Here at Gold Shop we are a bit old school. We prefer fax machines over email, Fila over Nike, beepers over cell phones and Records over anything else. You will notice that our releases have very little information about Gold Shop, and despite the fact that we do actually have a website, we never list this or our email on our records. We just have the opinion that who needs to know knows, and that our Gold Shop logo lets people know what is real from imitation anyway. That being said, many people have gone to great lengths to contact us, and we figured that maybe we should make it a little bit easier. Below you will find our email as well as our mailing address. Feel free to drop us an actual letter, and go ahead and include something good like a photo, sticker, record, sound tape or basically anything else that won’t result in us getting arrested when we go to the post office. Should you wish to contact us by phone, I will update this post with my beeper number as soon as I pay the bill and get it turned back on.

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GOLD SHOP

P.O. BOX 250630

BROOKLYN, NY 11225

contactgoldshop@gmail.com

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Gold Shop New Release

Witty Records

Gold Shop is pleased to announce a new partnership with one of the most iconic NY dancehall labels Whitfield “Witty” Henry’s Witty Records. Throughout the 80’s, Wittys Music Master Record Shop, and Witty record label were the pulse of the NY dancehall scene. His releases began with licensing tunes from his friends back in Jamaica like Prince Jammy, Junjo, Gussie Clarke and others, but by the mid 80’s Witty began focusing on his own production.  Some of the earlier productions featured rhythms that were made in Jamaica with vocals added by the popular artists of the time. As the label and the NY dancehall scene developed, Wittys became a home to some of the best NY artists like Shelly Thunder, Sluggy Ranks, Knight Rider, Trevor Sparks and others. Witty also employed some of the best NY musicians of this time, most notably John “Raf” Allen who played a lot of the classic Wittys rhythms, as well as legendary engineer Philip Smart, whose HC & F studios served as the home base for all of Wittys in house productions. Gold Shop plans to tell the whole Wittys story over a lengthy campaign of releases which will begin with these titles listed below.

MM200      LITTLE JOHN    CORK UP DANCEHALL

MM091     LITTLE KIRK    I DON’T KNOW

MM064     ECHO MINOTT   FOLLOW ME

MM201       NICODEMUS    EARTH & MOON

MM202       AL CAMPBELL   LEAVE THE HERBSMAN BUSINESS

MM203       TONY TUFF     COOL IT