2008-2009 Dancehall / Reggae

Am0n, Been out to Joe's or find any other dancehall/reggae store in the Baltimore/DC area?

i went to joes during the holiday break but wasn't able to get to that one you mentioned or one drop. i might have another chance to in early february. nothing in baltimore as far as i know but cd depot has a pretty good reggae section (and go-go too, they even had bunch of live p.a. cds)

new mavado on mission riddim

http://www.clickcaster.com/federationsound

mission beat is fire

Fuck this looks great:

http://basicchannel.com/item/W-1002

hell ya it does, 'informer' is a big tune

can't find a link to it but damian and stephen marley also do the mission riddim. i think you can hear it in a mix if you go to that federation sound link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWaoXNfqN34

BULLET

holy shit

VP RECORDS MAKES AN OFFER TO AQUIRE GREENSLEEVES RECORDS London – January 28, 2008

VP Records, the world’s leading reggae record company, has announced today that it has made an offer to purchase Greensleeves Records & Publishing from Zest Group plc, subject to the approval of Zest’s shareholders. VP Records will inherit a catalogue comprised of some of the most notable albums of the genre, from Elephant Man to Yellowman and hit songs recorded by such acts as Rihanna, Sean Paul and Shaggy.

Chris Chin and Randy Chin, respectively Chief Executive Officer and President of VP Records, further added: “Although Greensleeves has historically been our competitor, we have always had the utmost respect for what Greensleeves stood for. The label and its founders had a long term commitment to Reggae music and no one is better positioned than VP Records to understand the need to respect this legacy. We will ensure that Greensleeves remains alive as a brand synonymous with excellence in Reggae and Dancehall music.”

Olivier Chastan, Vice President of VP Records, concluded: “The addition of Greensleeves to our catalog will ensure that the genre remains an important category in music. I am incredibly excited about the accumulation of classic works such as Wayne Smith’s “Sleng Teng” and Yellowman’s “Mr. Yellowman”. Greensleeves Publishing is just as rich, with a large catalog that includes major recent hits like Sean Paul’s “Get Busy” and Wayne Wonder’s “Bounce Along” both written by Steven Marsden (p/k/a Lenky) and Donovan Bennett’s “Pon De River, Pon De Bank” written for Elephant Man among other compositions. Furthermore, Greensleeves’s unique English roots will allow VP Records to consolidate its presence in Europe.”

Steve Weltman, Zest's Chief Executive, commented: “The combination of Greensleeves and VP Records will ensure the future of Reggae music around the world. VP Records is committed to preserving the legacy of the Greensleeves label that was begun by its founders Chris Sedgwick & Chris Cracknell in 1977.”

R.I.P.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7keFwszLPYQ

I hope that doesn't happen. :(

babylon monopoly

Ricky Blaze?

how does vp even have the money to do this? i would think both companies would be hurting right now, not just greensleeves

Stelfox sez "Vinyl's dead in JA"
http://music.guardian.co.uk/urban/story/0,,2242297,00.html

Ernie B's rebuttal:
http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/read.php?2,44938

And Stelfox's "rebuttal" right below that.

and ernies again below that etc. etc.

exciting huh? lol.

http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=58999965760303

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge75LBLh97E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnz7TYIZEEw

gear box riddim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7C-TLw3pcA

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/bobbykonder_classicra_101b.jpg

^so good, finally grabbed a copy

mavado & junior reid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6N4XFaog4

I have not seen a cheap copy of the above mix yet, but I really really want it.

i don't know how old it is but i like this beat (chromium): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwrnQYSCDAc

(lol @ p-poppin' video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79K8MrZwHXI

ahah that ele workout vid has been linked before i think

another riddim i missed from last year
hot winter

i like ricky blaze's cut dem off. it's bouncy and corny as shit and mine. more?

yeah, that one is fire (hot winter).

Stelfox wasn't lying when he said the Luciano album was excellent. Jordan, get yrself down to Exclusive Co. and jack that thing. It's reggae not dancehall, but it's still worth loving.

zomg new bounty killer track
http://profile.imeem.com/FcpeJf/music/p7i5mPqV/bounty_killer_huff_an_a_puff/

Father Goose - Jamaican dancehall kids music?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/arts/music/17kenn.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

Rob Kenner NY Times article

AIDONIA - WANT A FUK OFFA YUH

http://www.zshare.net/audio/750468535aff08/

^the future of booty dancehall

Ok, does anyone here listen to David Gould?

LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJgPjJ30MSw

O_O

"boried!"

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080217/ent/ent4.html

Dancehall artiste Macka Diamond, who recently heard the news, was confused about the matter. According to Macka Diamond, she has not been informed by Greensleeves about the bid and the implications for her albums, which Greensleeves is supposed to distribute.

http://radmarg.vo.llnwd.net/o1/vprecords/Ecards/vp1781/402-ontherock-front.jpg

I missed Mavado at the Crossroads, down hear near DC awhile back. I'm just getting too old for these 1 or 2 a.m. shows. waaaah waaah waaah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EY0AQNgUw8

Money from Vybz and guns from Movado:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyF8l9IcXBU

Amon, did you come down to DC for Beenie Man at H2O Friday?

That other slower Mavado tune is getting crossover press attention via Martin Clark at his blog and his Pitchfork column, and elsewhere.

no i didn't know about the beenie show.

looks like the gully side part from the end of that video got edited out, heres the whole thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWuw1NBBMQo

crazy video, usually they just imply the violence and gun play in the videos without actually showing the guns.

Thanks for the whole thing.

H20 announces their shows last minute via their e-mail list and radio ads. Everything starts late there also.

video for damian marley on gang war riddim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haTMo_HuNQg

gully creepa trying to be dancehall's "thriller"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjVmEQDywBg

That's wacky. How 'bout that Gully dance.

Speaking of, uh, dances did you see the wayneandwax.com March 26th posting? Hmmmmm.

Wayne also appeared at this event in Pennsylvania--

Thursday, March 27th

12noon - 2:00 pm

Smut/Slackness in Caribbean Music

Carolyn Cooper
University of the West Indies

Shannon Dudley
University of Washington

Wayne Marshall
Brandeis University

Raquel Rivera
Hunter College

Moderated by
Timothy Rommen
Assistant Professor of Music

Class of 1955 Conference Room ( Room 241)
2nd Floor Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
3420 Walnut Street

Free and open to the public

i wanted to go and see bounty killer at stratford rex but it got bloody cancelled didnt it.

that bobby konders mix is ace.

there was a 'is reggae dead' article in the voice the other week. nothing new being said really, but interesting read i suppose, even if no one really had any particularly interesting or OTM answers/ideas.

Speaking of, uh, dances did you see the wayneandwax.com March 26th posting?

haha certainly nothing wrong with that dance

is there a link to the voice article?

here ya go.

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=13060

Interesting. The young dancehall acts are not crossing over to American r'n'b/rap radio, and while Stelfox (at the Guardian and Pitchfork) and others may be still championing the latest release by one-drop reggae vocalist Luciano, that's apparently considered too old hat to get much attention also.

my interest in dancehall isnt consistent, so im prob in no position to judge, but do people think the new stuff is still as good as ever? i like guys like vybz kartel a lot (hes not new though i know) but a lot of what i hear on dancehall radio shows on R1 or 1xtra these days just kinda goes in one ear and out the other. seems very ephemeral. sort of like a lot of modern hip hop overall.

or is it like hip hop where a lot of the best/most interesting records oddly seem to be coming from the older artists?

