Sweet Inspiration: Guilty Reggae Pleasures - Various Artists (Vinyl LP)

Sweet Inspiration: Guilty Reggae Pleasures Various Artists on LP

Despite the widespread popularity of reggae music in the UK, following its explosion onto the international music scene in the late 1960s, many of those in charge of Britain’s mainstream media were reluctant to give the exciting new sound coverage, whether in print or over the airways. To counter this prejudice, Trojan Records took the bold step of embellishing recordings from Jamaica with sophisticated orchestration, with the resultant “commercial reggae” sound immediately finding favor with the country’s reggae fans. Consequently, the company not just maintained, but in fact extended the procedure, employing producers to record the country’s finest British-based reggae acts. The result was the release of an abundance of superbly crafted recordings, the production values of which rated with the best that British pop had to offer.