Various Artists: Bass Culture 1: This Town Is Too Hot! – review

(Nascente)Compilations of musical golden eras are likely to be defined by the motives of their curators. The four-volume series Bass Culture takes next month's 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence to chart the thrilling new independent sounds that came with it, but it's no cynical cash-in. The 40 tracks on this first set document the birth of ska, and later rocksteady, during the 1960s. It's a litany of the classics that exploded into life on Kingston's famous sound systems, from the Ska...

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