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2 Tone Records

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Independent label founded in 1979 by Jerry Dammers of the Specials, backed by Chrysalis Records and based on Albany Road in Earlsdon, Coventry; it released ska-revival records by the Specials, Madness and the Selecter that consciously drew on Jamaican ska, becoming defunct in 1986.

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Type: label
Confidence: Well supported
Era: Open era →

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Story · Well supported2 Tone and the Jamaican source

A Coventry label built its entire sound, and its politics, on records its founders had spent years studying.