ire hi-fi was founded in 1989 as one of the first sound systems in hamburg and was the leading force building the reggae scene in northern germany. in cooperation with di iries`s, dub me ruff, silly walks movement and others ire hi-fi founded their first studio in the notorious rote flora. that was where the first ire hi-fi productions were recorded. after numberless dub club nights all over europe pensi, the mastermind behind ire hi-fi directs his concentrating completly towards production and today you`ll find him very rarely behind the decks. still he operates a studio with his friends silly walks and that is where he preferably sends live instruments through his echo chamber and original roots reggae riddims are put on harddisc. in the course of the years a lot of reggae brandnames visited the studio, like sugar minott, tony tuff, u-brown, lone ranger, leroy gibbons, mike brooks, alpha & omega, natty king, joseph cotton and some more. only few tracks have been published on 7" labels like ire hi-fi and landbo so far and surprisingly this is the first ire hi-fi release in some time and the first for his old soundboy colleagues of hong kong recordings. recorded and mixed at 108 studio engineered by pensi side a: al campbell/u-brown ruffneck soldier/can`t keep a good man down - ruffcut version side b: gideon zinger/lone ranger - so they say/money we need - so we dub it www.rootsmessenger.com www.myspace.com/irehifi