eightball.ie proudly presents Norman Jay

Saturday, April 29
Mickey Martin’s

www.normanjay.com

One of England’s foremost DJs ever since his Jamaican-style Good Times Sound System debuted at London’s Notting Hill Carnival in 1980, Norman Jay pioneered the sound of rare groove, house, and acid jazz during the heady days of Britain’s increasing ascendancy in the global dance scene.

During the early ’70s, he branched out into funk as well, even as his brother Joey built a reggae sound system named the Great Tribulation in 1975. Norman made the move into radio in 1985. With Gordon Mac, he co-founded Kiss FM, London’s best-known pirate station, and Jay’s quickly spreading fame helped the station lure in other soon-to-be-famous DJs like Gilles Peterson, Danny Rampling, Trevor Nelson, Jazzie B, and Judge Jules.

During the mid-’80s, Jay hosted some of the first warehouse parties — later to morph into the rave scene — under the promotional handle Shake and Fingerpop. And along with Gilles Peterson, Jay was one of the most important trendsetters as rare groove became acid jazz during the late ’80s and early ’90s and once London’s club underground went mainstream during the mid-’90s. n 2000, the dance cultists at Nuphonic Records released a compilation of Joey and Norman’s top all-time tunes as Good Times with Joey and Norman Jay.

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