in Notting Hill!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
do many ppl on ilx go?? i never see talk abt it
― just sayin, Friday, 24 August 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
i am going to be at the Good Times Bus tomorrow and along the parade route on Monday
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Nasty love for me
― just sayin, Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
i just came back from both days at carnival and i'm like whoa
feel pummeled, essentially, but in a good way
norman jay was sick, crowd generally well behaved both days and some of the floats were outrageous. a few of them only had like 5 morose-looking guys nursing beers trailing behind, which was a little sad.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 August 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
this could be a minute shorter, but I think it's the first thing I've heard from Masicka that suggested he has some range (haven't been paying strict attention tbf):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l79ZapGvhec&feature=related
― rob, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
^nice
cool production here from russian, that no diggity humming is endlessly catchy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH6YjyNjG9c
― chilli, Saturday, 1 September 2012 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
^my favorite Vybz track this year
― rob, Saturday, 1 September 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite Vybz tune this year is "Lip Gloss" but "Dynamite" is great.
― Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
XD XD XD
is there a Fall Jams thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GRFlBCHLHQ&feature=related
― rob, Saturday, 22 September 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
new video (which is terrible tbh but I like the song) from the soon to be free Busy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSRStNqbR8w&feature=BFa&list=UUu7Zk8EDuzM35hbS_Km7C-g
― rob, Friday, 28 September 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
Cham over these stripped bare Dave Kelly-ish riddims have been such a highlight this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJdbr7-8Io&feature=related
― rob, Friday, 28 September 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
any other Oregonians read this thread? LargeUp posted this video the other day that was filmed here (somewhere in central OR from the landscape):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxLJhWO8wM&feature=player_embedded
― rob, Saturday, 6 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
another great Russian production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIHtx3qQfKw
― rob, Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
This thread is such a browser killer, I think I'm going to stop embeds from here on out. If you haven't yet heard Lady Saw's "HEELS ON" go to youtube or spotify or whatever and do so immediately.
― rob, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
As someone who loves updates on here and listens to every youtube i say NOOOOOOOOOO
just use bookmarks man
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 29 October 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
Can’t argue with that.
After being super quiet for a lot of the year, Mavado has suddenly put out two great tunes back to back. Not surprisingly these are both Di Genius productions.
Touch Down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un5AfeA3g4k
That's the clean version^, which I think I prefer. Here's the raw: http://youtu.be/zqi1itkhJc4.
Disrespect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB80acz0JPM
― rob, Monday, 29 October 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
this is rather nice isn't it?
I-Octane & Bounty Killer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGUVQXtZfgk
― rob, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
and another excellent combination (Gappy Ranks & Busy). riddim really evolves on this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RL4zgCeos
― rob, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not always sold on Masicka's skills, but he manages to find himself on some of the more interesting productions out there, like this from Equiknoxx. The only downside is that they are frequently about a minute too long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE6S2F7B6lU
― rob, Monday, 19 November 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
Tifa and Spice's "Why Yuh Mad" might be the best thing I've heard all year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdMEBSVj_0s
I want to check out other voicings on this riddim (Dog Bite), but I can't stop playing this.
― rob, Thursday, 29 November 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
Konshens put out so much stuff this year I started overlooking his tunes at some point and probably missed some good tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLn78Xk_iag
"like a Burger King combo"
― rob, Saturday, 15 December 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
more Konshens tunes tunes tunes tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Nrc4JDBQQ
― rob, Saturday, 15 December 2012 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.afropop.org/wp/6432/running-down-the-year-part-1/
Someone named Sax*n Baird at afropop worldwide lists some of his fave caribbean tunes for 2012:
Machel Montano – Go Down (Loudspeaker Riddim)
Popcaan – “When Mi Party” (Summer Wave Riddim
Vybz Kartel – ” R U Ready” Ft Stylysh (Buss Up Riddim)
Tnght Riddim – The Heatwave Refix Featuring Mr. Lexx & Nikisha
he also likes Montreal dj Poirier – Soca Road EP
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 December 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
thanks curmudgeon--please post more lists if you find them. I haven't seen any yet. Last year I made a few friends a playlist of my favorite dancehall from the year, so I'll probably post that list here soon and nominate a bunch of it to the ILM poll. Would love to see anyone who reads this thread's lists too--top 5 or whatever.
That Montano track has shown up on at least one other list I saw. My girly taste means I like Natalie Storm ("Rock the Runway") on Loudspeaker and Gaza Slim ("Independent Ladies" raved about a bit upthread) on Summer Wave more.
