The long awaited return of the Ionise Radio Show has at last come to an end!

For those that can remember, Davie is our dub expert and usually brings a mix of dub, reggae and dub influenced techno and house. This time around you’re in for a big treat. The man’s got a new house and a new hobby collecting Trojan Records box sets. We couldn’t thinking of a more fruitful and wholesome hobby for man like Davie.

Trojan Records was founded in 1968 by Lee Gopthal and was one of the influentail labels in the UK that was feeding the skinheads sweeping the country with the ska, rocksteady and reggae they were crying out for. Trojan was born out of Island Records and was named after the Croydon built Trojan Truck that was used by Duke Reid to tour his soundsystem round Jamaica. By 1970 Trojan’s releases started entering the charts. First with Toni Tribe’s version of ‘Red Red Wine’ and then with the likes of Lee Perry’s Upsetters, Desmond Dekker, Toots And The Maytals,  The Cimarons, Bob & Marcia, Bruce Ruffin and Nicky Thomas.

Of course some of Trojan’s early artists went onto huge international success after a low key entry into Trojan’s roster. These included Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, U Roy and a Kingston-based vocal trio called Bob Marley & the Wailers.

So you can understand Davie’s reasonably excessive hobby to collect the extensive set of over 70 Trojan Records Box Sets. Luckily for you he’s picked out a masterful selection of tracks from his current collection and kindly added in brackets which box set they’re from to the tracklist below.

Ionise Trojan special part 2 anyone?

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Tracklist

1. Ras Michael – Roll River Jordan (Nyabinghi Box Set)
2. Dandy Livingstone – Rudy, A Message To You (UK Hits)
3. Greyhound – I Am What Am (UK Hits)
4. Donna & Althea – Uptown Top Ranking (UK Hits)
5. Drift Away – Chosen Few (Reggae Chill Out)
6. Horace Andy – Feel Good All Over (Reggae Chill Out)
7. Al Brown – Loving Arms (Reggae Chill Out)
8. Doctor Alimantado And Raphael Green – Rasta Train (Roots & Culture)
9. Leroy Sibbles – Jah Far I On a Pinnacle (Roots & Culture)
10. The Observers – Confusion In A Babylon (Roots & Culture)
11. Augustos Pablo – Well Red (Dub Volume 2)
12. Winston Fergis – Long time Version (Dub Volume 2)
13. Ranking Joe – Shank I Sheck (Dancehall)
14. The Revolutionaries – Roots Man Dub (Dub Volume 2)
15. The Observer All Stars – One Train Load of Dub (Producer Series)
16. Gregory Isaacs – Embarassment (Dub Volume 2)
17. Scotty – Clean Race (D.J)
18. Susan Cadogan – Fever (Lovers)
19. Joe Gibbs All Stars – Hijacked (Producers Series)
20. Harry J Allstars – The Dog (Producers Series)
21. Lee Perry & The Soulettes – Doctor Dick (Ska Volume 1)
22. Notes, Freddy & The Rudes – Montego Bay (UK Hits)