New single Vibes Master sees Bazza Ranks and Dynamite MC hook up once more almost exactly a year since the last time the monkey posted about them – funnily enough – with Don’t Let It Pass. While that was a 45 though, this is a strickly digi-affair available in five different flavours including the original. Or at least their unremixed cover of a certain 90s anthem. This one’s all about the
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BAZZA RANKS feat. DYNAMITE MC: Vibes Master
BAZZA RANKS feat. DYNAMITE MC: Don’t Let It Pass (Vinyl 7″) + video
Next from Bazza Ranks is Don’t Let It Pass on which he hooks up veteran dancehall vocalist Dynamite MC with yet another bass-heavy bashment beat on vinyl 7″. This time it’s so that Dyna can hold forth about how frustrating it is when you’re in a circle and something isn’t passed to you quickly enough. Oh what – like a dutchie’? Sort of. More ‘the purple’ in this case. I wonder
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BAZZA RANKS & SLEEPYTIME GHOST meets SHUMBA YOUTH & NATTY CAMPBELL: Rip It Up
Ghost Writerz’ Sleepytime Ghost and Dirty Dubster, Bazza Ranks, join forces and then invite up-and-coming toasters Shumba Youth and Natty Campbell along as well to make Rip It Up a vocal celebration of doing ting Sarf East London style. Cue much bass bin-shredding antics and no fewer than four different mixes. That’ll be the original, the Fleck dnb version, the instro and the
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RUCKUS FX feat. PARLY B: Build Up De Vibes
Now then – what’s happening this Saturday in Bristol that’s fifty years old and hasn’t happened since 2014? That’s right – St Paul’s Carnival! Would anyone like to provide something suitably bashment for the occasion? Step forward Ruckus B a.k.a Dirty Dubster Jay Sharp with Parly B on hand to provide vocal support on Build Up De Vibes. Cue heavy uptempo dub with a chopped-up Amen
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BAZZA RANKS feat. PRISONERS OF AUDIO: Where Would We Be?
Where would we be, without Bazza Ranks? You might well ask. More than a few Dirty Dubsters cuts and rest of the output of Irish Moss Records the poorer, for sure. Here our Bazza, producing solo once more provides another vocal hook-up with Irish emcee crew Prisoners Of Audio. Hardcore junglist intro notwithstanding, this is actually straight-up reggae hip-hop combining
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BAZZA RANKS feat. DYNAMITE MC: Memories (Vinyl 7″)
Dynamite MC displays an elephant-like power of recall on Memories, the new one from Bazza Ranks which is essentially a irie dancehall pastiche of (and homage to) Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s classic early 90s boom-bap adventure T.R.O.Y. But what’s old Dyna reminiscing about from back in the day? ‘Marijuana’ – well, you sensed he might…’good times’ – glad to hear it…’knife crime’
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SCREECHY DAN & BLUNTSKULL: Keep Doin It (2017)
The new one from Brooklyn Dancehall veteran Screechy Dan finds him hooking up with producer and known 90s reggae-boom-bap fiend Bluntskull so it’s no surprise that Keep Doin It should strip things back to the time-honoured recipe of the kick, the snare and the double bass all at around a 100bpm tempo. Elsewhere, Cut La Vis keeps doin it inna old school dancehall stylee, Rukus in a new
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BAZZA RANKS meets JAGO & DEEMAS J: Riddim Riders EP (2017) Video
Remember when Jamaican dancehall became obsessed with boom-bap beats? To be fair, it was around the time when everyone was obsessed with boom-bap beats which is to say the 90s – a sound and era celebrated in three-tracker the Riddim Riders EP from Dirty Dubsters’ Bazza Ranks and Tru Thoughts vocalists Jago and Deemas J. Oohh – does that mean three helpings of rapid-fire patois
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BLUNTSKULL feat. BURRO BANTON: Gwan Like Dem Bad (2016)
Looks like a single release for Gwan Like Dem Bad then – i.e. the opening cut from Bluntskull‘s excellent Blunt Force EP from a couple of years back. The original finds Burro Banton riding Bluntskull’s Melvin Bliss-driven riddim with all the necessary aplomb to nice up the hip-hop dance in a classic 90s stylee. Then there’s the three remixes. DJ Vadim gwan like ‘im making beats for
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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. PEPPERY: One By One (2016)
The latest single of Dirty Dubsters‘ excellent Special Request LP is the Peppery-featuring One By One – you know – the cut that alternates between bass-less dropouts and boom-heavy uptempo slabs of dub – that one. Anyway the single leads with the dancehall, dancefloor-friendly remix from Kormac. But what can he possibly have done to it to nice it up enough for batties to grind?
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