Various – Listen Up! Dancehall Originals

Label:	Kingston Sounds – KSLP040
Series:	Listen Up!
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country:	UK
Released:	2012
Genre:	Reggae
Style:	Reggae, Dancehall

Tracklist

A1	Don Carlos (2)–	Laser Beam
A2	Cornell Campbell–	Love Trap
A3	Linval Thompson–	Wicked Them A Say
A4	Ronnie Davis–	Tribal War
A5	Michael Palmer–	Mr Landlord
A6	Robert French*–	Bad Boy Possee
A7	Johnny Clarke–	King Of The Arena
B1	Cornell Campbell–	Got To Tell The People
B2	Robert French*–	Mr Babylon
B3	Johnny Clarke–	Satisfaction
B4	Neville Brown–	Prophecy
B5	Don Carlos (2)–	Ababa John I
B6	Dennis Brown–	Time And Place
B7	Ronnie Davis–	Take Heed

Companies, etc.

Recorded At – Channel One Recording Studio
Recorded At – Tuff Gong Recording Studio
Recorded At – Harry J's Recording Studio
Recorded At – Randy's Studio
Overdubbed At – King Tubby's Studio
Designed At – Voodoo London

Credits

Alto Saxophone – Lennox Brown
Bass – Aston 'Family Man' Barrett*, George 'Fully' Fullwood*, Robbie Shakespeare
Design – Gary*
Drums – Carlton 'Santa' Barrett*, Leroy 'Horse Mouth' Wallace*, Sly Dunbar
Keyboards – Robbie Lynn*
Lead Guitar – Earl 'Chinna' Smith*, Tony Chin
Organ – Bernard 'Touter' Harvey*, Winston Wright
Piano – Ansel Collins
Producer – Bunny Lee, Ossie Thomas
Tenor Saxophone – Tommy McCook
Trombone – Vin Gordon
Trumpet – Bobby Ellis

Notes

Welcome to the Dancehall Sound from Jamaica. The sound that grew out of the dances in Jamaica around the beginning of the 1980's. The musical style again slowed the reggae beat down to give an uncluttered, sparce backdrop, allowing the singers and DJ's more space to express themselves. Dancehall has never stopped but turned to a digital beat around the mid 1980's. So Listen Up! to some early Dancehall classics that set the style for the years that followed...