Too often, dancehall DJs attempt to cross over by recycling, say, Juice Newton tunes instead of taking the more challenging, purist route. |
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Back in Brooklyn in 1992, Burrell threw himself into the dancehall scene established by NY's large West Indian community. |
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Until Sean Paul came on the scene, dancehall reggae was starting to get a little boring. |
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Funk, soul, hip hop, brokenbeat, jazz, dancehall, roots, old-school, deep house, zouk and konpa can be found here every week, so check it out. |
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The easiest way to spot a dancehall riddim is by it's wicked wicked lyrics. |
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He presents a crucial hour of rocksteady, ska, ragga, dancehall, dub and the best reggae. |
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For 10 years running, VP Records annually pumps out compilations that pull from their massive dancehall and roots reggae catalogue. |
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The patient's tastes run to swingbeat, hip hop and dancehall but he has only a bare knowledge of their antecedents. |
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Sign up for the live stream, or select your favourites from the archive of lovers rock, classic reggae, dancehall, and ska. |
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The album is a must-have for anyone who consider themselves to be a dancehall fan. |
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On the whole, though, this is either a specialist release for real dancehall heads or a bluffer's guide for those wanting to get into the scene. |
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His uncle used to import reggae and dancehall singles and distribute them to specialist shops. |
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On this song, a mutant dancehall pattern bumps to static offbeats and a hiccuping vocal that's an integral part of the groove. |
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There were few who entered the dancehall business in the early 1900s with the intention of making their fortune from it. |
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As you can see, the place will be rammed, so get there early for your fill of roots, dancehall and such. |
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Some of the latest dancehall reggae music are sounds are starting to sound more and more like Hip Hop than reggae. |
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Furthermore, Taylor makes no distinction between Jamaican dancehall and its predigital reggae precursors. |
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Last's sense of rhythm is as developed as any rap, dancehall, broken beat, or dubstep scientist you'd care to throw up. |
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Though the roots reggae sound was superseded by lovers rock and the faster ragga and dancehall styles, toasting was highly influential on both the rap and hip-hop scenes. |
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The first release in the Master T series is a compilation of contemporary reggae and dancehall, with a measure of lovers rock thrown in for quiet times. |
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The website Murder Inna dancehall catalogs 207 dancehall songs with violently anti-gay lyrics. |
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Whether it's hip-hop or house, dancehall or drum 'n' bass, original or classic, a good soundclash will be quite unlike any other forms of musical battling. |
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Now pouring all of this emotion into a variety of styles ranging from dancehall, reggae and gospel to jazz and RnB, his debut album is all but finished. |
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In many ways, dancehall is a reminder of everything hip hop used to be. |
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You're never far from a party and a sound system in Jamaica, whether you want to shake your batty to the latest dancehall mixes or sink rum punches at sundown. |
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He is billed for a performance at Club Amaruzu in Queens, New York on October 24 alongside veteran reggae crooner Coco Tea and dancehall star Capleton. |
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A musical magpie of a record, it steals cheekily from everything from dancehall and reggae to two-step, pop, showtunes, electro, film soundtracks and beyond. |
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For the 10th anniversary, they've released a double-CD featuring dancehall party riddims padded with rootsy and sometimes mushy down-tempo numbers. |
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How many other artists in the genre of dancehall can successfully flirt with varying musical styles such as country and western, gospel and soca and still remain credible? |
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The mix also relies heavily on her flow, which aligns more closely with dancehall and crunk's all-chorus-all-the-time rhymes than it does with traditional hip-hop. |
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Just in time for the Anzac weekend, the General will be displaying his turntable prowess and lyrical powers as he spins the latest dancehall hits from Jamaica. |
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Backed by her D.J., she rode tracks new and old, bringing together old-fashioned electro and futuristic dancehall reggae, London grime and Atlanta crunk. |
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Kelly cruises through genres like he's giving a guided tour, hitting crunk, dancehall, hip-hop, reggaeton, and naturally, a handful of bedroom ballads along the way. |
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Yet, their early releases remained surprisingly conservative considering the angle adopted by the pair, sticking to hip-hop, ragga and dancehall a tad too closely for comfort. |
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For the training college annual magazine, at the end of the reports of the sports clubs, I wrote a Woolfish piece set in a city dancehall. |
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She also submitted herself to daggering, the shameless, controversial dancehall dance maneuver that involves rapid-fire pelvic thrusts. |
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The gratingly-voiced dancehall gyrator sounds like he's out to shake and wiggle some booty with this one. |
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The Kenyan artist popularly known as DJ Kriss Darlin will be on the decks playing reggae, reggaeton, dancehall and soca music. |
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Pressurize the Cabin is the latest album by Fort Knox Five, celebrating funk from dancehall ska to hip-hop, disco, electro, and Latin rhythms. |
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Caribbean dancehall flavours replete with heavy basslines, Eastern rhythms in places, and Elizabethan-style strings in the intro to create a truly eclectic, chilled dance mix. |
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Jamaican Patois exists mostly as a spoken language and is also heavily used for musical purposes, especially in reggae and dancehall as well as other genres. |
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The musical genres reggae, ska, mento, rocksteady, dub, and, more recently, dancehall and ragga all originated in the island's vibrant, popular urban recording industry. |
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From New York's musty bashments to Kingston's vigorous sessions, men have dominated dancehall for decades, despite the efforts of a bounty of gifted female deejays. |
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Since then we've had reggae, dancehall, bhangra, bluebeat and more. |
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A cornucopia of hyped-up breakbeats, keyboard squiggles, surf grooves, dancehall stylee, dumb loops and much atonal shouting along, Far In dares you not to smile. |
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A joyous outpouring, Disco e Progresso fuses elements of disco, funk, dancehall, kuduro, new weave, breakbeat, samba and more into a singularly exuberant escapade. |
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