21/01/11: VP focus on the musical architects of eighties and nineties dancehall, percussionist Wycliffe Johnson, who sadly passed in September 2009, and keyboard player Cleveland Browne, better known to the reggae world as Steelie & Clevie. Both had been playing as studio session musicians since their early teenage years, one of the first sessions they played on was for Augustus Pablo on Hugh Mundell’s roots classic Africa Must Be Free By 1983, as John Masouri points out in his extensive booklet notes. But its as the riddim builders for King Jammy during the late eighties and their work since for which their names were made eternal.
Tracklisting
Disc One:
1. Whole Heap A Man – Lady G & Sugar Minott
2. Sorry – Foxy Brown
3. Ram Dance Hall – Tiger
4. Oversized Mampie – Gregory Peck
5. Fast Car – Foxy Brown
6. Take You To The Dance – Anthony Malvo & Daddy Lizard
7. No One In The World – Chevelle Franklyn
8. Hortical Don – Ninjaman
9. Still Say Yes – Wayne Wonder
10. Shower Me With Your Love – Singing Melody
11. Cassandra – Frankie Paul
12. Murder Dem – Ninjaman
13. Retreat – Cutty Ranks
14. Poco Man Jam – Gregory Peck
15. Drum Pan Sound – Reggie Stepper
16. Caan Dun – Shabba Ranks
17. Sonia Come Back – Cocoa Tea
18. Loving Pauper – Freddie McGregor
19. Good Love – Chevelle Franklyn
20. Fatty Fatty – Leroy Sibbles
21. All The Woman I Need – Garnett Silk
Disc Two:
1. Trailer Load A Girls – Shabba Ranks
2. When – Tiger
3. Mama – Baby Wayne
4. Ting A Ling – Shabba Ranks
5. Press Up – Poison Chang
6. Double Trouble – Beres Hammond
7. Shot A Talk – Cobra
8. Love of A Lifetime – Junior Tucker
9. Love Is The Answer – Garnett Silk
10. You Don’t Love Me (No No No) – Dawn Penn
11. Baby You And I – Wayne Wonder
12. It’s All Over – Buju Banton
13. When I Hold You Tonight – General Degree
14. Call The Hearse – Bushman
15. Pure Gal – Harry Toddler
16. Battery Dolly – Beenie Man
17. Haffi Get Da Gal Yah (Hot Gal Today) – Sean Paul & Mr. Vegas
18. Cook – Lexxus
19. Old Crook – Mr. G
20. I’m Still In Love With You – Sean Paul & Sasha
21. As A Man - Assassin
DVD:
1. 1988 interview and studio demonstration with Steely & Clevie filmed for Jamaica Broadcasting Company (JBC)
2. 2005 interview with the producers sponsored by Red Bull Academy.