rolling dancehall & reggae 2011

this new buju banton track is quite something

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

two songs, one video from keida - both excellent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpRXF5b4dig

lady chann on some early 90s rave shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35eqWuPKa8g

pretend it's summer with assassin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1KXnEn6FjI

and not on youtube, but some ferocious soca from natalie storm: http://hulkshare.com/l1rdx51axfvh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQP6h3gxeWY

not exactly clarkes is it

x-post. Amon, I see that Anthony B is gonna be at some H St NE place in DC I 've never heard of on Sat. Feb. 12th.

love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bEOCmuhJc

Someone played me some heavy dubplate type stuff by someone called king earthquake. Been trying to get more stuff that sounds like it but coming up straws. Don't really know anything about new dub/soundsystem (not dubstep) but would like to

Lady chann track tore my face off!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCfuTbQwZhc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is the only viable king earthquake vid I can find right now. Something mental happens around 1.35

Longtime dub producer and dj Mad Professor is still at it. He's in Oxford, Uk tonight

http://www.ariwa.com/

more Lady Chann:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzzgrUtY52E&feature=player_embedded

^^hoo boy, lady chann goes in on that

def need to track down some more stuff by her.

OMG this site: http://www.jamaicansmusic.com/downloads/new-riddims.html

I'm listening to the new Hollie Cook album. Really nice - lover's rock-style reggae updated. It's fun!

Getting into the Problem riddim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQR4RgZwYI4&feature=fvst

You can download an mp3 from The Heatwave here.

o_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L5rx26-zhI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2oo-QBpj2w&feature=player_detailpage#t=31s

This has been stuck in my head since I heard it. Not so keen on 'Benz Punany' or 'Colouring Book'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD0jVS6DeWs

thankyou, thankyou, yuh interest flatter me

Nice! <3 Ce'Cile so much, I've been hoping for a good single from her this year. Have you heard anything else from her in 2011 that you like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDVnMTi3sQc

^^ this. really diggin' 'pree mi'.

nice. Also like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvll3GaeAI

i have a few hipsterish friends who normally dont touch pop/r&b who have been all over this

no 1 DING DING DING warning bell in my book - as a litmus test it's never wrong

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:13 (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

must have been so terrible 4 u being strongarmed into gushing reviews of solange/amerie/cecile/etc over the years, i had no idea

― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:47 (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cecile?!

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:49 (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

which is to say, cecile is a nice lady with some nice songs but she sure do have a weird disproportionate cult around her and a lot of the time it is pretty unfair to her peers

if any of you really believe hers is the best version on any of those riddims then i call bullshit on your souls

i mean you guys act like she's chico or something

glad ur all listening though, kiu!

kinda odd to see this is ur 1st post in this thread, r|t|c (then again, maybe not). any recomendations?

'tump', 'jump inna d benz', 'swag team' and 'heroin needle' from your 2011 traxx list are great, obv.

"pree mi" is the best versh of the blaze fia riddim i've heard! out of uh two but i'm not a completist about checking for every version out

i don't really see any particular cult around her more than any other dancehall artist who's managed to build a high enough profile and stuck around to maintain it (would say dilettantes would check more for lady saw, busy signal etc these days?)

...not a big fan of cecile, btw. maybe i gave that impression, dunno. i liked 'pree mi' but that doesn't mean i'd prefer it over other versions of 'blaze fia' (only riddim i listened, tbh). 'bedroom war', 'talk 2 mi uh' or 'do what i said'.

busy yes, la saw.... ennhh if it's even there it's different, based more on her throwback reputation i'd say. if patra wasnt in the slammer and still recorded she'd probably be getting the same, whatever she put out.

(i must stress there's nothing wrong with liking any of cecile's stuff, just...)

busy spends the majority of his time courting dilettantes as well so even that's not quite the cecile thing as i see it

i mean aren't we all kinda guilty of it to an extent - i'm not gonna auto-cosign anything ce'cile puts out and nor am i just gonna limit myself to her, but she does go to the top of the pile when it comes to checking stuff out, because yeah i've loved her style and her persona over the years

I suppose I am guilty of being disproportionally into ce'cile, but I don't feel that bad about it. What do you all think of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AYhQoy3YXU

rtc, from your 2011 tracks list, "tok ft sleepy hallowtips - heroin needle" is IMMENSE. also liking TOK's "No Sah" on the Wildlife riddim.

