rolling dancehall & reggae 2023

In honour of ILM EOY-ing the lon-don-don-don, let's take stock for another year. We can start with the man in question, putting the rolling in rolling dancehall, tripping his way toward graceland, a genuinely unexpected tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fCyO3wEqig

Skeng - Elvis Presley

damn, that is good!

great welcome to this thread

“Elvis” is one of my top 5 jams of the year so far. there must be more where this came from. any other hot recent dancehall tracks anyone’s heard?

Well, nothing really sounds like Elvis, sad to say, and the genre is still pretty stuck in the diminishing returns rut of the traphall sound IMO. But it's not all dire. I'm mostly keeping an ear out for stuff pointing in new directions.

This morning I was checking out the promising artist Bree Bree, really like her matter-of-fact style and she picks excellent riddims

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBMQi9DDTtc

Eva Bless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUd6hEtUMlI

Money Move

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

Life Style w/ Valiant & Pablo YG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3hErgq2kk

Rich

this one too, she sounds so good on these dancey drill productions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOM1OWEGJTw

Problem

I also like the spacey riddim on these, though neither voicing fully satisfies

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

Roze Don - White Rum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRt6wTaEhg

Ding Dong - Bup Bup Bup

I actually meant to post this bouncy Rytikal tune a few weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnzFa8l2zo0

The King Is Back

thanx so much for these!

very happy to get acquainted with Bree Bree. those first two especially, “Eva Bless!” and “Money Move”, are a joy.

Sad I missed an old-school reggae night near DC this past Friday with Nadine Sutherland and an opening talk with Ms Pat Chin

if this year's posts have been too lighthearted for you, don't worry, there's plenty of pitch black evil shit too (various content warnings on these vids)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6Hz14A25I

Chronic Law - Slip Dem Slide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6Hz14A25I

Intence - Chip (see also "Mugger")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_K5P783pqw

Teebone & Roze Don - Upstairs (v cool Countree Hype riddim)

oops, here's the Chronic Law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyXSCMB4Vs

wild drums on that

ok I'm coming around on Valiant for sure, this is on the same riddim as White Rum and Bup Bup Bup upthread, but does actually satisfy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0diqJOZR39c

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