Jah Shaka, the London roots reggae artist who inspired legions of acts across genres, has died. His management confirmed his death on Wednesday, 12th April, and did not provide a cause of death. Jah ...

Berlin is a city known for its electronic music and club scene. But not everyone knows that many of the tricks used in today's club mixes, such as bass cut switches, echo and delay effects, and ...

61 years ago, a man named Duke Vin stowed away on a boat from Kingston to London. In Jamaica, he’d been a selector, spinning records on a prominent reggae sound system—a truck loaded with a generator, ...

Sergio Ortiz is a soft-spoken teacher in San Antonio College’s music business program. But as the reggae artist Sgt. Remo, he makes some serious noise with a wall of speakers that looks like ...

As part of our Sell Off series, discover the tiny UK town that was home to a thriving sound system scene in the post-war years. Today the UK's Notting Hill Carnival will be winding its way through the ...

Since their inception in the late 200s, Dave Mata and his DJ crew, the six-member Impala Sound Champions, have held on to the dream of building a massive traveling sound system like the ones that ...

The lineage of today’s chart-topping hip-hop and, earlier, the international reggae scene can be traced back to the sound system culture that blossomed in Jamaica during the 1950s, 60s and 70s and ...

Channel One Sound System is a legendary British reggae sound system, renowned for its deep roots in the reggae and dub scene. Established in the mid-1970s, Channel One quickly became one of the most ...

South London's finest reggae sound system DJ. Wassie One specialises in 60's, 70's & 80's ska, rocksteady & reggae. With over 40 years as an active reggae DJ, expect killer rarities and party hits ...