Sugar Minott – Uptempo Records (Studio One) – 1979 / The Classics – Coxsone Records – 1971

All Kinda People / People Dub / You Are Always Around / Trying To Fool I Fight Against Dread / Dread Dub / The Love We Had / Love Dub Mr Fire Coal Man – The Classics A.K.A Wailing Souls Fire Coal Version – The Classics A.K.A Wailing Souls Sugar Minott slogging it out with the […]

The Light Of Saba – Total Sounds – 1978

Sabebe / Music In My Brain / Colliweed Rastaman Kibero / Thy Kingdom Come / Solitude / Africa Uploaded today is the 1978 LP by The Light Of Saba, a beautiful highly spiritual and fresh mixture of roots, afrobeat and soul, recorded at Aquarius studio in Kingston. ‘Sabebe’ released via Jamaica’s Total Sounds is one of the holy grails of […]

The ‘Hammer’ cassette series compiled by Andy Martin from The Apostles – 1985

Apostles and Flack Southend concert flyer Some memories below regarding these cassettes sent to KYPP by Andy Martin Dear God, where on Earth do people find all this ancient history? Just the names on these cassettes remind me of how incredibly angry, miserable and desperate I was in those days. How I ever managed to avoid suicide, […]

Midsummers Day / Ravi Shankar – Regal Records – 1969 / Battle Of The Beanfield 1985

Midsummers Day The festival is primarily a Celtic fire festival, representing the middle of summer, and the shortening of the days on their gradual march to winter. Midsummer is traditionally celebrated on either the 23rd or 24th of June, although the longest day actually falls on the 21st of June. The importance of the day […]

My Bloody Valentine – Kaleidoscope Sound – 1986

Lovelee Sweet Darlene / By The Danger In Your Eyes On Another Rainy Sunday / We’re So Beautiful The second 12″ single from My Bloody Valentine and the first release to start sounding like the My Bloody Valentine that would be damaging ears around venues in the U.K. a year or so later until the bands […]

The Normal – Mute Records – 1978 / Girls On Top – Black Melody Records – 2001

Two records that were released between a 23 year period, that show what you can do with a lot of imagination, but not a lot of know how in traditional musical composition. I placed the two records on the same post as I feel that they are connected via the lineage that started from this wonderful debut Mute […]

The Mob – All The Madmen Records – 1980 / 1983

The Mob formed in a village near Yeovil in Somerset, England, around the beginning of 1978. The band at this time consisted of Mark (guitar, vocals and songwriter), Graham (drums), and Curtis (bass and backing vocals). All of the members of The Mob had previously been in a band called Magnum Force while at school together… The Mob played […]