Seeing as the north of England was emphasised in my previous post, I thought I'd keep the theme going with the above items.
During the 1990's, Tuffys, who were based in Manchester, placed small amusing adverts in Echoes music paper and were a mail order service selling reggae dancehall cassettes.
I used to get their lists quite regularly and as a consequence ended up with lots of their tapes. Most were live reggae soundclash recordings from around the world but they would also make their own compilations.
The cassettes I have on display here are now the only Tuffys cassettes from my collection that have survived the passing of time and they date from the 1993-95 period.
The Roots & Culture and Fresh Ragga ones are 2 of their homemade compilations and the other 2 are live recordings. The Waggy T tape is a soundclash battle with Rodigan in Miami, and the Japanese one was recorded in Tokyo at Club Ska.
The ad comes from a 1991 Echoes.
Just doing 4 boxes from tape to pc then to MP3..all tuffys tapes..collection being chuck as I can't keep tapes till I die..rip tapeman gave me many years of sound clash pleasure..
ReplyDeleteI just googled Tuffys and it brought me to this site.I used to love getting their lists.I used to mostly buy Ragga stuff which featured Daddy Freddy such as V -Rocket as I was a big fan of him and Tenorfly (Rest in peace).Great memories.
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