2nd TRACS



A Reggae label, part of the Tropical Records group.  2nd Tracs released five singles in 1975-76, all of them sourced from Jamaican production company Sound Tracs, which had taken over Tropical in September 1975; catalogue numbers were in an SK-0 series.  Sound Tracs signed a pressing and distribution deal with President, which led to that company handling 2nd Tracs; it was also responsible for marketing from March 1976 - the only 2nd Tracs single to be released after that point has a credit to President on the label (2).  Promo copies had a large sideways hollow 'A' on them.  According to 'Music Master' independent distributors Lugton and H.R. Taylor shared the distribution job with Presidents 'Enterprise' arm.  Sound Tracs seems to have hit the buffers towards the end of 1976 or early in 1977, as the last single on any of its Tropical labels appeared in November 1976. 






Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.