Yeah, a bit like 'Motown'...just a label like 'Blue Beat' but everything that sounds like that stuff named as that!
What's the forum address mate? I'd like to join, do you know a fanzine from a few years back called 'Time Longer Than Rope'? I used to write that. Used to base it on original ska/reggae releases from 1962-1973(ish).
John