Free For All is a Reggae album by Bullwackie's All Stars, originally released in 1975. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked.
About
<i>Free for All</i> is a profoundly heavy set of mid-‘70s roots music from New York–based producer Lloyd “Bullwackie” Barnes and itinerant soundman Melvin “Munchie” Jackson. Jackson was a partner in Jamaica's legendary Tafari imprint, along with his brother Maurice Jackson, singer Little Roy, and legendary producer Lee “Scratch” Perry. <i>Free for All</i> collects a number of menacing, earth-shaking dubs that originally appeared as b-sides of small-run 45s on the Tafari label and on Barnes’ own Aires imprint in the United States. Included are smoky versions of tunes originally voiced at Perry’s Black Ark studio, including Little Roy’s “Tribal War": an epochal celebration of a peace treaty among Kingston’s gangs. It's presented here in a wonderfully hallucinatory dub mix. Elsewhere, Stranger Cole’s loping lovers rock cut “My Application” is completely reworked as “Dis Yah Dub," a truly disorienting bass-and-drum workout made even stranger by unexpected bursts of organ and a truly deranged, reverb-drenched guitar line.
via Apple Music
The Clerk says
The Clerk knows this whole record — the pressing quirks, the credits, the take.
Tracklist
- 1Free for All3:49
- 2Space Age3:03
- 3Roots2:25
- 4Drum Call2:34
- 5Tribal Dub3:14
- 6All for Free3:47
- 7Dis-Ya-A-Dub3:06
- 8Boma-Ye-Dub2:30
- 9Meditation Dub3:24
- 10Blackbyrd3:36
Sound DNA
- Reggae
- Dub
- bassheavy
- hypnotic
- nocturnal
4 pressings tracked on Gatefold
Start your shelf.
Track your pressings of Free For All, get the Clerk's take, and see what the record is worth — free.
Start your shelf →Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.