Gold Shop New Release

African Love Records

With the recent untimely death of the King of pop, Michael Jackson, people all over the world have been compiling playlists of his hits. In reggae music there have been many covers of Michael Jackson songs, and in these playlists, people often list covers of his songs which have become classics on there own. I would say that Shinehead’s version of “Billy Jean” is the most famous example of this. To commemorate the passing of MJ, Gold Shop has released Billy Jean, along with another Michael Jackson cover “Lady In My Life” and the sound killer version on this rhythm “Reprimand”. For this historic release, we saw fit to pay tribute in the sleeve design as well, by adding the signature glove to our beloved Gold Shop mascot. These will be limited to a run of 1000 copies each, and will not be available again in this format.
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ALM-7-001A     Shinehead - Billy Jean

ALM-7-001AA  Shinehead - Mama Used To Say

ALM-7-010A     Shinehead - Lady In My Life

ALM-7-010B      Dub

ALM-7-011A      Shinehead - Reprimand

ALM-7-011B       Dub

R.I.P STEELY

As most of you know by now, Steely has passed away. In one of the articles about him, it states that Steely & Clevie contributed to over 80% of the dancehall rhythms produced in the late 80’s. I would say that this is a conservative estimate. Simply put, Steely & Clevie RAN dancehalls heyday of the mid 80’s to the early 90’s. The sound that we all identify as the golden dancehall era, is the Steely & Clevie sound. It is impossible to guess what direction reggae music would have taken without them, but it definitely would have been completely different. Steely was also a larger than life personality, and I would say that if he never played a note in his life, he still would have been the center of attention on charisma alone. He was a legend among legends, and was the ultimate producers producer. I don’t think there has been a producer that started after him that has not tried to emulate his style in some way. There will not be another Steely, and now that he is gone, Jamaica and Dancehall music will never be the same. R.I.P Steely.