Once again Quinton Scott pulls out all the stops on Strut Records with the latest release being Funky Nassau:The Compass Point Story 1980-1986.Set up in the Bahamas by Island Records Chris Blackwell,Compass Point Studios attracted various artists eager to capture the magic of the Nassau sound with the genius of Sly & Robbie,engineers Steven Stanley & Alex Sadkin and The Compass Point Allstars Band.Some of the tracks are pretty well known with Tom Tom Club "Genius Of Love" ,Gwen Guthries "Padlock" mixed by Larry Levan and Talking Heads "Born Under Punches" which is from one of my favourite Talking Heads albums "Remain In Light" being the ones that you would instantly recognise.There is other lesser known gems though with the Skids offshoot band Set The Tone getting the remix treatment from Francois K on "Dance Sucker", Sly Dunbar's dub workout on "River Niger" and the amazing Seven Sea Players take on Ian Dury's "Spasticus Autisticus".All in all a great package that comes with a booklet containing extensive sleeve notes and some pretty cool pictures.The track i'm posting is the last on the album and it's an absolute corker.It's a slow mo,scratchy,dub,funky tight jam that has a real groove to it.Go Buy and get another history lesson by the always as ever reliable team at Strut.
Will Powers - Adventures In Success(Dub Copy)
2 comments:
I don't think Set The tone had anything to do with The Slits. The Skids maybe?
Thanks for pointing this out.Your absolutely correct it was The Skids where Kenny Hyslop formed Set The Tone with Chris Morgan and Bobby Paterson.
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