| Various Artists / Reggae Riddims An Tings, Spring 2008 |
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| Album: | Reggae Riddims An Tings, Spring 2008 | Collection: | Reggae | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | May 2008 | |
| Label: | (No Label Information) | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-05-26 | Pull Date: | 2008-07-28 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jul 27 | Jul 20 | Jul 6 | Jun 29 | Jun 15 | Jun 8 | Jun 1 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 14, 2009: | New World Disorder We Need Barack | 4. | Jul 19, 2008: | New World Disorder The Mission | |
| 2. | Aug 02, 2008: | New World Disorder The Mission | 5. | Jul 05, 2008: | New World Disorder The Toaster | |
| 3. | Jul 26, 2008: | New World Disorder Ready To Go | 6. | Jul 05, 2008: | The Twilight Zone The Mission |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2008-05-27 | ||
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Reviewed by Sadie O., 5/21/08 Brand new Reggae promos from a variety of sources. The Mission Riddim came in the mail, with no information attached, but Track 1 with the Marley lads is currently a massive hit, and for good reason. Tune In Riddim is by Sly and Robbie and came as promo. Jah Cure and One Deck and Popular also came as promos, and A Tropa was available for download from MySpace. 1. ****Mission Riddim is hard-driving martial skank with chimes. The Marley kids have made a great cut with Damian rapping the verses and Stephen chanting the chorus. Killer! 2. ***starts with helicopter and male speaking, fine dancehall diatribe from Elephant Man 3. **just de riddim (see track one). 4. **unsolicited political endorsement, complete with snippets from Obama speeches. Startling! 5. ***Tune In Riddim starts with tape rewinding, then downtempo swingy skank. This cut is notable for reworking of “I Only Have Eyes for You” and falsetto vocals – fun stuff! 6. **unintelligible spoken intro, rather confusing mix of sweet singing and gruff dancehall vocals. 7. **sweetly sung psalm, much of the riddim cut out. 8. **more sweet singing with harmonies, unrequited love song. 9. **rather slowed down version of the riddim, with some female singing and male dancehall praise of a woman. 10. **soundcheck intro, dancehall vocals about the dance, including proud note about his own three-piece suit. 11. ***nonsense and falsetto vocals. Love song, quite giddy. A few seconds of dub at the end. 12. ***manic diatribe by Sizzla, than which what more do you want? 13. **lots of vocal chorus and extra sounds, several voices. About nicing up de dance. 14. *very mellow riddim, acoustic guitar, upful lyrics, several voices. 15. **midtempo sparse electronic skank, 2 voices, angry lyrics. 16. **cute, bouncy electronic dance beat. 17. ***midtempo dubby electronic skank with quite good harmonica. 18. ***downtempo dubby skank, spoken vocals in Brazilian Portuguese. Fine bass solo towards end. 19. **downtempo dub instrumental with more fine bass work. Bits of spoken Rasta preaching. | ||
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