Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Old Fashion Way - Ken Boothe
2. Dynamic Fashion Way - U-Roy
3. Spanish Omega - Dennis Alcapone
4. Old Broom - Keith Hudson
5. (You Must Be) Popular - Keith Hudson
6. Don't Start It Up - Keith Hudson
7. Don't Get Me Confused - Keith Hudson
8. Shades of Hudson - Dennis Alcapone
9. I'm Gonna Get You - Delroy Wilson
10. Run Run - Delroy Wilson
11. Big Bad Boy - Alton Ellis
12. Jungle of Crime - Dennis Alcapone
13. We Will Make - Keith Hudson, Phillip Samuel
14. S. 90 Skank - Big Youth
15. Fat Baby - Augustus Pablo
16. Broken Contract - Zap Pow
17. You Are Mine - Alton Ellis
18. Riot
19. War Dance (AKA Bongo Riot) - Soul Syndicate
20. Hudson Affair - U-Roy
21. Tribal War
22. Satan Side (aka Theme from Satan Side) - Keith Hudson
23. Place in Africa (AKA Addis Ababa) - Delroy Wilson
24. Boost It Up (aka Rudy Hot Stuff) - Keith Hudson
25. Hot Stuff - I-Roy
26. Darkest Night on a Wet Looking Road - Keith Hudson
27. Darkest Night Version

Disc 2:

1. Melody Maker - Keith Hudson
2. Melody Maker [Harmonica & Bongo Dub][Version]
3. Can You Keep a Secret - Big Youth, Keith Hudson
4. Don't Think About Me (I'm Alright) - Horace Andy, , Earl "Chinna" Smith
5. Don't Think About Dub - Mafia All Stars,
6. Jean You Change Everything - Keith Hudson
7. Betrayer - Keith Hudson, Earl "Chinna" Smith
8. Peter & Judas - Horace Andy, , Earl "Chinna" Smith
9. True True to My Heart - Keith Hudson
10. Silver Platter - I-Roy
11. Fight on Fight On - Keith Hudson
12. Satan Side Version (AKA Kiss 14) - Augustus Pablo
13. Class and Subject - Keith Hudson
14. Class & Subject Version
15. Jah Lion Jungle - I-Roy
16. Barbican - Keith Hudson
17. Smoke Without Fire - Keith Hudson
18. Golden Snake - Johnny Clarke
19. Golden Skank
20. African Bread
21. Need Someone to Help Me - Eric Clarke
22. Cynthia
23. Love I - Soul Syndicate
24. Healing Up the Land - Keith Hudson
25. Torch of Freedom - Keith Hudson
26. Lost All Sense of Direction - Keith Hudson
27. Jonah Come Out Now - Keith Hudson
28. Jonah Version - Keith Hudson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52934 in Music
• Released on: 2005-01-11
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered

Album Description
First definitive overview of one of the key producers of Jamaican music. Includes many 70s rarities appearing on CD for the first time! 55 tracks on 2 CDs. Trojan. 2004.

Customer Reviews

MELODY MAKER FROM JAMAICA
THE HUDSON AFFAIR: This is an excellent retrospective of Keith Hudson's production work between the late sixties and middle seventies. Featuring more than 50 prime reggae cuts along with first-class packaging and sleeve notes, this has to be considered the definitive Hudson collection - although to be honest, there's not much competition out there. Setting out with Ken Boothe's great OLD FASHION WAY from 1969, THE HUDSON AFFAIR takes in early reggae classics from singers like Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, Horace Andy, and a virtual who's-who of foundation DJs, including Dennis Alcapone, Big Youth, U Roy and I Roy. There are also numerous instrumental and dub versions (check the brilliant MELODY MAKER), and plenty examples of Hudson's own "unique" microphone technique (a somber, not-always-in-tune blues wail from the lower registers), all of which make a convincing case as to why the producer was nicknamed the Dark Prince of Reggae. For the most part, this isn't the kind of breezy, rum and coke reggae promoted by the Jamaican tourist board. Instead, Hudson often prefers deep, voodoo-blues basslines accentuated by wheezing, spluttering organ parts and menacing guitar licks. There's no escaping the ominous overtones of THEME FROM SATAN SIDE, DARKEST NIGHT ON A WET LOOKING ROAD, or CLASS & SUBJECT, but there's also a lighter spiritual side to Hudon's work, as evidenced by Delroy Wilson's classic A PLACE IN AFRICA, and Hudson's own HEALING OF THE LAND and TORCH OF FREEDOM among others. There's an astonishing catalogue of music recorded here; a fantastic anthology that's long overdue. Really, you should buy this right away.

Looking for more early reggae goodness? Check out Pressure Sounds' recent Herman Chin-Loy (Aquarius) retrospective, AQUARIUS ROCK...also very, very excellent.

MELODY MAKER FROM JAMAICA
THE HUDSON AFFAIR: This is an excellent retrospective of Keith Hudson's production work between the late sixties and middle seventies. Featuring more than 50 prime reggae cuts along with first-class packaging and sleeve notes, this has to be considered the definitive Hudson collection - although to be honest, there's not much competition out there. Setting out with Ken Boothe's great OLD FASHION WAY from 1969, THE HUDSON AFFAIR takes in early reggae classics from singers like Delroy Wilson, Alton Ellis, Horace Andy, and a virtual who's-who of foundation DJs, including Dennis Alcapone, Big Youth, U Roy and I Roy. There are also numerous instrumental and dub versions (check the brilliant MELODY MAKER), and plenty examples of Hudson's own "unique" microphone technique (a somber, not-always-in-tune blues wail from the lower registers), all of which make a convincing case as to why the producer was nicknamed the Dark Prince of Reggae. For the most part, this isn't the kind of breezy, rum and coke reggae promoted by the Jamaican tourist board. Instead, Hudson often prefers deep, voodoo-blues basslines accentuated by wheezing, spluttering organ parts and menacing guitar licks. There's no escaping the ominous overtones of THEME FROM SATAN SIDE, DARKEST NIGHT ON A WET LOOKING ROAD, or CLASS & SUBJECT, but there's also a lighter spiritual side to Hudon's work, as evidenced by Delroy Wilson's classic A PLACE IN AFRICA, and Hudson's own HEALING OF THE LAND and TORCH OF FREEDOM among others. There's an astonishing catalogue of music recorded here; a fantastic anthology that's long overdue. Really, you should buy this right away.

Looking for more early reggae goodness? Check out Pressure Sounds' recent Herman Chin-Loy (Aquarius) retrospective, AQUARIUS ROCK...also very, very excellent.