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A household name in
Jamaica, Stone Love represents the popular street culture of dancehall.
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 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.
-- Mara Weiss
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