VARIOUS – Black Solidarity Presents String Up The Sound System – LP – Vinyl

LABEL: Black Solidarity

CAT NO: BSLP001

BARCODE: 5060135761776

Tracklisting:

1. Bad Boys Triston Palmer
2. Never Trouble Trouble Tony Tuff
3. Single Life Robert Ffrench
4. String Up The Sound System Michael Palmer
5. Champion Bubbler Puddy Roots
6. Police Police Ashanti Waugh
7. Fancyness Triston Palmer
8. A Little Bit Of Love Phillip Frazer
9. Barrel Mentality Bill Blast
10. Inner City Blues Cutty Ranks & Triston Palmer
11. Reggae Fever Michael Forbes
12. Ethiopia Tony Carver
13. Strawberry Eddie Constantine
14. The Lord Is My Light Rod Taylor

VARIOUS ARTISTS / Black Solidarity Presents
String Up The Sound System

LP Black Vinyl
(14 Tracks)

14 killer cuts from Jamaicas legendary label

In the beginning of the 80s reggae music became increasingly in tune with what was happening in Kingstons dancehalls.probably more so than at any time since the sound system operators had started to make their own shuffle and boogie in the late 50s. The international audience and the critics were too busy looking for a new Bob Marley to appreciate what was happening downtown and failed to acknowledge that this was a return to the real, raw roots of the musicbrash, confidient, young record producers who were totally in tune with the youth audience stepped forward and seized the moment. Oswald Ossie Thomas began his apprenticeship in the music business at the age of fourteen and served his time as a record salesman for Bunny Striker Lee and Winston Niney the Observer Holness before moving on to Miss Sonia Pottingers Tip Top Records.

It was during his time with Miss Pottinger that Ossie began to produce records for himself and in 1979 Ossie and Phillip Morgan began The Black Solidarity label based deep in the Kingston ghetto on Delamere Avenue. And the man who had made his name in the business selling other peoples records now became one of the most important and influential record producers of the era. It features cuts from Cutty Ranks, Triston Palma, Ashanti Waugh, Michael Forbes and more.

See below for tracklisting