-Intervju med Steve Mosco-

Steve Mosco driver platemerket Jah Warrior Records i London.  Han gir ut dub og reggae.

Dub-scena i England.

Dub-scena i England, MP3, 58 sek 333 kb.

Ranja: People say that the UK dub sound is very special.

Steve: Yeah, I think it is, I think we`ve got a tradition, a long tradition of it here, because when the music changed in the 1980s, when you know the raggamuffin style and the dancehall style came in, and a lot of people stopped doing roots music. In England there was always a core of people, myself included, who were still into it. And there`s a big sound system here called Jah Shaka, he really is responsible for keeping the whole roots scene going, he never changed over. I think that has really influenced a lot of people to start making roots music and dub music in England now. So it`s kind of ironic that, you know, dub all came from Jamaica originally, but nobody in Jamaica is really making it nowadays, most of it is being made in England. 

Hvordan Jah Warrior starta.

Hvordan Jah Warrior starta, MP3, 59 sek, 409 kb.

Steve: I`ve been involved with reggae for a long time, really. First of all as a listener, then I used to be a DJ on a radio station in London. And then I met some people who were starting a sound system and they asked me to get involved with that as a selecter. And I became more and more involved with the sound system, and gradually we started producing music for dubplates. And the label was almost an accident, really, it just started off, as I say, producing a lot of music to play on the sound system. And then, that was in the early 1990s a lot of people in England started their own small independent labels and started releasing music themselves. And I had all this music lying about that I wasn`t really doing anything with, and one day a friend of mine he said to me: why don`t you think about releasing some of this yourself? And I`d never really thought of it myself, but I thought I`ll give it a go, see what happens. We put a single out called "The 22. book" by Naph-Tali, and it was very successful in England, and everything grew from there really, that was in 1995.

Hva er en dubplate?

Hva er en dubplate? MP3, 32 sek, 220 kb.

Steve:  A dubplate is like a one-off acetate disc.  It`s like a metal disc with a very thin layer of acetate on it, and they`re quite expensive to produce, much more expensive than vinyl.  And mostly it`s sound systems and some radio DJs who get them.  You might get an exclusive one-off mix of a rhythm or a dub that nobody else in the world has got, and that`s only yours.  So instead of pressing it onto vinyl which is very, very expensive to do, you cut it onto a dubplate, so then it`s yours and you can play it.