Like the pioneering Bronx crews of DJs Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, the soundsystems provided party music for public spaces, often in the economically deprived council estates from which some of their members originated. Bristol’s soundsystem DJs, drawing heavily on Jamaican dub music, typically used a laid-back, slow and heavy drum beat (“down tempo”). [~ w]
Nightmares On Wax - Smokers Delight (1995)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... (1996)
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (2001)
Archive - Londinium (1996)
