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White City was a band originally formed in 1998 by musicians Daniel Lloyd, Ben Lloyd, Jared Russell, and Tige Campbell. Through-out the 4 or 5 years of their first incarnation, White City worked many other core musicians such as Cache Tolman, Josh Dickson, Ryan Mills, Raga P, and Sam Compton.
They used to also change their name at will and specific to records and shows. Some memorable names include:

White City Institute of Ganja Logic
White City Rockers
White City Brain Cloud
White City Sacred Beat Geometry

In the early days White City sounded like a unique jazz/funk fusion with many changes and the occasional odd timed rhythm. The first record was called the White City Groove Police and was released on cassette tape in 1999 by what was to become the Issue Records. The name “Issue records” was a spin off of a local art and music zine put together by Daniel and Chris Wright years earlier.

The second White city Record was entitled the White City Ganja Coalition. With this record you started to hear the influence of reggae music integrated into the track list. This record featured some bootlegged audio from a Terence Mckenna lecture, samples from Evildead 2, and even a punk rock anthem called insubordination. The Ganja Coalition record plays seamlessly and used samples to bridge songs.

The next record, White City’s Tropical Brain Forest signified the outfit’s new found effort to realize a more focused reggae sound. This was largely assisted by the line up now including members of Salt Lake dub Trio Lion Dub Station (Cache, Jared, Josh). This record also featured Ragga P on two tracks Real it is for Real and Full ah Lyrics. Sam Compton also played on this record and introduced a Dick Dale style surf guitar that complimented Tige’s rhythm guitar tracks.

The last White City album White City Science Fiction Reggae Live was never formally released to the public. It featured Sam Compton now on bass and is definitely the dubbiest and most straight reggae record of the collection. Keep your eyes peeled in the near future for the proper release of this record as well as maybe a best of or White city Box set.

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