Dub to Africa : Prince Far-I & the Arabs

This is one of the finest examples of roots dub in my collection.  Prince Far-I brings his band of musicians (the Arabs including Flabba) in to a storm of dub with some heavy bass thunder.  Not too fancy, not too many effects, these are just solid and constant dub tracks that will drop you off in to a trance, almost hypnotizing.  Far-I gives a brief introduction before each track making his presence felt through the rough grumblings of his wise and seemingly ancient voice.  He's one of my favorites and most of his workings are solid, but this one is just the tops.  This album dropped in 1979 on LP from the Hit Run label with the original eight tracks, right in the middle of Far-I's Cry Tuff Dub Encounter series.  Then Pressure Sounds released in on CD in 2007 with two bonus tracks.  All ten tracks are strong pieces that put together an outstanding dub set when listened to all the way through.  Track #1 (Ace Bass) & track #2 (Dub to Africa) get things going and before you know it you are in the middle of the album.

MUNDELL Greensleeves Reggae Classics : Hugh Mundell

This is a Great Hugh Mundell disc originally released on LP by Greensleeves back in 1982 and released on CD in 2004.  Top to bottom, this set is all wonderfully unique roots from the the tragically short career of Mundell.  There are twelve tracks total on the CD ; the last four are considered bonus tracks that were added on to the original LP set.  This album has got the production works of Junjo Lawes and Scientist at the boards and features some great musicians like Flabba on bass.  These tracks were recorded at Channel One and then mixed over at Tubby's.  If you collect this disc and pair it with the albums "Blessed Youth" and "Jah Fire" (a Black Arrow label release with Prince Jammy mixing and production).  Really all the tracks on this disc are nice, but my favorites are #2 (Rasta Have the Handle) and #10 (Can't Pop No Style).  Their is a great live version of Can't Pop No Style out there.  It's extremely deep roots and extremely hard to find.