SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE is an aggregator website about sound system history, a place to promote communication, tolerance, respect, consciousness and knowledge about the reggae and sound system culture and community. So we’ll expose stories, witnesses and opinions about the culture and the world we all live and love by sound system veterans friends, producers, singers , musicians, promoters and reggae activist 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.
Interview with Mutabaruka
1984 – ITALY ITAL REGGAE Has your poetry always been political? MUTABARUKA Politics is a word that is used...
Interview With Linton Kwesi Johnson
Interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson By Nicholas Wroe Thirty years ago, it was not uncommon to encounter...
Interview with Dennis Bovell
04/09/2014 by Angus Taylor Who is Dennis Bovell? Is he the architect of lovers rock – who helped...
Interview with Prince Far I
By Giorgio Battaglia Popstar Italia – 1985 Battaglia: And then, the song “Under Heavy Manners” was adopted as...
Interview with Lee Perry
by Geoff Stanfield – Mar/Apr 2020 When you first started making dub records, what made you want to...
Interview with Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Maxwell Sherwood (born 20 January 1958, London, England) is an English record producer specialising in the genre...
Interview with Lloydie Coxosone
“Sounds called Coxsone is the first. Sounds that control the universe and quench your musical thirsts…”
(I Roy: ‘Coxsone...
Interview with African Head Charge
African Head Charge started life as a studio recording project in 1981 when the percussion talents of Bonjo...
Interview with Mabrak
I started playing music from an early age, probably six or seven years old, in 1960. I’d play on...
Interview with Fatman
How did you first start moving around sounds? Fatman: “Bwoy, just thieving out of my house, going to dances...
Interview with legendary drummer Santa Davis
December 1, 2019 Reporter: Stephen Cooper Part 1 When it comes to reggae music, and similar to...
Interview with Murray Man
Murray Man has been involved with reggae music since the 80s, selecting and DJing on Birmingham soundsystems. By 98,...
Interview with Tony Chin
June 30 & July 7, 2019 Reporter: Stephen Cooper Stephen Cooper is a former public defender who...
Interview with Johnny Clarke
Johnny Clarke grew up in the Kingston ghetto of Whitfield Town. In 1971 he won a talent contest in...
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...