Locomondo is a 7 member band based in Greece, which fused for the first time the Carribean reggae sound with typical Greek music elements giving a delightful result. The band leader, Markos Koumaris, a talented singer, songwriter and orchestrator with Jamaican roots, created some wonderful reggae versions of well known greek folk and rebetika songs like the famous Markos Vamvakaris' hasapiko "Fragkosyriani". The band has released 6 albums since 2004 and became very popular in Greece and abroad. This double album contains live recordings from many Locomondo's performances. Among them some "classics" like Marley's "Redemption Song" where Koumaris is a very pleasant surprise. Enjoy a really interesting album.

Natty Dread is a 1974 reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers. An important transition in Marley's discography, Natty Dread was the first album released as Bob Marley & the Wailers (as opposed to The Wailers) and the first recorded without former bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. It is also the first album recorded with the I-Threes, a female vocal trio that included Bob's wife, Rita Marley, along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt.

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Compilation album released in 1998 in Spain containing 15 of the biggest hits of the late Jamaican musician and composer Bob Marley (1945-1981). It was also a leader and guitarist of the group 'The Wailers' with which he achieved a huge worldwide reputation and contributed to the maximum disclosure and respect for Jamaican music and to one's 'reggae', which became a legend.

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Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all-time. He is one of only two British reggae acts (along with UB40) to have an American Billboard number one – "Close to You" in 1990.

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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards re-releases a timeless set of traditional nyabinghi songs and chants...

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Though they ultimately skated far away from the "Two Tone" pigeon-hole that yawned for other bands of their ilk and age, the English Beat were certainly pursuing similar demons as they rose out of hometown Birmingham in 1979, with a ska-punk collision that matched social politics with sociological awareness, then turned the whole thing into a non-stop dance party.

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'Live in Israel' DVD contains a live show shot in Tel Aviv, intercut with interviews and street performances from Jerusalem. It also includes the new music video for "Jerusalem (Out Of Darkness Comes Light).

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MADNESS WONDERFUL (2010 UK 2-CD Reissue - Originally released in 1999, Wonderful was the first new material from the Madness camp since 1988’s The Madness and the first album that featured all seven original members since 1984’s Keep Moving, after which Mike Barson took leave of the band for a while.

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MADNESS Mad Not Mad (2010 issue UK 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition 3-disc [2CD/1DVD] set - Originally released in 1985, 'Mad Not Mad' was the Nutty Boys' sixth and final studio album. Bar the band's unhappiness about the album's production, it still contains their inimitable touches of humour and melancholy, and their wry insights into ordinary British life, though with a more reflective, world-weary feel than any of their previous albums.

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Like Young Tree, Hebron Gate is thematic; while the former focused on the cycle of life, the latter is concerned more with the afterlife and the struggle to get to Zion. The sound is the same the group's fans have come to love: vivid, live-instrument, righteous roots reggae with a slight (complementary) twist of jazz, feverish vocals, and thoughful (if slightly esoteric) lyrics. - reggae-reviews.com (4/5 Stars)

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MADNESS KEEP MOVING (2010 issue UK 2-CD album set - Originally released in 1984, Union Square Musics 30th Anniversary Madness reissue campaign continues with Keep Moving, the bands fifth and possibly most mature album. Its release, in 1984, was tinged with sadness, as it would be the bands last offering with the original line-up until 1999's Wonderful comeback. That said, the album and the songs on it did not suffer and some consider Keep Moving to be Madness's most sophisticated album, dealing with issues of homelessness, politics and spousal abuse in typically sensitive fashion.

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Banned in DC: Bad Brains' Greatest Riffs distills the greatest hardcore punk band of all-time's career highlights down to a 23-track anthology.

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History will rightly remember Madness as one of Britain’s greatest ever singles groups, but it’s on their albums that the Nutty Boys fully displayed their kaleidoscopic mastery of pop. Their first – reissued to celebrate its 30th anniversary, and including a second disc of B sides, Peel Sessions, videos and rarities – One Step Beyond… saw Madness commit to tape a raucous live show that had already won them a committed following across the pubs of their native north London.

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It's hard to find an act whose vocals and music both speak to you deeply, but Groundation is such a group. The music is like a thick, rich, hearty roots stew with instrument layered upon instrument, perhaps a bit too spicy for some, but ultimately fulfilling for most. - reggae-reviews.com (5/5 Stars)

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Even when they don't overtly throw in jazz, the entire Young Tree experience has a cool, expansive jazzy feel, as tracks tend to be long (often 6 or 7 minutes), spacious works with extensive instrumental spans that lend an improvisational "jamming" sound to it all. From explosive start to staid finish, Young Tree is easily one of the best American reggae albums you'll ever hear. (4.5/5 Stars)

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