June 24, 2004

->"Dance Moves" by Sky Juice (Harvel 'Gadaffi' Hart for Annex).<-

What with my favourite garridge tunes starting to sound on closer inspection like ham-fisted Ragga (God's Gift on Pum Pum and Str8) went foraging like a horse for the real "ting".

Result. Takes the slightly loping african-ate percussion of Coolie Dance to the eight track. Faintly eastern flute-y synth (ie Java) and a belly dancing bassline bringing up the rear. Sky Juice buried somewhere messily in the mix so it sounds like he's in the music, rather than pon top after-dubbing a riddim. He's got an Onyx-meets-Ol' Dirty Bastard rasp, repeating his name and other invocations in batches of four: "lighter", "roll it up", "scoobie doo", "boom boom over the wall" and "suck your breast."

When dancehall does it right like this it's effortlessly graceful,
sophisticated and superior.

Posted by Woebot at June 24, 2004 09:41 AM