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Setting up for Fiesta Tradiciona Maya de Tulum, a traditional Mayan street festival held over 10 days each year in March.
www.mcsrecords.f9.co.uk/jah youth sound system.htm
The name of the sound speaks for itself and watching this sound system in operation is to behold some true masters at work.
Originally set up 1975, Jah Youth Sound system is today one of the top roots sound systems in the United Kingdom and Europe. Although based in the UK, they have traveled extensively throughout Europe and Africa taking a conscious and cultural reggae music to the youths. The sound has a minimum crew of 10 persons among them there are singers D.J,s operators and selectors.
You have also probably heard their D.J’s Culture Marvellous & Prince Liv-I-Jah chat lyrical consciousness, Ras Echo sing angelic tones and melodies for Rastafari. Bro. Bud the flag bearer. Brother Locks-Lee Selects all your favourite reggae tunes from yesteryear to today, and Jah Youth operate and mix around riddims to create that extra special atmosphere.
You will have seen their clean customised, red painted boxes standing strong, tall and upright, piled high in the dancehalls and bellowing out those black experience sounds of Rastafari Roots and Culture.
Jah Youth Sound have toured internationally with famous artists such as Dr. Aliman-Tado, Burning Spear, Augustus Pablo, Gregory Isaacs, and Third World, and have played alongside all the top UK roots sound systems including Jah Shaka, Fatman, Quaker City and Moambassa – to mention a few- AND more recently, the new wave of digital dub sounds!
However, over the years most of the sound systems the world-over seem to be struggling to remain true to the Roots of Reggae music culture and have changed with these trendy ‘times’
This is not so with Jah Youth they have maintained that core element of Roots Music and Reggae Culture, and it is probably this that you have found so attractive, Inspiring and captivatingly good!
They enjoyed massive success in the 1970’s, and 1980’s and now are on top of their chosen profession in the 1990’s.
AND WHY ARE THEY CALLED ‘ROOTS AMBASSADORS’?
In 1987 Jah Youth Sound had a calling to Africa. As they headed for Kenya it would soon became evident they would have to fly in the whole Sound System and before long the were playing music in city halls from Kenya to Zimbabwe to Ghana.
Their success was such that they were named "Roots Ambassadors" a name that has stuck with them ever since.
In 1992 when they returned to the U.K. It was half of the sound system that came back. The other half was left with a group of native Kenyan youths called Jah Youth Crew, adopted by Jah Youth during their time there. They continued to maintain that root of reggae culture and preserve that works set up there.
Jah Youth Sound System works spans many areas of the globe and has toured in:
Austria, (Vienna Roots Dance) Gambia, (All over during the Millennium Period)
Belgium, (Reggae 99 Festival) France, (Celebration Dance)
Germany, (Munich) Holland, (Reggae Sun Dance)
All things are possible through faith in the Most High
RASTAFARI
Gilly. Wizzy Dan. Barzy Beaumont.Miss B. Money Green. Rocky B & Maureen.
If you want original, authentic, innovative, pioneers of British sound system culture... look no further. This is Manchester music history!
In a long history of sound system Baron Sound are top of the food chain…formed in 197 in Hulme/Moss side manchester they have a 40 year history & are still thriving today.
I took the photo at the wedding of Barzy Beaumont on saturday.
Here's a taster from there 40th anniversary gig held in Rbase a couple of years back
Walkmans air-powered surround sound system for street parties making its way past the Lockerbie post office.
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A sound system shown as part of the 'Rockers, Soulheads and Lovers' exhibition at New Art Exchange gallery, Nottingham.
A couple of the people standing at Channel One Sound System at Notting Hill Carnival, Monday 26th August 2013. Channel One play Roots Reggae and Dub, and have been attending Carnival for over 30 years!
