SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE – Page 6 – Segnale Digitale Magazine

Interview with Errol Dunkley

There has long been a fascination with singers at a child stage in worldwide popular music, Jamaica is no different. Delroy Wilson springs to mind first and foremost, no doubt the biggest child star the island has ever seen. Errol Dunkley was another teen sensation back in the mid-sixties. Dunkley was to become one of the most prolific hit-machines on the island with recordings for the late Joe Gibbs and Bunny Lee, before teaming up with Gregory Isaacs to form the African Museum label. Later he was to score a huge pop hit with a cover of John Holt’s ‘OK Fred’ in 1979.

segzineadm February 16, 2026

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Interview with Big Youth in Kingston

No one embodied the 1970s reggae scene in its pomp quite like Big Youth. The dreadlocked deejay's music and persona contained the decade’s gritty DIY street toughness, its Rastafari social conscience and its flamboyant ghetto fabulousness all at once. As the microphone speaker who popularised Rasta lyrics on Jamaican sound system, whose rough-edged mystical chants made him a favourite of Britain’s punk rockers, Big Youth's place in history is secure. But when you talk to Manley Augustus Buchanan, he still sounds like a man with something to prove.

segzineadm January 10, 2026

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Interview with Addis Pablo: “Rockers” for as Long as Jah Provides

Addis Pablo, scion of the beloved Augustus Pablo, is a man in the mold of what is known about his mystical, legendary father: He’s extremely humble, creative, reflective, intelligent, and, passionately focused on using the melodica to make some of the most spiritual, special music in the world.

segzineadm December 17, 2025

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Interview with Ben Up and Barnabas talk Channel One (Part 1)

Franklyn “Ben Up” Irving and Stanley “Barnabas” Bryan are two of the last surviving team members of the legendary Channel One studio and entertainment empire. Owned by the Hookim brothers and based at 29 Maxfield Avenue, Channel One’s productions dominated Kingston's reggae scene from the mid-to-late 70s. Driven by a crystalline studio sound and the radical drumming of Sly Dunbar, Channel One became as in demand as Studio 1 the decade before.

segzineadm August 12, 2025

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Explosive Interview with Barrington Levy

It was during my recent trip to Jamaica that I had the unique opportunity to sit down with Barrington Levy and talk with him about his life, career, and his new Grammy-nominated album Acousticalevy.

segzineadm August 12, 2025

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Interview with Red Lion (King Shiloh Soundsystem)

Red Lion (King Shiloh) “The album I played the most is ‘King Selassie I Calling’. One of the last Augustus Pablo albums that came out actually. ‘King Selassie I Calling’ is an impressive album”.

segzineadm July 12, 2025

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Interview with Unity Sound System

[:en]Extracted from Honest Iohn interviewed with Robert Fearon aka Ribs from UNITY SOUND SYSTEM on 20 feb 2002 1: for the people who don't know you, can you tell us…

segzineadm February 20, 2002