DJ Connection Volume 1 – Black Scorpio

DJ CONNECTION VOLUME 1 – BLACK SCORPIO 1987

Black Scorpio’s 1987 DJ Connection Volume 1 leans hard into the fast, talkative side of late-’80s dancehall, with a tight ten-track spread and no dead weight. Yellowman’s “Don’t Burn It Down” is the obvious heavyweight cut, but the set also gets plenty of character from General Trees on “Nuff Respect” and Culture Lee’s “Ganja Man, ” which sit nicely alongside the rougher chat from Barry Back, Errol Scorpion and the rest of the crew. Recorded and mixed at Dynamic Sounds, with Mikey Riley and Ruddy Thomas on engineering duties, it carries that crisp studio sheen Black Scorpio was finding in its early-’80s run, before the label would deepen into even bigger sound-system era releases. This one sits right in that formative Black Scorpio catalogue, where the label’s DJ records were starting to sound like an identity of their own.

DJ Connection Volume 1 Tracklist:

1. Barry Back – Ducta
2. Culture Lee – Ganja Man
3. Errol Scorpion – What Di Almighty
4. General Four – What A Pressure
5. General Leon – Boy Stop Fallah
6. General Trees – Nuff Respect
7. Output – Bang Belly Man
8. Sassa Frass – Old Year Gone
9. Shuka Shine – Ride A Man
10. Yellowman – Dont Burn It Down