When Stick Mareebo arrived in Melbourne in the late 1980s, Jamaican sound system culture was essentially non-existent. “I used to have to travel up to Sydney to listen to a sound system called ...
In 1955, Duke Vin, a sharply dressed and entrepreneurial British Rail employee in west London, who had arrived from Kingston, Jamaica just a year earlier, built his first sound system. It was a ...
London’s Notting Hill Carnival returns in eight weeks and Rampage Sound – one the festival’s great, if not greatest, sound systems – is celebrating its 30th anniversary by bringing Carnival Classics ...