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

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just think it's a great use of the rhythm - and it's funny, i don't actually like tok on the red alert that much - for pop chops i'd head to mr vegas and irishman

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 30 April 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

and for anarchopop you really should check out that destra soca track i mentioned above, it's nuts

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 30 April 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

nah, it'd take me all day. where's a good soca shop anyway?

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 30 April 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

there's one inside a container on ridley road market

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 30 April 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

but i really know shit about it - just buy comps etc and as i've given in re downloading during this hopefully brief financially challenged period, i've decided i can justify it better if it's stuff that i really wouldn't know where to get. quite fun actually, i've learnt a shitload about yiddish folk music and highlife!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 30 April 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

hm after 16% downloaded i think i'll stick with boogie pimps for my anarchopop! ow my head. but see what u think of this lil crumb

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 30 April 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

can't do it fassy - is it a windows file? i'm a macster, so maybe why. btw i have got to the bottom of the tekk buddy 2 conumndrum. it's not even called that. it's called buddy no dun and it's on the aollo yallow rhythm, which makes me think it was made for bounty initially, possibly a warlord thing. ele's great on it for the 1st time in ages.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Saturday, 1 May 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

ah yeah its a wma soz. right right i did hear a bounty on that, 'man a killa'? i think vybz's is still the best on it, defo his best one since waaaay back last year altho there was the fantastic 'the fantasy' on takeover the other week. ele is exempt from hate for now thanks to 'bun up' radio edit on mad instr, the only one on that riddim i can about stand actually!

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

"fantastic 'the fantasy'" sheeesh revoke my keyboard pls

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

Tim, do you have a good dancehall or soca sorce in Australia or do you get everything on the internet?

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

no hate for ele in these quarters anyway, more a vague feeling of disappointment, these days. still, he's holding about a 20/80 blistering/dull ratio as far as i can see and the 20 per cent that's good is as good as ever. yeah, there's a shitload on that yallow rhythm, so i've found after a bit of searching and bounty's is fucking great, hence the name. where did you check it, fassy? internet or out in the real world? may have to make a call to dub vendor as it does appear to exist on the internet, but 1) i'd rather buy some stuff 2) i can't dl any even to check it out due to shitey mac p2p applications.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

ugh i just cant keep up anymore

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

there's a tear in my beer and it's for riddims, dear

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

Is the Grand Ole Opry doing minstrel bits again?

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 1 May 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

jess, i've just done 2 audio cds chock full of stuff, red alert, french vanilla, marmalade, dreamweaver, time, travel, mad instruments, hindu storm, perilous, chrome and i'll send you them, too if it'll stop you crying - sure we can work out a trade.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

alternatively i'll just do a full traclist and post it, then you can hunt them down yrself

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

here it is. needless to say, i wholeheartedly endorse all the below!

The Great Bashment Giveaway #1

Tunda Klap
Tekk - Vybz Kartel
Combining - Kid Kurupt
It's On Tonight - Ce'Cile
Dreamweaver
Visa - Vybz Kartel
Propaganda - Bling Dawg
Girls Alone - Assassin
Hindu Storm
I Always Think About You - Sizzla
Bless & Protect - Spragga Benz
Fashion - Vybz Kartel
Perilous
She’s My Baby - Capleton
Indian Gal - Elephant Man & Busta Rhymes
New Year New Fuck – Ce’Cile
Red Alert
Only Takes Love - Sizzla
Never Leave You Lonely - Mr Vegas feat. Irish Man
Don’t Trespass - Lady Saw
Mad Sick - Predator
Coolie Dance
Genie Dance - Elephant Man
Give It To Me – Ce’Cile
Unknown Language - T.O.K
Mad Instruments
Ah Wi Gal Dem - Zumjay
Real Badman - Vybz Kartel
Hotta Fire - T.O.K

The Great Bashment Giveaway #2

French Vanilla
Style Ya Want - Tanya Stephens
Do Your Thing – Alozade
Girls Gone Wild - Assassin
Wanted
Mr. Wuk More - Bounty Killer
The Streetz - Spragga Benz
Gal You A Lead - T.O.K
Marmalade
Why - Ward 21
Whole World - Predator
Cut Yuh Speed - Vybz Kartel
Pop It Off - Tanya Stephens
Blackout
Picture Me And You - Vybz Kartel
Gyal Role Call - Bounty Killer
Want Something Strong - Kid Kurrupt
Time Travel
Head Up High - Bling Dawg
Roll In - Assassin
Share My Dreams - Chrissy D
Tundra
Hype - Vybz Kartel
Bad Mind - Round Head
Live Up - Sizzla
Trifecta
Mi Want It - Tanto Metro & Devonte
Breeda - Bounty Killer
Pretty Pussy - Lady Saw
She's A Ho - T.O.K

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

dave: don't suppose you'd do this for a poor, broke slskless aussie 100kms from the nearest semi decent record shop too?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

HAS ANYBODY HEARD PARADISE RIDDIM? It's based around "Gangsta's Paradise". Check out Gailann's "Let You Know" and Ghetto Flex's "Jouvert Paradise"

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

Colin/Mully, there's a good Melbourne store on Johnston St Fitzroy that stocks a lot of international stuff including dancehall but I can't remember it's name right now. Anyway it's right near The Laundry. But they only get CDs and even then only a few months after the fact, and expect to pay typical import prices. I end up getting all my stuff from the internet yeah and then will crack and fork out for albums/comps.

