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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Aug 25, 2010 |
| Performing with the vibrant energy and spontaneity of a sound system deejay Barrington Levy was one of the first vocalists to transfer the live raw excitement of the dance hall direct to record… |
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Update: Aug 10, 2010 |
| Dillinger, the deejay that brought the sound of Kingston’s dance halls to a worldwide audience in the late seventies… |
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Update: Jul 22, 2010 |
| Sugar Minott’s honesty shone through in everything that he ever did and his untimely death has sent shock waves throughout the reggae world. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Jun 8, 2010 |
| These ‘one hit wonders’ from way back when are actually Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths: two giants of Jamaican music whose work is inextricably entwined with the development of reggae music and whose innumerable hits stretch from the sixties up to the present day. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Jun 22, 2010 |
| The original ‘singjay’, Eek A Mouse, whose appeal has always been as big and broad as his super sized six foot six inches height. He has consistently broken down barriers and built bridges between the genres of roots, dance hall and ‘crossover’ reggae. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Mar 31, 2010 |
| The most successful of the many London based reggae labels releasing Jamaican music scoring nearly thirty crossover hits in the U.K. National Charts between 1969 and 1976. The company would then go on to dominate the ‘revival’ reissue market in the new Millennium. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Mar 26, 2010 |
| Legendary shop, label and recording studio that formed the epicentre of the Jamaican music business for the best part of two decades. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Jun 8, 2010 |
| Sonia Pottinger was Jamaica’s first and foremost female record producer; her husband, Lyndon O. Pottinger, was one of the unacknowledged founding fathers of Jamaican music. |
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Text by Harry Hawks
Update: Mar 8, 2010 |
| Treasure Isle was not only the home of some of the best ska, greatest rock steady and groundbreaking reggae but was also the birthplace of the deejay and dub phenomenon. |
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Update: Aug 31, 2010 |
| 80's roots classic performed by "The Crown Prince of Reggae", Dennis Brown. |
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Update: Jul 27, 2010 |
| Smokers anthem 'Police In Helicopter' was sung by John Holt on One-Drop rhythm played by Roots Radics. |
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Update: Jun 25, 2010 |
| Studio One classic rhythm, the original cut was performed by Cornell Campbell & The Eternals in 1969. |
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Update: May 21, 2010 |
| Classical Rock Steady rhythm recorded at Studio One, the original cut was performed by Marica Griffiths in 1968. |
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Update: Apr 13, 2010 |
| Classic roots foundation ryhthm! Killer!! |
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| >>Rhythm Hall of Fame |
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