Cheater Riddim – Impact!

Cheater Riddim – Impact! dates from 1972 and was produced by Clive Chin for Impact! , pairing Dennis Brown’s Cheater with Tommy McCook and The Impact All Stars’ Harvest In The East. It’s a short two-cut set, but that lean format gives the riddim room to breathe, with Brown’s vocal side matched by a clean instrumental version from McCook and the Impact All Stars. Clive Chin’s work here sits in the run of early-’70s Impact! productions that helped define the label’s catalog, and Dennis Brown’s cut adds the kind of melodic weight that made his name so enduring.