Dave do you still even want that comp I was gonna make for you? You seem to have everything I have and more.

PS. Everyone's got mad love for "Picture Me & You" and yeah it is a great cut but I secretly love Vybz's other version "Real Badman Nevr Afraid" just as much - some really great on-point rhyming over the staccato string section in this one.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

dance music sux

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

thanx tim...i'm about 100kms north of sydney though! there's Unsound but those one rhythm discs are like $46!!!!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah I feel you, there's no way I can justify buying rhythm albums at the prices you're expected to pay over here.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

and theyre so repetitive. why would anyone wanna hear the same words and beats for like 5 min. pointless

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

bad day CAss?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

no...bad few days.

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

you can use the sheepfuxors thread to whinge if you like. leave these poor folk alone ;-)

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

why would i go there? i can 'whinge' where i want you can go somewhere else and be bitchy and stupid though

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

i was actually trying to be nice. whatever.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

well if that what you call being nice then i feel sorry for you.

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

CAss, Mullygrubber was being perfectly reasonable. Barging in to a thread and dismissing its contents is one thing, but this thread isn't even about dance music (dancehall is kinda like a Jamaican fusion of reggae and rap).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

oh ok. i didnt know that. but thats crap also .

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

So strange that someone who professes to be into punk would dismiss other music as being overly repetitive.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

not really cause punk is not at all repetitive. NOT AT ALL ACTUALLY WHAT THE HEL ARE YOU SAYING.

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

I declare you a complete fiction.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

i meant repetitive as in repeating the same line throughout the whole song. obvioulsy you dont know much about punk music. cuz its not at all repetitive.

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

Oh you meant the special kind of repetitive. Not the same themes, same words, same chords, same beat, same bassline repeated over and over. Not that kind at all.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

blue moon? Something like that. They also stock bhangra/reggateon CDs...

If you're interested in buying dancehall vinyl, I can put you on to the guy I go through who imports a couple of hundred 7's every fortnight and is friendly and reasonably priced....

― OCP (OCP), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha please don't - I'm poor enough as it is and must avoid any and all temptations!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i found a reggaeton cd at work the other day! i'm a bit scared to buy it though. it seems a bit...shady.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahha, Jess, is it Reggaeton Jamz?

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

And Tim, don't wanna tempt you further, but there are usually good Greensleeves deals on Ebay ( http://search.ebay.com.au/ws/search/GetResult?button=Search&ht=1&saavailabletocountry=15&satitle=Greensleeves&sbrexp=WD2S&sosortproperty=1&ssPageName=WD2S )

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

What do I have to do to get a copy of that hella awesome lookin' mix up thurr? I can be a really cool e-friend.

― djdee2005, Monday, 3 May 2004 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't know if anyone else has already mentioned it, but Thriller Riddim is more great Tunda Klap-ish business.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave was so right about the Trample riddim btw

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link

and has anyone heard this Nina Sky track "Move Ya Body Gal", apparently Lumidee part 2 on Coolie Dance?

― OCP (OCP), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link

(oh, this was meant to come before my last message. Posting issues, whatever.)

is it just me or is dancehall in a bit of a slump right now? Aside from Chrome and Blackout I can't think of any riddim in the last six months that lives up to any of the best stuff from the last year or so (Egyptian, Diwali, Coolie Dance, Fiesta.... almost anything mentioned upthread)... maybe some of the newer stuff is just taking a while to grow on me, but I've not come across any voicings of...anything, really, that have the kind of immediate appeal of Egyptian Dance (or Get With It Girls, Sweet To The Belly, I Will Love The Girls....), Get Busy (or almost ANYTHING on Diwali! the Wayne Marshall, TOK, etc. etc.) or Feel Alright (etc. etc.)

― ocp (OCP), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

(oh, and I guess Trifecta should get an honourable mention as a good recent-ish riddim, but even then it's pretty old....)

― OCP (OCP), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Heh, if that's true it'd be great cuz I'd get a chance to try and catch up.

― djdee2005, Monday, 3 May 2004 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i think you're more or less completely wrong, ocp.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 3 May 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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