Here’s news that Glasgow reggae commandos Mungo’s Hi-Fi have got together with vocalist Marina P (featured on the band’s recent reggae re-version of Smashing Pumpkins’ Soma), Tippa Irie and Dennis Alcapone (!) to get all ska on Sonny & Cher’s The Beat Goes On for Record Store Day. Technically, the official release date was 29 August which makes this bit of MB love a bit tardy. Having said that, it’s the monkey’s
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Tag Archives: Tippa Irie
MUNGO’S HI-FI X MARINA P feat. TIPPA IRIE & DENNIS ALCAPONE: The Beat Goes SKA (Vinyl 7″)
TIPPA IRIE & BLEND MISHKIN: Active
New rootsy business has just arrived from producer Blend Mishkin and reggae vocal veteran Tippa Irie in the shape of new single Active. Active? What’s that all about then? Unsurprisingly, it turns out to be a call to get busy – ironic perhaps, given the lockdown status currently affecting most of the world. Then again maybe not. There’s plenty to be doing – as Irie puts it –
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FRIENDLY FIRE BAND/ MR WILLIAMZ/ TIPPA IRIE/ MYKI TUFF: Saturday Night Riddim (Vinyl 7″)
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’Ear me now – it’s classic riddim business time as the Saturday Night riddim (a de-mix of jungle cut Saturday Night by Mr. Williamz and Chopstick Dubplates’ re-played as a vocal-less reggae by Friendly Fire Band) gets not one but two limited vinyl 7 inch releases. On the first you get that very Friendly Fire Band version along with a vocal take featuring Mr Williamz lyrically
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CUT LA VIS feat. TIPPA IRIE: Love My Music (2017) + CUT LA VIS feat. MYSDIGGI ‘Hit Me One Time’ Live video
Looks like there’s still time for another single culled from the excellent December ’15 LP One Step Forward from Brighton reggae-hip-hop bandit Cut La Vis, for here one is. This time around it’s the rude uptempo Tippa Irie-featuring skank of Love My Music which also comes in Sekkle Sound old school UK garage and Numa Crew dubstep flavas. No video then? Never mind –
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THE SKINTS feat. TIPPA IRIE & HORSEMAN: This Town (2015) + video
Promising dub reggae yout’ action from The Skints here in the esteemed company of Tippa Irie and Horseman with This Town. It’s a paean to London – on which they celebrate the city “they were born in” and “love.” I’m surprised they can find anywhere to live what with all the feral property developers buying up land left, right and centre to flog to the non-tax-paying, super-rich
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BLUNTSKULL: The Blunt Force EP (2010)
Rating: Waaarning! Reggae boom-bap alert as Bluntskull delivers heavy trauma to the dancefloor with his Blunt Force EP! It’s all about the 90s bashment feel as the man unleashes a trio of cuts built around muscular sampled breaks like so much armoured cladding. Opener Gwan Like Dem Bad finds our man very much gwan like him bad with Melvin Bliss’s mighty Synthetic
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