Rolling 2006 Dancehall Thread

http://wayneandwax.blogspot.com/

Eighty Five Riddim (Dave Kelly) excellent, as usual, Cham tune on this one
Wicked 2 Nite Riddim (Big Yard) Blacker & Macka Diamond seems to be the "hit" on this one
Old Truck Riddim (Steely & Clevie) more "old school" goodness
A bunch of retro-riddims (Baddis, Mudd Up, Bam Bam) abound too.

http://home.earthlink.net/~southrakkascrew/

That Buju track is fantastic, Paul!

1. U Nuh Have A Phone (Hello Moto)
2. Tight Pussy Gal Dem
3. Guns Like These
4. So Me A Say
5. Bad Man Party 2
6. Vybsy Versa Love featuring Barrington Levy
7. Car Man
8. Go Fi Dem
9. Late Night featuring Wayne Marshall
10. Smuggler
11. Gun Session
12. Higher Altitude featuring Don Corleon, Baby G & Bounty Killer
13. Dutty Landlord
14. Realest Thing
15. I Neva
16. Little Miss
17. Emergency
18. Need U Girl featuring Wayne Marshall
19. Say Hello
20. Rough Sex featuring Delicious

Tracks 5, 16 and 20 aren't on the leak I have, but everything else is on here AFAICT.

If its all as good as Moto, Vybsy Versa Love and Realest Thing it'll be unbeatable.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

FIRE SUNDAYS
The City Night Club
250 W. 26th

*** PERFORMING LIVE ***

Dancehall Artist BABY CHAM
"This a Survival Story, True Ghetto Story . . . ."

&

Cultural Artist RICHIE SPICE
"The Streets is Getting Hot, and The Youths Dem A Get So Cold . . . ."

Wayne Wonder, Demo Delgado & Shouky Roo - Dust Dem Slowly
Shabba - Holla Fi Buddy
Lady Saw - Can't Tie Me Down
Buju - Love You Like I Do
Anthony Cruz - Foolish
Shabba ft. Danni - Lively Up Yourself
Capleton - Cold Hearted / Military Man - If A Love Wi a Deal Wid
Cecile - More Than One Time
Jazzwad - Baghdad
Sizzla - Talk About
Cecile - Hot Like We
Junior Kelly - Exile

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i'm gonna post my damian marley and warrior king interviews soon enough. you can check the baby cham while you wait.

Hah what a weird comment!

What is that song about? All I'm seeing is results in German.

"Brooklyn, are you sleee-py?" Over and over again during Friday's concert in Prospect Park, the dancehall reggae pioneer Barrington Levy asked this singsong question. His voice is so sweet that the question almost sounded like the beginning of a lullaby. In fact, it was the opposite of one: the answer was always a resounding no.

The almost-free concert (fans were asked to pay $3) was part of Celebrate Brooklyn, an annual summer series known for drawing diverse acts and mellow crowds to the park. Too mellow, sometimes: it's hard to get riled up about anything when you're enjoying a breezy night under the trees and stars. But Mr. Levy, who has been a reggae star since 1979, plainly loves applause, and knows a thing or two about how to keep it coming.

Mr. Levy was among the first stars of dancehall reggae. The style, which has dominated Jamaican music since the 1980's, is built on heavy bass-and-drum-driven tracks; singers adapted by using more words and fewer notes. In "Shine Eye Gal," one of Mr. Levy's first hits, he complained about a fickle girlfriend by listing her many desires: "You want uptown, you want downtown/You want fancy car, you want superstar." Then he begged, "Tell me wha' you really wa-ah-ah-ah-ant."

That last, distended word is crucial: Mr. Levy is now known for a specific sort of melisma: he'll draw out a word or a sound by hopping a few intervals down the scale. Accordingly, the most famous word in his oeuvre is the sublime "whoa-oa-oh," from his hit "Here I Come." The second most famous? "Skiddly-waddily-iddily-diddily-diddily" (or something), from the same song. He resurrected both when he collaborated with Shyne on the 2000 hip-hop hit "Bad Boyz." And he pleased fans, serious and casual, by doing all of it — a short "Bad Boyz," a long "Here I Come," nonstop "whoa" and "skiddily" — during Friday's cheerful show.

