Various Artists - Midnight Rock Secret Tapes LP Roots Records

Various Artists - Midnight Rock Secret Tapes LP Roots RecordsWhen Nkrumah Jah Thomas hit #1 on the Jamaican charts in 1976 with his debut single Midnight Rock on Alvin Ranglins GG label it gave the new DJ a theme song and an entry into the world of music. Within 3 years he had launched his own label Midnight Rock and alongside more music under his own name he produced a series of classics by the likes of Tristan Palmer, Anthony Johnson, Early B and many more. In 1997 he signed a deal with Acid Jazzs Roots label

we had moved on to something else before we realised how good they truly were

Claussell’s reworking of The Fatback Band’s ‘Snake’ gave us another 12” Number 1

that cleverly updates the track for modern club land

Disco Dream

A2 Gangstalene

The Players

Perhaps due to a wariness of the taboos around someone of his background recording classical music

Tick Tock – Shyster

Named after the opening track on Head Hunters

the way it was recorded with the minimum of musicians to draw attention to the songs

Clear-vinyl reissue

Tardam Records was born out of a collaboration between the Southern Italian City of Taranto at the top of the Puglian isthmus and Amsterdam