RTC, who keeps up on dancehall alot, and posted a fair ammount on 2007's dancehall thread, doesn't seem to come around here much this year. So maybe AMON has an idea, as I'm not that up on the latest dancehall. Also, are hiphop producers less interested in dancehall nowadays. It seems that way.

i dont see that as a bad thing. dancehall producers shouldnt be looking for hip hops 'validation'. it goes in cycles anyway, but the mainstream boom of dancehall and hip hop seems to have deflated more or less together, so both genres are probably still getting used to the idea of the big pop market not being there like it was in the early 00s.

i don't follow the latest stuff close enough to say one way or another, but its always been ephemeral with all the riddims being churned out and versioning different voices, going way back 30 or 40 years.

the hiphop interest seems to come and go. maybe this summer we'll get some hot lil boosie ft. busy signal joints

now let's lol @ ele gone gospel

David ‘Mavado’ Brooks who is charged with two counts of shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm was offered bail when he appeared in the Gun Court today to answer to the charges laid against him earlier this week.

"its always been ephemeral"

yeah of course, but before at least, it *seemed* that there were more tunes that would last the distance. now i listen to robbo ranx or goldfinger and its just way too samey and sort of amounts to 'nothing' afterwards. or maybe its just i dont like the aesthetic of a lot of modern dancehall.

Dancehall's fine, I'm sure. Everytime the dancehall-crossover-boom slows down everyone gets up in arms and then it comes back and everyone goes crazy about that and etc. . .

My interest actually goes in similar waves actually.

"gun court"!

right, mine too.

i usually don't get into stuff immediately anyway so the ephemerality isn't really greater or lesser, so much as i just don't have the hindsight yet or not enough distance from the latest shit. cuz i think you need that with genres where everything is "lol that riddim from five minutes ago is old! this one here is the latest thing! hype! hype!"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iY4GvQq_oEY

anthony bourdain on dancehall and ital food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQRhXQzB_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8CdNr3kwAI

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/n/ninjaman~~~_monsterso_101b.jpg

http://www.zshare.net/audio/1053908168f8033d/

lol wtfff

elevating His Imperial Majesty Barack Obama to the status of Almighty God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqQRhXQzB_Y

anyone recognize the track that starts to play at 4:31?

http://i31.tinypic.com/x2p0r4.jpg

01. On The Rock - Mavado
02. Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten - Demarco
03. Jail - Busy Signal
04. Study People - Serani
05. Shoot Out - Mykal Rose
06. Wine Pon The Edge - Busy Signal
07. Money Fi Spend - Vybz Kartel
08. Rise It - Collie Buddz
09. Cyaan Look Inna Mi Eye - Bugle
10. Cater For The Poor - Elephant Man
11. My Scheme - Vybz Kartel
12. Ay Ya Ay Ya - Black Rhino
13. Knocking At Your Door - Busy Signal
14. This Is How We Grow - Fire Links & Matterhorn
15. Buddy Buddy [raw dancehall mix] - Charlie Blacks

also public service announcement to all white dreads - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPAyECt61fY

Demarco was at the Crossroads Sunday night, and Mr. Vegas was back in DC Friday at H2O. Alas, I did not attend either late-night gig.

where does h2o sell tickets? i get the feeling they have a dress code but i could be wrong

They do not seem to ever sell tickets---they just advertise shows on their website and once in awhile on late-night ads on PGC and KYS. So you have to wait in a long line outside and get searched and show id and then pay. I think you can get on an e-mail list for the club also (although I rarely get any e-mails from them now that I think about it). Yea, it's a no sneakers, no blue jeans dress code policy. When they used to have Friday night salsa veteran shows I would go. Sometimes if you get there early it was/is cheaper to get in, but the live music never starts until 1 a.m. or later. Which can make it tougher if you're taking public transportation and have to worry about taking the last train. As for driving, you need to get there early to find a street spot, or pay expensive garage parking. The place is basically a pain in the neck. Crossroads is not much better.

i don't know if i'm up for that hassle, unless its something really good. from what i remember crossroads sells tickets, has a (crappy) parking lot and no dress code

courtesy info@h20 dc.com

Half Krazy there tonight as part of Buss Whey 08

Also, "Made in Jamaica" movie doc tonight at the Lincoln Theatre in Dc and May 3rd at the Regal Cinemas Gallery Place

The film brings together a dream list of musicians, including Gregory Isaacs, who offers a majestic elegy to slain dancer Bogle, Bounty Killer, who speculates on what drives young men from poor neighborhoods to gun violence, and Lady Saw, who explains how liberating it is to outperform men when it comes to raw, sexual lyrics. Sound systems pound out deep-bass "riddims" on street corners, in yards, and on Jamaica's famous beaches, as Bunny Wailer, Beres Hammond, Third World, Toots, and Capleton chant lyrics of resistance and redemption. http://www.filmfestdc.org/filmView.cfm?passID=62

Ooooh. . . drool.

http://www.moll-selekta.com/bilder/mighty_striker_big.jpg

i wonder how that compares to the bunny lee story comp

should there be a reggae reissue catch-all thread? i heard some more 17 north parade stuff but theres like 10 threads scattered with reissue label talk

Do you mean the Rocksteady comp also on Moll-Selekta? This comp is pitched much later so I expect more roots stylings of the type featured on the B&F Lee comps.

this one says jet star http://www.roots-archives.com/release/3962

http://www.vpreggae.com/images/catalog_images/vp4104.jpg

^this rules btw

Shit is that a boxed set? That looks awesome. How's the packaging/sound?

Sounds weird (or at least the sequencing does.) I wonder if I should get it anyway (it's so hard to know how much of this stuff you have because there are so many alternate titles.) It's dirt cheap.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfexq9sldfe

i actually don't have it but yeah i think its a 4-disc box. there's another review here http://www.reggae-vibes.com/rev_var/bunnylee.htm

02. Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten - Demarco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYNYyq3oT0

^fave track off rrr 2k8 (besides 'jail'). the whole comp overall is really solid but the charlie blacks track is a misstep. you can't have all dramatic synth-stabs and strings and serious lyrics and then throw in some goofy ass pum-pum party track at the end lol even the elephant man track keeps with the serious vibe

shit, uncensored version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meezCc5puAg

http://walshyfire.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-05-02T16_41_03-07_00.mp3

supercat interviewed on miami radio rhyming all his answers

http://www.thefader.com/articles/2008/4/30/ghetto-palms-the-drumlane-riddim

^fairly new weekly column. pretty good so far

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wks_zEdDSzU

mr.vegas on prison oval rock YESSSSSSSSS

throwback of the decade

rfi: more demarco

i got "fallen soldiers", the one off that comp (dld info for the whole thing?), "girl you turn me on" and "i wonder" and i love them all

http://www.myspace.com/demarcotheartist

his bio is more interesting than most, doing rhythms and ghostwriting for others, living in nyc baltimore and now kingston

the comments section on the youtube for 'fallen soldiers' is insane. pages and pages of r.i.p. shoutouts

:----O

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj10/megafari/icons_may10.jpg

is collie buddz good live

thx amon

demarco - better jamaica
http://www.zshare.net/audio/11827166d8a7dbb8/

http://fivemanarmy.bombworks.net/images/BURO.jpg.200px.jpg

this came out last year? had no idea. very old skool 90s sounding but i guess that's massive b's thing

http://www.massiveb.com/events/best%20of%20the%20best%202008%20rev5.jpg

The title track on that Burro Banton is awesome.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BnYzaBLEL._SS500_.jpg

^crucial

i think that burro banton might be a compilation. badder dan dem is a '07 track but the rest sounds like a mix of old and new. can't find any info on it either way

BUSY SIGNAL - HOLDING FIRM

http://www.jpophelp.com/cdscans/JPN-VICP-64060_frontS.jpg

1. HOLDING FIRM
2. GET BRIGHT
3. RASCLAART
4. FROM AFAR
5. I DON'T KNOW YA
6. GO FI DEM
7. WRONG PLACE
8. GHETTO YUTES
9. SAVE WAT U HUSTLE
10. NAH SLEEP A JAIL FEAT.ASSAILANT
11. LAUNCH IT OUT
12. "THE LETTER P"
13. DOUBLE RHYME
14. THE RESULT

not out in u.s. yet but its really good just from a couple of listens. one of the tracks is almost jungle/d'n'b lol

will stelfox ever de-lurk

Does he still post on dissensus?

