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Review: The Skatalites' incendiary ska bombshell, Ska-Boo-Da-Da, first surfaced after the Chinese-Jamaican record producer Philip Stanford 'Justin' Yap first clocked onto the genre's earliest burblings. After hearing word of his rival Clement Dodd's receipt of hundreds of ska demo in mid-1964, Yap saw dollar signs at such a critical juncture, and unhesitatingly pulled his pre-rigged strings to gather of the cream of his session talents (not yet quite collectively crowned the Skatalites) for a mammoth all-night session in 1964 at Dodd's Studio One on Brentford Road. Successfully occupying the studio of his competitor, the culture cow that was to become the Skatalites thus further came into being. The November session lasted 18 hours, and was described as a monster - so riveting, in fact, that it compelled the studio to double the usual going rate for the instrumentalists. Though many of its demo takes still languish in the vaults, the Skatalites' second-ever LP amounts to a well-chosen curation of cover versions (Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington originals included) first laid down on that fateful, deal-sealing day.