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OCCII

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A former squat on the Amstelveenseweg in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid, legalised and run as a volunteer DIY venue, and one of the rooms where the city's early sound system culture found space. The Amsterdam squat movement is the other half of the story the Surinamese community started: it supplied the halls, the equipment tolerance and the audience for dub sessions that no commercial venue would book.

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

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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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