COLIN ‘Bulby’ York established himself as an audio engineer working on some of the biggest hit songs out of Jamaica in the last 20 years. He is determined to achieve similar success as a solo producer.

Last Thursday, VP Records staged a listening party in New York at The Delancey for

Epic & Ting, York’s first album.

A packed house of music industry insiders (record company executives, journalists, disc jockeys) attended the event.

Epic & Ting will be officially released in May, but its lead singleMoola, a dancehall/electronica song by Cherine, is already out.

York, 43, has great expectations for the song which is reportedly picking up steam in Brazil and Colombia.

“Every producer wants a big hit song an’ I’m hoping for at least two from this album, ’cause it have dat international sound,” he told

Splash.

Anything Goes, a collaboration between Beres Hammond and Bounty Killer, is another song from Epic & Ting that has been released.

The 12-track set also includes

All Night Long by Maxi Priest and Brigadier Jerry; andWho Shall I Fear, a digital combination featuring dancehall icon Tenor Saw and Assassin.

York’s career as an engineer started in 1989 at the Mixing Lab studio in Kingston where he worked on international hits such as

Murder She Wrote andTwist And Shout by Chaka Demus and Pliers;No, No, No by Dawn Penn andBoombastic by Shaggy.

He and fellow engineer Lynford ‘Fatta’ Marshall also operated the Fateyes label which produced a number of dancehall hits including

Memories by Beenie Man and Terror Fabulous’Jah Works.

— Howard Campbell