2LP released by Test Pressing Recordings.
 
Ariwa Sounds started in a front room in Thornton Heath, South London. Four tracks, some homemade equipment, and Neil Fraser, better known as Mad Professor, at the controls. That was 1980. Over four decades later, the label has more than 300 albums to its name and a legacy that stretches well beyond the reggae scene.

This compilation pulls twelve tracks from across the catalogue. Dub, lovers rock, heavy roots music, digital dancehall — it's all here. What ties it together is the Ariwa studio sound all going through Mad Professor’s desk.

Mad Professor is the backbone of it. Dub Me Crazy got him known and his production credits run from Jah Shaka and Horace Andy to Massive Attack, Sade and The Orb. The tracks here — the Dub Sampler, H2SO4, Disco Dude, Kathmandu Dub — show why.

The Jah Shaka collaboration Only One God is a landmark. Two of the UK's most important dub figures on one track. Dark and heavy roots music.
 
Tracklist
A1: Mad Professor - Ariwa The Dub Sampler
A2: Earl Lawrence - Dancing On A Bassline Dancing On The Bass Line
A3: Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - Only One God
B1: Mad Professor - H2so4
B2: Starky Banton - Dub De Heart
B3: Ragga Doll - Hippamuffin
C1: Professor Doppler -  Cook Up Rice
C2: Mad Professor - Disco Dude
C3: Mad Professor - Kathmandu Dub
D1: The Robotics! - Hong Kong Flew!
D2: Robotiks - Miss Mood
D3: Aisha - Can You Feel It