Gotta give The Heatwave Blog their due for this one….classics never die….check the details below…

…Yesterday was 25 years to the day since Wayne Smith’s anthem Under Mi Sleng Teng was first played in a dance.

The tune was built at Jammy’s studio in Waterhouse before being unleashed during a clash with Black Scorpio at Waltham Park Road on 23rd February 1985. It flattened the dance and dominated the scene for months, with dozens (and later hundreds) of artists and producers rushing to record their own versions of the rhythm track.

Generally acknowledged as the first fully computerised dancehall riddim, Sleng Teng completely revolutionised Jamaican music and paved the way for all the ragga, bashment, dancehall or whatever you want to call it that I love so much….

Check the original below and peep a video medley after the jump….

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Here is the video compilation of the Style and Swagga Riddim.

Federation brings you their latest podcast and last of the decade. Check out the music and details below…

Well kids, this is the last podcast of 2009. It’s been a lot of fun. Listen to Juke Boxx’s remake of the classic “Boops” riddim, “Shoulder Move” (another remake courtesy of Lenky), “Bomb Drop” (Russian), “Style And Swagga” (Ballaz), a brand new Mavado tune “Starlight”, produced by Di Genius, Buju tunes and lots more . CLICK HERE to listen through iTunes - FREE.

Download it here: Federation Podcast #136..

While deciding what today’s post would be, I came up on Sean Paul’s newest video, featuring Arif ‘Super’ Cooper’s Relationship Riddim. I figured instead of just sharing the video, I’d share all the tracks over the riddim as well. Check out the video below and the music after the jump…

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Here are some new artists on an old school riddim.

Just some music to get you through the start of the week. Check the details below…

Download the music after the jump.

image via Pryere on Flickr.

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Flava Squad Entertainment recently released the music video (medley) for their Addiction riddim. The video was directed by Wayne South and features Konshens (”What A Life”), Gyptian (”True Confession”), Khago (”Not A Man Of Many Words”) and Nitty Kutchie (”In God I Trust”). Check it below….

Download the music here: Addiction Riddim 2K9, Various Artists.

via Shadyville Caribbean.

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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Track listings inside

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