Mr. Levy's career began as reggae stars were figuring out whether to be good guys or (to use the Jamaican term) bad men. He chose righteousness, but a lot of his best songs flirt with wickedness. "Murderer," which began Friday's set, might seem like a simple antiviolence song. But when he sings, "Dem a murrr-de-rah," what you really notice is how cool that last word sounds. (Needless to say, this lesson wasn't lost on many of his tough-talking successors.)

These days, this former upstart (he was born in 1964, and began recording as a teenager) is a respected veteran. And a man who did as much as anyone to make roots reggae sound old-fashioned now tells his audience, "You got to take it right back to the roots."

Some of his more pious newer songs lacked the spry charm of his mischievous old ones. And the middle of his set definitely sagged. (Part of the problem might have been that it was long enough to have a middle: dancehall reggae often sounds best in bursts.) But he kept waking up the nonsleepy crowd by returning to the classic dancehall songs that made his reputation. And before the encore, the crowd rewarded him with a spirited chant of: "We want more! We want more!" For at least one man in the park — one ma-ah-an — this was probably the highlight of the night.

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"Dem a murrr-de-rah"

u could listen to goldfinger right now! ... oh dear, he's playing seani b's new 'charming' riddim wot samples adam ant.

http://junjolawesdiscog.blogspot.com/

"Junjo Lawes Discography

Covering the span of reggae producer Henry "Junjo" Lawes output during his active period in Jamaican music."

Intercom Reloaded (new Maximum Sound--Bounty Killer & Lukie D is very nice)
Inspector (the "big hits" on this seem weak--another "Ghetto Story" recut, subpar Sizzla to my ears--but the Lady Saw voicing is nice, Ele is also supposed to be good, I think)
Foundation aka Gully aka Tropical Storm (new Don Corleon, Buju is very good--as seems usual for him)
Breaking News (only heard Delly Ranx "Murderer")

1. Ghetto Story
2. Tic Toc
3. Rude Boy Pledge
4. Bring It On
5. Don't Test Me
6. Wah Dem A Say Now?
7. Fat Punnany
8. Bad Boys
9. Boom Boom
10. Talk To Me
11. Vitamin S
12. Love It Like That
13. Girl
14. Cham
15. Ghetto Story Chapter 2 feat Alicia Keys
16. Ghetto Story Chapter 3
17. Bad Mind

Undisputed is pretty good. Strengths are the more Jamaican tracks -- "Hmmm Hmmm" and "Come Again" on the Sweat riddim.

I'm not as into the American productions -- Scott Storch on "Dutty Wine Gal" and that crossover jam "Girls" with Akon.

don't like much these days though, it has to be said.

matterhorn & ward 21 on gully slime (miback miback miback mibloodclaatback reeeeeeeh)

assassin & pinchers on stage show

matterhorn on bad belly (weird! "now this is just my day in the moon / you thought that i was dreamin / i passed this old lady in her bathroom screamin /'the king is still alive!'/ i'm not the one who said it / well matterhorn just give them flows / shown to the edit / [echoing] my day on the moon ... the king is still alive! thought that i was dreamiiin... that-that i was dreamiiiin" wanky!)

bug out riddim, but it's only sleepy dog 2k6, and no killer versions besides the future troubles one that gets old quick

energy 2k6 (or maybe it's called the jasper?), but it's only global riddim part 2, even though thats easily the best riddim this year still. haha and no voicings exist yet, cool

smoke riddim, i guess (sounds like everything else around but the production is a touch above)

lucky coin riddim, i guess (quite... windtunnely!)

lenky's i-charm one, kinda good, kinda like um 'digeridoo' by aphex?!?, kinda never wanna hear it again

i'm really starting to resent corleone everywhere as well. SORRY! man it's just all one long military-dubstep complex at the moment. or is that just me? or am i asking the wrong clientele?

n e way keep it rolling. as u were

I already don't like you, but I'd love to know what you're talking about.

dry, drab, technical/formalist, masculine, instrumental or militant, serious, linear - pinched, meagre, referencing futurism (e.g. techstep)

vs

splashy, vibrant, technicolour, feminine, handbag, exotic/bizarro, non-sequitor - fabuloso, being the future (e.g. two-step)

The title track "My Princess Gone" is really good! I haven't heard the rest of it though.

