Rude Gyal Riddim

August 28th, 2010

Remember that scorcher of a bashy ‘Rude Boy’ remix featuring Agent Sasco? Now Board House Records have made it into a full blown riddim, naturally titled the Rude Gyal Riddim. And who’ve they got to voice? Only JA’s finest rude gyals from the Ward 21 camp: Tifa, Timberlee, and D’Angel. Some serious feminist vibes gwaning here, from Tifa’s ‘Me love you, but me love me more’, to Timberlee’s goodas (and she’s still rocking that Clueless accent in the opening lines just like she did in the embarrassingly catchy ‘Heels’), while D’Angel goes straight in for the ‘fasten your seatbelt for this rude gyal’ line. The shoes on their feet, they bought ‘em.


D’Angel – Rude Gyal


Timberlee – Goodaz


Tifa – Greedy Greedy

Mixpak FM: The Heatwave

August 18th, 2010

Fresh on the heals of Nadastrom’s summer mix for Mixpak FM, London’s own The Heatwave have picked up the dancehall strains and gone hard with a mix of just about every big bashment track out. This is an hour and fifteen minute mix of guaranteed pure fire! Mixpak FM has your summer on lock, catch the vibe.

You can go subscribe to Mixpak FM via iTunes, subscribe with an RSS reader from the Mixpak FM site or download this mix directly.

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Mixpak FM 003: The Heatwave

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Bounty Killer: Path To Greatness

August 9th, 2010

Ever wondered what’s so great about the Grung Gad Five Star General AKA Bounty Killer? If you’ve been so crazy as to ever have a doubt, check out this new ten minute video featuring some classic vintage clips and pretty much everyone who’s everyone showing The Warlord some love. Makes you wonder why he’s so ‘cross, angry, miserable’…

Laden – Guide Me

July 30th, 2010

I bet you’ve always wondered what would happen if those dudes who leave the Jehovah’s magazine, ‘The Watchtower’, in your mailbox got into making music videos with bashment artists? This is the brilliant vision behind Laden’s ‘Guide Me’. It’s basically a guide of how to do some not-so-subliminal messaging with WordArt. Lord have mercy.

Mixpak FM: Nadastrom

July 20th, 2010

Nadastrom turned in a huge remix for Melé’s Bombay EP, so we thought we’d tap ‘em for our second Mixpak FM podcast. Needless to say, they went deep and delivered an hour of the freshest Moombahton and dancehall, giving us a big mix for the summer. Catch the vibe.

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Mixpak FM 002: Nadastrom

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Lady Chann – Feel Calm

July 12th, 2010

London Dancehall Queen Lady Chann just voiced Ricky Blaze’s Hold Yuh riddim for her new track ‘Feel Calm.’ Mixpak exclusive!

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Lady Chann – Feel Calm

This Is How We Do It

June 30th, 2010

The Clarks phenomenon completely wiped out any interest in the other versions on the Mad Collab riddim back when it dropped a couple of months ago (and it’s still number one on the Jamaican chart). But the riddim really does feature some other unmissable mad collabs,  namely ‘This Is How We Do It’ from bashment top-shottas Bounty Killer and Elephant Man. This is the newly-released official video for the maddest hook-up on the rest of the riddim, and not a Clarks wallabee in sight. It’s been over 10 years since the Energy God and the Warlord voiced on the same song, since way back when Ele was part of Scare Dem Crew, and it leaves you wondering why they left it so long: the high-pitched rasp of Elephant Man against Bounty Killer’s gruff flow is dancehall duo heaven.

So if you’re wondering how they do it, it’s a complicated equation: Hennessy, Moet and a club full of girls. Who’d have thought? Turns out there are people out there who do it just as well as South Central, sorry Montell. Just in case you ever find yourself in their company, Bounty and Ele are offering some good advice  - don’t pour Appleton into a Hennessy bottle. Badman wouldn’t do that.

New Leftside

June 15th, 2010

The funky bashment tip is running hard in Jamaica, with Sticky’s ‘Jumeirah’ even making it onto Assassin’s mad mixtape last month. Leftside’s ‘Dem Gyal Deh’ has been ripping the dancefloor for a few weeks, with its killer brass and straight-up funky bassline produced by the man himself.  Lock in around 1:24 for some crazy Leftside rhymes.

Leftside has been dropping the dancehall bombs left, right and center in the last few months. His latest release on KeepLeft Records, ‘Phat Punani’ (seems he has some obsession, having released a track with the exact same name about a year ago) leaves the funky aside for a bona fide minimalist dancehall bassline. Try not to wheel this one, I dare you.