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King Shiloh Sound System
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Amsterdam roots reggae and dub sound system founded in 1991 by Bredda Neil, a Bradford man in the city since 1988, and the sound that turned a small squat-and-Surinamese underground into a stop on the European dub circuit. It runs a six-way stereo rig, unusual in a culture that mostly builds mono, with trapezoid bass boxes designed by Steve Stavrinides of Noise Control Audio, and its own King Shiloh Majestic Music label; the first album was released on 23 July 1997, Haile Selassie I's birthday.
The crew held the Dub Club Y2K residency at Paradiso from 1999 to 2003, ran bunker parties in the NDSM docklands, has staged the Amsterdam Soundsystem Weekender since 2012, and made its London debut at University of Dub in Brixton on 1 March 2002. Its non-profit arm built a system for Ethiopia and staged the Great Ethiopian Soundsystem Festival at Lake Langano in February 2018.
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- kingshiloh.com/bio; Red Bull Music Academy Daily, "The Ethiopia-Netherlands Connection of the King Shiloh Soundsystem" (May 2019); Wikipedia "King Shiloh".
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