Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
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Geoffrey
Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
Anyone heard this LP? From what I can gather it's a Wackies production from 1983, but it's not listed on Roots Archives...
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Russian Selekta
Re: Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
I think I've read about this LP in some Lloyd Barnes interview or wackies story.but as far as I remember this one was special for the Japan market for the "Tachyon" label, but not much copies were released, so this one became a very hard to find in europe and USA, probably you should search in Japan )
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Russian selekta
Re: Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
Yeah, probably you should search fo Tachyon
Max Romeo Interview (on reggae-vibes.com)
Q: And Wackies too, you did 'I Love My Music' for him at that time.
A: Mmm, 'I Love My Music'. A lot of songs through Wackies was Japanese people.
Q: You mean Tachyon Music, Sonny Ochai?
A: Sonny Ochai, yeah, of Tachyon Music in Japan. I did a couple of albums for them.
David Katz "Max Romeo:Chasing The Devil With Lyrics" www.upsetter.net
Shifting his base to New York in this period, Max's recorded output began to slow down. "I bought myself 3 vans, and started a courier service in New York, just to cool my head off. Then I met Sonny Ochai finally, I took him to Bullwackie who had a little studio in New York. We did that album, 'I Love My Music.' That's what started Tachyon actually, and I did this album that Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones played lead guitar on, 'Holding Out My Love to You.' I gave
Tachyon that as well, it was released through Shanachie Records. That was how the whole Japanese thing came through."
And that's the interview of Lloyd http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/smallaxe/wac ... fmusic.htm
“Some of them have only been released in Japan, by Tachyon. The cost of manufacturing in Japan is so expensive; those records never made it to the rest of the world."
That is probably why they couldn't be found
Max Romeo Interview (on reggae-vibes.com)
Q: And Wackies too, you did 'I Love My Music' for him at that time.
A: Mmm, 'I Love My Music'. A lot of songs through Wackies was Japanese people.
Q: You mean Tachyon Music, Sonny Ochai?
A: Sonny Ochai, yeah, of Tachyon Music in Japan. I did a couple of albums for them.
David Katz "Max Romeo:Chasing The Devil With Lyrics" www.upsetter.net
Shifting his base to New York in this period, Max's recorded output began to slow down. "I bought myself 3 vans, and started a courier service in New York, just to cool my head off. Then I met Sonny Ochai finally, I took him to Bullwackie who had a little studio in New York. We did that album, 'I Love My Music.' That's what started Tachyon actually, and I did this album that Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones played lead guitar on, 'Holding Out My Love to You.' I gave
Tachyon that as well, it was released through Shanachie Records. That was how the whole Japanese thing came through."
And that's the interview of Lloyd http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/smallaxe/wac ... fmusic.htm
“Some of them have only been released in Japan, by Tachyon. The cost of manufacturing in Japan is so expensive; those records never made it to the rest of the world."
That is probably why they couldn't be found
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Geoffrey
Re: Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
Thanks for the responses! Reason I was asking is that I'd taken a chance and bought a copy, but was waiting for it to arrive. It turned up today and it's killer! 
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Russian Selekta
Re: Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
Lucky You! Hope to see and hear this one to someday if there's gona be some left )-
Geoffrey
Re: Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
Well, I should add "killer apart from a dodgy cover of 'Let It Be'"! 
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paul gladden
Re: Max Romeo - Mek Wi Rock
I know of this album, i'ts "wackies" catalogue number,
LU 25-5009
I don't have the album but I have a 12" single from it,
"Call me when the heartache starts" catalogue number,
W 689
Try these addresses,
Wackies N.Y
4731 White plains road
Bronx, N.Y 10470
Tel. 212 655 8461
Youth promotion
1, Robert Crescent
Kingston 5
Jamaica.
I once received a message from Max, and I think it was via My Space"
Good luck,
Paul.
LU 25-5009
I don't have the album but I have a 12" single from it,
"Call me when the heartache starts" catalogue number,
W 689
Try these addresses,
Wackies N.Y
4731 White plains road
Bronx, N.Y 10470
Tel. 212 655 8461
Youth promotion
1, Robert Crescent
Kingston 5
Jamaica.
I once received a message from Max, and I think it was via My Space"
Good luck,
Paul.