Incredibly, no one can comfortably hazard a guess at how many sounds existed in Hackney. Mainly because anyone loosely in love with reggae had one, even if it was just “an ickle ting” – like one speaker used for a house party. They were all homemade too, normally with zero advice and zero money.

Flinty Badman, one of Hackney’s most celebrated MCs and one-half of the Ragga Twins describes how he started. “My first sound started in woodwork at school,” he chuckles. “I was 15 years-old. We were five mates from school and it was called Sir Cruise. The teacher was like, ‘Aww this is nice, this can go in the exhibition!’ When we finished it, we just sneaked it out of the back of the school. It was big as well; very hard to sneak it out.” Sir Cruise printed up flyers to hand out at school then charged their mates to come and party in their uncle’s basement. “We invited down a sound called Sir Lena, who were these boys,” Flinty says, pointing across the room at PJ and Smiley, who even by this age were onto their second sound system.

The economic winds ensured that many of these proud sonic incarnations were built from “reclaimed” plywood from building sites. Flinty’s pals had other schemes too. “A few of my mates went and robbed the speakers. Like the Tannoys at school? They got robbed. We only had our pocket money, and that had to be spent on records really. You needed a good selection of tunes, otherwise there was no point.”