Survival Is The Game

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Album Info

Release Date: 2005

Labels: Nocturne, On The Corner, Young Tree Records

Digipak.

℗2005, Nocturne & On The Corner/ © 1969-70, 1972, 1975, 1979 and 1982 Winston Jarrett/Manufactured and distributed by Young Tree Records

Tracks 1-3 to 1-6, 1-10 and 1-18 are marked as "Previously unreleased"
Tracks 1-7 to 1-9, 1-12 to 1-17, 2-8 are marked "First time issued on CD"

Tracks on CD1 have year after titles:
1969: 1-2, 1-3, 1-7
1969-70: 1-5, 1-6
1970: 1-8
1975: 1-1, 1-4, 1-18
1979: 1-9, 1-10, 1-12 to 1-17
1982: 1-11

Tracks 1-1 to 1-4, 1-7 to 1-10 and 1-18 were produced and engineered at Studio One.
Tracks 1-5 and 1-6 were produced and engineered at Channel One.
Tracks 1-12, 1-16 and 1-17 were produced by Winston Jarrett/engineered by King Tubby at Channel One.
Tracks 1-11, 1-14 and 1-15 were produced and engineered at Channel One.
Track 1-13 was produced and engineered at Harry J's.
Tracks 2-1 to 2-3, 2-6, 2-7 and 2-18 were originally featured on Wiseman. 1972.
Tracks 2-4, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13 and 2-17 were originally featured on Kingston Vibrations/released by RAS Records/Produced by Winston Jarrett and Prince Jazzbo/engineered by Mikey Riley and Philip Bonner at Dynamic Sound Studio. 1991.
Tracks 2-5, 2-14 and 2-15 were originally featured on Solid Foundation/released by Heartbeat Records. 1991.
Track 2-8 was produced and engineered at Dynamic Sound Studio.
Tracks 2-10, 2-11 and 2-16 were originally featured on Too Many Boundaries/released by RAS Records. 1995.

All tracks were restored from their original Kingston recordings. Mastering restoration by Kris Dilbeck, Young Tree Studios (CD), March 2005. Final mastering at Lion & Fox Recording Studios (DC), April 2005.

It is written in the booklet that "Many of the Dubs come straight out of Channel One studios from the fingers of King Tubby himself and performed to perfection by the Wailers band." (page 5). Tracks from 1991's Kingston Vibrations are said to be backed by the original Roots Radics. "True Born African" was released under the name T-Man and the T-Bones. The dates given are approximate and can be erroneous.