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7" Vinyl – AMG-867R

All the way from 1969 comes this classic slice of what is known these days as "boss reggae", but was just reggae back then. It's Count Machuki and Movements is the name of his thing, and don't even try to tell him who to sock it to. Machuki, like Sir Lord Comic and King Stitt was a forerunner of the great deejay explosion of the early 70's detonated by U Roy, Dennis Alcapone and eventually Big Youth. Here he "toasts" across a typically energetic rhythm presumably provided by producer Joe Gibbs' studio band The Destroyers credited on the B side Caesar, the name of the band perhaps hinting at a Niney involvement. All this enlivened by a bright, vamping organ, redolent of the reggae of this golden period.