OJ OJ Hoo Kim

Joseph “OJ OJ” Hoo Kim is one of the most important producers of Reggae of the end in the Seventies. It is with the head of the studio Chanel One associated with his three brothers. It founds it in 1972 with a console four tracks to the 29 of the Maxfield avenue in West Kingston.

Resulting parents of Chinese origin, Joseph Ho Kim and her brothers bathe at the beginning of their professional life, in the industry of the plays and bets. After the government jamaïcain declared the machines with under illegal, they move towards the music. They assembled the sound-system Chanel One first of all. Follow-up by the studio of the same name assembled with the assistance of Bunny Lee and Syd Bucknor. The first year is devoted to the settling technical of the place and with the research of the perfect sound. The studio is then free open to the producers to carry out tests. The brother of Joseph, Ernest, will become the sound engineer of the studio. Its first production is credited Stranger and Gladdy Don' T Give Up the Fight . In 1975, Joseph Hoo Kim, founds the Revolutionaries with Sly and Robbie like central cell. Many are its productions resulting from riddims catalog of Studio One. Clement Dodd will personally come to require accounts of him accompanied by a revolver.

OJ OJ Hoo Kim will encourage some sound revolutions in the reggae. Its productions will be marked by variations in the rate/rhythm of the battery. It will also leave first mix joining together versions sung and DJ on very individual (The Jays and Ranking Trevor Truly ). Its greater business success remains Right Time Mighty Diamonds produces in 1975. It will produce great names of the music jamaïcaine like Leroy Smart, Delroy Wilson, Black Uhuru, Horace Andy, the Wailing Souls, Dillinger and well of others. The labels Well Charges , Chanel One , Cha Cha, Black Swan, Greensleeves, Island and Virgin will publish its productions. After the death of one of his/her brothers in 1977 and following a depression, its productions are done fewer. It then leaves to live with New York.

In 1979, OJ OJ Hoo Kim makes renovate her studio and will once a month return to Jamaica in order to follow the operations of production. It launches the albums clash where the two faces of a LP separate two DJs with the series Showdown on the label Hitbound . But after the dancehall had entered during one digital time, it will withdraw musical life jamaïcaine and will settle definitively in New York.

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