Jump Up Records

CTL-E-0421 · Organization · other · unspecified

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Jump Up Records is a Chicago record label founded in 1993 by DJ Chuck Wren, specializing in Jamaican ska, reggae, rocksteady, and calypso.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-106; source research type(s): Organization. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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Dying Scene (dyingscene.com); Do312

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