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What's going on in Osaka?

Yeah it has been stagnant but overall living standards are still high, certainly in the big cities. Cost of living is becoming more of an issue because, although wages are now going up in a more sustained way, they're not necessarily keeping up with inflation, which has been high by Japanese...

I'm not really sure about that, but in my experience if you already have moved or were going to anyway — for whatever reason — politics and policy can be a powerful incentive to stay where you've ended up, or if you're leaving there then to move to somewhere that's not your home country. I think...

Ah yeah, I think I must have done when you or someone else posted it initially? I like it, but I dunno for me it's not on the same level as something like Penthouse even if they're quite different moods.

Heard a bunch of good things this year but hard to point to anything that felt truly transcendental — kind of like what Benny was saying about Rifle Behavior Riddim in the dancehall thread, stuff that's basically just a take on what is now a fairly well established sound but elevates it somehow...

The riddim is Dutty Money Riddim by Rvssian, which is a remake of his Go-Go Club Riddim from 2009, so that's probably where you recognise it from. That was from the start of the year when it was looking like dancehall might descend into a nostalgia fest, although it seems to have ultimately...

I like Clara La San and I think she has this amazing ability to create *moods*, but there is something I find a bit frustrating about her — which stops me enjoying her music as I want to — and a few months I came to the conclusion that it's her lyrics, which can sometimes be pretty weak and...

"(Ryan Giggs) is one of those special and rare players who could play football in a phone box and would always find the door, no matter how many players you put in there with him." - Carlos Queiroz

I've been thinking about how what is to me the most interesting music over the last few years, drill and trap dancehall, are in a sense danceable but not "dance music" - that is, the functional, purpose-built stuff, which to me just feels mostly stagnant and unimaginative these days. I've felt...

Meant to reply before with some new tracks but eerrrr didn't. The levels have definitely gone down but wouldn't say there's nothing worth listening to (although I appreciate Benny is maybe exaggerating for effect).

Couple contenders from the Black Ops camp:

Not sure if people saw, but EleganceGad was shot and killed last week. In addition to the human tragedy, a real loss in terms of someone pushing the autotune weirdness more than most. Been listening to this track that dropped a week or two ago a lot the last couple days. His management team...

Depends how you define "past few weeks" - could point to other recent good tunes - but I liked Intence and Iwaata on New Moves Riddim.

Did they download a deconstructed club EP from bandcamp for the BGM?

More summery music for Benny

Ha yeah I had the same reaction.

Bong Bing got pretty big on TikTok and Cristale was out in Jamaica a few weeks ago, so I think we'll see more tracks in that vein soon.

I don't dislike it in the way other people seem to, and yeah I do get the distinctive thing you mention (there is something kind of amusing about it, and not necessarily in a negative way - Skillibeng shared a video on Insta where someone had superimposed the wap bit onto COD or some other...

Whatever the situation is, the past couple weeks have been stronger. Few recent tunes (don't think these have been posted): Couple older bits I didn't get round to sharing at the time: This last one tapping into that "gaseous" vibe Benny mentioned way back in the thread.

That tune is obviously getting a bit of backlash - and yeah fair enough, it's a good example of Skilli's laziness we've talked about before - but I take Dancehall Mag's stance on it with a slight pinch of salt tbh. There are still a bunch of people defending it in the comments, and generally...