Besides Sugar’s International Herb, this 1980 dub album is engineer Douglas Levy’s finest work. Many of the rhythms are derived from a tape given to the studio by Sly and Robbie, containing their versions of recent Joe Gibbs hits. And there are brilliant treatments of Tribesman Dub — the rhythm for Tyrone Evans’ Black Like Me — and Wayne Jarrett’s definitive interpretation of Every Tongue Shall Tell. Elsewhere Jah Batta takes deejay duties — likewise Prince Douglas himself. (And there are lovely skewed graphics by team regular Leslie Moore, self-styled ‘LAM International’). But the deadliest cut of all reworks another gift, Steel Pulse’s Handsworth Revolution, which arrived in a parcel of records from England the same weekend as the session: March Down Babylon Dub, with Bullwackie himself at the microphone in his Chosen Brothers guise, as steely and apocalyptic as Douglas Levy’s fabulous production.

Sweet and rootsy dub reggae tracks. Top picks are 'Sunshine People' and 'North Of The Border Dub'.

By Aidan