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Radio 100

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Amsterdam pirate station on which King Shiloh's Bredda Neil and Mad Jack Meynell ran a Saturday night roots reggae show for ten years, prime time for anyone in the city who wanted the music. Free radio was to the Dutch scene what pirate radio was to the British one: for years it was the only broadcast route Jamaican records had.

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Red Bull Music Academy Daily (May 2019); Wikipedia "King Shiloh"; kingshiloh.com.

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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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