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The classic Jamaican record label 🇯🇲

19/01/2025

FOUNDATION STYLE

🇯🇲 Randy’s

📸 T Jardim

18/01/2025

📍 The pride of North Parade! Big up Big Youth 🙌

🇯🇲 Randy’s Record Mart in Downtown Kingston

17/01/2025

🙌 Big up to each and everyone who has been supporting the new King Jammy album!

🔊 ‘King Jammy’s Unites The World With Dub’ is out now on all platforms and on heavyweight vinyl → https://kingjammy.lnk.to/UnitesTheNationsWithDub

🖼️ Artwork by Ellen G

16/01/2025

One of the most revered Roots albums of all time on rotation today 🔊

Listen Now → https://keithhudson.lnk.to/FleshOfMySkinBloodOfMyBlood

Often called reggae’s “Dark Prince,” Keith Hudson was one of the genre’s most innovative left-of-center producers and vocalists, often mentioned in the same breath as Lee Scratch Perry. Hudson’s 4th album, Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood, was released in 1974 to critical reception in London, paving the way for his future success and setting a foundation for his creative legacy. Compared favorably at the time to the work of Bob Marley & The Wailers, Hudson’s sound was edgy and subversive, perfectly in tune with the p***y reggae zeitgeist about to take over the world.

This meticulous remaster of the original Mamba pressing includes three tracks not on the original, plus extensive liner notes from Hudson biographer Vincent Ellis, combining to make this the definitive release of an obscure reggae classic.

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15/01/2025

🔊 “A big question posed to me daily on the street…
Many want to know the reason why, am I a Rastaman…”

🔴🟢🟡 Joseph ‘Culture’ Hill - ‘Why Am I A Rastaman’

Listen now → https://culturevp.lnk.to/Why-Am-I-A-Rastaman

This extended single release features the original Vocal mix, plus an unreleased Dub and extended Discomix 🙌

12/01/2025

🎚️ Exploring Kingston’s legendary studios (Part 3): King Jammy’s 👑

🎥 Kalbata

11/01/2025

🔊 King Jammy ‘Winds Of Change’ 💨

🎚️ Lifted from the brand new album ‘King Jammy’s Unites The World With Dub’

Listen now → kingjammy.lnk.to/UnitesTheNationsWithDub

🌍 Greensleeves Records | VP Records

🎨 Original artwork by Ellen G

09/01/2025

🔊 Joseph ‘Culture’ Hill 🙌

“Why Am I A Rastaman” (out today) is the second single from Culture’s epic Humble African LP, which now celebrates its 25th anniversary. VP Records will mark the occasion with this extended single version of “Why Am I A Rastaman”, along with a deluxe edition of the full Humble African album, which will include the previously unreleased Dub counterpart, set for release on the 7th of February, 2025.

Listen Now → culturevp.lnk.to/Why-Am-I-A-Rastaman

08/01/2025

👑 King Tubby’s ‘The Roots Of Dub’, one of the few albums actually mixed by the King himself, celebrates it’s 50th anniversary this year. An album that shook the world and continues to reverberate, it’s now considered one of the quintessential Dub LPs from the golden era of Reggae music.

Mixed from material voiced for Bunny Striker Lee’s now iconic stable of artists, The Roots Of Dub reflectively holds a selection of riddims first touched by Cornel Campbell, Johnny Clarke, and Linval Thompson but in many cases compositionally originating from Studio One, Treasure Isle, or High Note.

Largely instrumental, the voices are almost entirely washed away in the sea of phasing, high-pass filtering, echo, and reverb (the core menu of dub effects). These mixes also set the standard for when and how to isolate the four respective channels of the mix into their constituent parts (rhythm, drums, bass, horns, and vocals) and then recombine, refocus and explore new sonic possibilities.

25/12/2024

🎉 Have yourself a very Irie Christmas!

Nuff Love from all at 🙌

17/12/2024

🔊 explains how he got his start in the U.K. and his early productions thanks to Bunny Striker Lee and Fatman (R.I.P) 🙌

🎥 2 Lined Music Hut - filmed VP Records
- Check the full interview on YouTube 👀

In 2024 we have reissued a lot of ’s early productions plus brand new music too, in 2025 we’ve got nuff more releases planned too!

16/12/2024

🙏 Rest In Power to the mighty Ken ‘Fatman’ Gordon

15/12/2024

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In association with VP Records & Greensleeves Records 🇯🇲

14/12/2024

🤔 As 2024 draws to a close we want to know what are your picks for best release of the year?

💬 Let us know in the comments!

📸 Miss Pat VP Records

13/12/2024

🙌 Fada coming to save the world with Dub!!

🔊 ‘King Jammy’s Unites The World With Dub’ is out now on all platforms and on heavyweight vinyl → https://kingjammy.lnk.to/UnitesTheNationsWithDub

🖼️ Artwork by Ellen G

12/12/2024

🇯🇲 Randy’s custodian Carl Lauder talks us through the history of VP Records and how it all began at 📍

🎥 LoopNews

11/12/2024

🙌 Heartical salute to Mike Atherton Record Collector Magazine for choosing two of our releases in his top ten of 2024!

4. Delroy Wilson - The Cool Operator (Bunny Striker Lee)

8. The Travellers - Black Black Mind ( )

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