What are people's favourite dancehall rhythms of the year or so...

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yay mine too!

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Salsa - Dreamweaver - Trifecta - Mad Instruments

makes the past 6 months an especially golden sequence for dancehall since many great cuts on each riddim (see all chat above!)

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

my fave Chico is "The Man Is Yours" on Jeremy Harding's Medina riddim from way back in '98

rocks my world: witness the majesty!

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

i wouldnt know, i only got into dancehall this year to fuck stelfox off

(JOKE)

ooh have u seen mad instruments on 7s! i'm waiting on the ele, vrooom

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

prima if you're telling a joke then do the winky emoticon:

;-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 28 February 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

I want the T.O.K. ! word is early March (soon)

― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:32 (twenty years ago) link

more weird new riddims! example - check Spragga Benz on Drama riddim:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tracklistings/silverstar/silverstartracks.shtml

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

I love "Picture You & Me" is great but I might just prefer Ele on the same (awesome!) riddim interpolating "Staying Alive". What's the riddim called?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:07 (twenty years ago) link

Another good straightforward one is Gone Against, again quite 80s sounding with lots of shimmery little plinks and twangs. "Talkers" is the best tune on that but I forget the vocalist, one of the women who does quite a lot.

Yeah, I like Gone Against a lot too. I also wanna grap more Heart Attack rhythm, all I have right now is "Milk & Honey", whcih is great.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago) link

tim - it's the blackout riddim.

― etc, Friday, 5 March 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago) link

btw, I have a friend who wants a comp with only female MCs - any particular tracks I should look out for?

― etc, Friday, 5 March 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago) link

haha yeah that staying alive bit is good. great way to end a riddim alb.

yesterday I got hold of the dremeaweaver riddim. I like nicky b on that as well.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 March 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

where did you get it from, Julio?

― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 5 March 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago) link

oh slsk jeff.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 March 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

revive!

red alert riddim synth slabs is goody, senseless is really nice too (thanks to prima for recommendations).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

ah but who indeed can say if they really were recommendations, maybe i ws picking random tunes to be abstract writerly about

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

oo yeah julio check red rat riddim, if one squints ones ears u can almost pretend it's milford graves doing session work!

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 12 March 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago) link

suely no one would ever accuse you of abstraction.

slsk is not giving up the goods these days. i may actually have to venture into a store or two this weekend in nyc.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 March 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

my favorite new soca riddim i've heard is abduction (i'm ninety-nine percent sure it's 2004). the denise belfon track, with a robot voice announcing the name of the riddim at the start, is the best one, but i'm not sure the name of her track. it has all these overworked drums and what i think of as a real, proper soca beat. and her voice is so deep and strong and she wants a man who can work from sunset until it is dawning.

i really want to hear the snow cone riddim because it has a cool name and soup riddim, for the same reason.

― William Wiggins, Friday, 12 March 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

Anyone heard the Soca 24-7 rhythm? I only have one track (Rusty-"Pull Over") and it's this great half-circus/half-happy hardcore-y thing.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 12 March 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

WW, I have that Denise Belfon track labeled as "Fu Wukaman".

Does anyone know what rhythm Augusta's "Stupidity" is?

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 12 March 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

gone against!

― William Wiggins, Friday, 12 March 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

soca mix down, which has all of the soca riddims mentioned so far, i think.

― William Wiggins, Friday, 12 March 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

dirty south is crazy!

― William Wiggins, Friday, 12 March 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

Bang Bang is really great too.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

god i can still not get my head around most soca

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

Try Busy Tone, it's a little less violently upbeat, more dancehall-y. Luta's "Land of My Birth" is real good.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

(ww = sean g? if so where's a good spot to cop soca, i know of an okay place in shepherds bush but otherwise...)

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

clarity: abstract ego vs limp-id haw haw

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 12 March 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

jess: red alert and senseless are available on slsk, so is drama but not the one with mad cobra on vocals.

I really wanna buy some of this stuff now so I'm prob gonna start rec shopping, just have to make the time.

thanks to ww.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 12 March 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link

"ah but who indeed can say if they really were recommendations, maybe i ws picking random tunes to be abstract writerly about"

Prima I hope you didn't take my comment on yer blog to heart!

+ I thought WW=DK.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 14 March 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

i've been downloading a bit of dancehall, esp lady saw. my fave tune of her - though i don't know when it was released - "is strange feelin"

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 14 March 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

right, i'm not sean g and don't know where to buy soca records in london.

― William Wiggins, Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

oh. but... the email addy?? ok whatev

― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

still digging the Cure riddim with Ce'Cile DJing. pretty good piece on dancehall in Salon this weekend

― ken taylrr, Monday, 15 March 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

*in own wor;d and ignoring rest of thread*
hurrah, found a copy at last. It's magnificent, natch.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

in own *world*, I meant to type...

