BASS, MIDS, TOPS

In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK's soundsystem culture would become the most important influenc e on contemporary pop music since rock and roll. Pumped through towering, home-built speakers, often directly onto the thronged stre ets of events like the Notting Hill Carnival, the pulsating bass lines of reggae, dub, rave, jungle, trip hop, dubstep, and grime ha ve shaped the worlds of several generations of British youth culture but have often been overlooked by historians obsessed with swin ging Lon...[Read more]