Mission to Zion, by Various Artists

Mission to Zion

by Various Artists

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1.	Caleb Sweetback - Zion Here I Come 04:18	buy track
2.	Augustus Pablo - Sahara Rock 03:03	buy track
3.	Nairobi Sisters - Promised Land (Dub Version) 03:13	buy track
4.	Innervision - Free Black People 02:58	buy track
5.	Junior Ross & The Allstars - Roots Freedom 02:53	buy track
6.	Johnnie Clarke - Every Knee Shall Bow 03:16	buy track
7.	Gene Rondo - Rebel Woman 03:11	buy track
8.	Horace Andy - My Soul 02:32	buy track
9.	Bullwackies All Stars - Skin Tight (Part 1) 04:30	buy track
10.	I Jahman Levi - Jah Heavy Load 03:32	buy track
11.	Interns - Nothing Is Impossible 03:20	buy track
12.	Errol Holt - Gimmie-Gimmie 02:43	buy track
13.	The Uprising Maytone - Unchangeable Love 03:13	buy track
14.	Leval Thompson - Wicked Babylon 02:29	buy track
15.	Tommy McCook - Death Trap 03:11	buy track
16.	Amigo - Jah-A-Go Bus Dem Shut 03:31	buy track
17.	Junior Byles - Pitchy Patchy 02:50	buy track
18.	Gregory Isaacs - Black A Kill Black 02:55	buy track
19.	Dennis Brown - Whip Them Jah 02:38	buy track
20.	Landford Gilzing - Gone Me Gone 02:25	buy track
21.	Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown 02:30	buy track
22.	The Fugitives Featuring Joe Joe - Cantelope Rock 03:08	buy track
23.	Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston 04:52	buy track

about

In October of 2021, I was privileged enough to acquire a tremendous lot of predominantly Caribbean records in Mission, B.C.. This lot of 45s blindsided me, especially as I'm neither typically versed in the format or the genre. Hundreds upon hundreds of the cleanest reggae records you've ever seen, many stamped with the name 'Fred Wilson' of New Westminster, B.C.

Before finding this collection, my interest in Reggae music from Jamaica was largely limited to the recent repress-circuit (like Noel Ellis) or the roots of Dub/Minimal Techno (like Wackies-label LPs and early Digital Dancehall). Before this collection, I'd yet to invest a whole lot of time in 70s Reggae, in part due to a skepticism relating to its comparatively bland sound. A narrative that should be familiar to 78 collectors also applies here: The most marketable Reggae music in the 70s were directly incorporating Rock and Pop influences, which led to a broader distribution amongst non-Caribbean communities at the time. The deep, dark roots cuts, the heavy funk influences and the abstract performances obviously weren't marketable to the same magnitude and thus, the best Reggae songs usually never made it to LP.

I aimed to curate the compilation with the intent of covering a wide variety of reggae sounds, which was made easy by the ridiculous range this collection covered. All the digitizations are raw transfers, limited only to 45s that were in this collection. No noise reduction has been applied, and only a rudimentary ReplayGain normalization method was used to equalize the volume between songs. The rest was simply done by the generally immaculate condition of the records.

Everything I have learned about true Roots Reggae essentially came from this collection. The privilege to experience such a high calibre of music, both in terms of quality and record condition, was simply too special and unique to not create a selector compilation.

The album artwork was inspired by Earthbound for the SNES.

Here's the full, single-file mix in FLAC for download:

mega.nz/file/lIEAVRQZ#dXua2ULJHWe_gbJ17UueZ7MCVDM8bZeUwpKO96zchD8

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released September 21, 2023

Tracklist
# Artist name Track name
1 Caleb Sweetback Zion Here I Come
2 Augustus Pablo Sahara Rock
3 Nairobi Sisters Promised Land (Dub Version)
4 Innervision Free Black People
5 Junior Ross & The Allstars Roots Freedom
6 Johnnie Clarke Every Knee Shall Bow
7 Gene Rondo Rebel Woman
8 Horace Andy My Soul
9 Bullwackies All Stars Skin Tight (Part 1)
10 I Jahman Levi Jah Heavy Load
11 Interns Nothing Is Impossible
12 Errol Holt Gimmie-Gimmie
13 The Uprising Maytone Unchangeable Love
14 Leval Thompson Wicked Babylon
15 Tommy McCook Death Trap
16 Amigo Jah-A-Go Bus Dem Shut
17 Junior Byles Pitchy Patchy
18 Gregory Isaacs Black A Kill Black
19 Dennis Brown Whip Them Jah
20 Landford Gilzing Gone Me Gone
21 Augustus Pablo King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
22 The Fugitives Featuring Joe Joe Cantelope Rock
23 Toots & The Maytals Funky Kingston

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