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

WHUT? NOT DANCEHALL?

now I realize the confusion on the whole Aguilera thread, as when I mentioned dancehall music, I was referring to music that gets played in dance halls or aka clubs...unaware that a genre of the same name (dancehall) already existed.

From a riddimatic perspective, I think the biggest problem at the moment is that two many of the tunes are slotting into that vague patch between Egyptian and 20 Cent - Tunda Klap, Marmalade, French Vanilla, Thriller etc. these are all really good riddims but their interconnectness takes away something of the out-of-leftfield bizarroness of last year where stuff like Wanted, Mudslide, Coolie Dance, Fiesta, Ching Chong etc. would suddenly appear and take things in a different direction; certainly it was the radical inconsistency (in a positive sense) of dancehall which distinguished it from the other forward thinking groove scenes (crunk, grime). Whereas now I think the scene has almost settled into a post-Don Corleon quasi-Eastern consensus. What makes Chrome and Blackout so memorable is the way they deviate from that, the former with its rusty pipe shoddiness and the latter with those glorious Partytime-style staccato hits.

Like Dave I don't think this is indicative of a falling off though: a huge chunk of the big '01/early '02 tunes fall into a similar patch between Liquid and Martial Arts. Perhaps it was just that late '02 and '03 was a period where the scene was unusually fragmented in terms of knowing where to go next.

(also, as much as I've always applauded it, the DJ-as-fitness-instructor meme seems a bit limited now, which is I suspect why people are getting annoyed at Elephant Man a bit)

yeah, nice one Tim. Worried riddim is case in point.
(although I've gotta say I like it. TOK's "Miss Hypie Hypie" in particular.)

well, we can live in hope... anyway stop talking about this stuff i need sleep!

Plus soca-fusionism generally constitutes the absurd decadent peak of the dancehall=uptempo party music equation that has increasingly defined its last few years. After that there would *have* to be an elastic snap back in another direction.

you'll also be pleased to know that there afre a few tracks on about three-quarters of the rhythms in that your on limewire, tim

Now if it can only pick up wrt grime I will be a v. happy man.

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=soulseek&plt%5B%5D=macos&jumptoCat=0

you're pretty antagonistic Dave! it is neither here nor there, agreed. Certainly it's nothing new or innovative but the TOK cut is quite charming in its own way.

Why would I do that?

Anyway, thanks for all the info! Consider yrself bookmarked.

I'm on 9.2 and it runs pretty well... rarely crashes (I often leave it running overnight without any problems) but it does have pretty limited features. How I long to be able to browse other people's files!

Plus i agree with OCP that TOK's "Miss Hypie Hypie" is fab - it's like an Eastern version of Wicked riddim, oriental party fun vibes.

I'm enjoying Arribba riddim at the moment - standard tribal backing but what makes it is the mournful spanish trumpet which makes me think of the sun setting on a man on horseback riding down a ravine. Vybz, Ele and Bounty should do a version called "The Three Amigos".