Life between islands : soundsystem culture - black musical expression in the UK

"Expansive comp highlighting the enduring impact of Black British soundsystem culture: As explored in Lloyd Bradley's insightful notes, the roots reggae of Black Slate, proto-jungle of Ragga Twins and rumbling dubstep of Digital Mystikz all draw from the soundsystem experience, the compilation emphasizing the distinctive niches carved out by pioneers. Thus, Pebble's toasting cut of Errol Dunkley's "A Little Way Different", expertly produced by Dennis Bovell, conjures the community centres and blues parties where soundsystem flourished, and lovers rock is returned to at key intervals. Brown Sugar's "Black Pride" and Janet Kay and Alton Ellis's take of "Still In Love" are both redolent of late-'70s shebeens; we also get the hybrid funk of Cymande and Harry Beckett's multidimensional jazz".