Capleton at the Crossroads June 21st I think.

capleton is good but a little too fire n brimstone for me

He's playing/played with Dead Prez here in SF!

any good roots/culture riddims and songs this year? I really like the Kingdom Riddim (Collie Buddz & Chezidek on this riddim are awesome), and of course "Must Come A Road"... and I've been listening to a lot of Queen Ifrica lately ("Below The Waist," "Daddy," "Genocide"... she is amazing) what else? Everything seems to sound like Daseca and Di Genius, with all the autotune and shit...

He's playing/played with Dead Prez here in SF!

makes perfect sense, the ultimate trustafarian line-up

Never seen so many white kids with dreads.

i saw a youtube recently of some european crowd, maybe dutch, singing along to sizzla performing "nah apologize", a song about refusing to back down on lyrics about barbecuing battys. pathetically funny

Sigh. I wish Sizzla (and Capleton) would lighten up frankly.

uh, okay I guess not.

anyway I've also been listening to these a lot:

http://bp3.blogger.com/_d7o-1_3ugps/RzBJD5DKANI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/9THYBG3mZnE/s1600-h/beres.jpg

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CB%5CBuju%20Banton%20-%20Til%20Shiloh%5CBuju%20Banton%20-%20Til%20Shiloh.jpg

http://www.jahworks.org/music/images/darealthing.jpg

hey, the others aren't showing up... anyway:

Beres Hammond - Soul Reggae
I Wayne - Book Of Life

i don't know any new roots riddims to recommend but i do like some chezidek

you might like that cocoa tea upthread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIV3XhRAY7s

"any good roots/culture riddims and songs this year?"

I'm sure there are, but I can't find the time to follow new music these days.

any good roots/culture riddims and songs this year?

gyptian - i can feel your pain
richie spice - di plane land
wayne wonder - don't say no
bloody city riddim

nothing beats 'mus come a road' tho

cover di world like GOOGLE

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x44/djphantomz/Bugle-TheJourneyContinuesBackCover.jpg

Am0n, check out these shows coming to your town:

Vintage Reggae & Soca Festival Featuring
Ken Boothe (reggae) & Iwer George (soca)
Plus More @ Lake Clifton Park - Baltimore
Fri. june 20-12noon - 9PM, Showtime 4PM, Admission Free

Sunday 6-22

Buju Banton & The Shiloh Band (dancehall reggae), Bunji Garlin
(soca),Fay Ann Lyons
& The Asylum Band (soca), Jah Works Reggae Band, Lady Flame, Mr.
Tex, Storm, Pan Majestic Steel Band, Gucci Link from 12 Noon at Lake
Clifton Park, St. Lo & Harford Road, Baltimore 410-456-8486

thats the annual reggae fest which i either missed last year or they didn't hold one. its kind of pricey but the location is such that poor suckas can camp out around the fenced off area of the park and still take in the music. i might actually do that for buju.

also anne arundel and dc got some things happening

http://www.reggaerunnins.com/Bands_front.jpg

http://www.reggaerunnins.com/flyer%20back.jpg

the anne arundel one looks tight. sugar minott, professor nuts loooooool. getting tickets is going to be dicey as hell.

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT:
CARIBBEAN MARKET - (301) 439-5288
CARIBBEAN SEA - (301) 891-3497
BROWNS BAKERY - (202) 882-1626
TASHES RESTAURANT - (410) 922-9196
MONTEGO BAY - (410) 367-3450
GOLDEN KRUST - (301) 559-7962
JUNCTION - (301) 853-0193
CORONATION MARKET - (202) 723-9636
SIMBA MUSIC - (301) 445-1670
JERK HILL - (301) 422-6351
PRESIDENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT - (301) 974-2248
LIONS DELI - (202) 722-7728
I GOT THE HOOK UP - (410) 466-2078
QUEENSTOWN CARIBBEAN MARKET - (301) 277-6336
CARIBBEAN SUPERIOR - (301) 277-2506
JERK PIT - (301) 982-5375
SWEET MANGO - (202) 7826-2646
TROPICANA RESTAURANT - (202) 541-9060
CARIBBEAN FLAVOR - (301) 632-9738
CARIBBEAN GARDEN - (301) 559-2445

I GOT THE HOOK UP - (410) 466-2078

^ wait i know where this one is hahaha

The rest are DC or suburban maryland dc locations

Anybody seen Ken Boothe live? Is his voice still up to par in '08?

what about hard, bangin' riddims?

quarter past twelve riddim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-JeFw0caw

Anybody seen Ken Boothe live? Is his voice still up to par in '08?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T28yyqIwOOA

nice

Both are nice, the Busy Signal over the quarter past twelve dancehall riddim and the 2007 Ken Boothe. I keep thinking of the Clash lyric citing him when I see his name...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-beats-go-on-the-rise-of-reggaes-sinister-side-840350.html

little old but jay-z got on movado's on the rock remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7wXgDeZeAg

never thought i'd hear jay-z say bloodclat

i guess it's mavado now to avoid to avoid legal trouble with the watch company?

These both look sick:

http://www.vpreggae.com/scripts/itemdetail.asp?IK=VP4116.2
http://www.vpreggae.com/scripts/itemdetail.asp?IK=VP4124.2

posted it on the joe gibbs rip thread but new site is finally up

http://www.17northparade.com/

the two disc gibbs comp. is excellent

that ninjaman anthology is great too and it has little to no overlap with the monsters of dancehall greensleeves one

Yeah I'm gonna get that Joe Gibbs one.

Penthouse Classics is also great if you don't have 95% of it elsewhere.

me too, especially since i've all but worn out 'no bones for dogs'.

xp

The Soul Jazz Roots of Dancehall is awesome and doesn't seem to have much overllap with this.

Jordan, do you have the African Dub Almightys?

I have a Joe Gibb/Mighty Two collection on Heartbeat, but this looks a million times better.

i had that heartbeat one, it shares a few tracks but doesn't really doesn't compare

doesn't

no!

Okay then I wholeheartedly recommend those as the next step post-No Bones For Dogs. They're all great.

noted. any idea where to get them that's less $$ than amazon (looks like they're imports)?

Nah they were re-released on VP. Ernie B's is as always your friend.

It's African and All Mighty apparently.

oh nice. which is hottest?

