Max Romeo, Tyrone Evans

"You should rise up, you should wise up..." The dubbing funk, funking dub partnership of Max Romeo and Tyrone Evans bore this geniusly sleek single, now marked out for the Wackie's label after an initial appearance on Romeo's I Love My Music album from 1984; this version pairs Romeo's original with Evans' version on the flip. Romeo stood most out for his 60s and 70s roots classics like War Ina Babylon and One Step Forward, but the 80s heard shaken-up, liquidised genre experiments, and this is one such. Evans was a founding member of rocksteady forebears The Paragons, best known for vocal harmonies that fed into reggae's early vocabulary; and of course, the same disco skills you hear here would later cast a viral spell over Blondie.