More recently, Little Thunder won the Stylus Award for Reggae DJ of the Year 2008 attributed by Pioneer DJ (it has been nominated for the same award every year since), as well as the Best Reggae/Dancehall DJ Award (People’s Choice) at the 2008 Montreal DJ Awards.Ĭonjointly to the non-stop hustle and bustle of the soundsystem, the Allen brothers (again with the help of their father), opened Triple AAA Records in October 1999. In 2003, after touring Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica and Canada, Little Thunder clashed the legendary Bass Odyssey (Alexandria, Jamaica) and Rebel Tone (Toronto, Canada) and defeated Skyhawk Sound at Montreal’s Tiffany Hall. The dubplates Little Thunder played (exclusively recorded versions of songs in which the artist alters the usual lyrics to mention the name of the soundsystem who commissioned it), included original dubs by Elephant Man, Bounty Killer and John Holt. The sound’s ascendancy was further consolidated 2 years later when Montreal hosted its first sound clash competition, and Little Thunder defeated Crystal Sound. Little Thunder’s first major domestic victory was in Winnipeg in 1999, where it won first place. It wasn’t long, however, before it began competing in sound clashes high-intensity musical face-offs in which opposing soundsystems vie for supremacy before a crowd. In its early years, Little Thunder honed its chops playing private parties and weddings. Though solidly founded on Island music, Little Thunder is a unit as versatile as it is fit - handling every music genre, venue and type of event with unchanging charm and ease. In the nearly 20 years since its foundation, Little Thunder Sound - a term coined by the brothers’ father to denote something small but mighty - has built a sizeable empire involved in performance, promotion, record sales, artist management, as well as the hosting of 3 weekly online radio shows (, and ). The mobile soundsystem, established with the assistance of their father, Edgeton Allen, rapidly become synonymous with solid parties, exclusive sounds and quality Jamaican music, spearheading the spread of reggae culture - ubiquitous in the brothers’ homeland - to Montreal, the city they moved to as teens.
One of the foremost pioneering forces in Montreal’s Jamaican music scene, Little Thunder Sound was founded in 1992 by brothers Donovan “Don Ignorance” and Courtney “Scroogie” Allen.
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