Payday Music Group

Payday Music Group was formed by Austin Yolando Green.

He was born in the community of Red Hills. Now as a Reggae and Dancehall Producer “Austin Kevin Green” has seen the best and worst sides of the genre.

As a well respected studio engineer, he has been in the business of music production for over 9 years starting his illustrious career back in 1998 at Gargamel Music, home of the superstar Buju Banton, who is also his first cousin.

While at Gargamel Music, Kevin became acquainted with the techniques needed to become a fully professional engineer and after spending months learning and perfecting the craft, he got his first big break as an engineer mixing tracks for Buju Banton.

Night after night, he did numbers of live sessions in the wee hours of the morning tweaking the sounds of Banton’s Friends ForLife album and at the same time experimenting with sounds and phrases for a possible riddim compilation.

As his network grew and the credits began to pile up Kevin made his move and ventured into the mainstream as an independent producer releasing his very first riddim called the F 150 during late 1990′s and early 2000.

Soon after that it was time to test the waters again and in 2001 he released his second riddim called Vacuum and the third called Hypnatic, a few months later with cuts from Sean Paul and Elephant Man and a host of other big named artists like Bounty Killer being featured on the tracks.

During the summer of 2006 a mutual disagreement between himself and Buju Banton led him to leave Gargamel this after producing 2 (Jig / Nothing) and mixing several other tracks for Banton’s 8th official album Too Bad which was a Grammy Nominated Project.

Un-phased by the incident Kevin sought advice from Bounty Killer, and later decided it was time to build his own empire Payday Music Group. After recruiting a young batch of talented Singer and DJs to form Pay Day Music Productions. Bounty then added his influence to the mix by officially introducing him to the Boss Lady of Solid Agency. Sharon Burke then welcomed him into the organization.

Since becoming apart of Solid Agency, he has released three other riddim juggling including the Not Out which feature his group of upcoming artists – Lando, Boom Steppa Mental, Martina, Carlos Turner and Bad Cash (his brethren for 9 years) alongside the superstar DJ’s Mavado, Busy Signal, Macka Diamond and Vybz Kartel.

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