNKNOWN ARTIST-GIVE ME SOME MORE * 14. SPECIAL AGENT-SECRET AGENT DISC 2-LIVE FROM JUICEY/EROTIC: back to back set by DJ Yankee and Steve Courtney & MC Kie & Sparks * 1. S.U.-INTRO * 2. M&S-SPECIAL(ramsey & fen mix) * 3. WIDEBOYS-ONCE WAS NICE-WHAT I COULD DO * 4. ZAK TOMS-BRING ME DOWN(vocal mix) * 5. SUN SHIP-TRY ME OUT * 6. TONY MOMRELLE-IF YOU WERE HERE * 7. ROBBIE CRAIG-WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN * 8. FUNK BROTHERS-TURN AROUND * 9. ROCKSTEADY AKA JAMESON-HEAT UP(uptown mix) * 10. WIDEBOYS-DON'T WASTE MY TIME(4 beat mix) * 11. EBONY-SEXY(north pole mix) * 12. UNITED GROOVES -I'M GLAD YOU CAME TO ME * 13. DINA VASS... Read review

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