Three has the craziest effects (all dog barking and sirens and shit) but IIRC Two has best riddims. I have the 2 albums on one CD thing so the first two and last two kind of blur.

jordan this site has some good podcasts of joe gibbs stuff among others
http://algoriddim.podomatic.com/
but i agree chapter 3 is probably the best starting point with the african all mighty series

listening to this now, so f'in good

http://members.shaw.ca/dublp2/negrealoveA.JPG

Eek-A-Mouse Disses Sean Paul, Shaggy, Bob Marley

13 Jun 2008 | by A.K.A., Contributing Writer

When asked at last week’s Carifest CARES (Compassionate Artists Recognizing Entertainment Solutions) press conference what Carifest meant to him,Eek-A-Mouse replied: “It doesn’t mean (expletive) to me” .

He then changed the subject entirely and went off on a tirade, dissing all the“white people who control reggae, like Ace Of Base, Matisyahu, (whose name he repeatedly mispronounced and called Matissaweh), Sean Paul and Shaggy; bitterly blaming them for his inability to get signed by a major label. He even he included the late, great, reggae founder BobMarley in his racist rant, citing that he had a white father.

“They nah wan no black people to run reggae music. They waan Sean Paul and Shaggy; A true. Matissaweh jump inna di business and starts selling allthe records, and now mi cyan sell none, and mi cant sign me, so miwonder wagwann. Bloodcloth! All dem white boys get money from reggae music and me cyan get none. Toots and The Maytals, Dennis Brown getn othing and here comes Massassahoo, here comes UB40…” he repeatedh imself, getting visibly more amplified by the second, as shown in this video of what the release dubbed "spiteful speech" . Click on the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gz2-SHGlYs

Music transcends race, if Eek-A-Mouse can’t get signed or earn money, perhapsits his attitude, not his skin color, that’s holding him back, the release said.

Team Legendary Promoter, Alfonso D'Niscio Brooks told Eek-A-Mouse's management and agent that, “Unless he issues a public apology toCarifest, its affiliates and its supporters, his performing at Carifest will not be allowed and I will expect a complete refund.” Mr.Brooks further emphatically stated, “I can't condone or promote his negative behavior. Carifest C.A.R.E.S is about Love. Racism and/or prejudices will in no way be accepted. Carifest has a very diverse audience and will not alienate anyone. I mean it when I say we will represent only good vibes! Carifest is not the platform for negativity.”

Stay tuned to find out if Eek-A-Mouse recants his racist remarks or if the show will go on without him.

http://www.one876entertainment.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1213370215&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&

he's got a point but he didn't express it well at all

new buju video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAIDux1VWRE

No he didn't and I'm not entirely sure he's completely right anyway (how to explain Bounty Killer, Sizzla, Capleton, Elephant Man, etc--he's obv right about Matisyahu.) But Eek-A-Mouse's big problem with achieving international success has more to do with coming along at a moment when America wasn't paying Jamaica much mind and he (like most deejays from that period) was unable to ride it out long enough for the next wave of interest.

he also relied too heavily on one vocal gimmick, and still does apparently from that video, so he was bound to go no further than a hit or two

Yeah that didn't help his longevity.

(how to explain Bounty Killer, Sizzla, Capleton, Elephant Man,

but they still don't compare to the name recognition of shaggy and sean paul in the u.s. but that's due much more to their willingness to do crossover material rather than their color. still its hard not to see it factor in some way, like record execs seeing lighter dudes as more marketable/safer

not to credit what he's saying though, his over-emphasis of it is purely delusional. calling matisyahu "Massassahoo" is hilarious

I think with the exception of Elephant Man (who spent way too long squandering any momentum he had from all those Lil Jon remixes) the reason those three artists aren't as successful is almost entirely because of their relative lack of desire for crossover potentional (although Bounty Killer did do that No Doubt track.) It's hard to crossover when you are that committed to being hardcore. Still Shabba had quite a few hits (at least as much as Shaggy was) and he's not exactly pale-skinned. Buju, Beenie have had a pretty good amount of success here as well. Sean Paul has been kind of freakishly successful, but I get the impression that might have at least as much to do with his being "cute" as with his being white looking (although obv those two things are not separable really.)

buju and beenie otm. both are pretty huge here

King of the Underground Dancehall scene, Vybz Kartel has launched yet another commercial venture. Close behind the heels of his premium rum brand “Vybz Rum”, the president of the Portmore Music Empire has announced his endorsement of a condom line named “Daggering”.

The condoms will be manufactured and tested to U.S FDA standards.

The condoms are to be packaged and distributed locally marketed by a private company. The three pack condoms will be affordably priced and will be an integral part of Vybz Kartels’ upcoming Safe Sex promotional campaign.

another barack obama reggae tune

capleton - people want change

am0n have you seen the Augustus Pablo boxed set?!?! I usually hate those clunky fake book things, but for $35 for 4CDs, a DVD and a thick booklet I'm thinking this is probably worthwhile.

Also on VP this week these all look very hot:
Culture - Culture & The Deejays At Joe Gibbs
Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb: Reggae Anthology (2 CD)
Dennis Brown - A Little Bit More: Joe Gibbs 12" Selections

no, is it on shanachie?

Yup.

south rakkas will be here next week. that should be decent right?

No idea what it would be like. The Mad Decent record is okay (I actually like the idea of dancehall producer albums but these are not the best singers/deejays.)

well its going to be a dj set at a street fest so i imagine it might be worth going to. i think they're sandwiched between sets by b-more club djs and kidz in the hall lol

I'm gonna miss that Sugar Minot,Mr. Easy,
Leroy Sibbles, Professor Nuts, Tinga Stewart, & Frankie Paul show at the Anne Arundel fairgrounds this weekend. Oh well.

"i think they're sandwiched between sets by b-more club djs and kidz in the hall lol"

The first makes more sense than the second!

Also on VP this week these all look very hot:
Culture - Culture & The Deejays At Joe Gibbs
Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb: Reggae Anthology (2 CD)
Dennis Brown - A Little Bit More: Joe Gibbs 12" Selections

-- Alex in SF, Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:17 PM

culture - haven't listened to it yet
cutty ranks - not as great as i thought it would be. the best trax i already knew and the rest is just ok. not enough soundkilling, not really that interested in cutty ranks loverman side k thx
dennis brown - pretty good, the ones with big youth esp. are killers

R.I. P. Roy Shirley

http://www.dcsoundclash.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRb_zDZ-KRI

don't think i've heard of him :-/

I hadn't either until I saw the obit.

'culture & the deejays at joe gibbs' is sweet. one of the better vp reissues

http://www.outaroad.com/vybz_kartel_car_bombed_jamaica_fire_honda.jpg

My Honda wasn't firebombed - Vybz Kartel

25 Aug 2008 | by A.K.A., Contributing Writer

Vybz Kartel a.k.a Addi the Teacha is denying claims that his Honda Accord motor car was firebombed by thugs who allegedly came to his posh residential home in the wee hours of the morning.

"Ridiculous!" a calm-sounding Vybz Kartel told a One876Entertainment.com reporter this morning. "The Honda had an electrical problem and the fireman came and extinguished the blaze, that's all, my car was not firebombed."

Vybz Kartel has been involved in a lyrical clash with David 'Mavado' Brooks, a member of the Alliance in recent weeks, the two exchanging hardcore disses on the Martial Arts rhythm resurrected by Cordel 'Skatta' Burrell. Mavado's song, Dem a Fag, intimated that Kartel was a homosexual, while Kartel responded with equal vitriol in Wah Dat Fah? suggesting that he had sexual intercourse with Mavado's mother and reiterated rumours that Mavado's brother was an effeminate homosexual.

