DJ Boom Boom’s ‘Made In the Caribbean’ playlist ready for Audiomack

Popular disc jockey Marlon 'Boom Boom' Wizard is ecstatic about his collaboration with Audiomack on their Made In the Caribbean Series that aims to exhibit the changing nature and style of Caribbean music. His carefully curated, all-Jamaican playlist is set to go live this month.

Speaking with THE WEEKEND STAR, he expressed that he is happy that this venture actually materialised.

"It's a next stepping stone and me really feel great fi see Audiomack see the work wah me a put in and want me to be a part of that," he said.

"A Boom Sunday mi deh enuh, and a gentleman a seh Audiomack waan link you enuh, but true you know people always a tell me some things and then mi nuh see nothing happen and then the next month now me see the G reach out to me and a say 'yea man it serious', so is really Boom Sunday it happen," DJ Boom Boom furthered.

Made In the Caribbean is a quarterly new series that showcases the up-and-coming, as well as veteran talents that exists within the 25 islands selected to be a part of the exhibit. It is the brainchild of Tanya Lawson, who is the director of Caribbean and Afrobeats Music.

A key factor of the initiative is to encourage more artistes to go back to their roots when creating and representing on a global stage, and according to DJ Boom Boom, he has seen where some Jamaican artistes have strayed.

"About 20 per cent of them a stray and like the young artiste them now, the veteran artiste that inna the game from the '70s, '80s, '90s, to the late 2000s fi just steer the young artistes, but some of the veteran artiste are letting the young artistes steer them. So you find it like some of the veterans are losing it and they are pointing fingers at the young artiste them instead of calling them and giving them some words of encouragement and say you don't have to record them song deh or deejay pon them type a beat deh and represent for our culture, and show them how to do it," he explained.

Nevertheless, he is excited to display the best of Jamaican music, which he says he carefully curated and completed a month ago.

"My playlist nice enuh. I built this playlist a good lickle while so some of the songs now that a gwaan good fi the last two weeks, three weeks, mi did done do the playlist a month ago, so mi nuh want nobody a seh how Boom Boom nuh include that song or that artiste. The songs that are hot now I did the playlist before this. I have couple young artistes too wah a gwaan good inna the streets and they need fi get lickle justice, so is a good move this," he shared.