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VA - Trojan - ROOTS Box Set
 Year: 1999 Country: England Genre: Ska Label: Trojan Records  Format: 3 CD Box set Type: MP3 Bitrate: 128kbps ID Tags: Yes Time duration: 3 hours 02 minutes 31 sec   Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Cool Rasta - The Heptones 2. I A Man African - The Sons Of Selassie 3. Rise In The Strength Of Jah - The Viceroys 4. Rise Jah Jah Children (The Lion Sleeps) - Ras Michael, The Sons Of Negus 5. I And I Are The Chosen One - Prince Far I 6. Brother Noah - The Shadows 7. Jah Jah Bless The Dreadlocks - The Mighty Diamonds 8. Africa Is The Black Man's Home - Sugar Minott 9. None Shall Escape The Judgement - Johnny Clarke 10. History - Carlton Jackson 11. Purify Your Heart - Johnny Osbourne 12. Jah Jah Me No Born Yah - Cornell Campbell 13. Rasta Dreadlocks - The Heaven Singers 14. Burn Babylon - Sylford Walker 15. Psalm 68 - Horace Andy 16. Rejoice Jah Jah Children - The Silvertones 17. Dread Is Best - Big Youth Disc: 2 1. Under heavy manners - Prince Far-I 2. Arise black man - Tosh, Peter 3. Yim mas gan - Abbyssinians 4. Babylon falling - Heptones 5. Hail rasta brother hail - Ethiopians 6. Enter into his gates with praise - Clarke, Johnny 7. African people - Jah Boys 8. City too hot - Perry, Lee 'Scratch' 9. Africa - Brown, Dennis 10. Jah fire - Boswell, George 11. Big Youth - Boswell, George 12. Talk about it - Mighty Diamonds 13. Free jah jah children - Minott, Sugar 14. Blackmans time - Grant, Neville 15. Babylon wrong - Waugh, Ashanti 16. Babylon wrong - Waugh, Ashanti 17. Keep cool Babylon - Michael, Ras & The Sons of Negus Disc: 3 1. Babylon a fall down - Velvet Shadows 2. Never gonna give jah up - Minott, Sugar 3. Njah man - Osbourne, Johnny 4. Unity - Michael, Ras & The Sons of Negus 5. Moving on to Zion - Clarke, Johnny 6. African dub - Silvertones 7. Coming of jah - Max Romeo 8. Ten dread commandments - Mr. Bojangles 9. Condition bad a yard - Ethiopians 10. Babylon deh pon fire - Truth Fact & Correct 11. Ghetto living - Mighty Diamonds 12. Adisabab - Wilson, Delroy 13. Words - Davis, Anthony 'Sangie' & Lee 'Scratch' Perry 14. Milk and honey - Lizard 15. The Judgement come - Campbell, Cornell 16. Mistry Babylon - Heptones 17. I love marijuana - Thompson, Linval   Information about album: "Unlike other forms of Jamaican music, 'Roots Reggae' has no precise definition," state the skimpy sleeve notes to this budget-priced three-CD box set. That well may be, but most fans would sum up roots as a late-'70s style exemplified by such crucial acts as the Wailers, Black Uhuru, the Wailing Souls, and Burning Spear. None of those artists are included here, thus anyone looking for a round-up of roots' most famed classic cuts should search elsewhere. Trojan has chosen to define roots less in musical terms than in lyrical ones. Therefore, while the message is pure dread, the songs run riot across the musical spectrum from bubbly reggae, rockers, nyahbinghi-laced numbers, through heavy roots, and onto dubby dancehall. Absolutely no thought is given to sequencing, unless the selector deliberately set about mixing up the different styles as much as possible. Placing one's CD player on shuffle normally improves upon the original sequencing. However, regardless of these drawbacks, Trojan Box Set: Roots is a weighty collection, 50 songs strong, with a wealth of roots sure to please most aficionados. Seminal inclusions are Johnny Clarke's "None Shall Escape the Judgement," Prince Far I's "Under Heavy Manners," the Abyssinians' "Yim Mas Gas," Dennis Brown's "Africa," and the Ethiopians' "Condition Bad a Yard." There's also a clutch of excellent Mighty Diamonds and Heptones cuts, and exceptional offerings from Big Youth, Sugar Minott, and Cornel Campbell. Although not the ultimate roots collection by any means, this box does manage to encompass the fluidity of the roots genre, rounding up a wealth of crucial material neglected elsewhere, with the inclusion of DJs particularly inspired, and opening new vistas to the mainstream, hopefully leading listeners to further broaden their horizons.  
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