Sound system (Jamaican)
Sound systems didn’t just play music—they built an economy where bass was currency and exclusivity was policy.
Crate digging
Looking for the record nobody else has found.
- 6
- in culture
- 8:51
- average
- 53 min
- in total
- 42
- across the network
All briefs
DJ Kool Herc
DJ Kool Herc didn’t invent hip hop—he built its first working engine, and named the people who rode it.
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash didn’t make records—he made rhythm machines out of turntables.
John Peel
He didn’t define an era—he bypassed it entirely, playing what he liked while everyone else chased hits.
Hip-hop
Hip-hop began not with rhymes, but with two copies of the same record—and the decision to keep the break going.
Record collecting
Record collecting didn’t democratise music—it codified whose music got saved, and whose got forgotten.