10.

Prince Far I – Psalms For I

By the age of 17 I was a junior partner in the Carib Gems label and I was choosing what they put out. We got sent two tapes from Jamaica, and one of them was a dub album which wasn’t great, to be honest, which they were going to call Boombaclaat Dub – which is a Jamaican swear word – on account of having put out a thing called Raasclaat Dub, which had sold a few copies on the back of its outrageous name. The UK record companies were creating a demand for dub albums. But we’d also acquired this album, which we called Psalms For I, with Pete Weston brokering the deal. He’s a good lad, Pete. And this was the first album I ever selected for release, so it’s very special to me.