unmissable selection of ragga from droid on fact site
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matmustard
theta
Top-a-top selection Droid. A mampi-sized undertaking, rather you than me!
Comments (rather than complaints):
I don't know who you'd replace, but a list such as this has to include an independent entry for Bounty Killer doesn't it? I'd also somehow try to squeeze in Merciless' Hollywood name-dropping 'Mavis' - a riddim so big not even Shaggy could ruin it!
Comments (rather than complaints):
I don't know who you'd replace, but a list such as this has to include an independent entry for Bounty Killer doesn't it? I'd also somehow try to squeeze in Merciless' Hollywood name-dropping 'Mavis' - a riddim so big not even Shaggy could ruin it!
shaolinsoul
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On it bredrin!
drew for Ackie - call me rambo just after reading the article. Badman riddim still.
and If there was ever a red-stripe moment..
drew for Ackie - call me rambo just after reading the article. Badman riddim still.
and If there was ever a red-stripe moment..
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droid
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Ye-aahh... kinda OTM about bounty... ysee, i had pretty strict criteria for this - had to be original riddims, not recuts. Most of my favourite tunes from him are all over old riddims (Spy fi die, Not another word, Down in the ghetto etc...) so they didn't fit in, and when it came down to it I was about a month late finishing this with 4 tunes and 2 places to fit in at the last moment, so he just ended up being left out... a quick decision under pressure and probably the wrong one... should really have gone back and edited it. Probably would've put 'dead this time' on the duck dance riddim in there.
And yes Paul - I overlooked stolzoff somehow, just blanked it. i bought it a good while back and lent it to someone... out of sight...
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droid
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Where the hell did that come from!
Are they recordings from the videos? Nasty quality on some of em...I quietly ripped them from the youtube for my own listening purposes! The ones that were uploaded in HD mode would only download in normal scratchy tinny mode for some reason. I kinda like it, as they all end up sounding as if they were recorded from radio onto a rotten old tape from the 90s!
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philblackpool
gamelanstep
Thats a great selection & some informative writing. Some memories there from my nineties...
Agreed with the intro about people outside of the dancehall scene generally loving everything up to the mid-80s dancehall & then not being able to deal with the ragga stuff. I've seen it very clearly progress in an extremely predictable manner...in the mid-nineties, people didn't even get dancehall, it was all rootsy dub from the seventies or nothing at all. I got some awful funny looks (actually, more pitying looks, really!) being white in Leeds & asking to listen to ragga stuff in shops. Give it five years or less & the music press will be all over early nineties ragga...Bagga Jedd box sets, the lot
Agreed with the intro about people outside of the dancehall scene generally loving everything up to the mid-80s dancehall & then not being able to deal with the ragga stuff. I've seen it very clearly progress in an extremely predictable manner...in the mid-nineties, people didn't even get dancehall, it was all rootsy dub from the seventies or nothing at all. I got some awful funny looks (actually, more pitying looks, really!) being white in Leeds & asking to listen to ragga stuff in shops. Give it five years or less & the music press will be all over early nineties ragga...Bagga Jedd box sets, the lot