At the start of the year, Rocafort Records treated us to its first roots reggae outing in the form of The Circle of Confusion featuring the legendary Studio 1 vocalist Cornel Campbell. Warm, feel-good, socially conscious, intergalactic dub.

We hoped for more, and finally it’s here. Although slightly more digital in production, “Yesterday was History” cannot claim to differ enormously from its predecessor. But hey, why mess with the formula when the results are pure and damn near perfect?

The Circle of Confusion are a Swiss production duo: Seb.K (Shakedown productions) and Phil’eas (Black Diamond Sound).Recorded at Addis records in Geneva on the day of Mandela’s passing, this track is another slice of dubby humanity-driven peace and love that buoyantly skips along aided by the sweetest scatting voice in reggae, (not showing any signs of its 73 years), and all the appropriate studio space-age sound effects, harmonics and vintage keys. Modern roots reggae at its best, where the dub version is as banging and cosmic as the A side.