Here are links to some video I shot at Channel One Sound:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrjveLpWlUM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tkDTqJI188
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zRrgz2CXKs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxim7HuO4Pc
(18" x 24" Giclée print available)
Jamaican Music Industry as a Site of Nationalistic Fervour
Duke Reid ran one of the most popular sound systems of the 1950s called Duke Reid's the Trojan after the British-made trucks used to transport the equipment. In the 1960s, Reid founded record label Treasure Isle, named after his liquor store, that produced legendary ska and rocksteady music. He was still active in the early 1970s, working with legendary toaster U-Roy. He died in early 1975 after having suffered from a severe illness for the last year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Bb7-wvUec
In the context of Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music. The sound system scene is generally regarded as an important part of Jamaican cultural history and as being responsible for the rise of several modern Jamaican musical genres. The sound system concept first became popular in the 1950s, in the ghettos of Kingston. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers and set up street parties. In the beginning, the DJs played American rhythm and blues music, but as time progressed and more local music was created, the sound migrated to a local flavor. The sound systems were big business, and represented one of the few sure ways to make money in the unstable economy of the area. The promoter (the DJ) would make his profit by charging a minimal admission, and selling food and alcohol. It was not uncommon for thousands of people to be in attendance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UusFAjjthsk
United Sound Systems Recording Studios (center), on 2nd at I-94, is under threat of demolition by the widening of I-94 through the Midtown corridor, a project originally proposed in 1989 (when the city's population was over 1 million people). Today, with the funding finally in place, this project seems wholly unnecessary considering the city has since lost over 300,000 people. The $2 billion project could pay for the reconstruction of Detroit's streetcar transit system as it was in 1955, when it covered most of the city (Detroit is currently the only major American city without an at-grade rail-based commuter transit system). Artists as diverse as John Lee Hooker, the Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and more have recorded at the studio.
detroit, michigan
6x17 cm panoramic, fuji astia 100
(18" x 24" Giclée print available)
The sound system concept first became popular in the 1950s, in the ghettos of Kingston Jamaica. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers and set up street parties. In the beginning, the DJs played American rhythm and blues music, but as time progressed and more local music was created, the sound migrated to a local flavor. The promoter (the DJ) would make his profit by charging a minimal admission, and selling food and alcohol. It was not uncommon for thousands of people to be in attendance. By the mid 1950s, sound systems had eclipsed live musicians in any combination for the purpose of staging parties. By the second half of the decade, custom-built systems began to appear from the workshops of specialists such as Headley Jones, who constructed wardrobe-sized speaker cabinets known as "House[s] of Joy". It was also around this time that Jamaica's first superstar DJ and MC, Count Machuki (b. Winston Cooper) rose to prominence. As time progressed, sound systems became louder--capable of playing bass frequencies of 30,000 watts or more, with similar wattage attainable at the mid-range and high frequencies--and far more complex than their predecessors, record players with a single extension speaker. Competition between these sound systems was fierce, and eventually two DJs emerged as the stars of the scene: Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd, and Duke Reid.
Video of a Jamaican Soundsystem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNNk1r-tEEs&feature=PlayList&...
Champion Soundsytem operator David Radigon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFKnt0TeazQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCGt3ekJEc&feature=related
Setting up Soundsystem (King Shiloh Sound System)
Sam build this sound system onto a Y-Large to entertain the critical mass rides in London. You can see more at www.bikeology.net
Larry McDonald with Lee Scratch Perry and Subatomic Sound System at Ellington Underground on January 19, 2018 in Asheville, NC - © 2018 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions concert photography archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Talia Bentson with Subatomic Sound System at Ellington Underground on January 19, 2018 in Asheville, NC - © 2018 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions concert photography archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
packaging that encourages sound projections. inside the boxes is complete silence. work in progress. Blogged here: ines-seidel.de/2014/07/soundsystem/?lang=en
Verpackungen erlauben das Projizieren von Geräuschen. Im Inneren der Kartons ist vollständige Stille. in Arbeit. Hier im Blog: ines-seidel.de/2014/07/soundsystem/
1st album, Realworld JPN CD 1996, design by Jamie Reid - I first saw them on the Later with Jools Holland Show, from BBC England.
TodaysArt 2015
Pier, Scheveningen
5,4,3,2,1,…. lift-off
The ZERO artists of the 60s had an unconditional desire for what was yet to come. They wanted to aim high with their minimalist art work. They no longer felt anchored to the earth; on the final page of one of the magazines published by ZERO there is a photograph of a rocket that lifts off into the sky. On the ten pages leading up to that photo, there is a countdown to the lift-off. Now, on the opening night of TodaysArt 2015, we will pay homage to ZERO’s fascination with space with a symbolic rocket launch on the East platform of The Pier. TodaysArt, Mike Rijnierse, Floris van Bergeijk, Thomas Koopmans and Arjan van Drunen joined forces to create this spectacular son et lumière, which will not pass by unnoticed in Scheveningen.
Concept & Design: Mike Rijnierse + Ludmila Rodriques
Sound design: Floris van Bergeijk
Sound System Design: Thomas Koopmans
Pyrotechnics: Arjan van Drunen