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El Paso

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El Paso Hi-Fi was a Kingston sound system based in the Brotherton Avenue area of West Kingston in the late 1960s and 1970s, its name borrowed from the Marty Robbins country hit. It is chiefly remembered as the sound where deejay Dennis Alcapone launched his career around 1967-68, helping establish the toasting style of the early deejay era.

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Red Bull Music Academy; Tracking Angle.

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Dennis Alcapone Interview [UNCUT] (Steve Barrow, mid-1990s)

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Community-archived unedited interview by reggae historian Steve Barrow; discovery-only embed.

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Dennis Alcapone: From Then Till Now (The Interview)

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Reggae Vibes interview reference.

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Story · Well supportedApprenticed to the sound: the deejay ladder

Every great Jamaican deejay of the 1960s and 70s served an apprenticeship on a named sound system.

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