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Trojan Records

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Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968. [1]

61 relations: Adidas, Alvin Ranglin, Audio mastering, B&C Records, Black people, BMG Rights Management, Bob and Marcia, Bruce White, Chris Blackwell, Clancy Eccles, Count Suckle, Creole Records, Dancehall, Dave and Ansell Collins, Desmond Dekker, Dub music, Duke Reid, Harry J, Harry Mudie, Island Records, Jamaica, Jimmy Cliff, Joe Gibbs (producer), Laurence Cane-Honeysett, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Leslie Kong, Logo, Michael de Koningh, Music of Jamaica, Neville Staple, Nicky Thomas, Oi!, Original Rude Boy, Overdubbing, Phonograph record, Punk rock, RAS Records, Record label, Red Red Wine, Reggae, Rocksteady, Rude boy, Sanctuary Records, Ska, Skinhead, Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, Sonia Pottinger, Soul music, Sound system (Jamaican), Subculture, ..., TDK, The Melodians, The Quarto Group, Toots and the Maytals, Trojan (automobile), Trojan Box Set series, Trojan skinhead, UEFA Euro 2000, United Kingdom, Universal Music Group, Upsetter Records (Jamaican record label). Expand index (11 more) »

Adidas

Adidas AG (stylized as ɑdidɑs since 1949) is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that designs and manufactures shoes, clothing and accessories.

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Alvin Ranglin

Alvin 'GG' Ranglin (born 1942, Eden, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica)Greene (Alvin Ranglin Biography) is a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.

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Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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B&C Records

B&C Records (which stood for Beat & Commercial) was a British record label run by Trojan Records' owner, Lee Gopthal.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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BMG Rights Management

BMG Rights Management GmbH is an international music company focused on the management of music publishing, recording rights and music distribution.

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Bob and Marcia

Bob and Marcia were a Jamaican vocal duo, that consisted of Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths.

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Bruce White

Brigadier Sir Bruce Gordon White, KBE, FCGI, FICE, FIEE (1885-1983) was one of the leading British consulting engineers of his generation.

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Chris Blackwell

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels".

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Clancy Eccles

Clancy Eccles (9 December 1940 in Dean Pen, St. Mary, Jamaica – 30 June 2005 in Spanish Town, Jamaica)Katz was a Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, arranger, promoter, record producer and talent scout.

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Count Suckle

Wilbert Augustus Campbell (12 August 1931–19 May 2014),George Ruddock,, The Voice, 27 May 2014.

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Creole Records

Creole Records was a UK record label that found most of its success in the disco and reggae genres in the mid-1970s to early 1980s.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Dave and Ansell Collins

Dave and Ansell Collins are a Jamaican vocal/instrumental duo (sometimes billed as Dave and Ansil Collins or Dave and Ansel Collins).

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Desmond Dekker

Desmond Dekker (16 July 1941 – 25 May 2006Thompson, Dave (2002) "Reggae & Caribbean Music", Backbeat Books,, Note: some sources list year of birth as 1942 or 1943) was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Duke Reid

Arthur "Duke" Reid CD (21 July 1915 – 1 January 1975) was a Jamaican record producer, DJ and label owner.

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Harry J

Harry Zephaniah Johnson (6 July 1945 – 3 April 2013), known by the stage name Harry J, was a Jamaican reggae record producer.

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Harry Mudie

Harry A. Mudie (born 1940 in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a Jamaican record producer.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jimmy Cliff

James Chambers, OM (1 April 1948), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor.

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Joe Gibbs (producer)

Joe Gibbs born Joel Arthur Gibson (14 October 1942 – 22 February 2008) was a Jamaican reggae producer.

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Laurence Cane-Honeysett

Laurence Cane-Honeysett is a British musician, producer and music journalist specialising in Jamaican music.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry OD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936) is a Jamaican music producer and inventor noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style.

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Leslie Kong

Leslie Kong (1933 – 9 August 1971) was an influential Chinese-Jamaican reggae producer.

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Logo

A logo (abbreviation of logotype, from λόγος logos "word" and τύπος typos "imprint") is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.

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Michael de Koningh

Michael de Koningh (1958-2016) was a contemporary British music journalist specialising in Jamaican music, reggae afrobeat and afrofunk.

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Music of Jamaica

The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles.

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Neville Staple

Neville Eugenton Staple (born 11 April 1955) is a Jamaican born English singer for the two-tone ska band, The Specials as well as his own combo, The Neville Staple Band.

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Nicky Thomas

Nicky Thomas (born Cecil Nicholas Thomas, 30 May 1949 – 1990) was a reggae singer who enjoyed considerable chart success in Jamaica and in the United Kingdom at the start of the 1970s.

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Oi!

Oi! is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

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Original Rude Boy

Original Rude Boy (2009) is the autobiography of Neville Staple, vocalist in ska band The Specials.

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Overdubbing

Overdubbing (the process of making an overdub, or overdubs) is a technique used in audio recording, whereby a musical passage is recorded twice.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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RAS Records

RAS Records, also known as Real Authentic Sound, is a reggae record label.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Red Red Wine

"Red Red Wine" is a song originally written, performed, and recorded by American singer Neil Diamond in 1967.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rocksteady

Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966.

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Rude boy

Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi, and rudy are slang terms that originated in 1960s Jamaican street culture, and that are still used today.

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Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited is a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Skinhead

The skinhead subculture originated among working class youths in London, England in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the 1980s.

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Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice

Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) are anti-racist skinheads who oppose neo-fascists and other political racists, particularly if those racists identify themselves as skinheads.

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Sonia Pottinger

Sonia Eloise Pottinger OD (21 June 1931 – 3 November 2010)Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books,, p.316" ", Jamaica Observer, 5 November 2010, retrieved 6 November 2010Campbell, Howard (2010) "", Jamaica Gleaner, 7 November 2010, retrieved 7 November 2010Walters, Basil (2010) " ", Jamaica Observer, 7 November 2010, retrieved 7 November 2010Katz, David "", The Guardian, 18 November 2010 12.43 EST, retrieved 22 December 2013 was a Jamaican reggae record producer.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Sound system (Jamaican)

In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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TDK

, formerly, is a Japanese multinational electronics company that manufactures electronic materials, electronic components, and recording and data-storage media.

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The Melodians

The Melodians are a rocksteady band formed in the Greenwich Town area of Kingston, Jamaica, in 1963, by Tony Brevett (born 1949, nephew of The Skatalites bassist, Lloyd Brevett), Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton.

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The Quarto Group

The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.

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Toots and the Maytals

Toots and the Maytals, originally called The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups.

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Trojan (automobile)

Trojan was a British automobile manufacturer producing light cars between 1914 and 1965, and light commercial vehicles for a short time.

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Trojan Box Set series

The Trojan Box Set series is a range of various artist triple CD box sets, periodically released by the British reggae record label Trojan Records since 1998.

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Trojan skinhead

Trojan skinheads (also known as traditional skinheads or trads) are individuals who identify with the original British skinhead subculture of the late 1960s, when ska, rocksteady, reggae, and soul music were popular, and there was a heavy emphasis on mod-influenced clothing styles.

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UEFA Euro 2000

The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Football Championship, which is held every four years and organised by UEFA, association football's governing body in Europe.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Upsetter Records (Jamaican record label)

Upsetter Records was a Jamaican record label set up by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1968.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Records

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