"Jack it up selector! The Heatwave cram the biggest UK hits to come out of Jamaica into one crazy mix: 50 years + 83 tunes x 73 minutes = approximately five million rewinds. These songs have been pulled up, wheeled, rewound and replayed literally MILLIONS of times - in bedrooms, house parties, blues dances, nightclubs and raves throughout the UK.
To celebrate 50 years of Jamaican independence, The Heatwave’s quickfire insanity-inducing DJ style is applied to half a century's worth of classic tracks. 50 years of Jamaican sounds hyping UK ravers. How many times will you rewind this mix?"

http://soundcloud.com/theheatwave/five-million-rewinds

[via The Stranger]

TRACKLIST
1. Jimmy Cliff - Miss Jamaica
2. Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
3. Prince Buster - Al Capone
4. The Techniques - Queen Majesty
5. Slim Smith - My Conversation
6. Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping
7. Eric Donaldson - Cherry Oh Baby
8. Desmond Dekker - Israelites
9. Max Romeo - Wet Dream
10. Trinity & Marcia Aitken - Three Piece Suit
11. Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
12. Junior Byles - Fade Away
13. U Roy & The Paragons - Wear You To The Ball
14. Bob Marley - Is This Love
15. Janet Kay - Silly Games
16. Louisa Marks - Caught You In A Lie
17. Mad Professor - Kunta Kinte
18. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
19. Mighty Diamonds - Pass The Kutchie
20. Horace Andy & Tappa Zukie - Natty Dread Weh She Want
21. Jacob Miller - Tenement Yard
22. Culture - Two Sevens Clash
23. Aswad - Warrior Charge
24. The Specials - Ghost Town
25. The Specials - A Message To You Rudy
26. Sugar Minott - Good Thing Going
27. Dennis Brown - Revolution
28. Barrington Levy - Murderer
29. Triston Palmer - Raving
30. Papa Levi - Mi God Mi King
31. Sister Nancy - Bam Bam
32. Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm
33. Wayne Smith - Sleng Teng
34. Half Pint - Greetings
35. Smiley Culture - Police Officer
36. Tippa Irie - It's Good To Have The Feeling You're The Best
37. Beres Hammond - What One Dance Can Do
38. Admiral Bailey - Punaany
39. Super Cat - Mud Up
40. Shabba Ranks & Krystal - Twice My Age
41. Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb
42. Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote
43. Mr Vegas - Heads High
44. Beenie Man - Who Am I
45. Glamma Kid - Moschino
46. Shaggy - Oh Carolina
47. Ratpack - Searching For My Rizla
48. SL2 & Jah Screechy - On A Ragga Tip
49. The Prodigy & Max Romeo - Out Of Space
50. Dawn Penn - No No No
51. Deep Blue - The Helicopter Tune
52. Gregory Isaacs - Rumours
53. Leviticus & Jigsy King - The Burial
54. Top Cat & Congo Natty - Love Mi Ses
55. Congo Natty & John Holt - Police In Helicopter
56. General Levy & M Beat - Incredible
57. UK Apache & Shy FX - Original Nuttah
58. Ritchie Dan - Call It Fate
59. Zed Bias, MC Rumpus & Nicky Prince - Neighbourhood
60. Ms Dynamite & Sticky - Booo!
61. So Solid Crew - Oh No
62. Pay As U Go - Know We
63. More Fire Crew - Oi
64. Kano - Boys Love Girls
65. Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
66. Benga & Coki - Night
67. Richie Spice - Marijuana (Coki Remix)
68. Serani - No Games
69. Mavado - So Special
70. Mr Vegas - I Am Blessed
71. Sean Paul - Get Busy
72. Tony Matterhorn - Dutty Wine
73. Donaeo - Party Hard
74. Lil Silva - Seasons
75. Lil Silva - Different
76. Gracious K - Migraine Skank
77. Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock
78. Cham - Ghetto Story
79. Gappy Ranks - Stinkin Rich
80. Gyptian - Hold Yuh
81. Vybz Kartel, Popcaan & Gaza Slim - Clarks
82. Beenie Man & Future Fambo - Rum & Red Bull
83. Stylo G - Call Mi A Yardie


"Reggae runs through UK pop music like jam in a Swiss roll — from Desmond Dekker's "Israelites" at #1 in the charts to the skank feel in 2-step like Doolally's "Straight From The Heart", via The Police's "Walking On The Moon", The Specials' "Ghost Town", Madness’ "Grey Day", Musical Youth's "Pass The Dutchie", and all those one-off reggae crossover chart-toppers that seem to happen every couple of years, at least when I was a youth — such that Jamaican music is simply part of any British person's pop birthright" -- yours truly.