ENCOURAGED by the favourable response to its first project last year, Basco House Production will release its follow-up compilation album on March 3. It is called the Touched by An Angel Riddim — The Deuce.

Jimmy Fagan, artiste, founder and head of the Portmore-based company, said the set contains 15 songs. Seven of them are done by artistes who appeared on the Touched by An Angel Riddim, Basco House Production’s debut album.

“If anything such as feedback from the first compilation project is anything to go by, then this one is definitely destined to be explosive, to put it mildly. The artistes were chosen by association and affiliation with members of the Basco House Production camp, and ofcourse their spiritual background,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Fagan, Stefan Penicillin (a two-time Jamaica Festival Song Competition winner), Rian Davis, and Kevin Smith are some of the artistes from the first compilation who contribute songs to ‘The Deuce‘. This time around he also recruited star power in the established Jabez, Goddy Goddy and Sone G.

Born Tweedsmuir Fagan, he is from White Hall Avenue, a St Andrew community that has produced a number of major dancehall acts such as Red Dragon, Flourgon, Buju Banton, and Sanchez.

Prior to becoming a Christian, Fagan’s biggest influences were Admiral Bailey, Ninjaman, Shabba Ranks, and Buju Banton. Papa San, DJ Nicholas and Prodigal Son are now his favourite gospel toasters.

Papa San, a dancehall kingpin from the 1980s and early 1990s, and DJ Nicholas, are heroes of the dancehall-gospel movement that emerged during the 1990s when a number of secular artistes became Christians.

Fagan started Basco House Production in 2005, six years after becoming a Christian. In the previous year he made his recording debut with Read Your Bible featuring singer Gerry Chosen.

His song on the Touched by An Angel Riddim was Mi God nuh Dead.