(x-post)

;_;

broadly speaking, most of the riddims about are more or less wholly predictable chips off the tribal/militaristic/marching bandy block, with i dunno, portentous synth stabs, corleone-brand staccato filigree on top, and so on. step forward riddims sweat/foundation/inspector/driff/angrier management/octane/galore/dutty landlord/12 gauge/smash (which is quite cheerful, granted)/full draw/cashley/really it would have been 100x quicker to list the ones that arent patterned thus.

i'm sure we said all this in 2005 as well, but then there was an actual military riddim, the success of which ppl were entitled to try replicate. now it's just endemic.

96% of the rest are of course throwback riddims, which can have their merits but generally just add to the overall grimness - throwback giggy/bogle resurrection has probly been the only non warlike retro revival, and it was class! paul's (positively martianesque)rundown probably has the "referencing the future/not being the future" aspect down right, i'd say; when i invoke dubstep it's not to say things sound like digital mystics or whatever, (dem time deh riddim tho?) but that they currently fall into that frame of fandom. i do do that a lot.

the disappointing new kano/vybz/corleone thing gets a special mention: _____________________

anyway confounded, if u disagree, bring it.

I like most of the new breed of "militaristic" riddims (and yeah Dem Time Deh is almost dubstep-y or at least what I wish dubstep was like most of the time) more than the boring ass military snare riddims from last year, but I suspect I am the "wrong clientele" anyway ;). At the same time the most enjoyable riddims of this year have definitely been the ones that have avoided these tropes (the Dave Kelly and the Frenchie stuff comes immediately to mind.)

Naw, I think there's a lot I could learn from you... I just don't need you throwing your weight around:

maybe try taking a break from reposting dull articles and find "da traxxx" for yrself?

I do appreciate the response.

1. Marlon Asher - Ganja Farmer
2. Perfect - Nuh Badda Mi
3. Chuck Fender - Gash Dem
4. Mr. Vegas - Do You Know
5. Gyptian - Sensi
6. Fantan Mojah, Jah Cure - Nuh Build Great Man
7. Bitty McClean - The Real Thing
8. Alaine - Heavenly
9. Richie Spice - Open The Door
10. Alborosie - Herbalist
11. Bescenta, Warrior King - Holy Words
12. Gyptian - Beautiful Lady
13. Jah Cure - What Will It Take
14. Fantan Mojah, Mr. Flash - No Mercy
15. Anthony B - How Do You Feel
16. Sizzla - One Love
17. Ras Shiloh - This Generation
18. Bounty Killer - Gangster Love
19. Lutan Fyah - Equal Share
20. Natural Black - Never Quit
21. Chuck Fender - Freedom Of Speech
22. Chezidek - Inna Di Road
23. Gyptian, Dwayne - Rude Boy Shufflin
24. Bescenta - Special Night
25. Fantan Mojah - Jah Time
26. Richie Spice - Brown Skin
27. Alaine - Jah Jah Cry
28. Jah Mason - Couple Chalice A Day
29. Sizzla - Chant Dem Down
30. Ras Shiloh - Rastaman Up In The Hills
31. Natural Black - Life Be The Same Way
32. Lukie D, Gentleman - Safe & Secure
33. Bescenta - Don't Be A Fool
34. Gyptian - Rise And Live
35. Norrisman, Lutan Fyah - After All
36. Anthony Cruz - Halfway Tree
37. Natural Black - Nice It Nice
38. Courtney John - When You Say
39. Sizzla - Show A Little Love
40. Lutan Fyah - Pahntom War

I've only heard 7 or 8 tracks on this, but it looks great. Greensleeves seems to get the bigger names on this than it does on it's ragga collections these days.