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 A household name in Jamaica, Stone Love represents the popular street culture ofdancehall.
When Winston Powell ("Wee-Pow") began spinning in the early '70s, the hot Kingston nights would boom with open-air dances, animated by popular sound systems. Stone Love soon became a must-hear, drawing long lines and jamming every venue. Wee-Pow teamed up with selectors Rory and Cancer, and began to build up an exceptional archive of original dub plates. With a strong reputation for only the "wickedest tracks", and a turntable style all their own, Stone Love remained one of the top sound systems.
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Stone Love
Stone Love took their radical riddims overseas in the '80s, acquainting audiences in the USA, England, Canada, Europe and Japan with the hardest Jamaican sounds. They established a permanent presence in New York, from which to attack strategic points worldwide.
Bootleg tapes of Stone Love's sessions have always been hot commodities, and finally Wee-Pow, Rory and Cancer pulled it all together in a studio album "Stone Love Live", released in 1995. With coordination from Rob Holt, Mike Cacia and Jamie Stewart, the inimitable live vibe was captured, with one-of-a-kind mixes and selections from top dancehall artists from the past three decades.
Artist Biography courtesy of Mara Weiss