Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

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 ...

Ashish Joshi (centre) with 'Snoopy' (left), Unique Star Sound System and 'Skyjuice' (right) Enterprise sound system A reggae enthusiast has said digitising and publishing live recordings of sound ...

Sound systems belonging to dub reggae pioneers such as King Tubby are part of the Hometown HiFi Exhibition at Sonos Studio in Los Angeles, an installation designed to pay homage to communal listening.

This double-album selection of the music of 1962 shows the roots of ska and reggae – and the exuberance of the times Jamaica’s independence in August 1962 marked not just the sovereignty of a new ...

Though it is dismissed by many as a curio of music, reggae, if it is considered beyond its mainstream Bob Marley reputation, was one of the first genres of music to put the DJs and producers of music ...

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, ...

While reggae continues to shape many different areas of Canadian music, the country's multicultural landscape is bringing global influences to reggae's next generation. Here are some of our country's ...

Chances are Toronto isn't the first city people envision when hearing the sweet baseline of a reggae record — after all, this is the genre birthed out of sunshine, faith and love, not snow and Tim ...