Various - Monkey Business: The Definitive Skinhead Reggae CollectionThe past few years has seen a significant surge in demand for 'skinhead' or 'boss' reggae from the late sixties and early seventies. The classic 'Monkey Business' LP, which originally saw issue as a vinyl LP in 1980, at the height of the 2Tone era. 'Monkey Business' provides the starting point for all those seeking to discover the sounds that inspired a generation: as the cover asserts, this is the definitive skinhead reggae collection! It features

what's a bunch of punk icons to do when the times that they helped to define start changing

but otherwise playing solo through a set of original songs (and two covers) representing a decade of progress in the almost unbearably intimate-yet-unknowable manner that was so often the vibe of those strange and wondrous days

pieced together out of the zeros and ones that divide and don't define us

Solange and Kendrick Lamar

It was immediately memorable

Ample Play Records release a heavy duty collection of Richard Norris‰۪ recent Time And SpaceåÊMachine Mixes on August 25th

and it follows on from 2012 debut 'Like I Used To'

When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again HMV POP 378 (45 & 78)

Shallow Bed

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while elsewhere

The group‰۪s complete recorded works‰ÛÓboth EPs plus rare