AOV12 JAH WARRIOR « Warrior style » CD

The story behind this album involves a number of artists and a whole heap of riddims... Produced by Jah Warrior aka Steve Mosco who first became interested in reggae music during the mid seventies. Since then he has established himself as one of the UK's leading producers of roots reggae and has brought a selection of productions featuring major Jamaican artists, as follow on this collection of hits: 

Earl 16, a singer who's worked at Studio One, Lee Perry's Black Ark, with Augustus Pablo and many many different producers in Jamaica, has been resident in London for a long time now. Earl is a wicked and highly individual singer.

Ranking Joe, the "bong diddley," was the first ever Jamaican DJ to appear live with a Jamaican Sound System in England when he came over with Ray Symbolic in 1980. Still one of the wickedest DJ's in the business, he tours regularly throughout Europe with the Blood and Fire Sound system and in 2003 with U Roy & Brigadier Jerry .

Tena Stelin is the longest established singer on the UK roots scene. He's been singing in a big way since about 1986, working with Manasseh, Conscious Sounds, Disciples, Keety Roots and many many other labels and producers. Tena has some very serious, thought provoking and original lyrics, and he's still going strong today.

Peter Broggs voiced a lot of material. The track on this album, which is a version of Jah Mason's hugely popular "Rainbow Circle Throne".

I rate Afrikan Simba as one of the wickedest roots DJs in the UK. He has DJ'ed with sounds like Zulu Priest, Aba Shanti I, and nowadays mainly Channel One. He's worked with different producers including Dub Judah, Cultural Warriors, and Disciples. I am very impressed with Simba's style.

Lutan Fyah is a young bobo dread artist from Jamaica who made his way in the business by passing an audition at Buju Banton's Gargamel Studio. Lutan is a chanter with a very positive outlook and very fiery, highly intelligent lyrics. Definitely a name who'll be coming to the attention of the reggae public in future....

	The rest of the tracks on this album are a collection of instrumentals and dubs never heard before, some from tracks already released, some from brand new material yet to be unleashed. Whatever they are, they're all Warrior Style.