"At the end of the day, Jamaicans should know it's just music, no physical altercation. Mi no have nothing against David. If he does against me, I don't see it. My focus now is on positive songs like Money Fi Spend, Million by a Morning, and Life Sweet, uplifting songs for Jamaica, so don't expect me to perform those clash songs onstage, just regular thug anthems and daggering songs. Money over war," he said.

also spragga benz's son was killed by police sunday http://pegasus.dancehallreggae.com/forum//images/smilies/tombstone.gif

Good to see these guys are keeping the level of discourse high.

RIP Johnny Dizzy Moore, Skatalites original trumpeter

http://dcsoundclash.com/

I've asked this question twice elsewhere on ILM but most people here seem to be interested in setting up polls rather than actually talking about music so maybe I'll get an answer here: is the new Mavado album any good?

It's good if you like lots of Mavado.

what's it called? i liked his last one a lot

last night is just an ep isn't it?

It is called Gangster For Life.

Is it worth spending £10 on or not? It's really a very simple question.

that came out a year ago, and alex answered your question didn't he? if you like mavado it's worth getting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHn9JME42Mw

lil wayne tries ragga

No in fact he didn't answer my question. I do not know his previous work, have only recently heard (of) him and like the couple of tracks I have thus far heard. Hence I wanted to know whether the full album was worth investing in or not since I haven't heard enough of his work to judge whether I like him as an artist or not. That was the reason for my question.

Next time I'll try and ask other people offline who aren't afflicted by chronic Asperger's. Sorry to have bothered you.

I wasn't trying to be snide. I would try listening to more Mavado before buying it then. He's a bit of one trick pony so over the course of a whole CD, his autotuned hardman schtick can get a little wearying for most people. But if you really like his schtick then you'll like the album, because it def. stays really true to that schtick.

Since I use $$$s it's not worth $18 (our exchange rate) IMO, but I don't quite get UK pricing so £10 may be a deal there.

I do not know his previous work

which you didn't mention. his lyrics usually have some seething anger which you'll no doubt relate to

Is it Mavado or Movado? I've seen it spelled as both :S

I believe it was O and then it changed to A.

drunk chick being drunk in front of lee perry while some local bros back him up:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/dw641/videos/164/

^^soulseeka riddim. i like.

this too.

Wayneandwax has had some interesting stuff about dancehall, tight jeans, and voguing...Who woulda guessed what could become stylish there (and its manly damnit)

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/53/1039853.jpg

1 PEOPLE SO EVIL
2 JAIL
3 TIC TOC
4 WINE PON DI EDGE
5 FAST, FAST, FAST, FAST
6 HEY GIRL
7 REAL JAMAICAN FEAT. MYKAL ROZE
8 UNKNOWN NUMBER
9 THESE ARE THE DAYS
10 HUSTLE HARD
11 MY WORLD
12 STRAPPINGS
13 COOL BABY
14 KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR
15 MURDERER FEAT. ALBOROSIE

new greensleeves/vp reissues

nitty gritty 'turbo charged', half pint 'greetings', tenor saw meets nitty gritty, and

http://www.greensleeves.net/images/prod/grewcd101_ma.jpg

^title track is a jam.

also like the jammy's collection, there are FOUR volumes of george phang power house compilations. only have the first two so far. this cover is sweet

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61yRGw3BLRL._SS500_.jpg

sick track but the video is o_O

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this is such anti music....why does the guy transform into a fish? not necessary

Wow at that Elephant Man video...

WPFW's Tony Carr seems to have let his Caribbean Connection website die. That was how I kept track of lotsa DC & Bawlmer events. I haven't listened to his radio show in awhile. I wonder if he's still on Thursday nights?

http://www.dccaribbeanconnection.com/Caribbean/Events.htm

this one is pretty good for local md/dc stuff http://www.reggaerunnins.com/

the calendar, that is. rest of the site prob. hasn't been updated since '04

Tony Carr finally updated--with a new site
http://www.dccaribbeanconnection.com/NewSite/Events.asp

10/17/2008
Event:
CD RELEASE PARTy at the Crossroads
VP Records Recording Artist
"Gyptian"
featuring his new cd
"I Can Feel Your Pain"
Plus Sprang International
Super Slice - Peter Humphry & The Oasis Band
The Aki Experience

10-31-Halloween with Glen Washington and Mighty Diamonds at Zanzibar

Did Pitchfork ever get someone to take over Stelfox's reggae/dancehall column?

Thu: 08-28-08
The Month In: Reggae / Dancehall
The Month In by Dave Stelfox
Well, it's been a long run here at Pitchfork for both myself and "The Month in... Reggae/Dancehall" column. Unfortunately, though, it's my sad duty to announce that this installment marks my final contribution to the site. In early October, I'll be leaving my home for the past 12 years and heading off to sunnier shores to take a job on a newspaper in the Middle East

Tony Carr's now on WPFW Sunday night/Monday mornings at midnight (till 2 ?)

r.i.p. stelfox

man that dccaribbeanconnection site is almost impossible to read without selecting/highlighting all the text

I don't think anyone is replacing Stelfox.

they'll be linking off to this thread from now on so get posting

this is out tuesday

http://www.vpreggae.com/images/catalog_images/GREL317.jpg

1 CRUCIAL TIME - SIZZLA
2 MI CAAN SLEEP - ROMAIN VIRGO
3 NOTHING TO SMILE ABOUT - MORGAN HERITAGE
4 WRAP UP A DRAW - RICHIE SPICE
5 TROD OUT - LUCIANO
6 LOVE CRAZY - JAMELODY
7 GIMME LOVE - COLLIE BUDDZ
8 FOREVER - JAH CURE
9 NO TIME TO LINGER - TERRY LINEN
10 TOO LATE - QUEEN IFRICA & JUNIOR KELLY
11 PUT JAH FIRST - IRIE LOVE
12 AUGUST TOWN - DUANE STEPHENSON
13 RASTA MAN CHANT - SIZZLA
14 ENTER THE KINGDOM OF ZION - ANTHONY B FEAT. HORACE ANDY
15 NEED TO TELL YOU THIS - ZIGGI
16 RUN DEM WHEY - MORGAN HERITAGE & BUSY SIGNAL
17 LION PAW - TARRUS RILEY
18 I CAN FEEL YOUR PAIN - GYPTIAN

i guess vp is keeping greensleeves alive despite buying them out? they've got another 12" rulers comp in the line, linval thompson

Elephant Man at the Crossroads tonight and Mighty Diamonds at Zanzibar on Friday and I can't make either show. Oh well. I wonder if Etana who is at the Crossroads Saturday night is any good. I read that she's a former dancehaller now into Rasta roots stuff but I'm drawing a blank right now on whether I have ever heard her.

ok i laughed at ras-trent

yeah the first minute is kinda funny

not into etana, what i've heard sounded like straight r'n'b

Just watched the other one. Liked how Nitty Gritty started with "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" and finished with "Betcha By Golly Wow"

Another Obama song. Steel Pulse this time. Not so great

Byron Lee RIP

Recommend me some Byron Lee & the Dragonaires SOCA

bump. Tony Carr on WPFW used to love playing and talking about Byron Lee.

admittedly someone i knew more by name than by hearing his music, mostly that he was sent early on to the world's fair in ny to represent jamaican music

and r.i.p.

