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harder than I thought. I haven’t run a label for a few years and it’s getting harder and harder to sell music these days. American exports, selling to HMV, it’s hard because surviving purely on grass roots sales isn’t quite enough. But all in all it’s been enjoyable, we’ve got some great releases coming up. We’ve got the Detonators – John Collins who produced Ghost Town’s band. He’s credited by many as producing the first ever UK dub track, called Lift Off, which was on the flip side to a hit by Victor Romeo Evans called At The Club, bit of a lovers track. The Specials heard that and asked him to produce Ghost Town. But John’s instrumental side was the Detonators and he made this album that came out in ‘79, and he did things like building his own drum machine because none were available at the time. I mean Dennis Bovell was probably doing dub first but this had an electro vibe that was like nothing else.
http://www.reggaenews.co.uk/interviews/pama_international.asp
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