"It have rock, ska, rocksteady style, uptempo. It is an album that show where reggae can go. We still have a country and western too, but as we finish - missing!" Bajie says. "We siddung, three, four hours, and when we finish ... missing!"

That hard knock from the modern recording process on hard drive took the wind out of everyone's sails. Locke says, "Every man just vex an' go weh. Is the first me see that happen. The place jus' silent an' every man gone." That track is to be done again.

Gifted

Bajie points out that it is not a two-man show as "we have a next youth, Fresh. Him is a man gifted. Like Steve gifted with music, him gifted with words."

During the time that Equilibrium has been in the works, there has been a '9-5' system at Truckback. The hours, though, are not in the popular sense, as Bajie says it is actually 9 a.m. to 5 a.m. "We did the work in the day, so when friends in the evening they hear it, then we attack it again," Bajie says. And it has not been all work at Truckback. "We strike the perfect balance in what we a do. In between doing the thing, we go Weddy Weddy an' all that," Bajie says.

Dutty Money is Bajie's take on the current wave of money songs and Locke's eyes are closed as he listens closely and rocks to the track, Bajie singing "as dem get de dutty money/dem tek it an' buy gun".

Ackee-tree discussions

Bajie says that Dutty Money came out of one of those ackee tree discussions, the conclusion being that in addition to saying how fast they want to get money and what they would do with it, "I think them need to tell the people how to get it."

"A so we do it. We siddung an' reason," Bajie said about the music-making process.

There is another striking lyric: "We're in the fast lane moving slow/Are we coming to a complete stop when all systems say go?"

"Them say the first cut is the deepest, so we go as deep as we can. On albums after this we might no go so in-depth," he says.

Mel Cooke