Soca and dancehall tonight in DC

Destra and Mr. Vegas and more at Ibiza

http://www.trinijunglejuice.com/tjjevents/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2240

Erin Macleod took over the Pitchfork reggae/dancehall column. She's Toronto based. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/147641-column-the-year-in-reggae-dancehall"> http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/147641-column-the-year-in-reggae-dancehall

part of her column-

The Pitchfork Year in Reggae/Dancehall Top 15
Cocoa Tea: "Barack Obama" [Warring Lion]
Busy Signal: "Tic Toc" [VP]
Duane Stephenson: "August Town" [Cannon/VP]
Morgan Heritage: "Nothing to Smile Bout" [No Doubt]
Tarrus Riley: "Far Away" [Don Corleon]
Mavado: "I'm On the Rock" [Baby G]
Demarco: "Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten" [John John]
Elephant Man: "Gully Creepa" [Seanizzle]
Mykal Rose: "Shoot Out" [John John]
Erup: "Click My Finger" [Truckback]
Queen Ifrica: "Keep it to Yourself" [Don Corleon]
Bugle: "What I'm Gonna Do" [Daseca]
Vybz Cartel: "Trailer Load of Money" [Chimney]
Elephant Man: "Nuh Linga" [Board House]
Baby Cham: "Hope" [Madhouse]

She used post here too as cybele, I believe.

if so she's perfect for that column

I don't know if she still has it, but I recall reading her blog and being impressed. I think she also did a presentation (w/ Stelfox maybe?) at the EMP Pop Studies conference in Seattle.

Beenie Man at the X-Roads Saturday night

http://soundslikefun.blogspot.com/

Yep that's it. Non-dancehall-wise, now she's the second person I've read rave about that new Amadou & Marium cd

did you see this? jamaican restaurant/club in langley park shut down over crime
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/26/AR2008112604243.html

Yes I did. At the risk of sounding cliched (or like an elementary school teacher i had ages ago) it sucks that some knuckleheads have to ruin things for everyone. Years and years ago, there was a shot fired out in the hallway of the old 930 Club when they had a reggae dancehall show, and they stopped doing dancehall events. The Crossroads has had problems for dancehall shows on and off. A dc club for teenagers on F Street (I just forgot the name) that had hiphop and go-go recently got shut down because of some young troublemakers. And go-go clubs have had trouble on and off for decades. It's a complicated political, social, educational, economic, etc. issues and merely shutting down clubs won't stop all the problems.

I always wanted to go there. Oh well.

http://www.unitedreggae.com/userfiles/image/maral/triston-palma.jpg

So do DC area dancehall clubs just need to have better security and metal detectors and stuff to keep the knuckleheads (and NY Giants football players) away? I don't think the Crossroads has had trouble lately. Lots of events are going on all the time and seem to run smoothly I guess (I don't sit around reading police reports so maybe ignorance is bliss).

from a b-more perspective the clubs that don't tend to have incidents will have several bouncers frisking and maybe an off-duty cop or two outside. i can think of one club in particular that has had several shootings outside it, some fatal, that never gets shut down, supposedly due to ties to city hall. it's on a block that is slowly gentrifying so i'm sure quite a few of their neighbors would like to see it go. i almost wonder if clubs go lax on security on purpose in order to draw people that, understandably so, don't feel like getting patted down every time they go out for a night. but then that leaves it open for a violent element

Jamaica police: Gangs oust 200 people from homes

By HOWARD CAMPBELL – 6 hours ago

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Heavily armed gangs wrestling for control of two communities near Jamaica's capital have forced more than 200 people from their homes, police said Wednesday.

Families packed mattresses, refrigerators and other belongings into trucks and cars as they fled this week, forming a funeral-like procession out of their neighborhoods. Local school attendance has plummeted from about 600 to 200 students, said Natalie Neita-Headley, a parliament member who represents the area.

Gang takeovers are fairly common in impoverished communities across Jamaica. In recent years, the groups have ousted residents from east Kingston as well as from rural parishes.

Police said they are looking for the leaders of the One Order and Clansman gangs, known mostly for extortion. The gangs have threatened residents and accused them of being police informers, police Supt. Assan Thompson said.

But Monsignor Richard Albert, chairman of a local crime-prevention committee, said the gang leaders have denied threatening anyone.

Albert instead blamed the takeovers on "rogue elements who want to throw people out of their homes so they can put in their own and collect rent."

The most recently targeted communities are located near Spanish Town — about 14 miles (23 kilometers) west of Kingston — where gangs have been fighting for control for nearly 10 years.

Several days ago, a separate gang burned down a tenement in Kingston and left more than 40 people homeless. Most of the victims had lived there for almost 60 years.

http://www.caribbeanworldnews.com/middle_top_news_detail.php?mid=1884

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE4BP3J520081226

KINGSTON (Reuters) - The dancer and choreographer who created the popular dance used by Jamaica sprinter Usain Bolt to celebrate his victories at the Beijing Olympics was shot to death at a Kingston nightclub on Friday, police said.

David Alexander Smith, who was known in entertainment circles as "Ice," was shot in the head and chest during an argument with two men who took his keys and fled in his car, police said.

Police said they did not know the motive for the shooting.

Smith created the "Gully Creeper" that Bolt danced each time he won a race at the Olympics last August.

Bolt set world records in the 100 meters and 200 meters and was a member of the Jamaican quartet that won gold in the 4-by-100 metre relay.

Jamaica has one of the world's highest per capita murder rates. More than 1,500 people have been murdered in the Caribbean island this year.

(Reporting by Horace Helps, editing by Jim Loney)

Maybe I should have given him his own thread

weird. i think i posted this awhile back

Did you start a 2009 thread?

Cuz I can't find it.

i don't know if i can be bothered. more than half this thread is me posting to myself.

I understand

Sorry my ability to follow this stuff kind of got exhausted the last two years. I still love it in small doses, but going out of my way to listen to the radio, download new riddims, follow what actually makes it to the comps has kind of come to an end.

i was never an expert but i love listening to new stuff when you dudes point it out

don't let me stop anyone, i just probably wouldn't post to it much. i thought about doing a rolling reggae reissue thread cuz i follow that more than current dancehall at this point

could probably just get a mod to change the 2008 to 2009 here since the thread is so short

but i'm banned from the mod request board so...

Speaking of reggae reissues the newest Soul Jazz comp on 90s NYC dancehall looks awesome.

link?

En francais!

http://www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/100%25-Dynamite!-NYC-Meets-Rap-In-New-York-City

huh kinda reminds me of this: http://www.discogs.com/release/1065936

Very similar (albeit pitched a touch earlier on some stuff.)

Where is Shinehead today? I used to love his stuff.

He's still around.

http://www.myspace.com/originalshinehead

i'm really feeling the federation presents tnt mixtape - timberlee is so great, can't get enough of 'heels'

love this

curmudgeon do you know anything about this place? supposedly they have a dancehall night
http://www.almazrestaurant.com

theres this too

http://www.18thstreetlounge.com/images/2009/wednesdays.jpg

Almaz is one of the many Ethiopian restaurants on or near U street. A dancehall night that used to be at Duke's moved to Almaz and features
http://www.myspace.com/spydathedj on Thursdays. They have also had hiphop djs on some nights. It sounds good but I haven't been there yet.

