Various - Reggae Anthology: Channel One Story (VP) Double CD

Superb sprawling collection of classic re-mastered titles drawn from the vaults of Joseph Hoo-Kim’s Channel One label that ruled the dancehall from 1976 to the early eighties. Focussing on the most popular tracks rather than the more esoteric this is a wonderful opportunity to pick up in one fell swoop such classics as The Mighty Diamonds’ I Need A Roof, Dillinger’s CB200, Junior Byles’ Fade Away, John Holt’s Up Park Camp, Barry Brown’s Far East, The Wailing Souls’ Things & Time, The Jays’ Truly and Queen Majesty along with the Ranking Trevor deejay versions, Sammy Dread’s Road Block, The Revolutionaries’ MPLA and Burial, Barrington Levy’s Dances Are Changing, Leroy Smart’s Ballistic Affair, Don Carlos’ Natty Have Him Credential, Ernest Wilson’s I Know Myself, I Roy’s Welding, Sugar Minott’s Babylon, Frankie Paul’s Worries In The Dance and many more.

Tracklisting:

Disc 1
1. I Need A Roof – Mighty Diamonds
2. Don’t Smoke The Seed – Frankie Jones
3. Right Time – Mighty Diamonds
4. Natty Dread Have Credential – Don Carlos
5. Natty Burial – Lone Ranger
6. Woman Is Like A Shadow – Meditations
7. Road Block – Sammy Dread
8. Burial – Revolutionaries
9. Things & Time – Wailing Souls
10. Cokane In My Brain – Dillinger
11. Far East – Barry Brown
12. CB 200 – Dillinger
13. Welding – I Roy
14. Worries In The Dance – Frankie Paul
15. Herbman Smuggling – Yellowman
16. Dances Are Changing – Barrington Levy
17. I Know Myself – Ernest Wilson
18. Truly – Ranking Trevor
Disc 2
1. Truly – Jayes
2. Hard To Confess – Tamlins
3. Ballistic Affair – Leroy Smart
4. Satisfaction – John Holt
5. Ragnampiza – Dillinger
6. MPLA – Revolutionaries
7. Death In The Arena – Revolutionaries
8. Prema Ballerina – Clint Eastwood
9. Sharing The Night Together – Delroy Wilson
10. Babylon – Sugar Minott
11. Smoke Ganja Hard – Little John
12. Fade Away – Junior Byles
13. Queen Majesty – The Jays & Ranking Trevor
14. Without Love – Leroy Smart
15. Up Park Camp – John Holt
16. Ya Ho – Jayes
17. Roach Killer – Super chick
18. M.16 – Lone Ranger