AS one of the resident engineers at Mixing Lab studio in Kingston, Colin ‘Bulby’ York has fine-tuned the sound of countless hit songs.

This evening, one of dancehall/reggae’s most popular behind-the-scenes men will be in the spotlight for a change, when The Delancey venue in New York hosts a listening party for his Epic & Ting album.

The compilation set is the first for York, one of the leading studio engineers in Jamaica for 20 years. Before going solo, he and fellow engineer Lynford ‘Fatta’ Marshall operated the successful Fateyes label.

Distributed by VP Records, Epic & Ting’s songs are a mix of reggae, dancehall, EDM and electronica. Some of the artistes York has worked with over the years have songs on it, including Beres Hammond, Bounty Killer, Sizzla and Cherine Anderson.

“I always wanted to put out a album with the music I love which is reggae, dancehall, EDM and electronica,” York told the

Jamaica Observer from New York. “But it have to be a album where people not skipping the songs. Each song have to have a different energy.”

There are 12 songs on Epic & Ting, several of them dancehall/reggae ‘combinations’. They includeAnything Goes by Beres Hamond and Bounty Killer; All Night Long by Maxi Priest and Brigadier Jerry; andWho Shall I Fear, a digital team-up of Tenor Saw (who died in 1985) and Assassin.

Singer Anthony Redrose, another long-time York collaborator, does the electronica number Babylon Shame. Sizzla sticks to his roots on Psalm 21 while Busy Signal also goes electronica on Streets.

The 43-year-old York first worked as an engineer in 1989 on the song Prison Life by singer Edi Fitzroy. He was engineer for a number of hit songs before he and Marshall launched Fateyes.

Among the duo’s numerous dancehall hits are Jah Works (Terror Fabulous),Memories (Beenie Man) and the monster seller, Want You Back, by Singing Melody.

But York said he yearned to experiment with other genres, like the frenetic electronica, which first came to prominence in European clubs during the 1980s.

“Yuh can’t tell what’s going to happen ’cause it’s very unpredictable. Yuh never know when the bridge or so going to come in,” he said.

York is not just an engineer and producer. He is currently in his sixth year touring as American singer Michael Franti’s sound system DJ.