{"id":65,"date":"2003-04-22T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2012-11-19T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T15:44:38","slug":"riddims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/riddims\/","title":{"rendered":"riddims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all about the new &#8220;old&#8221; riddims at the moment. I.e. new <em>reggae <\/em>productions out of JA. Possibly highly conservative of me, but the bashment futureshock can&#8217;t feed you 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Coupla things I picked up from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxatax.com\">Gladdy&#8217;s<\/a> over the weekend:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigration riddim, all pre 7s on Al Ta Fa An<\/strong><br \/>\nNice and rootsy, but with a modern, heavyweight feel. Fits in well with the do-overs of &#8220;It&#8217;s Raining&#8221; (Brick Wall) and &#8220;Watch This Sound&#8221; (Digital B) from last year. Mmmm I can feel another mix coming on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Luciano <\/strong>&#8211; You can have the world (excellent vocal on a non-bling tip)<br \/>\n<strong>Admiral Tibet <\/strong>&#8211; No Fear (I think a Studio One lyric? I keep meaning to do a &#8220;two Tibets clash: Admiral vs David&#8221; piece, just to see how many people get all the references.)<br \/>\n<strong>Anthony B and Tafari <\/strong>&#8211; Rise Up (Anthony B&#8217;s stuff is always worth checking if you fancy a more melodic Capleton or Sizzla. His cut on Diwali is way below par, however).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Ba Ba Boom riddm, 2 pre 7s on Jammys<\/strong><br \/>\nSkanking 2003 style from the man King Jammy<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ward 21<\/strong>&#8211; Reggae Pledge (as with their Shank I Sheck do-over from a couple of years back called &#8220;Ganja Smoke&#8221;, Jammy proteges Ward 21 excel at this stuff and are occasionally way better than T.O.K. &#8211; the obvious rivals in the ragga vocal trios championships. The bass vocalist is pretty much subsonic at times, which we like (see also the Congos and the Temptations&#8230;)<br \/>\n<strong>Shocking Blue <\/strong>&#8211; Artist War (nice vocal about the various &#8220;beefs&#8221; between JA artists).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously there are a load of cuts of each, including some dodgy ones I passed over (mainly cos of quality than content) and some that just weren&#8217;t available. Forget Grail quests, the hunt is always on for those elusive cuts that are there one day, gone the next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have to override the enormous urge not to mention this good stuff. It&#8217;s a load of elitist bollocks, but when you&#8217;re totally skint but have The Knowledge, part of you doesn&#8217;t want every other fucker going out and grabbing the tunes you so painstakingly selected from the avalanche of new releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all about the new &#8220;old&#8221; riddims at the moment. I.e. new reggae productions out of JA. Possibly highly conservative of me, but the bashment futureshock can&#8217;t feed you 24 hours a day. Coupla things I picked up from Gladdy&#8217;s over the weekend: Immigration riddim, all pre 7s on Al Ta Fa An Nice and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/riddims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;riddims&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-reviews","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}