Documentary / Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records

Today we have a magnificent documentary drama that, through the lens of the formation of reggae label Trojan Records, tells the story of the emergence of reggae music and how it became popular long before the arrival of Bob Marley. It's also a film about ska, rocksteady, rudeboys and skinheads.

You might wonder: why do we in electronic music care about reggae? It’s because the sound systems, records, slang, remixes and customs that came from Jamaica easily took root on British soil, sprouting up three decades later in the form of jungle and drum‘n’bass, trip-hop and especially UK garage; dubstep, grime, speed garage in the nineties and noughties all directly drew inspiration from reggae, dub and ragga records of the 1970s, and not only from Trojan Records. But the Trojan label (note the metaphor of the century) entered the music market like a Trojan horse and charmed first the working class youth and then the rest of the United Kingdom.