For your listening pleasure... Serious Times hits the streets on October 10th so be sure to check it out and hype it up!
And for your reading pleasure...Pitfork recently posted two write ups. Below are excerpts and links from Pitchfork.
The Month In: Reggae/Dancehall
The Month In by Dave Stelfox
Just a quick heads-up on a new one drop compilation upcoming on XL Records. Entitled Serious Times after Gyptian's gorgeous single, it features a rack of killer sides, including plenty I've recommended over the past few months. Turbulence's "Notorious", Norrisman's "Home & Away" and 10-year-old QQ's "Poverty" still stand out as the loveliest moments in the new roots renaissance, but there's plenty more to enjoy here. Coming a double-disc pack, the first is an awesome, seamless mix by Federation Sound's Max Glazer and the second features all the original versions, plus bonus remixes of both Turbulence and Gyptian. The selection is great and Glazer's mixing skills put most others to shame, but most of all it's inspiring to see reggae breaking out of the specialist market and being endorsed by a quality mainstream label.
http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/38301/The_Month_In_The_Month_In_Reggae_Dancehall
XL Releases Serious Times Reggae Compilation
You're leaving one of Radiohead's recent shows. A reggae song comes on the sound system, and it's really good. "What is this darkly anthemic monster of a track?" you think to yourself. You ask your friends. They don't know. All you remember is the line, "I could have been one of the most notorious." To this day you wonder, "What was that song?"
Well to this day and no longer, because Pitchfork has your answer. That track is Turbulence's "Notorious", and it's featured prominently on XL's upcoming Serious Times compilation, a double disc package that comes with 20 pages of liner notes and is set for an October 10 release.
The first disc is a mix of tracks from the second (in addition to a few dubplates not featured there) done by Cham/Rihanna tourmate Federation Sound (aka Max Glazer). The second disc features the tracks in their unmixed form, along with a couple of remixes of the title track by Gyptian that are not featured on the Federation Sound mix. In addition to "Notorious" and "Serious Times", the compilation also features the 10-year-old QQ's "Poverty". If you need a descriptive preview, Dave Stelfox raved about all three tracks in the January installment of the Month in Dancehall. And yes, there are two different songs called "Rolling". Figures.
http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/2006/8/29/XL_Releases_Serious_Times_Reggae_Compilatio#38165