Tag: Jamaican music
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Grove – Feed My Desire
I heard Grove being interviewed on 6Music and loved it. I heard Feed My Desire and immediately had to check their stuff out that second, Lamacq described it they are punk dancehall, they are proudly black and queer and Bristol represent… basically why did no-one tell me of them? It’s totally up my street. Their…
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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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Reggae in the Deep / Fuck You (and your Ska too)
https://vimeo.com/39624498 I know a few people who will go crazy for this reggaie remix of Rolling in the Deep and the ska one below…Adele goes old skool reggae/ska flava! Wish she’d done this version at the Grammys (heard a clip of that, what the Americans made of her crazy Essex-girl babbling, I don’t know –…
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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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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,…