No lockdown can stop our Listen to the Label podcast series. In fact, for the new episode we “went” to Scotland, where we “paid a visit” to a good-and-proper institution of the reggae and dub scenes, Scotch Bonnet Records.
Since August 2005 and the release of Mungo’s Hi-Fi’s 10” titled Rasta Meditation / Belly Ska, the Glaswegian label has not only grown into a mover-and-shaker of the UK uptempo movement, but also into a recognized player spreading upbeats and bringing their sound system all over the through new releases, DJ-sets and events.
A few days ago, we reached by phone Craig McLeod, Scotch Bonnet’s co-founder and Mungo’s Hi-Fi’s member, to gain a better perspective of his label and the Scottish-Jamaican way, the sound system culture and how to keep ‘a foot in the past and a gaze into the future’…
