Lloyd Coxsone

Lloyd Coxsone (born Lloyd Blackford, c. 1945) is a Jamaican-born sound system operator and record producer, who has been resident in the United Kingdom since 1962.

Biography Blackford was born in Morant Bay, Jamaica, c.1945, and moved to Wandsworth, London in 1962. With his surname borrowed from one of Jamaica's leading sound system operators and producers, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, Blackford operated his own Coxsone Sound system in London from 1965 through to the 1980s, gaining a residency in the 1970s at the Roaring Twenties club in Carnaby Street. In the mid- and late-1970s he launched his own Safari, Tribesman and Outernational labels. These mixed his own productions featuring musicians such as Matumbi with rhythms produced in Jamaica by Gussie Clarke, with the second album also featuring mixes by Scientist. In the mid-1980s, Coxsone took a back seat with his sound system, allowing younger men such as Blacker Dread to take a leading role. He was paid tribute by I-Roy on the single "Lloyd Coxsone Time".

Productions King of the Dub Rock (1975), Safari King of the Dub Rock Part 2 (1982), Tribesman 12 the Hard Way (1989), Tribesman