John Holt - "It's A Jam In The Streets"
Big Youth - "Foreman vs Frazier"
Lloyd & Claudette - "Queen Of The World"
I-Roy - "Buck & The Preacher"
Al Brown - "Here I Am Baby"
Hopeton Lewis & The Chosen Few - "Boom Shacka Laka"
Dennis Brown - "Man Next Door"
Toots & The Maytals - "54-56 Was My Number"
Johnny Clarke - "None Shall Escape The Judgement"
Shorty - "President Mash Up The Resident"
John Holt - "Stealin', Stealin'"
The Heptones - "Mistry Babylon"
Glen Washington - "Rockers No Crackers"
Susan Cadogan - "Hurt So Good"
Sylford Walker - "Burn Down Babylon"
John Holt - "Stick By Me"
Lloyd Robinson - "Cuss Cuss"
U-Roy & John Holt - "Wear You To The Ball"
Gregory Isaacs - "Mr Know It All"
Horace Andy - "Just Say Who"
Slim Smith - "The Time Has Come"
GG Allstars - "Man From Carolina"
The Hippy Boys - "Doctor No Go"
Val Bennett - "Spanish Harlem"
Karl Bryan - "Soul Scorcher"
Linston Wright & Harry J Allstars - "The Liquidator"
King Stitt - "Fire Corner"
The Aggrovators - "Channel One Is A Joker"
Boris Gardiner & The Love People - "Elisabethian Reggae"
Sly & The Revolutionaries - "Collie"
Derrick Harriott & The Chosen Few - "Psychedelic Train"
The Upsetters - "Return Of Django"
The Aggrovators - "Find A Dub"
The Revolutionaries - "Freedom Dub"
King Tubby & The Aggrovators - "I Am The Barber"
The Dynamites - "Phantom"
Dave & Ansel Collins - "Double Barrel"
Linval Thompson - "Jamaican Callie"
Ken Boothe - "Out Of Order"
Review: Trojan Records' Tighten Up series of cut-price reggae compilations was a formative influence on Don Letts in the late '60s and early '70s. Because of this, he was a natural choice when Sanctuary was looking for someone to put together a two-disc trawl through the influential Jamaican label's bulging archives. The Mighty Trojan Sound ticks all the right boxes, containing must-have material from such roots and reggae heavyweights as The Heptones, Jonny Clarke, I-Roy, Horace Andy, Gregory Isaacs and Toots and the Maytals. Interestingly, the second disc is an exclusively instrumental affair, with superb dubs from the likes of King Tubby, Scientist and Lee 'Scratch' Perry.
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