PREMIERE: MC Zulu - Call Red Alert (prod. Poirier)
After listening to “Call Red Alert,” we really think MC Zulu and Poirier should start a riddim collective called Tha Supa Socas. To show we’re serious, we’re going on a one-man mission (inspired by the pic above) to #occupydancehalls, and get low to this blaring, staccato, hype jubilation until the world’s floors are soaked in sweat and social change. Check Electro Track Therapy for more, which has dance tracks in styles ranging from garage to kuduro to juke and drops-ins by Chrissy Murderbot, Kush Arora and more.
MC Zulu - Call Red Alert (prod. Poirier)
DOWNLOAD: D.A. & the Supa Dups - Too Cool (feat. Vybz Kartel)
Featuring literally the coldest dancehall killer in the game, D.A. & the Supa Dups’ well-timed single “Too Cool” (feat. Vybz Kartel) is too hot. The Dick Dale-style riffs, proper Chinese-Jamaican (!) club steez, and stuttering beach beats have already been pummeled to death in recent Diplo DJ sets, and are now available for your own heavy rotation—even if it’s in the far-less-exiting venue of your plant-devoid studio apartment. This is the harder-hitting side of the group's new single, so for those bumbaclots who don’t like it raw, check here for the rest.
D.A. & the Supa Dups - Too Cool (feat. Vybz Kartel)
PREMIERE: TV On The Radio - Will Do (XXXChange Dancehall Mix)
Lately, our dreams have been serene when we fall asleep with the melodic lullaby that is TV On The Radio's new single, "Will Do" pushing us into our REM cycle. And the video—featuring rad chick Joy Bryant (Parenthood, Get Rich Or Die Tryin') as love interest—has colored our nocturnal narratives with the litany of possibilities a virtual reality headset might give us if we got to walk around with one in real life. The subtleties of the original's love song sweetness remain in tact when XXXChange gets his hands on it. He's also rubbed it with lowkey electro-dancehall magic—the other thing our dreams our made of. TVOTR's album Nine Types Of Light is out April 12 on Interscope (pre-order here). They hit the road that month, too. Find when they hit your town here.
PREMIERE: Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew - Any Girl
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Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew is a three-man group from Sierra Leone who coat their political lyrics with a varnish known as Gbomognoh, a sunny melding of hip-hop, dancehall, and Sierra Leonean music. On "Any Girl," those signifiers are everywhere: sweet singing, forceful rapping, blaring horns, a punchy reggaetón beat; even flutes. Here's a warm weather track for those who have to brave the cold weather on the horizon. The album is due this upcoming spring on One Haven Music.
Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew - Any Girl
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DOWNLOAD: Toddla T - Sky Surfing (feat. Wayne Marshall) (Douster Remix)
Listening to Toddla T's garage/rave/dancehall pinballs is a bit like wandering into an enormous casino–quick, overwhelming anxiety (lights! sounds!) followed by slow acclimatization, a return to your senses, and the inevitable waving-your-hand-up-and-down-like-a-fool-with-a-ridiculous-grin-on-your-face move. His new joint with Wayne Marshall, "Sky Surfing," which already has a hilariously low budget video, is coming out as a full single/remix package on August 31 through Ninja Tune. Douster's surprisingly techy stab is on there. It's also here waiting to make your Monday go BOOM.
Toddla T - Sky Surfing (feat. Wayne Marshall) (Douster Remix)
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PREMIERE: Bonjay - Stumble
Some tunes are meant for weepy introspection, rife with meaning and metaphor, purporting to be a sonic navigation through this mean old haze called life. And some are simply meant for getting low! “Stumble” is the latter, and the steamy preview offering from Toronto dancehall duo Bonjay, who’ll be dropping more riddim bombs with the release of their EP Broughtupsy in September. Until then, revel in their refreshingly straightforward anthem below, bumping with glutinous stutter and wispy, hothouse vocals.
PREMIERE: 77Klash - No Turning Back
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Brooklyn dancehall wildman 77Klash has as of late been lamping it up with the Trouble & Bass crew, from a cameo in Drop The Lime's "Sex Sax" video to, uh, his own record on their label. The new Shadow Of Death EP–his first official release since 2008's Code For The Streets–was produced by T&B cornerstones DTL and AC Slater (pictured above), and is as such filled with maniacal, sewer-draining digital dubstep, upon which Klash lays his mic terror. "No Turning Back" is our personal favorite–perhaps because it bears an enchanting hook; perhaps because it's the most minimal musically, a respite from the bass barrage. Pick up the full package over at Beatport.
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RCRD THRWBCK: Terry Lynn and Johan Hugo - Jamaican Girls
Welcome to the second RCRD THRWBCK, where each weekend a different editor will select a record from our virtual stacks that they deem worthy for reevaluation and/or reintroduction.
I started at RCRD LBL a little under a year ago, and summer was upon us in all its oppressive awesomeness when Monsieur Duke posted this track. I remember thinking—how in the hell did Terry Lynn and Johan Hugo make the theme song of Fletch into such a banging Jamaican jam? The truth can be found here, but for what it’s worth, it’s my pleasure to pass along the first song that made me realize RCRD LBL was where everything I needed was there for the snatching. When you get your grubby little hands on mpfrees like these, how can you be anything but grateful? Ya’ll are gonna have a good BBQ if you kick it off with this. And, with that, I’m out to find my own.
Terry Lynn and Johan Hugo - Jamaican Girls
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