With his new All Purpose rhythm, Danny Browne of Main Street Records makes another raid on rock's back catalogue, following his highly successful Heavy Metal rhythm of last year. He actually played that guitar riff himself and disclosed in an interview at the time that his burning desire as a youth was to follow in the footsteps of Jimi Hendrix.

But this time he reaches even further back into rock music's database. If my ears don't deceive me, the foundation of his new rhythm is the first few bars of "Shake, Rattle And Roll", from back in the days of drape jackets, DA haircuts and slashed cinema seats. The rhythm fires up and burns along much as I imagine a powerful motorbike of the period might have done.

There are a number of cuts to the All Purpose rhythm, but for me the two best are Fun Thing from General Degree and Weh Dem Woulda Do from Buccaneer and Vegas in combination. Both feature the inventive wordplay we've come to expect from these artists and all concerned sound as though they're having the time of their lives steering this 750cc rhythm machine to its lyrical destination.

From its earliest beginnings, reggae has accomodated a variety of musical references with ease, from jazz and rhythm and blues back at the birth of ska right through to Buccaneer's excursions into opera last year. Danny Browne keeps up a fine tradition of Jamaican musical inventiveness with these new offerings.