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Mail-order reggae retail

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Overseas catalogue/mail-order systems that supplied collectors, DJs, shops and sound systems with Jamaican records.

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Between the studio and the dance sits a factory. Jamaica's pressing plants, its blank-label pre-releases and its export routes shaped what the music sounded like as much as any producer did.