San Toy are an alternative/rock/reggae five piece from Govan, Glasgow. We don't claim to sound different from everyone else, we only try to be as original and keep our music as true to our own expressions as we can. Started out as a group of friends getting together for a jam. By 2005 we had a line up ready to write and record our own material . Initially we wrote more than 20 songs which we whittled down to 11 for our live set and album.
The Wailing Souls started out as a three-piece - Winston 'Pipe' Matthews, George 'Buddy' Haye and Lloyd 'Bread' McDonald - known as the Renegades in 1965. In the late 60s, Matthews and McDonald recorded on Coxsone Dodd's famous Studio One label with singers Oswald Downes and Norman Davis as both The Classics and The Wailing Souls. The Wailing Souls then moved to Bob Marley's Tuff Gong label in the early 1970s and became known as Pipe and The Pipes to avoid confusion with The Wailers.
Smiling Ivy are the fresh sound of the North. Blending reggae/ska vibes with rock ‘n’ roll aggression and flair, they are lyrical and driven by drugs, sex, music and pure “ravehood”. Hailing from the heart of the Peak District, UK, their music often jokes about the assumptions people make about their middle-class upbringing, when in reality they tend to outshine any city band for attitude and raw approach. Tight constant guitar work, a relentless rhythm section and an undefinable sound makes their work wholly unique.
There are at least two projects using the alias A State Of Mind: 1) A State of Mind is a Polish Trance/Progressive producer team comprised of Michał Grzybek, Piotr Augustyniak & Dawid Stróżycki. 2) The one with the following introductory text: "ASM stands for A State of Mind, and ASM productionz is an independent label doing its best to pro- mote a new positive state of mind in hip hop and to explore the various creative tangents that have branched off from it, as well as those from which it originated.
Dub From Atlantis started life in the summer of 2000 at the Bristol nightspot Cosies Wine Bar, with residents Stevie and Guy (The Men From Atlantis) playing roots reggae dancehall and dub music. As the nights got busier and more DJ's got involved, they decided to step up their promotions and moved to The Croft, where they continued to develop the club environment with the use of lighting and a larger sound system.
Adrian Sherwood has been around for a long time. He's the man behind the On-U Sound label, and eponymous sound system. The one that usually does the rounds at least once a year, and has done so for as long as you can remember. If you've ever been to an On-U gig you'll know it's loud, uncompromising, live dub sound, and you'd remember there's lots and lots of noise, as you recall the ringing that's left in your ears for hours after.
THE UPSTEPPERS ARE: JAMES DOUGLAS: Vocals / Guitar
PAUL WATSON: Bass
JOEL ALEXANDER: Drums / Cymbals / B.V.
ANTHONY MCILWAIN: Guitars / B.V.
M. SANJAY JUDE: Keys
JOSHUA HATCHER: Saxophone
CRYSTAL HILDRED: Trombone
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Shut Up And Dance - british breakbeat pioneers from scratch. Started with Hip Hop tunes and set up a soundsystem with DJ Hype but soon they integrated House and Techno influences and sped up the beats. With Reinforced SUAD could count as inventors of UK Hardcore. Early classics like Lamborghini, 10 Pounds To Get In, Greenman, The Art Of Moving Butts or the famous Raving I'm Raving saved them a place in the Hall Of Fame of UK Hardcore. After having problems with several unauthorized samples their own label "Shut Up And Dance" disappeared - but rose again from the dust in the last few years.
Aba used to deejay Jah Tubby's sound system and at that time he was known as Jasmine Joe. Those of you that were around the sound system scene in the eighties will remember the slightly-extrovert mic man that Jah Tubby's had; that was Aba. When Joe embraced the Rastafarian faith he adopted a new and more positive attitude and with his rediscovered faith a new name. That name was and is Aba Shanti-I, pronounced ABA SHANTI-EYE not ONE. So you see, the name Aba Shanti-I is not just the name of the sound system, it is the name of the person that is playing the sound.