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Mad Jack Meynell

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Amsterdam radio selector who co-presented the Saturday night roots reggae show on the pirate station Radio 100 with King Shiloh's Bredda Neil for ten years, one of the few sustained reggae broadcasts the Dutch scene had before internet radio.

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Red Bull Music Academy Daily, "The Ethiopia-Netherlands Connection of the King Shiloh Soundsystem" (May 2019).

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Story · ProbableThe Dutch route: reggae without a Jamaican migration

Britain got its reggae from Jamaican migrants. The Netherlands got its from Surinamese ones, a squat movement and a pirate radio transmitter.

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