A Reggae label. On three separate occasions in the '70s Trojan tried to make the most of their back-catalogue of hit records by issuing them in multi-track 7" form. A special marque was introduced for the reissues, and this, Maxi Trojan, is it. The 1971-73 version, with its bold colours (1, 2), makes the 1976-77 one look a little plain (3), though copies of some singles from the latter series can be found with the multicoloured labels (4); these appear to be re-pressings of popular issues. The 1979-c.80 series again had the less exotic brown label. The three sets had different numbering series: TRM-9000 for the earlier one, TRM-3000 for the middle and TMX-4000 for the last, though what seems to be the first Maxi Trojan release, Greyhound's 'Moon River', was given a standard Trojan TR-7000-series catalogue number, TR-7848 (1); that record can also be found on the standard Trojan 'shield' label. Demo copies, which seem to be mainly confined to the TRM-3000s, were marked with an 'A', either small (4) or large (5). The TRMs had three-tracks on them; with the TMXes the number was boosted to four. Some TMXes were reissued in 1983, through PRT. Pressing of the TRM-9000s seems to have been through Orlake or EMI. By the time the TRM-3000s came out Trojan had been taken over by Saga, which had its own pressing plant; it seems likely therefore that they would have been pressed by Saga. The discography below only covers the 1970s.
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