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2009 two CD collection. The Caribou label featured JA recorded Mento mixed with other music styles from around the Caribbean Gulf, including R&B, Cha Cha, Rumba and Meringue. These tracks mark the birth of an Urban Jamaican musical style and featured well known Mento artists such as Lord Tanomo, Count Lasher & Count Sticky as well as Laurel Aitken, whose blending of mento with JA Gospel and US R&B created a whole new style of Jamaican music:. The Downbeat label issued Sound Systems classic of U.S. R&B cut over the previous few years. This double disc set features great music plus great pictures of original DJ's with their crates of 78's, previously only known to hardcore fans.