Dancehall

SATCHMO · 11-22-2010, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitting_Singularity

so I recently was in Guyana for 3 months doing community service. for those of you who don't know Guyana is in South America but is considered part of the Caribbean culture seeing as it is the only english-speaking country in south america. It also shares musical influences and while I was there I fell in love with Reggae and most of all dancehall.

Most of the world isn't very educated on Jamaican music besides Bob Marley and Sean Paul, and it seems the same with these forums, but there must be a few people into the Caribbean music scene, no?

Before I went to Guyana I listened to Sean Paul and Elephant Man.

I now know the likes of Vybz Kartel, Mr. Vegas, Collie Budz, DeMarco, Beenie Man, Mavado, Serani, etc.

Most of all I fell in love with Busy Signal. He is a dancehall artist, but incorporates a lot of other genres in his music.

Anyone else into the Dancehall scene? What arsits do you like? And most of all has anyone else heard of Busy Signal ?!?!?!?

I like Dancehall a lot, but I find that there's more that I don't like in the genre than I do. It's become very "club-ish" lately and the hip hop vocoder obsession has bled into the genre full force.

I wish there were a lot more political, purposeful dancehall artists out there. I pretty much stick with my select faves Capleton, Sizzla, Buju Banton, and Beenie Man, among others, and even they tend to be more reggae/dancehall crossover.

For me it's really hard to find decent dancehall that I like that doesn't simply amount to glorified club music, but it's definitely out there and worth searching for.

Engine · 11-23-2010, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

For me it's really hard to find decent dancehall that I like that doesn't simply amount to glorified club music, but it's definitely out there and worth searching for.

You mean like from now, today?

For me it's the same as all Jamaican music: only the older stuff sounds good. Broadly, I think of Dancehall as electronic Reggae that's not quite Dub.

Here are some good ones from the olden days

Ganja Smuggling by Eek-a-mouse

Dancehall by Yellowman

But as always, times change

To me, this next one really really sucks. Dancehall of today..
Unknown Number by Busy Signal

SATCHMO · 11-23-2010, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Engine

You mean like from now, today?

For me it's the same as all Jamaican music: only the older stuff sounds good. Broadly, I think of Dancehall as electronic Reggae that's not quite Dub.

Here are some good ones from the olden days

Ganja Smuggling by Eek-a-mouse

Dancehall by Yellowman

But as always, times change

To me, this next one really really sucks. Dancehall of today..
Unknown Number by Busy Signal

Yeah, I would definitely include Yellowman as one of the greats of dancehall. I love Eek-A-Mouse, but I've always just kinda' considered him reggae, even though he does have a variation of the raggamuffin style.

I'm pretty fussy when it comes to the sub-genre. I really like a aggressive political dancehall and there's not a lot of that out there. I've pretty much given up on contemporary dancehall. Most of it's terrible. Some of Major Lazer's stuff is okay, but for the most part I'm pretty unenthused.