Interview with Mutabaruka
1984 – ITALY ITAL REGGAE Has your poetry always been political? MUTABARUKA Politics is a word that is used to attract people. The poor people don’t know anything about...
Interview With Linton Kwesi Johnson
Interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson By Nicholas Wroe Thirty years ago, it was not uncommon to encounter white, middle-class suburban and provincial teenagers wearing badges that proclaimed...
Interview with Dennis Bovell
04/09/2014 by Angus Taylor Who is Dennis Bovell? Is he the architect of lovers rock – who helped give the UK its own style of reggae and women...
Interview with Prince Far I
By Giorgio Battaglia Popstar Italia – 1985 Battaglia: And then, the song “Under Heavy Manners” was adopted as an anthem by the PNP (National People’s Party), it’s now...
Interview with Lee Perry
by Geoff Stanfield – Mar/Apr 2020 When you first started making dub records, what made you want to use echoes and reverbs? The music’s so transportive, and it’s...
Interview with Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Maxwell Sherwood (born 20 January 1958, London, England) is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music. He has created a distinctive production style...
Interview with Lloydie Coxosone
“Sounds called Coxsone is the first. Sounds that control the universe and quench your musical thirsts…”
(I Roy: ‘Coxsone Affari’) “PEOPLE SAY Coxsone sound is finished now… but we...
Interview with African Head Charge
African Head Charge started life as a studio recording project in 1981 when the percussion talents of Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah combined with the studio wizardry of Adrian Sherwood....
Interview with Mabrak
I started playing music from an early age, probably six or seven years old, in 1960. I’d play on a butter pan, which is a very big plastic bottle...
Interview with Fatman
How did you first start moving around sounds? Fatman: “Bwoy, just thieving out of my house, going to dances and getting beaten from a youth. That’s how I really...
Interview with legendary drummer Santa Davis
December 1, 2019 Reporter: Stephen Cooper Part 1 When it comes to reggae music, and similar to when I interviewed your brethren [legendary guitarist] Tony Chin, I...
Interview with Murray Man
Murray Man has been involved with reggae music since the 80s, selecting and DJing on Birmingham soundsystems. By 98, he started producing on his own label Mellow Vibes, releasing...
Interview with Tony Chin
June 30 & July 7, 2019 Reporter: Stephen Cooper Stephen Cooper is a former public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between...
Interview with Johnny Clarke
Johnny Clarke grew up in the Kingston ghetto of Whitfield Town. In 1971 he won a talent contest in Bull Bay, his prize a meeting with producer Clancy Eccles,...
Interview with Channel One Sound System
Channel One Sound System is one of the UK’s oldest and best touring sound systems. In 1979, Mikey Dread and his brother Jah T began to play at blues...