John Masouri

Producer Adrian Sherwood has crossed so many musical boundaries throughout his lengthy career that it's impossible to describe the kind...

London in the early seventies was a hot bed of creativity; musical and otherwise. I'd just moved to the capital as a twenty-one year old...

Understand What Black Is was released to coincide with the Last Poets' 50th anniversary. It was co-producer Prince Fatty who first played...

The quotes used in these liner notes resulted from a stay in Jamaica during 2015, whilst working on a film about Gussie commissioned by...

Bobby Digital is a classic example of someone who hides his light under a bushel, unless he's in the studio making music that is. With...

This essential King Jammy's compilation is another title in VP Records' Reggae Anthology series, which is aimed at furthering an...

What a label! I'd bought the records, played them as a DJ and radio presenter, interviewed many of their artists and producers and then...

Like many UK teenagers during the late sixties, I grew up listening to a broad spectrum of music that included pop, blues, rock and roll,...

In 2012, Snapper Music commissioned me to write liner notes for a series of reissues on BYG Actuel - a label founded by three maverick...

The nineties were a golden age for both reggae and dancehall music and thanks to Echoes, I was able to write about so much of what was...