Brentford Road All Stars

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It all began with Coxsone Dodd's sound system in 1950. After working as a plantation worker in Florida for some time Coxsone earned enough money to buy an amp, speakers and lots of records which he brought back with him to Jamaica. There he (and his mother) set up a sound system in front of the family's record-shop to promote the music they were selling and to play up for dances. This proved to be an extraordinary success, and soon competition came in the person of Duke "The Trojan" Reid, who set up a similar sound system named "Treasure Isle", and others. Each party sent out guys to competing sets in order to find out what new records they were playing because the greatest records drew the biggest crowd. So the DJs started to scratch off the labels on the records to make them unidentifiable. As competition grew the demand for new music was immense and soon the playback of US- imported records alone wasn't enough. When Rock 'n' Roll became big in the States this new style didn't hit off very well in Jamaica, so Coxsone started to produce music with his own new-found label, Studio One with an own studio located at Brentford Road in Kingston. He hired musicians, who usually played in Hotel-Bars to make a living but weren't really happy with it, to form a full-time studio band and worked for him on a regular basis. This band became later known as Sound Dimension or Brentford Road Allstars and turned out many of the classic reggae-riddims. First this band didn't record anythin

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