Mobile music services: with deep love for bass

A wall made of speakers a few meters and above a person. Especially important bass boxes are built below. If the DJ includes music, the asphalt vibrates, and the bass is literally physically noticeable: like deep frequencies in the middle of the stomach. Such a prosperous wall of the pit belongs to each decent sound system, as mobile musical systems around the world are currently called.

It is said that her story began in Jamaica. It is interesting that the sound system was also created at about the same time in other parts of the Caribbean and Latin America and developed its own musical cultures with local traditions, which are still alive to this day.

In Jamaica, it was a Jamaic Chinese businessman Tom Wong, who, under his pseudonym, Tom Tom, the great Sebastian in the capital of Kingston in 1950 was the first generator of electricity, a turning table, an amplifier and a huge box on a truck on the platform and, thus, organized parties on the streets.

Dance music for the poor

This was a sensation for the poorer Yamais: now they were able to personally enjoy dance music, while the entrance to the upper class balls surpassed their financial capabilities. The fact that the sound system prevailed is also associated with the intermediate lack of musicians: many of them migrated to the UK at that time, others played only tourists in fast -growing hotels on the northern coast.

Initially, it was the rhythm and blues from the United States that came to play. Since the end of the 1950s, Jamaica gradually appeared on Jamaica under the influence of the home mentor and Calipso from Trinidad – only SKA’s grinding, then more relaxed rods, finally, bass reggae, about which Bob Marley said: “This is music about the struggle. Regga is a vehicle to wear a message from freedom and peace. ”

While Kingston’s sound system spread throughout the island, Pioneer Tom Wong was cut out by others, including the Duke Raid, the police and the owner of the alcohol business, with his Trojan sound system and the lowered Sir Coxon Dodd, who founded the legendary Label Reggae One studio in 1963.

SoundClaShes and DubPlate

Over time, the sound system began to compete with each other. Such SoundClaShes Still popular; In the end, the one who receives the greatest encouragement from the audience “won” because he sounded the most fat and the best Dubus On the starting versions of popular songs in the form of acetate singles, often with new text, there are several instrumental ones.

He also developed his own professions around the culture of the sound system. They were an attractive way for young people to earn a living. This was important in addition to the DJ with a record, which is on the Yamaisky slag withvoter Named, especially those that are equipped with a microphone Master of ceremoniesShort MC (although this is confusing on Jamaica DJ be named).

The first acquaintance was Count Machuki. He improvised to percussive noise, said and ScattetBefore a new song was laid out, funny entry into Jamaica, sometimes even in Spanish. His speech was singing for a model for toaster (like U-Roy) in the regions of the 1970s and Machuki in a certain sense, also for the predecessor of rappers in hip-hop. His successors included King Stytt with his unforgettable rhymes: “Regardless of what people say / sound the thesis lead / this is the order of the day from your Deejay / I King Stit / Up boss from the top to the very last drop …”

Brightly painted picus in Barrankill

About 800 kilometers from Kingston, as they say, the first sound system saw the light even earlier: in 1937 in the area of ​​San Rock in the Colombian coastal city of Barranky. Eco Del Ritmo it was said,, “Echo of rhythm.” Here it is already indicated in the name that special sound effects belong to the core of each sound system. On the Caribbean coast of Colombia, however, who talks about PicosThey are visually more important than their relatives in Jamaica, as they are often painted in brightly colored colors and with psychedelic motives.

Traditionally, in addition to the salsa and folk genres, such as Wallando, they mainly play in Champeta, the Colombian style, which is clearly formed by Congolese spirits and its pearl guitars. Wide spectrum Pico-Musik can be heard on the recently published compilation, which was collected by Ed Martinez, DJ and the curator of music in the Berlin House of the World (HKW). What Picos In all differences in the case of the Jamaican sound system, a deep love for the penetrating bass.

This was in 1950, when something happened on the Carnival in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, the musical story wrote: “Osmar Macedo and Dodo Nasimento, two music lovers belonged to one automobile skill, the other was the idea of ​​raising their guitars with amplifiers born in Osmar, born in 1929,. drive through the streets on the carnival. “We replaced my old box, an open two -model.

Giant Eletricos Trio in BAIA

Prior to this, Dodo had already succeeded in electrical strengthening (which is why he is in a later song, if in fact inaccessiblely said: “Antes de Gringo, Gitarra Ele Inventou”-“He invented an electric guitar in front of Greengos”). When a third friend in 1951, it was Trio Etletric Born – “Electric Trio”, a group on wheels, a kind of sound system for live music on a carnival.

From year to year they were Trio Eletrikos Excellent, amplifier power, as well as the number and volume of boxes. This has long been large saddle tractors, in the loading zone in which there is a block of powerful speakers, and there are many members with dancers (supposedly innovative Berlin Woveparade technicians have predecessors, whose principles were earlier!). They are still today Trio Eletrikos One of the most important institutions in the Black Carnival of Bai, the former capital of Brazil, characterized by African slaves and their descendants.

Even further in the north of the country in the role of Bachia, the city of Belem is located at the mouth of the Amazon in the Atlantic. Metropolis is under the musical influence of the Caribbean basin, and these were smuggles who, in addition to spirits and whiskey, also brought to remote Belis in the 1950s. Then the resourceful residents began to install record players with boxes on manual crankcases and, in addition to music from the Caribbean, to play local styles, such as Carimbó and Forró. Over time, they have become more and more, as well as more technically demanding.

Illuminated Aparelhagems in Belim

Meanwhile, the sound systems à la Belém is a huge monster and called Aparel (“Devices”, “stereo system”). One of the largest is a crocodile. It has the shape of a crocodile, in the middle of which the DJ is advanced to the throne. The elongated muzzle of the crocodile can be open, smells of smoke and lit by flashing LED lights. The key to success Aparel This is precisely his technical innovations, according to the 2015 study. Its quality is measured by the ability to offer the best experience in light, sound and sight.

The ruling sound Aparel Now it is a catchy Tecnobrega, an electronic version of Breg, which means “kitsch”. However, Tecnobrega is Aparel The “peripheral culture” remained. On the other hand, the parties in Belim currently have great economic importance, thousands of people (and for them) live – they are considered a successful example of an informal economy in the cultural sector and form Belim’s identity.

In Mexico, on the other hand, it was a dedication of some vinyl–He must fans (as can be seen in the video of the “enhanced roots” series), which can also be seen here, in the 1950s Sonideros The mentioned sound system. Perhaps the most crazy Mexican innovations in the area took place only much later: in the widespread Cumbia from Columbia, they played more slowly in the early 1990s in Monterrere in the north -east of the country.

Obviously, this happened: at the party an overheated player Sonidero Suddenly no longer retains the speed of the Dudesz family. Cambia Rebahad was born. This “slowed cumbia” sounds quite strange, but it can be excellent dancing it – and therefore it has become a musical identification sign of Monterry.

Ratternmer Baile Funk in Rio -de -Zhanero

If you travel to Caribbean or Latin America, you should not miss the appearance of the local sound system – even if it can go to physical restrictions. My most difficult experience was about ten years ago in Rio -de -Zhanero: DJ Pernalonga (“Langbein”), one of the few gays on Baile Funk–The scene of the city, in Favela Complexo Do Lins, rattling Electro, put on their bodies to sweat dancers.

Many people sniffed around me on a sticky medicine LoloSometimes someone pulled a weapon in the middle of the crowd (and the photographer who accompanied me was “for entertainment” by a creak in the head between them). Otherwise, everything remained peaceful and friendly. Only the music was so loud that then I was deaf for several days. But I will no longer forget this night in my whole life.