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1LP Vinyl – 333LPO19

First released at home in Jamaica on Jazzbo’s Ujama label, ‘Goldmine’ was only ever available in its comprehensive form, replete with dubs, in the US, on an expanded CD version. It bubbles back up as a killer instrumental set that feels like some of his most infectious and experimental gear, ranging from ‘Fresh Fresh Dub’ that sounds like a lost Cutty Ranks bullet edited by a trigger happy DJ Ramon Sucesso, to a hot buttered digital trot on ‘Woman Love Dub’ – perhaps the deadliest a Barbara Streisand cover has ever sounded.

Elsewhere, the deftly off-centre shimmy of ‘Tease You Dub’ runs thru the fruity keyboard inflections of ‘Middle Dub’, to the buoyant, heady pressure of ‘Fulfillment Dub’, portraying Jazzbo at his lithe and supple best, to the infectious bass swivel of ‘Acid Dub’ and the natty keyboards and computerised percolations of ‘Dubbing in a Goldmine’ plus the moodier trot of ‘A Vexful Dub’, all blessed by the screwed studio science of engineer Albert Thompson aka Junior Chemist, alongside Delroy Thompson otherwise known as the prolific mastering engineer Spiderman.

Deadly.