This one is a no brainer. Tame, uninformed or otherwise pedestrian reggae mixes are a dime a dozen, but it's not often you come across reggae mixes with vintage dubplates and four, count 'em four, blank labels, including one by Augustus Pablo and one by Tommy McCook. This is good stuff folks, at times scratchy, exotic, and other worldly, it puts you smack dab at some dusty sound system four or five decades ago. All seventeen songs are from 45s, and if you know Jamaican pressings, you know we're not talking audiophile (a guy I know said he once owned a JA pressing that had a fly pressed into the grooves.) If you ask me that adds to it. Listen for yourself, it's at the link below, both streaming and as a quick download.
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Listen: King Crab Reggae Selection by Frankie Francis at Sofrito 17 songs, all killer, no filler. Go there for the song list.
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