Here’s a late summer reggae heater from Mr Benn then in the form of Leave featuring Misdee. The release comes out on Mr B’s own Square One Sound imprint but sports artwork pastiching the classic Treasure Isle label logo – even down to the weathered look of something that’s been around since the late sixties. It’s a blend of old and new which reflects the track itself as Mr Benn
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MR BENN feat. MISDEE: Leave
MR BENN & PARLY B: Session Cork EP
While the monkey might be tardy in posting about this, rest assured the ever canny Mr Benn popped out his new Session Cork EP collab. with Parly B in time for the Notting Hill Carnival. As anyone familiar with the Bristolian producer and Doncaster toaster will expect, the dancefloor vibes are fully dancehall ready. Gwarn Go Bathe and Heat Up are
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RUKUS feat WARD 21: Champion (MR BENN remix)
Oh good – I do love a Mr Benn remix and judging by past reactions, so do you. Here he applies his legendary production skills to Champion – Rukus & Ward 21’s ominous, synth-laden dancehall tribute to Q Project’s Champion Sound. Of course, ‘ominous’ and ‘synth-laden’ aren’t adjectives that immediately spring to mind when you think of Mr Benn and as he puts it himself, “I switched the
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GENERAL TRIX: Dallyland (Prod. MR BENN)(2017)
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Here’s a little dancehall sunshine for you in the shape of Dallyland from General Trix and Mr Benn to brighten up the shite-awful weather. In fact, Mr Benn’s cooked up a right 90s-style bubbler for General Trix to do his thing over but where the hell is Dallyland when it’s at home? Could it be the sort of place Jamaican mums accuse their kids of being at when they’ve got their
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NICE UP!: 12 Dubs Of Xmas (2016) Free download
“On the fou-rthh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…” – wait – no – that’s not how it goes! Let me see now…ah yes – “On the fourth dub of Xmas, Nice Up! continued to release for me the next one in this year’s seasonal set of Xmas riddims!” Hmm – well – maybe it doesn’t scan so well – but who cares about that when the bass is this rude! And so it is that today’s triplet of
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MR BENN & G DUPPY feat. MOWTY MAHLYKA: Hold Yourself Together (2016) + ANDRA DAY Rise UP (MR BENN & G DUPPY remix) free download
Rating: I don’t know – you make a riddim for a remix and it turns out to be so good you wish you’d kept it for yourselves. We’ve all been there. If you’re Mr Benn and G Duppy though – you get to have your cake and eat it. There the pair were having birthed an epic slab of summery reggae for Andra Day’s honey-drenched rnb Rise Up vocal, and…they…just…couldn’t let go of…that beat. A
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MR BENN feat. NANCI CORREIA: Stand Up (2014)
Rating: Stand Up indeed as one of the standout tracks (and the monkey’s absolute favourite) from Mr Benn’s excellent album, Shake A Leg, of last summer gets a single release. Featuring Nanci Correia (of Congo Natty and Nanci & Phoebe fame) it’s less a call to stop sitting down than an invitation to engage in a midtempo skank
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MR BENN: ‘Shake A Leg’ Instrumentals (2014)
It’s been just under a year since Mr Benn finally released his excellent and long-promised Shake A Leg LP which means he’s shaken a leg a lot quicker about getting these instrumentals out than he did dropping his debut LP (rumours of which first surfaced several years before the thing itself) in the first place. He’s still managed to miss the St Paul’s Carnival with his release date again though
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MR BENN feat. EVA LAZARUS, BLACKOUT JA & CHAMPIAN: Stars (2014)
Rating: Mr Benn cannily returns with the sunshine and three sunshine-drenched covers of Cornell Campbell’s Stars which will appear as a special 7″ double pack from the Nice Up! Records crew. Eva Lazarus delivers a super sweet female vocal take on the original lyrics, Blackout JA appropriates Mr Benn’s version of the riddim in order to call out corruption (in politics, education
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MR BENN: Shake A Leg (2013)
Rating: Big up the Bristol Massive! Mr Benn finally comes through with Shake A Leg – an album that’s been ‘soon come’ for so long that it was starting to make even the most generous concept of ‘island time’ look like a mockery. Our man doesn’t disappoint though delivering a scorching eleven track set of varying bashment flavour – damn near any one of which could be a
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