Tag: Caribbean music
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Rastatroll Battyboy Sound System
I don’t know who Rastatroll Battyboy Sound System are, but I LOVE YOU. Very funny, very rude, very NSFW, making a queer dub reggay cutup dancehall mashups. Years ago I downloaded some dancehall acapellas with the idea of taking the piss out of them, I could never get anything that worked, but glad someone else…
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Me got me Oystah Card…
LOVE. Mark Professor, production by WrongTom (he’s doing reggae now? Got one of his first LP in my collection) waxing lyrical about public transport! And on David Rodigan’s show too – soon to be released on new Reggae/Dancehall label RongoRock. WANT!
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RIP Smiley Culture
Sad to hear about the death during a police raid of Smiley Culture – ironically best known for his 1984 reggae/proto ragga hit ‘Police Officer’ with Saxon Soundsystem about the ‘sus’ stop and search laws – shame that unlike the funny end of the song this police intervention had a far sadder ending. 🙁 And…
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What happens if Bollywood goes Carribean?
No not a mashup or remix – a new (well 19th century?) form of music – Chutney! Embarassing name, but basically the music made by Indo-Carribean people in places such as Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana working as indentured servants (British Empire!) in the 19th Century mixing Soca beats with with traditional Hindi or Bhojpuri…
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One, two, three, count! The Count Rides Again – Mashed and Slashed Halloween EP!
Those of you that remember Bride of Monster Mash and the County Sound track DJNoNo did, well The Count Rides Again, and this time he’s moved to Jamaica and is Count MC wid some dancehall riddim in ‘Batty Dub’ (with Ftatateeta and the Bats). Mashed and Slashed EP includes spooktastic tracks from Scott Cairo, LeeDM101,…
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It’s all about the Soca (and that sample)
Listen and watch and dream about the sun and summer…although this song isn’t a bittersweet symphony it’s a tonic as the rain washes down the windows 🙁 Anyone know where to start with Soca, Afrobeat, modern (non phobic) dancehall 80’s onward, modern reggae and dub (if there is such a thing)? I never know where…