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Low B

Alongside his mixmate Diplo, DJ Low B (aka LOW QUALITY) formed the acclaimed Philly club duo Hollertronix in early 2000. Injecting items of spirit, dancehall, hip-hop, disco, as well as the (at that time) just-surfacing Baltimore golf club movement to their units, Hollertronix’s dance celebrations began attracting substantial interest at …

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Levi Roots

b. Keith Valentine Graham, 1958, Clarendon, Jamaica, Western Indies. Levi can be an affable guy that has softened the sector’s hardest critics along with his charismatic character. By age 12 Levi relocated in the united kingdom with his family members. He shortly became mixed up in local music picture, initially …

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Joseph “Jo Jo” Hookim

b. Jamaica, Western world Indies. Among four brothers associated with music from an early on age (the various other brothers had been Kenneth, Ernest and Paulie), Joe Joe and his sibling Ernest began on underneath rung from the entertainment sector ladder, managing juke-boxes and one-armed bandits, however in 1970 the …

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Iration

Although all members originally hail from Hawaii, the reggae-rock group Iration launched their career in Isla Vista, California, a college town near Santa Barbara. Using their laid-back appear and pop melodies, the music group was an instantaneous hit within the California university circuit. In 2006, their developing group of fans …

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Herman Chin-Loy

Of Chinese-Jamaican extraction, Herman Chin-Loy’s first involvement in the music business came when he worked for his popular record-producing cousin, Leslie Kong, in his Beverley’s record store in the 60s. In 1969 he exposed his personal Aquarius Record Shop in Half Method Tree and relocated into record creation via instrumentals …

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George Clarke

Not to end up being confused using the soulful jazz saxophonist from the same name, the United kingdom keyboardist George Clarke was an associate of a music group called the Regulars, who trim one record for CBS in 1978. Brass participant George Chisholm is among the better-known musicians who was …

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Lord Kossity

French hip-hop front-runner Lord Kossity began his saving career in the first ’90s as an associate of the group Comparison, alongside his cousin Dr. Jekyll. His intro of raga in to the zouk music that dominated French Antilles’ radio produced him an designer to watch in early stages, making his …

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Nosliw

Nosliw is a German reggae vocalist who made his record debut in 2004 in colaboration with Rootdown Information. Blessed Eric Wilson in 1975 in Bonn, Germany, he started his music profession in the first ’90s being a rapper in the group D.U.G. (Die Unendlichen Gedichte). The group released some stray …

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Jah Jerry

Jah Jerry (given birth to Jerome Hines) was among the initial members from the Skatalites in their formation (actually, the 3rd member to become listed on, after Roland Alphonso and Dizzy Johnny Moore). He discovered your guitar from Ernest Ranglin in the later ’40s and started playing with rings with …

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Stick Figure

Today’s reggae music group that fully embraces dub, Stay Figure were very long a one-man task, that man becoming Scott Woodruff. Documenting and playing all of the tools himself, Woodruff released Stick Shape in 2006 out of Duxbury, Massachusetts using the recording The Audio of My Craving. Burnin’ Ocean adopted …

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