New Dancehall

[Benny Bunter]

Hard to say what makes it stand out, it just does

 

[Benny Bunter]

Not included in that mix for some reason:

 

[Benny Bunter]

RIFLE BEHAVIOUR

 

[Benny Bunter]

Soooo good

 

[Benny Bunter]

Heartless

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's just a generic trap dancehall tune of the type we've all heard before a million times, but it just has that inexplicable X factor.

 

[Benny Bunter]

 

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Just got through listening to that riddim mix, absolutely amazing. Best way to listen to dancehall nowadays, just zone out for 20 minutes on one riddim.

Some good ones with old tunes too.

 

[william_kent]

yeah I played this one at Antwerp mansions rusholme mCR on the free party dubstep sound system. ( room B )



Shinehead - Billie jean dub

I may have got a bit aggro in the courtyard, there were some guys staring the gay guys in my crew out and I got all a bit "MY WING CHUN WILL DESTROY THEM" but they backed off and it was all cool

 

[Corpsey]

My nickname in some circles is Chronic Law

 

[luka]

chronic IBS law

 

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chronic IBS law

 

[Benny Bunter]

I was just pissed, but I had a proper psychedelic experience listening to that rifle behaviour riddim last night on headphones, where each voice seemed to occupy a different space in relation to the music. Especially the chronic law version, when he does his more baritone voice he seemed to be spatially underneath the riddim, before switching up his flow and occupying a space inside it. Other voices and textures seemed to enter from above or from the side or emerge from within.
You don't really get the same effect listening to each version separately, you have to have entered in the long form sound world of the extended riidim mix to be attuned to it.

Last time I really felt something like this was with Bandulu riddim

Bandulu riddim

 

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I was just pissed, but I had a proper psychedelic experience listening to that rifle behaviour riddim last night on headphones, where each voice seemed to occupy a different space in relation to the music. Especially the chronic law version, when he does his more baritone voice he seemed to be spatially underneath the riddim, before switching up his flow and occupying a space inside it. Other voices and textures seemed to enter from above or from the side or emerge from within.
You don't really get the same effect listening to each version separately, you have to have entered in the long form sound world of the extended riidim mix to be attuned to it.

Like a stitched together 'posse cut', pictured them passing the mic like Ruff Sqwad or Wu Tang.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Like a stitched together 'posse cut', pictured them passing the mic like Ruff Sqwad or Wu Tang.

I think of it a bit differently with riddim mixes like rifle behaviour and bandulu - it's more like the riddim is a huge cloud of purple gas, out of which the various voices emerge like jetstreams within it, each one forming and then dissipating as the next takes over.

 

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I think of it a bit differently with riddim mixes like rifle behaviour and bandulu - it's more like the riddim is a huge cloud of purple gas, out of which the various voices emerge like jetstreams within it, each one forming and then dissipating as the next takes over.

Barty's djinns and harlequins.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Bandulu riddim mix is probably my favourite bit of music of the decade - Gage's sublime erotic babble from the womb

I don't even like him normally but that moment when he comes in after chronic law is amazing. What is he saying? You could probably transcribe it but I don't really want or need to know, it'd probably spoil the effect.

 

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Both that tune and 'Rifle Behavior' have a shimmering delicacy, melodies snaking from crystal pan pipes.

 

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