Overton Brown scored his Scientist nickname for being one of Jamaica’s most technically gifted producers, a second generation dub wizard who took King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry’s teachings into far-out cosmic territory. His presentation […]
Tag: reggae
Jimmy Cliff interview: ‘I wanted to accomplish a lot of things in this lifetime’
Few artists can boast about changing the face of music, but Jimmy Cliff was there at the crossroads at two points in reggae’s growth into a global movement. In 1972, Cliff starred in the ‘first […]
Boom-bap meets dancehall in Bazza Ranks’ Where Would We Be, feat. P.O.A.
Irish dub/reggae producer Bazza Ranks (Dirty Dubsters) has just teamed up with Irish hip-hop crew Prisoners Of Audio for a crossover record that’s an unashamed love letter to music itself. Where Would We Be asks […]
Don Letts marks Bob Marley’s birthday with new Reggae 45 podcast
Bob Marley was born 73 years ago today — and to mark the occasion, DJ, reggae historian and all-round music icon Don Letts has released a new edition of his Reggae 45 podcast. Following on […]
Lloyd Bradley’s Bass Culture is still the definitive history of reggae (2001)
As the late ska icon Prince Buster writes in the intro: “Jamaican music at last has the book it deserves”. I read Lloyd Bradley’s bulging history of reggae around 10 years ago and it’s one […]
Don Letts just sent me on his top 10 ‘Crucial Reggae Killer Cuts’
With over 50 years of records to choose from, creating a top 10 reggae playlist is a hell of a job — but it helps if DJ Don Letts is helping out. Letts has been […]
Don Letts interview: ‘Reggae was always there, it was a social community service’
For 40-odd years, Don Letts has been the UK’s chief authority on reggae, and with a lifetime of bass culture echoing round his head he’s trying to squeeze it into a new series of podcasts, […]
Blazing Brixton soundclashes in cult UK reggae movie Babylon (1980)
I‘m getting into the zone preparing to interview Don Letts – cult and cultural icon, DJ, film director, writer, Big Audio Dynamitee and the UK’s most eminent reggae and dub historian of the last 40 […]
Sound of the Simmer: Interskalactic interview
If you were walking past Tower Records last Friday you would’ve seen a bigger obstruction on the path than the Luas works, as dozens of people crowded outside the storefront to see Interskalactic launch their […]
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