Earth Feel It Live!, a 27-minute in-studio concert featuring artists who recorded for Philip ‘Fatis’ Burrell’s Xterminator label, premiered on Rototom Sunsplash’s YouTube channel on December 3, the ninth anniversary of the producer’s death. 

The artists --- Gott-Yo, Turbulence, Nadine Sutherland and Chezidek are backed by the Firehouse Crew, which had a long association with Xterminator. The performances were filmed at Harry J studio in Kingston.   

Earth Feel It Live! was inspired by Earth Feel It, a 14-song box set of rare Xterminator singles compiled by Carter Van Pelt, director of Catalog Development at VP Records which released it on August 28, known in the music business as Record Store Day.   

“The project was my idea, inspired by some unreleased material that I found shortly after I started at VP in 2018 and the two volumes of Fatis Tapes series that Kareem Burrell (Fatis’ son) had put together on Spotify, much of which had never been released before,” said Van Pelt. “Chris Chin (VP CEO) introduced me to Kareem and provided some of the tracks, and he also suggested the Marcia Griffiths ‘Jah Is’. The others were on VP albums from the 1990s. None had been on 7 inch single before, so it was perfect for Record Store Day.” 

Some of the songs on “Earth Feel It” are the title song by Chezidek, “No Man is An Island” (Dennis Brown), “Nature Boy” (Luciano), “What A Gwaan (Beres Hammond), “Distance Away (Sizzla), “Don’t Throw Pearls” (Nadine Sutherland), “You Never Been There” (Turbulence) and “Jah Protect Me” by Gott-Yo. 

Philip “Fatis” Burrell, who was manager/producer for Luciano, Sizzla and Ini Kamoze, was 57 years-old when he died.

Written By Howard Campbell