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Treasure Isle - Bond Street Special 1967-74

    After retiring from the Jamaican Police Force Arthur ‘Duke’ Reid established his Treasure Isle Liquor Store and Sound System in Pink Lane Kingston and was crowned the undisputed’ King of Sound and Blues’ in 1956, 1957 and 1958. The Duke then moved into record production and after relocating the store to 33 Bond Street. He then built a recording studio on top of his new premises in 1966. According to the musicians and singers the wooden construction of the Treasure Isle recording studio gave the music a distinctive warmth and richness and with resident engineer Byron ‘Baron / Smithy’ Smith at the controls, the sound of a Bond Street recording was immediately recognisable.

    Here Voice Of Jamaica offer a glittering selection of Striker’s Treasure Isle recordings.


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    The Deejays Meet Down Town 1975-1980

      The late 60s and early 70s spectacle of Jamaican deejays taking their live performances out of the dance halls and translating them into hit records, not only marked the beginning of 40 years of dancehall-driven music on the island but also provided the original inspiration and template for the global dominance of rap and hip-hop. The art of deejay was now rightly recognized and the toasters or talk-over artists advanced from introductions and interjections to stringing complete sets of lyrics together and riding the rhythm for the entire length of the song. Deejays including U Roy, I Roy, Dennis Alcapone, Big Joe, Little Joe and Prince Jazzbo, who built their reputations working live on sound systems, now went one step beyond and moved on to become recording deejays with entire catalogs of hit singles and albums to their credit. Throughout the 70s a whole host of mic men followed in their wake, including Dillinger, Dr. Alimando, Clint Eastwood and Jah Stitch. Talking records were not new, but "talk-over" records were. The repercussions of this uniquely Jamaican phenomenon would go on to reverberate worldwide.


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