Get ready! VP Records releases this month a compilation with tracks from the legendary Channel One studio!

The history of the legendary "Channel One" studio will be told on an album to be released on April 27 in the United States, by VP Records.

"Reggae Anthology: Channel One" is the title of the double CD with 37 tracks recorded at the "Maxfield Avenue studio", with most of the songs produced by Joseph "Joe Joe" Hoo Kim, founder of Channel One. VP promises to release a series of albums paying tribute to the greatest Reggae labels. In 2001, similar compilations were released featuring music from "Music Works" and "Penthouse Studios", two other major studios.

The tribute to "Channel One" includes historic songs such as "I need a roof" by the Mighty Diamonds, "Things and time" by the Wailing Souls, "Far East" by Barry Brown, as well as "Woman is like a shadow" recorded by the group The Meditations.
The root of Jamaican Reggae is present in this compilation, which features as backing band on most of the tracks the magnificent "The Revolutionaries" (Channel One's official band).

Hoo Kim and his younger brothers Ernest, Paul and Kenneth were newcomers to the Jamaican music market when they opened Channel One in 1973. That very year they scored the hit "It's a Shame", performed by Delroy Wilson.
"The Revolutionaries" were behind most of the hits recorded at Channel One. The band featured drummer Sly Dunbar, bassists Lloyd Parkes, Robbie Shakespeare, Ranchie McLean, guitarist Rad Bryan, and saxophonist Tommy McCook, founder of the Skatalites.

In 2002, in an interview with American writer David Katz, Joseph Hoo Kim said he lost interest in production after the murder of his brother Ernest on a farm near the studio in 1977. Channel One remained active, with other producers carrying on the project. Henry "Junjo" Lawes was one of those who stood out most, recording hundreds of hits with the Roots Radics and other artists. The collection is essential for those who wish to learn more about Reggae and want to hear some of the most beautiful songs in Jamaican music, produced by artists who are more than part of its history.