Actually in the 50’s sounds like Coxone, were playing American Jump Blues & RnB with the labels scratched out. As these records became harder, more expensive to source, Sound System operators started trying to record their own Riddim n Blooz which turned into Ska with 1962 Jamaican Independence looking for a unique sound for the Island, hence The Ska-Talites.
Lotsa years ago, we spent a happy evening immersed in a local sound system in Barbados, at the Oistins fish fry, (the old one, not the newer, sanitised version).
Man, that Mount Gay rum was going down real easy! 
Used to be some good blues when I was a young man in Stoke Newington and Dalston.
Four Aces club too, always good for a bass riddim hit…sadly, long since defunct.
Or should it be, defunked? 
I’ve been racking my brains for years, trying to remember the name of a London club we used to visit, but my ageing memory won’t co-operate.
It was somewhere off either North Woolwich Rd. or Victoria Dock Rd., (I think!), and played much reggae and ska, and had the occasional visiting sound system.
Any oldies out there remember what it was called? 
I have a fond memory of a 3 The Hard Way Clash in Brockwell Park very early eighties Coxsone Outernational, Jah Shaka & DBC
Organised by the Legalise Cannabis Campaign…say no more
Another good compilation
If you like that roots reggae style checkout Revolutionary Dream by Pablo Moses. One of the best albums I have heard.
Great album, also worth checking is Pave The Way…
It was available as a double CD package with the companion dub album in decent SQ
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Funny, but at the time I started discovering Reggae, Bob Marley wasn’t that popular being somewhat regarded as commercial and not as authentic as some of the rawer less polished roots sounds around then.
I remember Aston Family Man Barrett commenting in a documentary that - after Peter and Bunny left The Wailers and Chris Blackwell changed the focus on to Bob Marley and The Wailers - he started to question why the live audiences were almost all white.
It’s a sad fact that often, not just in reggae, that when non mainstream acts crossover and get mainstream appeal their natural audience turns on them with accusations of selling out and commercialism. Despite the fact that had Jimmy Cliff or Bob Marley not got international attention and exposure Reggae would not be the worldwide phenomenon it became.
Btw, I’ve not completely deserted my Rocker past, I’m off out tonight to see Limehouse Lizzy…
Here in the UK, I feel that David Rodigan deserves huge credit for his championing of reggae, which introduced me to music beyond the mainstream.
Indeed, but he has more than his fair share of haters and inverted racist verbal attacks. For example, sound system veteran Lloydie Coxone recently made a you tube video vitriolicly attacking Rodders for being a white man stealing and exploiting the music “David Rob n Gon”…
And the comments posted under the video rank with the nastiest race hatred ever aimed at Black People, so much for Reggae’ s message of Peace, Love n Unity
Rodigan is a man of sincerity and integrity, he resigned in fury from Kiss due to their marginilising of the genre.
Bob Marley,…On active Isobarik 
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Is there anything Isobarik can,.so it is to play Bob Marley with an LP12 as the source.
An experience to die for.
/Peder🙂
Talking Heads supporting the Ramones! Now that’s a gig!
My favourite. I was lucky enough to live in JA in the late 60s, early 70s when dub was just appearing and sound systems were competing. Singles lasted a few weeks and were all social comments from riding a certain motorbike to not wanting to ask for a certain meat. rare times
