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Studio One supreme : maximum 70s & 80s early dancehall sounds
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Mojo
2017 December
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Andrew Perry
2017 December
"Even as Bob Marley was taking roots reggae to the world in failing health circa 1979-80, back home Jamaican music was rapidly abandoning spirituality and politics for the more party-hearty impulses of JA's soundsystem culture. By the early '80s, full-blown dancehall would sync with the arrival of synths and digital technology in Kingston's studios, but in its infancy it was all about DJs and singers voicing over classic old rhythms, chiefly from Studio One's archive. So, this set explores that era in the foundation label's evolution, chiefly flagging up its new generation of ruffian toasters (Lone Ranger, Michigan & Smiley) and saccharine crooners (Sugar Minott, Willie Williams)".