Lay Llamas Ostro 07/07/2015 before hip-hop

before hip-hop

and idiosyncratic voices

Smaller labels found they sometimes didn’t have to go into the studio and hire musicians and vocal talent

Since the early 1960s Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had established Studio One as the unparalleled leader in reggae music in the world

I have to say it (write it)

Lay Llamas Ostro 07/07/2015 before hip-hopOstro is the debut album by Italian band Lay Llamas. The band formed in 2011 and since this inception have released two sold out cassettes and contributed a track to Rocket Recordings 15th Anniversary compilation called Crystallized. Lay Llamas could well be the perfect archetypal Rocket band, as the combined sounds of fellow label mates Gnod, Goat, Teeth of the Sea and Hills can be heard within their spacious, repetitive grooves. Though what Lay