Toyan

Toyan

Ranking Toyan - Ghetto Man Skank - Roots

Toyan is yet another popular deejay from that era, I can't recall if

he went into producing, but he certainly made some great deejay

albums. 'How The West Was Won' for Junjo is a true classic. And this

is the same style. Toyan had a more chesty kind of version of Big

Youth's style. He also had lyrics galore. And over the massive Roots

Radics style rhythms with Jah Thomas at the controls - he really

couldn't go wrong. The themes on the album are so typical of the time.

'Nice It Up' 'Raving' 'Rock It' 'Super Duper' 'Proud A Me' all of them

were heard time and time again on the sound systems tapes that burst

out of Jamaica in the early eighties. Toyan was at the forefront of

all the styles and ideas at the time. And this set puts it altogether

in one place.