I ‘ve taken Collie Weed nickname from my former favourite track by Horace Andy. While preparing a poster for my first party I needed to write something and, to be honest, I still don’t know why I chose this one. I remember when I heard the song for the first time It was summer in 2000. I was lying on a thick comfortable Chinese carpet in a living-room, at the landlady’s, Meleena Thomas, place. I’ve been a selector since autumn 2001. From then on quite a lot has happened: 2 mixtapes have been released, the one of a kind way of combining all types of reggae has been shaped. Why so? Reggae is like a river. Watching one at its widest point, you wonder how it looks at its beginning. It doesn’t have the same depth all the way long. Various branches and basins are what form the harmonious entirety. I couldn’t listen to jungle or dubstep not knowing anything about reggae. Fluctuating all the time between the throes of love and passion of rocksteady and liberated and aggressive dancehall, whic
