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Reggae: Back to the Roots

Simon Reynolds, The Wire, September 2000

According to the remixologists' gospel, the dub virus was so successful, it took out the word and eradicated its reggae song hosts. Simon Reynolds rediscovers the value of roots reggae's social, political and religious dimensions.

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