SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE is an aggregator website about sound system history, a place to promote comunications, tollerance, respect, counsciousnes and knowledge about the reggae and sound system culture and comunity. So we’ll expose stories, witnessess and opinions about the culture and the world we all live and love by sound system veterans friends, producers, singers , musicians, promoters and reggae activits who stands for their commitment, honesty and obligation to to the people who makes all this possible, the sound boys and finally to the music.
May 19, 2022
HIM DUB FESTIVAL is pioneer in this genre of music in Portugal. There will be 4 days of Festival...
May 2, 2022
U Roy – DJ Originator (1942-2021) by at Reggae Vibes Feb 18, 2021 Career: Deejay / Sound...
April 22, 2022
By Angus Taylor on Friday, February 24, 2012 Born Huford Brown in 1956 in Kingston the young U...
April 15, 2022
Sly Dunbar: The Sly Factor (Interview) by Ray Hurford, More Axe (1987) As Sly will mention later on,...
April 2, 2022
Vivian Jackson (14 August 1946 – 12 January 2010), better known as Yabby You (or sometimes Yabby U), was...
March 18, 2022
December 30, 2018, Los Angeles By Stephen Cooper PART1 Mr. Brown, thanks again for taking...
February 13, 2022
By Angus Taylor on Sunday, January 29, 2012 Ranking Joe (born Joe Jackson, 1959, Jamaica) grew up around...
January 12, 2022
By Sthepehn Cooper , Apr 3, 2019 In a career spanning fifty-five years, legendary reggae star Max Romeo’s...
December 28, 2021
Gregory Isaacs – Deeper Depths, Higher Heights Ray Hurford – More Axe (1987) Gregory Isaacs was born in...
December 5, 2021
“STRAIGHT FROM STRIKER’S HEAD” By Peter I – London UK Let the spotlight now shine on one...
November 23, 2021
1984 – ITALY ITAL REGGAE Has your poetry always been political? MUTABARUKA Politics is a word that is used...
November 23, 2021
Interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson By Nicholas Wroe Thirty years ago, it was not uncommon to encounter...
November 23, 2021
04/09/2014 by Angus Taylor Who is Dennis Bovell? Is he the architect of lovers rock – who helped...
November 23, 2021
By Giorgio Battaglia Popstar Italia – 1985 Battaglia: And then, the song “Under Heavy Manners” was adopted as...
April 1, 2021
by Geoff Stanfield – Mar/Apr 2020 When you first started making dub records, what made you want to...
March 29, 2021
Adrian Maxwell Sherwood (born 20 January 1958, London, England) is an English record producer specialising in the genre of...
March 28, 2021
“Sounds called Coxsone is the first. Sounds that control the universe and quench your musical thirsts…”
(I Roy: ‘Coxsone...
March 28, 2021
African Head Charge started life as a studio recording project in 1981 when the percussion talents of Bonjo Iyabinghi...
March 28, 2021
I started playing music from an early age, probably six or seven years old, in 1960. I’d play on...
March 28, 2021
How did you first start moving around sounds? Fatman: “Bwoy, just thieving out of my house, going to dances...
October 14, 2019
Murray Man has been involved with reggae music since the 80s, selecting and DJing on Birmingham soundsystems. By 98,...
June 2, 2019
Johnny Clarke grew up in the Kingston ghetto of Whitfield Town. In 1971 he won a talent contest in...
September 1, 2018
Channel One Sound System is one of the UK’s oldest and best touring sound systems. In 1979, Mikey Dread...
August 21, 2018
1: can you tell us how you become involved with sound system…when was the first time you saw a...
August 21, 2018
Can you tell us where and when you attended the first time a sound system session, who was playing...
August 21, 2018
Jah Warrior from Steve Mosco Jah Warrior is a United Kingdom roots reggae/dub production team, record label, sound...
July 5, 2018
Rico and G. started collecting music in the late 90’s from revival roots to uk dub style.
They then realised...
March 12, 2018
Extract from by Anais Bremond Blacker Dread was part of Sir Coxsone’s Outernational Sound, produced riddims for Sugar...
January 15, 2018
Born in St Mary Jamaica, Action Fire started his music career in the early 90s on sound systems and Juke box,...
January 15, 2018
Pioneering UK dub producer/selector. Manasseh sound system was built in 1985 by a group of friends with the aim...
March 15, 2017
King Shiloh Sound System, based in Amsterdam, Holland, is an international, independently operating, roots reggae & dub sound system,...
May 23, 2016
Zion Train are Dub/Dance pioneers and have been undisputed leaders in the genre for the past 2 Train...
May 20, 2016
Vibronics, the future sound of dub, have been vibrating the world with bass since 1995. Vibronics, the future sound...
May 17, 2016
DJ WAR is one of the founding fathers of the Italian reggae scene. By the name of Antonio Conte...
May 12, 2016
Dan I, born in the north of Italy at the foot of the Alps in 1981, is the singer...
May 7, 2016
Blackout Ja is a dynamic performer and is considered revolutionary in his approach to reggae music, using his music...
May 6, 2016
Alpha Steppa is a UK reggae, dub and bass music producer.
September 2, 2015
Interviews except from : Lloyd Blackwood better known as Sir Lloyd Coxsone, a tall slim man hailing...
April 27, 2015
Mungo’s Hi Fi are a soundsystem and music production collective based in Glasgow, Scotland which follows the original Jamaican...
July 15, 2014
Jah Shaka has been operating a South East London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s. His...
December 19, 2013
Posted By dubwise · 09/05/2011 · Dougie Wardrop started his career in music production with humble means while running...
May 9, 2011
Posted By dubwise · 09/05/2011 Disciples is Russ D. producer, musician, engineer on the uk reggae and dub...
June 16, 2010
Tippa Irie (born Anthony Henry, 1965, London, England) is a British reggae singer and DJ from Brixton, South London....
June 30, 2008
Aba Shanti-I (born Joseph Smith) is a sound system operator and dub producer from the UK. Aba and his...
February 20, 2002
Extracted from Honest Iohn interviewed with Robert Fearon aka Ribs from UNITY SOUND SYSTEM on 20 feb 2002 1:...