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blix

Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 09:35 pm:

i know this is a bit unrelated but it seems like a good place to ask...

does anyone know of any GOOD dancehall? im thinking more garage dancehall than RnB poppy dancehall. most of the stuff i hear is crap but there must be something good out there...?

cheers

interruptor

Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 04:20 pm:

i don't really understand what you mean by "garage dancehall".

R&B / pop influences are often heard in dancehall so you may prefer rasta artists like Capleton and Sizzla or the more hardcore/reality aproach of Bounty Killer

in any case the bbc 1xtra website allows to listen to the radio shows of Robbo Ranx. these are a good introduction to what is currently regarded as HOT in the dancehall.. see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/dancehall/

blix

Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 02:47 am:

cheers ill check it out...

what im meant was dancehall which wasnt so mainstream and cheesy.. dunno if you know what i mean

interruptor

Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 11:30 am:

i would rather say that nowadays mainstream sounds like dancehall. during the last years just about every mtv act seemed to have a dancehall inspired track on their album (ricky martin, shakira, no doubt, missy elliott, wycleff jean,..)
on the other hand it's true that there is a fraction of dancehall artists (spearheaded by a certain elephant man) who mainly concentrate on "dance instruction tunes". their lyrics often consist of not much more than a punch line. recent example: "badman forward badman pullup" by a dancer named Ding Dong.
but there are plenty of artists in dancehall who write tunes about social and political issues from a street level perspective which certainly are not cheesy. listen to Bounty Killer, Tanya Stephens or watch the "Emergency" Video by Vybz Kartel on the bbc 1xtra website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/dancehall/

blix

Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 01:52 pm:

that's exactly the sort of advice i was looking for... thanks a lot! i'll check them out

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