Impact All Stars is the name under which Blood & Fire issued the 1997 album "Forward The Bass: Dub at Randy's 1972-75". All of the album's tracks were produced by Clive Chin at Randy's Studio 17. Chin mixed the tracks with Errol "ET" Thompson and Karl Pitterson. Of the 16 tracks on the album, 10 were released previously as "Randy's Dub" on the Impact! label in 1975. Only 200 copies of this LP were ever made.
Clive Chin is the son of Vincent "Randy" Chin, the owner of Studio 17. Other productions credited to Chin include 'This is Augustus Pablo', the famed melodica player's debut LP. (Read more at last.fm.)
Links to Peel[]
In 1998, Peel gave airtime to several tracks from the Blood & Fire album 'Forward The Bass: Dub at Randy's 1972-75', credited to Impact All Stars. The artist name used for the loose pool of musicians was a reference to the Impact! label of Randy's studio owner Vincent "Randy" Chin that had originally put out the vintage dub tracks.[1]
The DJ had earlier played releases on Impact!, including several tracks from the 'Java Java Dub' compilation in 1989, with Impact All Stars and the Upsetters credited as the backing band(s)[2], as well as an unlikely cover version of the "Batman" theme by "Randy’s Allstars".
In summer 1991, in the second of his Cover Version Specials shows, Peel played a version of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' from a Trojan Records "Tighten Up" compilation with Impact All-Stars credited as the backing band for singer Jimmy London.
Festive Fifty Entries[]
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Other Shows Played[]
- 1991
- 07 July 1991: Bridge Over Troubled Water (LP - Tighten Up Volume 5) Trojan
- 1998
Impact All Stars - Ordinary Version Chapter 3
- 14 July 1998: (JP: “Yet another extraordinary record on Blood & Fire records. ... I don't think it is, it's been said too often, but this track is majestic. If this compilation had not existed, I've would not have heard it.”)
- Ordinary Version Chapter 3 (CD - Forward The Bass (Dub From Randy's 1972-1975)) Blood & Fire - 15 July 1998: Extraordinary Version (CD - Forward The Bass Dub From Randy's 1972-1975) Blood & Fire
- 16 July 1998: Wire Dub (CD - Forward The Bass (Dub From Randy's 1972-1975)) Blood & Fire
- 23 July 1998: Last Of The Jestering (LP - Forward The Bass: Dub From Randy's 1972-1975) Blood & Fire
- 28 July 1998: Dubwise Situation (LP - Forward The Bass: Dub From Randy's 1972-1975) Blood & Fire
- Impact! label releases
(Known plays by Peel of releases on the Impact! label)
- 19 January 1984: Dennis Brown: Meet Me At The Corner (7")
- 20 April 1989: Crutches & D. Brown: Wackie Fence Skank (v/a album - Java Java Dub)
- 26 April 1989: Errol T, Bingy Bunny & General Echo: Extraordinary Dub (album - Java Java Dub)
- 02 May 1989: Upsetters: Nebuchannezar (v/a album - Java Java Dub)
- 23 May 1989: Augustus Pablo & Chosen Few: Java Dub (v/a album - Java Java Dub)
- 11 March 1997: Randy’s Allstars: Batman (10 inch – Split With Man X & The Wailers Band)
- 07 April 1998: Bob Marley: Sugar Sugar (7")
- 27 April 2000 (Radio Eins): Augustus Pablo: My Guiding Red (7" split with Heptones)
- 04 July 2000: Augustus Pablo: My Guiding Red (7" split with Heptones)
- 14 May 2002: Dennis Alcapone: Stars Version (7” split single with Lloyd Parks, 1972)