Wackies has a firm base in the evolution and spread of reggae across North America but has been mainly an underground name and label with the reggae cognoscenti being the ones in the know but the artists who recorded for the label, in the Bronx on White Plains Road are some of the titans of the genre including: Sugar Minott, Linval Thompson, Leroy Sibbles as well as many New York and USA natives such as the Love Joys, Juniper Delhaye, Jah Cutta. His record shop Wackie's House Of Music also played an integral role in the development of his label as a meeting place for artists to gather.
Wackies that has made nearly 90 albums through the 70s and 80s and has left a legacy for generations to come.
In the early eighties he took his sound to Japan, and influenced and recorded Japan's first international reggae artists, Nahki and Mute Beat who he brought to the United States through the auspices of Olufunmi Presents and Roots Rock Records. Both companies were part of the Rastafari Order Of Olufunmi, headquartered in San Francisco at the time.
In the late 1980s, Bullwackie retreated to Inglewood, New Jersey, where he established a 16-track facility. He cut noteworthy vocal and dub albums there with Max Romeo, Lee Perry and Japanese experimental duo Mute Beat, though some found the digital style somewhat clinical, lacking the disjointed warmth conjured at the earlier space. Mastering work for Japanese label Overheat became the chief focus, with relatively little new output.
PLAYLIST
Kingston Joe “Time is My Friend” 1964
Jah Vill “The Bump” 1974
Johnny Osbourne “Jah Children” 1974
Little Roy “Tribal War” 1974
Ken Boothe Stop This World 1975
Ras Clifton Look Over Yonder 1975 7” (1982 Updated mix)
Chosen Brothers “Mango Walk” 1979
Sugar Minott “Sometime Girl’ 1980
Solid C, Bobby D & Kool Drop - Wack Rap 1979
Keith Hudson I Can’t Do Without You 1981
Junior Delahaye - Love 1982
Love Joys - Jah Light 1981
Horace Andy - Money Money 1982
14 Jah Batta - Informat (Watch It) 1983
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