18th St. Lounge is the place that's owned by the Thievery Corporation dudes. Sometimes they have a doorman and don't let groups of guys in, or they turn 'em away, other nights anybody can get in. I haven't been there in ages. Helene Cooper of the NY Times recently mentioned it in a NY Times Inaugural piece--Enter through the door next to the Mattress Discounters — there's no sign outside — take the stairs and voila! A multilevel row house, with room after room of velvet couches and fireplaces, awaits you. There's a back deck for spring and summer after-work cocktails, and the crowd is a mix of Yes We Can activists and Middle Eastern and European World Bank types. http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/travel/18hours.html?scp=1&sq=helene%20cooper%2018th%20St.%20lounge&st=cse

I wanna go to the once a month reggae oldies Soundclash event in Mt. Pleasant sometime even though it's in a tiny little place (and I wish they'd put flyers out at Simba and elsewhere in the burbs and notify Tony Carr who does that carribbean connection website and dj'd for years on WPFW (maybe still does on Sunday nights/Monday mornings)--http://www.dcsoundclash.com/gigs.html

Spyda's from Barbados I see and seems to dj both soca and dancehall nights-

Feb 5 2009 10:00P
Dancehall Thursdays @ Almaz 1212 U Street w/ Majestic - Nemesis (No Cover Charge) WASHINGTON
Feb 6 2009 9:00P
Caribbean 1st Fridays "Represent" @ Zanzibar WASHINGTON
Feb 15 2009 5:00P
Soca Sundays @ 1212 U Street 20001
Feb 20 2009 10:00P
Push Your Bumper @ Zanzi Bar w/ DJs: Majestic - Shiloh WASHINGTON
Feb 21 2009 11:00P
African Caribbean Link-UP @ 10841 Lanham Severn Rd GLENN DALE

that soundclash thing looks good. serani will be at crossroads i think in a couple weeks. now that i have transportation i want to start hitting up things in dc

this place is a 5 min walk from me

http://www.caribbean-paradise.com/Feb2009.jpg

kind of a hole-in-the-wall restaurant when you peek in from outside but i guess there is another space, possibly upstairs where they have a sound system. the one night i walked by there seemed to be a bunch of young ethiopian dudes hanging around (or african at least, i wasn't hearing any west indies accents)

Cool.

Junior Marvin's at the Santa Fe Cafe (Univ. of Maryland college kids bar) on Wed. Feb. 4th

gangsta nuh bleach

Aidonia - Grab Har Nuh (cobba cobba Riddim)

http://www.bashmentlinkup.com/events.html

DC Reggae Awards Friday night at Nativity hall, After party Saturday night

King Dubby Tribute (20 years after his murder) at the Marx Cafe at the same time as the awards show

tubby?

Oops. Yes, of course. Ha. Well he is known for dub.

thats tonight then, hmmm

Just ordered this from Ernie B's. Very excited to hear all these tracks in sequence (or sort of sequence.)

that could be good. i really don't have much on pressure sounds, need to start hunting those down

whats the deal with this

http://www.vpreggae.com/images/catalog_images/VP4143.jpg

"deluxe edition" on vinyl ???

ragga ragga ragga 2009 is 2 discs!?

http://cdon.se/media-dynamic/images/product/00/04/07/74/77/3/64b6f364-9173-4f96-9178-5e9a011d99e2.jpg

Disc: 1
1. Vybz Kartel - Million By Morning
2. Aidonia - 100 Stab
3. Ding Dong - Gallis
4. Fresh Prince feat. Ricky Blaze - How Mi Look
5. Beenie Man - Gimme Gimme
6. Mavado - Real Killer
7. Busy Signal - All About My Money
8. T.O.K - Gimme The Punnany
9. Assassin - Dem Nuh Want No Gal
10. Bounty Killer - Corrupt
11. RDX - Bend Over
12. Voicemail - Sweep
13. Black Ryno - These Stingers
14. Vybz Kartel - Life Sweet
15. Wada And Andrew Blood - La La La

Disc: 2
1. Ninjaman & Ninja Ford - The Return Father And Son
2. Bennie Man - World Bance
3. Merciless -} Mavis
4. Bounty Killer, Nitty Kutchie & Angel Doolas - You Got Me Waiting
5. Sean Paul - Infiltrate
6. Red Rat - Bizzi Blaze
7. Ward 21 - Judgment Day
8. Bounty Killer & Wayne Marshall - Smoke Clears
9. Shabba Ranks - Give Dem Di Shabba
10. Wayne Marshall & Vybz Kartel - New Millennium
11. Richie Feeling - Dancing Class pt. 2
12. Voicemail & buglw ]} Weh Di Time
13. Tony Matterhorn - Dutty Wine
14. Shaggy - Rubba Dub Wi Want
15. Busy Signal - Wine Pin Di Edge

the 2nd is a "15 years of ragga ragga ragga" deal

ok that makes sense

i think the tracklist for disc 1 is wrong

01 vybz kartel - life sweet 02:52
02 black crucial - real stingers 02:44
03 laden - time to shine 03:46
04 busy signal - money tree 03:11
05 mavado - nuh bleach wid cream 02:50
06 aidonia - flying dagger aka 100 stab 03:25
07 rdx - bend over 04:07
08 bragga dat - dagga dat 03:47
09 ricky blaze & fresh prince - how me look 03:28
10 tok - gimme little (if you want me) 03:55
11 beenie man - gimme gimme 03:05
12 assassin - dem nuh want no gal 02:08
13 ding dong - man a gallis 03:46
14 wada & andrew *lo** - la la la 02:45
15 bounty killer - corrupt 03:25

yeah the second is right

Oooh that's a nice collection. I'm getting into dancehall again.

yeah there's been some really great stuff recently - favourites are the federation & tnt mixtape (how great is timberlee!) and the mavado album.

"that could be good. i really don't have much on pressure sounds, need to start hunting those down"

It's great. Their comps are almost universally excellent.

No idea on that Congos thing, but I think Simple Vinyl did the Blood & Fire reissue so I don't know anyone would bother with anything else.

Timberlee is awesome. Mavado is still tough for me to take across a whole album, but in small doses he's amazing (Cecile's album from last year OTOH is all killer, totally recommended.) Ward 21 still killing it after all these years. Best producers since prime Steely & Clevie (guess I could hear a Lenky or a Bennet argument.)

this mix is pretty good

http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/system/files/demolitionsoundmix2.jpg

ce'cile had an album last year?! omg. never knew. must hear.

enjoyed busy signal's last year too...'unknown number' was my jam.

my dancehall reawakening is mostly courtesy of the heatwave blog, i must admit.

It's called Waiting (Digital version is called Worth It though, strangely)--Trina is on the new version of "Hot Like We"!

Heatwave are a lot of help, as is Ghetto Palms on the Faderblog.

hmm is it this? that's on itunes too, also under the name bad gyal, as well as another album with a rejigged track listing called worth it

Worth It/Waiting have some overlap with Bad Gyal (which was originally released in Japan, I think.) Worth It is Waiting w/ two bonus tracks, I think. Bad Gyal seems to be lacking "No Disturb Sign" which is the fucking jam so I would get Worth It.

Here is a link to that tune (courtesy of Heatwave hah!):

http://www.theheatwave.net/blog/cecile-nodisturbsign.mp3

heavenless riddim is one of my faves

kinda hate the song (mostly just tosh) but the video is pretty funny

thats the benny hill riddim btw lol

erup 'drop down'

assassin 'same ting again'

de la ghetto and mavado 'come out and see'

capleton 'liberation time'

mojo morgan ft. peter tosh 'herbsman anthem'

vybz kartel 'mamma'

jah vinci 'money'

who is this flippa mafia guy? i'm liking what i've heard so far

'dem yah' from last year

this is from this year

Police question Ninja Man

The police are to continue to question dancehall artiste Ninja Man who has been arrested in connection with a murder case.

Ninja Man, whose real name is Desmond Ballentine, turned himself in to the police yesterday afternoon in the presence of his lawyer.

