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I had already heard “Dear Sergio” and “Sick and Sad” on Everything Off Beat radio when someone handed me this sampler tape at Ska Against Racism in May 1998. My dad took me and three others for my birthday; he made us leave during LTJ’s set because it was getting too late.
The back of the tape says: “Ska? Punk? Swing? Whatever.”
It wasn’t swing.