Cold Crushing Pescados on a Rainbow

I found this record, housed in a worn-out disco sleeve, with a label that simply read: "Express." To my surprise, it wasn't a shitty disco cover of some song about trains... it turned out to be an all instrumental dub/reggae record. Nice!

With very little to go on, the world wide web led me to this information:

RANKING BARNABAS - THE COLD CRUSHER
Produced By: PHIL PRATT
Mixed By: BARNABAS
Recorded At: CHANNEL ONE STUDIO
Engineer: BUNNY TOM TOM
Personnel: ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE, SLY DUNBAR, RAD BRYAN, JAH BUNNY, ANSEL COLLINS, BOBBY KALPHAT, STICKY, SCULLY, TOMMY McCOOK, HERMAN MARQUIS
Year: 197X


The record, unfortunately, is warped... so, I've provided you with what should be A4 and B4 of the album. Of course, both sides have five songs. So, the tracklisting that I found just makes what little I know about this record even more frustrating. But, hey... at least I know it was released in 197X !

I was very thankful that the Roots Archive and The King Of Dub were able to provide useful information and images. Both are excellent resources.

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Our good friend, Enoch, just returned from a month-long trip to South America. And, what did he bring back as mementos of his journey? Colombian coffee? Ecuadorian shrimp? Aregentinian beef?

Guess again...

When I picked the dude up from the airport, he had an armload of bootleg DVDs and some records...

So, after watching "Los Simpsons" last night, I decided to clean up a few songs I transferred from the new Buenos Aires wing of Enoch's record library...


The first song is "Corto," by an influential Argentine psych-rock outfit called Pescado Rabioso. The song is taken from their greatest hits record, released in 1976, on the Microfon label. They were a short-lived band, but the records are highly sought-after. This jam is an organ drone sing-a-long [please excuse the surface noise].


The next song is called "Abre Tu Mente (Open Your Mind)" by another one of Argentina's successful "musica beat"-era bands, Arco Iris. The song is taken from their 1969 debut on RCA. The opening line is: "Open your mind to the cosmos, and look..."

...so, keep your eyes peeled for transfers of Enoch's 1980 "boot legs" record with Argentine versions of Kraftwerk and Moroder songs.

Get them HERE.