Mafia & Fluxy are a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 rhythm section and production team consisting of brothers Leroy (bass) and David Heywood (drums), whose careers began with London

London

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 reggae band The Instigators in 1977. They backed Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n artists on UK tours, and in 1987 visited Jamaica, building rhythm tracks for producers such as Bunny Lee

Bunny Lee

Edward O'Sullivan Lee, better known as Bunny "Striker" Lee is a prominent, prolific and successful record producer best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...

, King Jammy

King Jammy

Lloyd James , better known as Prince Jammy or King Jammy, is a dub mixer and record producer. He began his musical career as a dub master at King Tubby's recording studio...

, Donovan Germain

Donovan Germain

Donovan Germain is a reggae producer, one of the most successful of the digital era.-Biography:Germain's entry into the music industry was via his record shop in New York City in the 1970s. He began production in 1972, visiting Jamaica for recording sessions, working in both roots reggae and...

, and Philip "Fatis" Burrell, becoming one of the most in-demand rhythm sections of the ragga age. They started their own label, producing artists such as Sugar Minott

Sugar Minott

Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott was a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator.-Biography:...

, King Kong, Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Anthony Isaacs was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae". His nicknames include Cool Ruler and Lonely Lover....

, Johnny Osbourne

Johnny Osbourne

Johnny Osbourne is a popular Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer, who rose to success in the late 1970s and mid 1980s. His album Truths and Rights was a notable roots reggae success, and featured "Jah Promise" and the album's title track, "Truths and Rights"...

, Cornell Campbell

Cornell Campbell

Cornell Campbell aka Don Cornell or Don Gorgon is a reggae singer, best known for his trademark falsetto voice, and his recordings at Studio One in the late 1960s and his later work with Bunny Lee in the 1970s.-Biography:Cornel has one of the sweetest falsettos of any Jamaican vocalist and uses it...

, and General Levy.

They produced a series of Reggae Heights albums, featuring classic singers such as Johnny Clarke

Johnny Clarke

Johnny Clarke , Whitfield Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae musician.-Biography:Clarke grew up in the Kingston ghetto of Whitfield Town. In 1971 he won a talent contest in Bull Bay, his prize a meeting with producer Clancy Eccles, with whom he recorded his first song, "God Made the Sea and the...

, Barry Brown

Barry Brown (singer)

Barry Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer, initially coming to prominence in the 1970s with his work with Bunny Lee, but remaining popular throughout his career.-Biography:...

, Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Isaacs

Gregory Anthony Isaacs was a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as "the most exquisite vocalist in reggae". His nicknames include Cool Ruler and Lonely Lover....

, and John Holt

John Holt (singer)

John Holt is a reggae singer and songwriter.-Biography:Holt was born in Kingston in 1947. By the age of 12, he was a regular entrant in talent contests run at Jamaican theatres by Vere Johns...

 singing classic tracks over rhythms recreated by Mafia & Fluxy.

The duo have also remixed tracks for artists such as Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...

. Leroy Mafia has also enjoyed a solo career.

Albums

• A New Galaxy of Dub Ariwa
• Revival Hits vol. 1
• Revival Hits vol. 2
• Mafia & Fluxy Present... (1994) RCA
  RCA Records
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• Revival Hits vol. 3 (1994) Fashion
  Fashion Records
  Fashion Records is a UK-based record label publishing reggae music.Founded in summer 1980, Fashion Records is one of the more successful UK-based reggae labels , and one of only a very few British reggae labels to release records that were produced in their own recording studio.The label was the...
  
  
• Dub Wicked: Michael Rose Meets Mafia & Fluxy at the Grass Roots of Dub (1997) Heartbeat
  Heartbeat Records
  Heartbeat Records is an independent record label based in Burlington , Massachusetts. The label specializes in Jamaican music. Founded by reggae music enthusiasts Bill Nowlin and Duncan Brown, the label's first release was a vinyl LP reissue of Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat an' Blood...
  
  
• Mafia & Fluxy (1998) Mafia & Fluxy
• Mafia & Fluxy Presents Music for Lovers, Vol. 1 (1999) Mafia & Fluxy
• Roots & Culture vol. 1 Mafia & Fluxy
• Roots & Culture vol. 2 (1998) Mafia & Fluxy
• Revival Hits vol. 4 (2000) Mafia & Fluxy
• Soul of The Gong (2000) Cactus
• Music For Lovers vol. 2 Mafia & Fluxy
• Music For Lovers vol. 3 Mafia & Fluxy
• Roots & Culture vol. 3 Mafia & Fluxy
• Roots and Culture Vol.4 (2002) Mafia & Fluxy
• Music For Lovers vol. 4 (2002) Mafia & Fluxy
• A Reggae Christmas (2004) Mafia & Fluxy
• Strictly Vocals (2004) Mafia & Fluxy
• Entebbe Sounds Meets Mafia and Fluxy Propa Dubwise Part 1 (2004)
• Music For Lovers vol. 5 (2004) Mafia & Fluxy
• Roots and Culture vol. 5 (200?) Mafia & Fluxy
• Strictly Vocals Vol.2 (2006) Mafia & Fluxy
• Roots and Culture Vol.6 (2006) Mafia & Fluxy
• Music For Lovers vol. 6 (2004) Mafia & Fluxy
• Rocking Time Riddim By Mafia & Fluxy (2007) Heartbeat
• From R&B to Reggae, Vol. 1 (2007) Mafia & Fluxy
• Introducing Lovers Revival Hits Lagoon
• Mafia & Fluxy Presents Reggae Mega Hits Vol.1 BMG
  BMG
  Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
  
  

External links

• Masouri, John "They Got That Vibe" (interview), Echoes, September 11, 1999