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Orange Street music district

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Downtown Kingston's record trade, known as Beat Street: Prince Buster's Record Shack, Beverley's and a dense run of shops, labels and producers within a few hundred yards. For decades a record could be cut, pressed, sold and made famous inside that stretch — the commercial heart of the business.

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At a glance

Type: Place / neighbourhood →
Era: Rocksteady, reggae and dub →
Confidence: Well supported

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Footage

Jamaican Vinyl Store — Rockers International Records, Orange Street, Downtown Kingston

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Visitor footage of the Rockers International shop. Discovery-only external reference pending editorial rights review.

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Articles & sources

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Orange Street, Vestige of the Golden Age of Reggae

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United Reggae feature on Orange Street ('Beat Street').

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The Reggae Museum — The rooms that built reggae: a history of Jamaica's pivotal studios and record shops

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A guide to the Kingston rooms that built reggae: the studios and the record shops around them.

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r/Jamaica — record stores thread

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A community thread on which Jamaican record shops are still trading, useful as a starting point.

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In stories

Story · Well supportedOrange Street to North Parade: Kingston's record district

A few downtown blocks pressed, sold and clashed the whole music into being.