― rob, Saturday, 15 December 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
"Kartel may be in jail awaiting trial, but that hasn’t stopped him from dropping a few singles."
lol
― rob, Saturday, 15 December 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
love this thread, rob (and indeed others who post regularly) - gave me one of my top five? top three? songs of the year - Psycho by Tommy Lee, also Vybz Kartel Lip Gloss, very highly placed in my year-end tunes.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
interesting to hear your love for Psycho! Tommy Lee really should have come up more itt--he seems like basically the biggest thing to happen in JA music this year, for better or worse. While horrorcore dancehall isn't a thing I would have thought I would enjoy, I have come to like Pyscho too, though after hitting a run of his tracks where he seemed to be trying to expand his repertoire unsuccessfully, I stopped paying attention. Until the other night when I checked out "Shook" and "Uncle Demon" which are both pretty great and in the same vein as "Psycho." Also, dude gets credit for making some genuinely disturbing videos (as well as inspiring the video for "Why Yuh Mad").
― rob, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
Well I'm a sucker for supernatural vengeance, which, added to that incredible delivery, made it a song totally impossible to resist for me. 'Sparta send some cyanide and 'bout two drum a gunpowder' is a line that's been in my head loads this year - 'unhinged' was the word I think you used - good word for it. Will check out those other two. Haven't really been keeping up with... anything really, so was good to go through a load of recs on this thread this eve.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I love that "cyanide" line too: a weirdly refreshing change of pace from gunman lyrics.
There's probably a really good essay to write about how Lee's use of Jamaican/Caribbean folklore about the undead (duppies, Haitian zombies, demons, etc). If nothing else, the youtube comments for his videos are always interesting--I have no special knowledge of JA culture, but Lee does seem to be pressing some buttons in genuinely shocking ways, not unlike Vybz Kartel's skin-bleaching but easier to stomach from a US perspective.
― rob, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
And he's got a new one out. Surprised to find myself really into the second half. Swerves from horrorcore to goth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip3IQ6cbduM
― rob, Friday, 21 December 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
cheers rob. yeah i was thinking about Psycho - there's something about that attenuated bo diddley beat and the claustrophobia of a community populated with ghosts and duppy and zombies and general fear that makes it very atmospheric. didn't really realise Jamaican horrorcore was a thing - is there anyone else aside from Tommy Lee doing it? Oh yeah, it's just got to the second half in that vid - that's great! Like you say, it makes a change from gun stuff - and with the supernatural so close it feels a bit more vulnerable, man diddling about with powers that will kill him for temporary gang supremacy/survival - like another favourite line from Psycho 'Mmm, duppy worst thing you can see, dem send duppy for me'.
And yes, continuation of the whole duppy/supernatural strand in reggae is interesting.
― Fizzles, Friday, 21 December 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
LargeUp's Top 10 tracks of the year (their album list is awful):1. Konshens -- "Gal a Bubble"2. Mavado -- "Cyaa Hold Me Again"3/4. Cham -- "Tun Up"/"Lawless" 5. Popcaan -- "The System"6. Potential Kidd -- "Yah Suh Nice"7. RDX -- "Jump"8. Konshens -- "So Mi Tan"9. Tommy Lee -- "Psycho"10. Bounty Killer & Cecile -- "Ride"
Honorable mentions: Mr. Vegas -- "Bruk It Down" and "Party Tun Up"Busy Signal -- “Kingston Town,” “Come Shock Out” and “Artiste”
http://largeup.okayplayer.com/2012/12/21/toppa-top-10-the-best-dancehall-singles-of-2012/
Great list, though definitely too male-dominated--I have 3 Tifa songs alone on my 2012 favorites playlist. I hadn't caught that Mavado/Di Genius tune (came out last December apparently), and I've been ignoring Busy's new roots album but that Kingston Town song is niiice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHCDW60cIM
― rob, Sunday, 23 December 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
I checked out "Shook" and "Uncle Demon" which are both pretty great and in the same vein as "Psycho."
ha, those are actually the same song. I think I meant "Goat Head" though it's << "Uncle Demon/Shook" and "Psycho"
didn't really realise Jamaican horrorcore was a thing - is there anyone else aside from Tommy Lee doing it?
I'm not aware of anyone mining the same territory as Tommy Lee. After listening to a bunch of his stuff over the past couple of days because of your posts, I'm hoping he's got good management that can steer him well. I almost never like hearing him on a riddim that has lots of other versions--he really benefits from tracks that are as chilly and warped as his lyrics. It could be comparable to the way Cham has made such a big impact this year by sticking to a very particular style of riddim, or, as more of a cautionary tale, how Mavado pretty much only sounded good working with Di Genius.
― rob, Sunday, 23 December 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
Buss a Blank also worth your time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qaml2SbnPI
― rob, Sunday, 23 December 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
new thread, all welcome: rolling dancehall & reggae 2013
― rob, Friday, 4 January 2013 02:42 (eleven years ago) link