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 ...

The sound clash is a Jamaican art form that dates back to the 1950s, when legendary systems like Tom the Great Sebastian and Duke Reid’s the Trojan clashed in the West Kingston neighbourhoods of ...

In the 1990s, the idea of the Jamaican soundclash – a fierce sound battle between rival soundsystems – took off around the world, from the Caribbean to the US, Japan to Scandinavia. A series of World ...

This Saturday at Caribbean Village, DJ Indiana Jones and his longtime musical collaborator DJ Danger will be participating in Indy's first Jamaican-style DJ sound clash. Jones, a.k.a Ron Miner, has ...

The late Andrew Weatherall, the DJ and producer, described listening to dub via a good sound system as “transcendent magic”. The academic Paul Gilroy argued that dub and sound systems were part of the ...

The pair battled each other in 1958 at the first British iteration of another Jamaican import: a “sound clash”, a form of sonic combat in which each DJ tries to outdo the other with crowd reaction ...