Like an exploration of the wild hills of that famous carribean island, preserved by natives Maroon's, looking for good elements to clean the old and dust groove of the Studio One’s records and make their sounds to live again, in other place in other age. The warm sound of the valves the scent of the vinyl that turns, the needle that moves the powder from the deep ones furrows in order to transmit to the enormous black cases of sound systems the rhythm. To reproduce those sounds to recreate that atmosphere spacing from the first one ska to the birth of the rocksteady, this is the thought that based of this match. Eight elements with many years sound experienced, an one drop with royal majesty, the broken lines calypso of vibrating double-bass, a grown levare of guitar, an exceptional hammond, warmth soul voices and worthy section breaths of the best years of the Alpha Boy school in order to produce cool vibes and to begin the distance towards to Kingston Town. Since the 2003 the One Droppers had shared the stage with Ken Boothe, Skatalites, Pionners, Dave Barker, Slackers, Aggrolites,New York Ska Jazz Ensamble, Neville Staple (the Specials), Caroloregians, Moon Invaders, Mr-TBone, Lord Paul and many more. One 2006 the published their first record "1D EP", distribuite in Europe by Mosquito Mailorder In the 2006 they became part of the Groover roster Froma april 2008 to july 2009 they made their first european tour playing in Benelux, Austria,Switzerland and Germany where they take place at two of the most important ska festivals the "Riverside Stomp" and “This is Ska ”. In January 2010 they record their first album with original songs at Officine Meccaniche Studios in Milan. In May 2011 is published by the German Rocking Records "The Big One", 14 songs ranging from ska to rocksteady up to early reggae. The album is distributed in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Indonesia and the digital version through iTunes and Amazon in the rest of the world. From September 2011 it began a promotional tour of Europe. Davide “Jack” Mazzantini – lead vox Matteo “Teo JRS” Pozzi – piano/hammond/vocals Biagio “Jahno” Ludovico – guitar/vocals Tommaso “Musta” Collini – double-bass Simone “mr.Board” Tavola – drums Andrea “Poggi" Poggesi – tenor saxophone Fabio “Stabbietto” Brambilla – trumpet Giovanni “Giò” Pacchiana – trombone