When you see an artist photo such as the one above on the back cover of a reggae record, you have to give it at least a cursery listen.
And so it was that I came to drop needle on a slab of vinyl featuring the name Martin Campbell.
Having a dull feeling that I had previously come across the name somewhere before, combined with the vocal- I heard a crooning Tenor Saw- a purchase was made. It then sat on the shelf, almost unlistened to.
Despite a lack of publicity photography, his latest 10" has hardly left my turntable since I got it.
Originally released in 1990, this repress and has had me scurrying round the web for clips. It's that good.
Here we have Channel One Sound System playing it at Notting Hill:
Here Martin Campbell sings it live:
A little more research came across the www.channeloneuk.co.uk website*. Which yields:
Martin Campbell, Channel One UK, 1995
In addition to original plus version (which itself is some of the finest UK-Dub you are likely to hear), you get the newly recorded 'Jah Soon Come' by Peter Culture on the same rhythm with dub. Its on coloured vinyl too.
Run to your local record shop. Quickly!
*Not the same Channel One who feature in the first clip, obviously, but rather the UK offshoot of the Hookim brother's Channel One JA setup.
3 comments:
certainly buy it before Woofah 3 comes out... ;-)
indeed.
let the UK-Dub frenzy commence!
funny thing! I think I've seen some Martin Campbell in the cover of some books. Is it the same guy who wrote a book about Viagra Online Without Prescription ?
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