ah no (sah) that tok is on the swag team riddim, which it appears i havent given the sufficient time of day since discovering it was unrelated to busy's own 'swag team' song

'no sah' is pretty good actually! tok invariably disappoint these days but doing their best cypress hill impression suited them magnificently and totally unexpectedly on 'heroin needle'

moreso with that song i must admit a sense of peace washed over me at finally being able to mention a worthwhile song involving SLEEPY HALLOWTIPS whose amazing name i have delighted in since like 2008

back when i imagine he thought that pun would live everlastingly

if you'd like to talk about the actual wildlife riddim however then all i will say it is FUCKING INCREDIBLE!!!! i agonized for ages over which version was the best but finally decided that really this is that one riddim where the whole thing must be listened to in sequence to fully appreciate its glory. (also: it's the assassin cut.)

as u can see you'll always get more out of me appealing to my bloodsportiveness than my sense of pedagoguery

bring it

of course you're right about my Wildlife confusion--I got various youtubes scrambled. Assassin's "Badda" would also be my pick out of the few I tried, though Mavado's AK47 was good too (though now I'm listening to the Elephant Man, which is also ace, as was the Bramma...er).

back when i imagine he thought that pun would live everlastingly

lol, I don't think I even registered that as a pun until you said that--it's kind of beautiful.

yeah you could even well argue mavado's is the least impressive, until the riddim ends and it of course turns out there's only one man's hook you're still singing.

busy fantastically nimble once again - possibly my level favourite alongside assassin's pure mayhem just for the way he captures the riddim's gypsyish leaning. what more is there left to say about di genius? just remarkable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD51xtOM0bM

also did you catch this one as well? deliciously ridiculous side salad to 'badda'.

haha, that intro is marvelous. you have to wonder is it really wise to bombastically sing "they cyaan murder me" like that? the gods are likely to hear something as over the top as that. Going to have to wait until I get home from work to really appreciate this riddim.

I think Gyptian takes this pretty handily, but I quite liked this riddim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHdoqW7ywM

y'all have probably heard this already, but this new shabba diss track is p. good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpOdVN6-TmA

sometimes i forget how much pinchers became an acquired taste :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-EYg2eyasU

speaking of which ('enemies' and 'rat ta ta' are all time favs), are there any recent richard kelly riddims?

havent heard anything of his since the southland tales riddim

was a bit overproduced iirc

haha

i posted this in a vybz kartel thread yesterday but d-___-b

http://www.youtube.com/v/0a8eEtb3Cec&feature=share&fs=1&hl=en

oh nm, just a (pleasantly inane) official vid for toi 'youll be mine' on summer scheme riddim

ah, thought it might be that. Top tune IMO, not obviously amazing at first but I've gone back to it continually.

yeah i'd rather forgotten all about it til now but it's sounding great. same goes for that jordanna patrice of yours too.

think my ragga taste is girling out a bit lately tbh.

tho tbf it's not the like the menfolk have really been up to snuff lately either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUziZW0XX3E

liking this newish one from my girl denyque, sounding a bit brandy on the chorus if i'm not mistaken. full riddim's not out yet but the busy signal on it has got potential too.

toi - you'll be mine

lol at the verbal fakeout @1:48. "i know you want to fu-"

the song's great though for real, best i've heard on the riddim

new Chino/Di Genius is nice. really like those pizzicato strings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIP2zL9Ekys

ooh, that Toi song is great

"Hustler" is so crisp.

yes! I'm wondering if I've done myself a disservice in ignoring r|t|c's advocacy for the album upthread...anyone else check that out? r|t|c, did it stick with you?

This is the kind of thing I wanted from the Vybz album. Snap Back Riddim is brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=VPUQ7U7OfPQ

CRAZY AIDONIA:

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=K3FcyVYPQz8&feature=related

yeah, love the snapback riddim... Popcaan is my favorite one on that. Also feeling these:

