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Release Date: 2000

Label: Hip-O Records

Track 01: Sinsemilla - Recorded at Channel One Studio, Kingston / Originally Island UK 12" single WIP-6626, July 1980 From the Island album Sinsemilla / ℗ 1980 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 02: I Love King Selassie - Produced & Mixed by Prince Jammy / Rhythm recorded at Harry J's Recording Studio, Kingston / Vocals recorded at King Tubby's / From the Greensleeves album Black Sounds of Freedom / ℗ 1981 Greensleeves Records Ltd.
Track 03: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - Backed by the Revolutionaries / Recorded at Channel One Studio / Originally a D-Roy single, c. 1978 / Extended version issued as b-side of "Sinsemilla," July 1980 / From the D-Roy album Showcase (1979) / ℗ 1980 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 04: Sponji Reggae - Recorded at Channel One Studio and Compass Point Studios, Nassau / From the Island album Red / Extended version issued on Island 12" single WIP-6695, July 1981 / ℗ 1981 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 05: Love Crisis - Produced & Mixed by Prince Jammy / Rhythm recorded at Harry J's Recording Studio / Vocals recorded at King Tubby's / From the Greensleeves album Black Sounds of Freedom / ℗ 1981 Greensleeves Records Ltd.
Track 06: Rent Man - Produced by Joe Gibbs / Backed by the Professionals / Recorded at Joe Gibbs Studio, Kingston / / Mixed by Errol Thompson / Originally a Joe Gibbs Record Globe single, c. 1978 / ℗ 1991 Rounder Records
Track 07: Endurance - Recorded at Channel One Studio / From the Island album Sinsemilla / ℗ 1980 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 08: World is Africa - Recorded at Channel One Studio / From the Island album Sinsemilla / ℗ 1980 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 09: Utterance - Recorded at Channel One Studio and Compass Point Studios / From the Island album Red / ℗ 1981 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 10: What Is Life - Original Jamaican Mix / Recorded at Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston, and Compass Point Studios / Remix version issued on the Island album Anthem / Also issued on Island single IS-150, Aug 1984 / ℗ 1984 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 11: Youth of Eglington - Recorded at Channel One Studio and Compass Point Studios / From the Island album Red / Later issued as the b-side of "Darkness" / ℗ 1981 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 12: Youth - Recorded at Channel One Studio and Compass Point Studios, Nassau / Dub mix by Paul "Groucho" Smykle at the Fallout Shelter / From the Island album The Dub Factor / ℗ 1983 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 13: Try It - Original Jamaican Mix / Recorded at Channel One Studio and Compass Point Studios / Remix version issued on the Island album Anthem / ℗ 1984 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 14: Dread in the Mountain - Produced by Black Uhuru & Doctor Dread / Recorded at Lion and Fox, Washington, D.C. / From the RAS album Brutal / ℗ 1986 RAS Records, Inc.
Track 15: Brutal - Produced by Black Uhuru & Doctor Dread / Recorded at Shakedown Studio, New York City / From the RAS album Brutal / ℗ 1986 RAS Records, Inc.
Track 16: Darkness - Recorded at Channel One Studio and Compass Point Studios / Originally Island single WIP-6787, May 1982 / From the Island album Chill Out / ℗ 1982 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track 17: Chill Out - Recorded at Channel One Studio and Compass Point Studios / From the Island album Chill Out / ℗ 1982 The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

All tracks produced and arranged by Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare for Taxi Productions unless otherwise noted.

Tracks 2 & 5 courtesy of Greensleeves Records Ltd.; Track 6 courtesy of Rounder Records.; Tracks 14 &15 courtesy of RAS Records, Inc.; all others courtesy of The Island Def Jam Music Group, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Digitally Mastered @ Universal Mastering Studios-West

Tray photography © Tommy Noonan 1986.

℗ © 2000 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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