![]() ![]() However, that has changed in recent years.Ī Recording Industry Association of America report released this year states that over the past decade vinyl records have made a comeback with sales of just over 41 million units earning US$1.2 billion in 2022, a 20 per cent jump from the previous year, surpassing CD sales for the first time since 1988. He pointed out that vinyl record sales had suffered a decline with the use of modern technology to create music. To take up that record in your hand and to clean it and place it on the turntable and to let it go gives you a sense of pride," McKenzie said. "Vinyl is, for me, something that touches the heart of those of us who love music. Continue to allow vintage vinyl music to come back to be what it used to be," he added. Back row (from left) Winston Wilson, Junior Dublin, Michael "Louis" Owens, Gil Scott and Kirk Douglas.Front row (from left) Wemley Brown, Larry Campbell, Stephen "Bunny Plus X" Knight, Charlotte Smikle, and Errol DaCosta. Members of the local chapter of the Vinyl Record Collectors Association at the launch of therir 26th annual Memorial Weekend Sit-In. Nowadays, a man sit down at him yard and use a computer, lay down a track and claim him mek a record. "In those days, when you go into a studio you had musicians inside there. He credited veteran singers Ken Booth, Marcia Griffiths, Derrick Morgan, and others, for making Jamaican music "what it is today" and reflected on the days when his yard was where artistes wishing to impress legendary producer Duke Reid would wait before being auditioned. When I speak about trash, you all know what I'm talking about - anything that glorifies murder, devalues women and sends messages that are not conducive to proper upbringing, because some of the lyrics that we hear today leave much to be desired," he said to applause and nods of approval. "I don't believe that those of us who play the music should degrade and devalue our name by playing trash. "I want to commend you, and congratulate you, and urge you not to lose focus," McKenzie told the VRCA members and guests at the event launch inside Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie, who is a former sound system operator, addressing the recent launch of the Vinyl Record Collectors Association's 26th annual Memorial weekend event. In addition to congratulating them for helping to preserve the joy of playing vinyl records, he launched a broadside against "trash" posing as music and those who play it. McKenzie, known as a man who doesn't shrink from expressing his views, didn't disappoint his hosts. That credential, no doubt, influenced the Vinyl Record Collectors Association (VRCA) to invite McKenzie - who also served as Kingston mayor from 2003 to 2011 - to address the recent media launch of its 26th annual Memorial Weekend Sit-In scheduled for Jamaica, May 26-29. The blurb on the Nationwide website about the programme explains that "McKenzie is a former sound system operator and boasts an extensive collection of vinyl records - one of the largest and most comprehensive in Jamaica - and it keeps on growing". But the local government and rural development minister has, for the past 15 years, been presenting a five-hour radio programme named The Mayor's Parlour, described as "a unique musical experience custom-made for vintage music lovers", every Sunday on Nationwide 90 FM. Desmond McKenzie is more known as a politician than for his involvement in the arts. ![]()
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