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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0060768032224
Format: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
Label: Sanctuary Records
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records
Number Of Discs: 3
Publisher: Sanctuary Records
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Sales Rank: 152883
Studio: Sanctuary Records
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Editorial Review:
Album Description:
Limited edition 3 CD boxset featuring 50 of the very best ska tracks...many on CD for the first time. Artists include Derrick Morgan, The Riots, Lord Tanamo, The Maytals, The Skatalites & many more. 2000 realease. Each disc comes in it's own paper sleeve and come housed together in a 5 x 5 x 1 inch box.
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Rating:  -
This is a great compilation, especially for someone unfamiliar with the roots of Ska and the early bands who made the music popular and influenced multiple generations of Ska bands. While some might say that the songs are very similar and there are many covers, there are subtleties that allow listeners to hear the beginnings of the various offshoots that developed into modern reggae, rocksteady and dancehall.
Rating: -
Before reggae there was ska and rocksteady, indigenous musical forms that had evolved from the imported rhythm and blues and jazz styles prevalent in Jamaica from the fifties onwards. The Trojan Ska Box Set had gathered 50 representative tracks from the period up to 1966, including some very well known big sellers.
A number of the leading artists appear again on Vol. 2: Don Drummond, Lee Perry, Lord Tanamo, Baba Brooks, the Skatalites, Owen Gray, Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook, Desmond Dekker, ... Read More
Rating:  -
Good rare stuff on here. However, be warned, my disc two is a reject that won't work in any of my players. I guess that's what you get when you pay so little money.
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