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Uprooted Sunshine Comes Home

By Morgan Short, Oct 21st, 2010 | In Nightlife

Shanghai's native reggae sound system Uprooted Sunshine celebrates five happy years of kicking out the reggae vibes all weekend long at The Shelter, thereby capping off a month-long tour which saw the group play in eight cities all around the country. Their largest foray outside of Shanghai, Uprooted were celebrating their anniversary and accompanying Chinese-Jamaican producer Clive Chin of Randy's Records, back in China for his second time in as many years.

Missed trains and sleepless nights behind them, this Friday is the main event with Shanghai as the final stop on Uprooted's tour. On decks will be the man, Clive Chin, Selector Twice, Singbinhaus Soundsystem, Don Dada, and Uprooted. Cover: 60rmb.

The festivities continue on to Saturday night, with Sub-Culture hosting RSD aka Rob Smith from Smith and Mighty, Steve Barker in from Beijing (read an interview with Barker here), and a slew of DJs from the Shanghai community paying tribute.

And then on Sunday afternoon down at The Source, Clive Chin will be giving a talk introducing his family’s influential reggae label / records store, Randy's Records. Chin counts among his producing credits classic recordings by The Wailers, Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, and Black Uhuru, amongst other is your link to the formation of reggae and dub music in Jamaica in the 1960s. He was there and he;ll be talking about it.

But congrats to Uprooted Sunshine on their fifth anniversary!

Click here to see the Uprooted Sunshine tour photos.