Berlin is a city known for its electronic music and club scene. But not everyone knows that many of the tricks used in today's club mixes, such as bass cut switches, echo and delay effects, and ...

Jah Shaka, the London roots reggae artist who inspired legions of acts across genres, has died. His management confirmed his death on Wednesday, 12th April, and did not provide a cause of death. Jah ...

61 years ago, a man named Duke Vin stowed away on a boat from Kingston to London. In Jamaica, he’d been a selector, spinning records on a prominent reggae sound system—a truck loaded with a generator, ...

The lineage of today’s chart-topping hip-hop and, earlier, the international reggae scene can be traced back to the sound system culture that blossomed in Jamaica during the 1950s, 60s and 70s and ...

Two Liverpool brothers have described their mission to preserve the "hidden history" of reggae sound system culture in the city. During the 1970s and 80s, the city's Toxteth area reverberated with the ...

Few reggae sound systems around the country gig as often as our own Black Chiney. While perched here in South Florida, the five members of Black Chiney work nearly every corner of the globe, from ...

Since their inception in the late 200s, Dave Mata and his DJ crew, the six-member Impala Sound Champions, have held on to the dream of building a massive traveling sound system like the ones that ...

Sergio Ortiz is a soft-spoken teacher in San Antonio College’s music business program. But as the reggae artist Sgt. Remo, he makes some serious noise with a wall of speakers that looks like ...

Jamaica’s sound systems were the forebears for modern day DJ and hip-hop culture. Sound engineers like King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry came onto the scene and pioneered a new genre known as dub.

Blazer Sound System is the blissed-out brainchild of Colorado-born, NYC-based duo Zebrablood (Nathan Corbin) and Rainstick (Tony Lowe). Founded two years ago, the duo has become known for their epic ...

South Florida-based reggae group Artikal Sound System has entered the murky world of musical copyright law with a federal claim alleging that pop star Dua Lipa’s chart-topping song “Levitating” copied ...