Album: Various artists, The Legendary Studio One records 1963-80 (Soul Jazz)

An 18-track survey of C S Dodd's great label, to accompany a handsome volume dedicated to the cover art.

What's not to wet your pants over? Well, there's always the possibility you've already got the gear... But if not, here's where you start the habit, not least because it is very far from being a greatest hits, more a sampler of the diversity of Dodd's taste, from dub to Jamaican soul via the Skatalites, the Heptones and Lone Ranger. Of course you need it.