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=8GX7Mxjae8M
http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=qiJ0flQaZiw
http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=F560nAu0xco

chino's album is full of genre dabblings and positive pop reggae conscious jams (black eyed peas, wyclef were mentioned in the allmusic review, though perhaps a little too broadly) and as such will always be too herby to win many hipster kisses. i do often come back to it though for its sunny undemanding vibes and generally v high quality craftsmanship; it's exactly the album it set out to be, and its self assurance is perpetually charming. if 'hustler' were on it it wouldnt have struck me as a particularly outstanding highlight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyMHbJwKj0A

if it's any indication this wot i found and liked today wouldnt be out of place at all on the chino album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJRJBxlD7S4

know how i know none of you checked the album btw? umpteen times i mentioned this song by-the-by (once invoking funkystepz iirc?) and still no one's bugged out over it

konshens - from 12 to 12 (12 to 12)
propa fade ft muschino - no trust (nymphomaniac)
leftside ft syon - hold me tight

these are alrite

okay, the ott guitar shredding on Never Change is still a bit of a stumbling block for me, but "undemanding sunny vibes" is a good way of putting it, and I'm quite liking the laidback Protected now

actually the run from Protected - Pon Your Head - I Am is excellent, and Yeah Yeah isn't bad either, just not as great as I Am. I'm starting to think maybe you undersold this, lol @ me

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

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

yknow when something doesnt really scan no matter how many times you hear it and then suddenly WOOSH THIS IS A TUNE. yeah

think i just needed a sunny day

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

mavado's 'settle down' is still so awesome. ilm why u sleep on gully god summer jams?

xp yeah that's the best vybz in ages imo... had it down on the 11 fave songs thread but forgot to post here.

yeah 'settle down' is great

it have di itsy

di real itsy ditsy

that dexta daps tune i showed brainwasher a while ago is sounding massive too lately

rolling dancehall & reggae 2011

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Vybz-Kartel-charged-with-murder_9839858

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111004/lead/lead1.html

^^ O_O . can't say i'm that surprised, tho.

A new one for the Aidonia appreciation society:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Kisi7QYhc&feature=related

this song definitely took on a new context for me in light of the allegations, but i guess you can't say nobody saw it coming

loving the sunrise riddim recently:
bencil - gallis a di year

gully song has a good song on that riddim too in his usual "tortured thug at death's door" theme

*gully god obv

Ward 21-produced new Natalie Storm (& Deewun): http://largeup.okayplayer.com/2011/10/19/largeup-world-premiere-natalie-storm-gimme-60-f-deewun/

v cool! unsurprisingly!

kinda amazing-ish thing about ward 21 these days is that even though they're possibly the most well known dancehall production auteurs (for ppl of a certain age perhaps), and receive more than their fair share of media lip service in comparison to everyone else, the true extent of their awesomeness is STILL pretty much underexamined. a proper compilation of them would have to be high up in my fantasy record label daydreams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0d9GgBQr1s

ward 21 would however have to wait its turn behind my mad cobra c&w album project! (he barely ever does them (or anything much these days sadly) but when he does he is truly to the prairie born.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0e8IIBvlls

also ilx while you're here, do i like this cos it's legit rad or am i just slouching further into self parody? honestly, without anyone to hate on these past few days i don't even know who i am anymore.

I did a top 5 of recent shizz while ILX was down but now I can't remember?

1 and 2 were Denyque "When We Touch" and Snakey "You" tho.

this song definitely took on a new context for me in light of the allegations, but i guess you can't say nobody saw it coming

― chilli, Saturday, 15 October 2011 05:44 (5 days ago) Bookmark

personally i found 'cake soap' especially became a lot more entertaining

oh i'm glad someone likes that denyque, thought i was just getting even more air for that one.

It's okay r|t|c "Burning Up" actually is brilliant.

As is "Gimme 60" duh. Ward 21 have a real knack for making really arresting riddims out of relatively simple components.

Snakey's "You" is the second tune on this Skype Riddim mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntRhkP5hx10

Also worth hanging out for G Star's "Dugu Dugu" later on.

i had "secret in the closet" playing in two different windows without realising and it sounded SO FUCKING AMAZING. everything was being echoed and i was loving it. slightly disappointed now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5njUlr43k
aidonia has so much energy on this one

Alaine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osdrby8pF4c&feature=related

riddim is maybe a touch too busy, but I like her vocals on the chorus

Missed this great Macka Diamond song when it came out back in June:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0XAU1fvPn8

Curious what you all make of this Ward 21 track: http://soundcloud.com/kunley21/hello-again-ward-21

I meant to follow up on the Ward 21 talk upthread--have they done anything this year that tops Make Up Sex? I was listening to the 2003 RRR the other day, and their "Petrol" is a highlight. In the absence of rtc's wished-for comp, would any of you take a stab at a POX?

Is there going to be a 2012 version of this thread? I know it's the dead of winter but scrolling through here over the past week or two has given me two or three of my tracks of 2011.

Rolling Dancehall & Reggae 2012