Beenie Man’s latest video feature two song Jamaican Party and Dancehall Nuh Dead Yet with a guest appearance from Camar.
Don’t think I’ll ever get tired of this dude. He’s consistency, personified.
Check out the video below…
Download the One Day Riddim Mix here: One Day Riddim (Seanizzle Records).
Here is a behind the scenes look at Beenie Man’s new video Curfew.
Via The Heatwave, comes this hour-long starter kit on Dancehall Reggae for all those who may need it. This follows up their celebration of Sleng Teng’s anniversary a few weeks back. Great way to start the week, I say.
Check out the mix and details below…
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I couldn’t quite keep it to one tune per year as I was also trying to make sure that all the key artists from this period were represented. I think I did pretty well in the end but I’m sure I left out some notable vocalists. I KNOW that there are hundreds of BIG TUNES that didn’t get featured.I suppose there’s always someone who gets left out at a birthday party. Big up Lady Saw, Kiprich, Cecile, TOK, Terry Ganzie, Serani, Spice and all the other artists whose invites got lost in the post.
So here’s The Heatwave’s history lesson aka bashment birthday party. 25 years of dancehall. As Benjamin points out at some point, this is one for the iPod.
Download it here: Via The Heatwave: 25 Years of Dancehall.
Tracklisting after the jump…
New videos from ‘Clef, Beenie, Wyclef and more. Check them all out below and after the jump…
In The Fader’s latest release of Ghetto Palms they blended in a snippet of “Afro Beat” a collaboration from Damian Marley and Nas (which logic only reasons most be off of the Distant Relatives project), along with some Ethiopian soul music and the Weapon Riddim.
The fire-starter was “Afro Beat”—Nas’ collabo with Damian Marley which just leaked in a truncated snippet version. Featuring Nasir and Junior Gong alternating bars over a chop-n-quench of Ethiopian soul pioneer Mulatu Astatke, it manages to spear all three birds in one track even though it is barely a minute long. Luckily the original, a ’60s Ethio-jazz monster that foreshadowed the fusion experiments of Fela, is long enough to carry both of them. That gave me a framework to cut together a couple other Ethiocentric joints—beats that are so idiosyncratic they don’t even blend, exactly, but are so much on the same vibe it doesn’t even matter, really.
Ghetto Palms blend
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Afro Beat Snippet
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Sumfest 2009 took place last weekend in Jamaica. Its an annual concert series held in Montego Bay with a bunch of different acts from R&B to Reggae to Hip-Hop. Here are some of the performances and interviews from the event.
