Name: Trojan Presents: Mento & R&B
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Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH

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Release date

2011-04-07

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541493991858

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5414939918582

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Various

Label EU

Trojan

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Reggae / Dub

The Beginning:
On July 28th, 1967, the label Trojan was launched by Island Records, one of the UK's leading independent record companies. Created as a sub-label to showcase the productions of Jamaican producer Arthur "Duke" Reid, Trojan quickly became synonymous with reggae music. The label took its name from Reid's powerful sound system and Jamaican label active at the same time. Despite being short-lived initially, Trojan highlighted some of the finest music from Jamaica during the Rocksteady era. After its demise, Trojan was resurrected and went on to dominate the Jamaican records market in the UK.
In the 60s and 70s, Trojan Records successfully spread Reggae throughout the UK and beyond by licensing Jamaican recordings and producing UK-based acts. The parent company was sold to Allied in the 1970s, who continued releasing records under Trojan Records. In 2001, Sanctuary Records Group Ltd acquired the full catalogue of Trojan Records. Subsequently, Universal Music Group purchased Sanctuary in 2007 and later sold it to BMG in 2013. Since then, BMG has distributed Trojan Records in Europe through PIAS. Reissues on Music On Vinyl since 2017 are handled by Townsend Music.
Trojan continues to be a legendary label that has played a significant role in promoting reggae music worldwide.

Newest Listed Items

Double CD. In the late fifties, leading Jamaican sound system operator, Arthur 'Duke' Reid began producing his own recordings, promptly becoming one of the island's most powerful and influential record company owners. Throughout the sixties and early seventies, Reid issued scores of ska, rock steady and reggae hits, created at his famed Treasure Isle studio in Kingston, but tragically, his untimely passing in 1975 brought a premature end to his reign as Jamaica's leading producer. Today, his catalogue is widely considered among the finest and most important recorded works of the golden age of Jamaican music, yet it is only now, commencing with the 'treasure isle presents' range, that his music is finally receiving the due attention it so richly deserves. After cutting a series of best-selling Mento and Jamaican r&amp;b discs, Duke Reid continued his run of success during the first half of the sixties with innumerable ska hits, performed by some of the island's biggest talents. Not least among these was the most celebrated musical conglomeration in Jamaica's history: the Skatalites. Comprising featuring the cream of the island's session men, the core of this super-group played on almost every disc to see issue on Reid's many labels throughout the ska years, either as featured acts or backing many of the most popular performers of the period. This thoughtfully and loving compiled 2cd set brings together 40 massive hits from the early to mid-sixties, and by so doing not only illustrates the huge influence Duke Reid had on Jamaica's music industry at the time, but also provides the greatest ever collection of his ska works on one package. It features Don Drummond, The Skatalites, Justin Hinds, Roland Alphonso, Eric Morris and more.

Trojan Presents: Mento & R&B

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