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 ...

Jamaica’s sound systems were the forebears for modern day DJ and hip-hop culture. Sound engineers like King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry came onto the scene and pioneered a new genre known as dub.

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 ...

Reggae sound systems King Shine Sound and Twin Star International will rest their reputations on the line when they lock horns in the first international sound clash in Bermuda in nearly two decades ...

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 ...

Blazer Sound System is the blissed-out brainchild of Colorado-born, NYC-based duo Zebrablood (Nathan Corbin) and Rainstick (Tony Lowe). Founded two years ago, the duo has become known for their epic ...

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 ...