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Mar 12, 2018 · Blacker Dread Muzik Store was a Brixton institution but he had to sell it when he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for money-laundering (this is only touched on lightly).
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Mar 12, 2018 · Blacker Dread is the walking embodiment of a local legend. He moved from Jamaica to South London in the mid fifties, and joined the legendary Sir Coxsone sound system as a teenager, coining the term “outernational” and starting his first label S.C.O.M along the way.
Mar 16, 2018 · Twenty-five years on, the Blacker Dread Muzik Store is credited in the community with helping young people stay out of gangs, drugs and jail. Those in trouble with the police were encouraged “to go and see Blacker” – not for protection but to ensure that things “were done by the book”.
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Feb 13, 2018 · Blacker Dread, whose music store where Market Row meets Coldharbour Lane was an essential part of an earlier Brixton, is the subject of a 90-minute documentary by the award-winning filmmaker Molly Dineen. He also featured, 40 years ago, in Dineen’s first film.
Blacker Dread follows this proud tradition albeit from a UK perspective. Having served an apprenticeship that consisted of being a box-boy, a dancer and a deejay, he graduated to the role of selector/operator learning from the acclaimed legendary Coxsone selector “Festus”.
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May 29, 2023 · Legendary selector from Sir Coxsone Soundsystem, Blacker Dread celebrating 50 years in the music industry, with a grand event held in the historic Brixton Town Hall, with most of the old-time...
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