On Thursday the police said they wanted to talk with Ninja Man in connection with the murder of 20 year old Ricardo ‘Ricky Trooper’ Johnson.

Johnson was killed last week Tuesday.

The police say Johnson was sweeping his yard in the company of a friend in the community of Marl Road, Kingston when a grey motorcar drove up with three men aboard.

The men got out of the car and engaged in an argument with Johnson’s friend before leaving.

The men later returned, this time opening fire as they approached.

Johnson was hit and was pronounced dead at the Kingston Public Hospital.

different ricky trooper, not the one from killamanjaro sound

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hey what's the riddim that serani's "play no games" (?) is over— i've heard like 4 diff songs w/ it on the radio this week

unfinished business riddim

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1. David’s Psalm
2. Every Situation
3. On The Rock
4. So Blessed
5. So Special
6. Life Of A G
7. Welcome To The Armagedeon
8. Gangster Don’t Play
9. Real Killer (No Chorus)
10. Chiney K
11. Jailhouse
12. Don’t Worry
13. Money Changer
14. Money
15. In Di Car Back
16. Which Gal?
17. Overcome

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SUNDAY, MAY 3RD @ THE CROSSROADS:

KIPRICH, SPICE, KONSHENS @ LADEN

PERFORMING LIVE!!!

I'm late to the game on he and Laden

I did not go to any of the old-timer reggae gigs this just-concluded weekend--no Barrington Levy at Zanzibar; No Beres Hammond at Wolf Trap; and no Yellowman and Tinga Stewart and was it Leroy Sibbles at Anne Arundel Fairgrounds.

Meanwhile, since dancehall no longer crosses over onto the r'n'b/rap charts it gets no attention outside of hardcore dancehall circles.

Pitchfork seems to have scrapped their dancehall/reggae column. Erin McLeod wrote a few columns but none that I've seen recently.

It's that tree falling in the forest thing, if records get made in Jamaica and no American bloggers or chatboard people comment on them do they exist and are they any good?

Amon, R/T/C, Alex in San Francisco, hello, helloooooo, is anybody there....

I'm guessing btw that there are folks out there at other locations still writing about Jamaican music, but there's definately less crossover action going on

I have the thread bookmarked, and try to listen a 1xtra dancehall show a week, but I can't really add anything to conversation.

i keep vaguely up via the heatwave, mostly

http://www.mediafire.com/?dgj4izwoytt

^^^baby cham - recession. it's pretty much becoming my favourite single of the decade.

That is nice--I like its blend of dancehall, roots reggae and a bit of r'n'b. Not my fave of the decade, but it is impressive.

Yeah, maybe I was going a bit overboard with that but I have been listening to it on repeat all summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZ9y97uRFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqnFmPG03Hg

timberlee's new one on the phantom riddim is hot too, check her myspace

Did a quick W. City Paper blog about Tarrus Riley coming to the Crossroads outside DC Sunday night, and then came across a big NY Times article on him as he's got a new cd coming out. Anyone else beside me like his rootsy, r'n'b inflected reggae ballad and pop style? Wimpy, I know.

Rob Kenner, who once had a reggae n dancehall column in Vibe penned this NY Times piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/arts/music/23kenn.html

is it just me cuz i haven't really followed this stuff in the past year or two or is reggae gold 2009 kind of especially awesome?

eh buddies?

Steely of Steely and Cleevy RIP

http://www.dancehall.mobi/2009/09/01/wycliffe-steely-johnson-has-died/

Diwali poll thread has made me realize that "Yuh Love" is probably my favorite dancehall ballad since "No Letting Go".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Xzht9VNFE

yah song is dope

been listening to a lot more dancehall lately. anyone have any new fav mixes or comps they want to sharrre

general pype from nigeria??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2CabT7Owj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PARPhU-8pk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d-pWJ1ZHG4

if you want a perfect way to spend some time, listen to gabriel heatwave plough through his best of 2009. fantastic. http://www.mixpakrecords.com/blog/2009/12/the-heatwave-bashment-review-2009/#more-1038

looks good.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/dec/21/japanese-dancehall

Japanese dancehall

Maybe the ILX mods should just add the word "onward" into the subject line: 2008-2009 onward Dancehall/reggae

There are not enough posts here to justify a 2010 only thread --unless someone who knows alot and is willing to 'talk to themselves' with posts comes onboard

I gotta listen to that Heatwave thing. So King Midas Sound versus Jamaican dancehall and reggae, any thoughts? Listening to both makes sense to me, but many seem to have just chosen King Midas.

I'm struggling with the King Midas Sound album, which to my ears sounds like cast-offs from a Massive Attack album. Although, it may be that I am approaching it with an expectation that it was recasting reggae/dub/spectral dub a la Rhythm & Sound.

And I LOVE Rhythm & Sound so much that in comparison, King Midas Sound sounds too skeletal and lacks warmth. I'm presevering for a few more listens

http://thequietus.com/articles/03828-this-month-in-dancehall-by-neil-kulkarni

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i...don't think i'll click on that. i am really, really feeling these tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtNjrM6EHgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wftEz_wNCoo

i clicked on it :(

the first thing i saw was a porn reference, scrolled down a bit and there was all sorts of stuff about shit and wetness and being horny and UGH why does kulkarni always have to be so gross and scatological in his writing? I DO NOT WANT TO THINK ABOUT YOUR BODILY FUNCTIONS.

Er1n (aka Cybeleagain)from Canada who did a dancehall column or 2 for Pitchfork, and a few posts upthread, is posting here now

http://soundclash.wordpress.com/

was gonna read that kulkarni article but it does take a long time to get to the point. ive already forgotten its about dancehall. actually maybe it isnt.

not a huge fan of this kind of indulgent writing but some good points. i think im at the dancehall part now.

but how he blames US R&B and rap for being all identikit chrome blobbery and not dancehall is odd. they both suffer from many of the same problems imo. i fucking hate movados emo autotunery.

Haile Selassie is so awesome looking.

that article is tl;dr but why write/complain about autotune now??

its a good read actually. might check out some of the tips.

Already had tickets for Gilberto Gil saturday night, so no-go for me for the more recently announced and barely publicized Mavado gig in a sketchy DC neighborhood Saturday night

doesn't look that bad on google maps, sort of industrial area

http://www.greensleeves.net/artistimages/gre2062_900x250blog.jpg

1. War is in the Air by Mavado
2. Neva Scared by Vybz Kartel
3. Jullie's Introduction
4. Dem A Try Bait Me Up by Twin of Twins
5. Which Dudus by Twin of Twins
6. How We Ride by Erup
7. Stinking Rich by Gappy Ranks
8. My Money (Ha Ha) by Merital Family
9. Go Go Club by Vybz Kartel
10. Rodney's Sermon by Bounty Killer
11. Social Responsibility by Bounty Killer
12. Gal Ova Gun by Mavado
13. Hold Yuh (Hold You) by Gyptian
14. Love Dem by Vybz Kartel
15. She Beat Him by Mavado
16. Conroversy Sells by Gappy Ranks
17. Cyaaa Friend Again by Di Genius
18. Lose A Friend by I Octane

x-post. Yea, you could be right. There's a Facebook page for that Club 24 show I think. I think that place has gone through multiple names and used to be a dc go-go joint.

can't make it unfortunately

7. Stinking Rich by Gappy Ranks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GyLmIdv64

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If he is that rich .... he should get his teeth checked out!

man last year's Tarrus Riley album Contagious is so, so good. Heavy heavy repeat value.