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

oh if u like cure riddim, do also try hormone riddim sometime

cecile cux tho

― prima fassy (mwah), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

cux or sux?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago) link

cigh.

― prima_fassy (mwah), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

prima cecile is good! d00d!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

ahh fool that i am for glossing over vybz 'send on'! this mustve been the last good tune vybz did... it just aches. like it's this boasy pastorale to weed but vybz is too smart to not know better, just the intro i mean he does this dialogue to himself of all his sly catchphrases etc and you wonder cos he goes on just too long just slightly monotonous. but then it dawns on him, drips down his back and freezes halfway: "i told them i never went to high school (why you do that?) but i went to school high (ok) [deep pause] time...less. [far away now, weak] (you know...)" [BEAT DROPS LIKE IT WALKS IN ON HIM] now u might not know vybz always says "timeless", the cocky fuck, but the way it comes out here is ohhhh! SEND SEND SEND SEND ON, SEND ON AND NEVER HANG ON show me a better song of addiction i dare cos u there isn't one

― prima fassy (mwah), Sunday, 21 March 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago) link

except he's still dropping peerless zingers like "lenky get higher than the martians on mars/ milky way galaxy stars /that's why you only get 8 bars"

― prima fassy (mwah), Sunday, 21 March 2004 02:42 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah I love that tune to death - so emotional!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 21 March 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

sen on is a great track - and it is "sen on", not "send". the original 7 was misprinted, as very often happens. still, it makes sense either way. i also really like tanya stephens on that rhythm - can't remember exactly what the track's called - ready fi me, or something similar?
loving the french vanilla right now, too. greensleeves will be putting the album out and it looks like it'll be pretty strong but for now i only have tanya, ward 21 and alozade.
anyway, i only dropped in here to refer to something cybele (one of the few people here who has anything useful to say about this music) said on this thread and am leaving again.
however i have to add, fassy, that i'm not even using these boards any more and will have no impact on your life whatsoever (unless you buy any of the newspapers i write for), so would you please keep your sarcastic, effete, unpleasant and, i'll say it again, creepy comments about me to yourself.
i don't know what the hell your obsession with me is, but get over it. for the record, i don't have much of one with you. in fact, when you're not right under my nose, i really couldn't care less about you - get it?
*sigh* i just wish this worked the other way round.
anyway, you're still not man enough to say anything to my face, so just shut it, okay?
if you do suddenly find a spine, you can mail me at the address below and we can sort this out. i don't like antipathy and confrontation, even with people i have no respect for. it's a waste of my time, so i'd rather resolve whatever the issue is. again, i don't have one with you if you just pack this shit in.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

For the first time in a while I listened to a good long stretch of Bobby/Jabba/MassiveB on H97 last night. Was anyone listening?

I heard some interesting tracks:

Vybz K riding the updated "I'm Still In Love" riddim.
I think it was Elephant Man on a remix of the Usher track "yeah" (speeded up about 4-5 bpms).
And also a remix of YingYang's "salt shaker", but I couldn't recognize the dj's.

Anyone seen these tracks released anywhere? I was wondering if the reggae scene is becoming more like hip hop with white label "exclusives" (dubplates not withstanding) circulating among dj's, and offered in limited quantitys at certain record stores.

I know the remix for "get low" was official and all, but was just wondering about the others. Who knows, maybe they were just mixing acappella versions over the instrumentals?

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Monday, 22 March 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

check Robbo's Monday show archive of this week for some great post-Mad Instruments Soca-ragga riddims - + rave bass flava in effect!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/1xtra_aod.shtml?dancehall_mon

from Vybz "Call Mi Fi Dweet" onwards

and I swear when I tuned in live I heard a snatch of "this one goes out to the ILM massive" or did I? haven't got back to that point later in the show yet

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

oh, fuck it i'll dive in again. the usher refix is not elephant man, it's baby cham. sadly, to the best of my knowledge, it isn't even being released. i do have it and it's pretty wicked, but it's not sped up, to my ear. the beats are just a lot spikier and compacted - there's more going on in each bar and the great bass drop on the offbeat works brilliantly with lil jon's massive synth walls. i've been playing it non-stop, although baby cham's toasts actually sound quite sluggish and lazy and his presence mainly consists of that daft "wah-waaaah!" phrasing of his. and you're spot-on paul, that show was great. really enjoyable and made being chained to the word processor writing the TOK piece pretty bearable.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

Nina Sky's "Move Your Body" (on Coolie Dance) is great - I never thought that riddim could sound so *eerie* as it does here!

Stelfox I *still* have to finish making you a cd! I officially suxor.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:40 (twenty years ago) link

tim i just got the french vanilla rhythm album, try limewire for a couple of tracks on this rhythm you'll like it

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

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