Benny Bunter
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More of a Mavado man?
New Dancehall
Kartal I can appreciate formally. With Skillabeng and crew it just blurs into an undifferentiated mush after a while. The actress of dancehall, if I wanted to be uncharitable. I don't understand how you are supposed to decide one is a hit and one isn't. Certainly youtube and spotify don't allow you to gauge that, but neither is there really a hub like radio to create that kind of shared consciousness. There's not really a personality, a gruff geezer voice to hook onto.
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which like fine, call me a prick, I don't care, but when your approach is look at this spotify playlist, you can only say that militancy, hype etc are corny in todays climate through treating music like that. There's nothing for me to hook onto there, its not even me being a sceptic. I like Alkaline for instance but there's nothing to engage with there. If that's the price of being an annoying prick, then yes sure.
Anyway. paging out of here until the discussion revolves to something more interesting.
Anyway. paging out of here until the discussion revolves to something more interesting.
luka
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Benny Bunter
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I think I mentioned this on here before somewhere, AFAIK (and I might be wrong) you're still not getting references to tranquilizing drugs like Xanax etc in dancehall as you do in US rap- it's still all weed and coke, although interestingly I have been noticing more ecstacy references, such as that Skeng track Pop Molly that I just posted - they're usually sex tracks.
william_kent
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from August, a pill tune from the opinion dividing Tommy Lee Sparta...
Tommy Lee Sparta - Pop A Molly
Tommy Lee Sparta - Pop A Molly
Benny Bunter
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Love that Luxe Flame Riddim, it's almost got a 2step garage feel to it. And shows another side to Sparta away from the growling psycho horrorcore stuff.
luka
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the great thing about the theory is that no any one person needs to do the drugs to be affected by them.
Benny Bunter
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Yeah that makes sense. Trap's massive in Jamaica so even if they're not doing exactly the same drugs, it's going to affect to the music anyway. Plus, I'd imagine reliance on antidepressants is probably a growing problem in Jamaican society just as it is globally.
Benny Bunter
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Superb round up of the year in dancehall, plus some other bits and bobs here.
neonscreamsbook.blogspot.com
Future Shock Watch 2021
2020 was the apex, one of the great epochal years in the history of music. It was the point where all the scattershot promises accumulated...
neonscreamsbook.blogspot.com
Benny Bunter
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Good description of Skeng's voice -
"Looking up from the ocean floor to see ripples overlapping on the water’s surface above you- that’s how Skeng sounds to me with his stacked layers of undulating Auto-Tune."
"Looking up from the ocean floor to see ripples overlapping on the water’s surface above you- that’s how Skeng sounds to me with his stacked layers of undulating Auto-Tune."
luka
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it's interesting to compare this list to Barty's main rival for Simon's love (and inheritance money)
kieranpressreynolds.substack.com
Barty's list has the advantage of being actual music rather than dweeb-memes but the disadvantage of being really, really boring
and all sounding exactly the same.
My Top 20ish Songs of 2021 (Plus 15 HMs)
BREAKING NEWS: Here are recently (belatedly) made Spotify and YouTube playlists with all the songs for easy listening. Here's my top 20ish songs of 2021, plus 15 newly added honorable mentions. Honorable mentions (alphabetical) *67 – “not me mix” I was deep in a SoundCloud abyss one night when I...
kieranpressreynolds.substack.com
and all sounding exactly the same.
luka
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everyone in their generation who wants to write about music, @suspended thirdform etc faces the same problem. music has been cancelled. music, like reality is now generated by algorithim. we've been shunted onto the simulation. the only thing you can really do thats interesting and worthwhile is to closely analyse and interpret what is there. theres nothing to champion but plenty to examine and understand.
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Leo
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"When I went home to California after I graduated college in May, Dry Cleaning’s New Long Leg was the only album my parents wanted to play in the car. It became a household meme. 'Dry Cleaning, again?' I sighed, more than once."
luka
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hes got corona virus