Heavy Weight Dub Champion – “Dawn feat. Dr Israel”
I love the way Jamaican and American popular musics have informed and influenced each other over the decades. Going back to the early 1960s when ska bands built on stateside soul and R&B sounds, and fast-forward to hip-hop and dancehall styles trading ideas and themes at a dizzying pace. Heavyweight Dub Champion is hip-hop, and dancehall, and electronic dance, and reggae, they are all of that, and yes they bring their own original flavor to the mix as well. This track really cooks.
Heavyweight Dub Champion
“Dawn (feat. Dr. Isreal)” (mp3)
from “Rise of the Champion Nation”
(Champion Nation Recordings)
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The Uprising – “We Don’t Belong”
Now this is punk rock. Swift hardcore beat, anthemic choruses and idealistic verses. Kick ass. It’s so right on I have little more to say about it. Download and punk out.
The Uprising
“We Don’t Belong” (mp3)
from “Appetite For Deception”
(Long Live Crime Records)
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Grand Analog – “Electric City (feat. Shad)”
Hard hittin’ fun hip-hop on a mission from a indie record store geek to your happy ears. Music make the world go round. Bust it.
Grand Analog
“Electric City (feat. Shad)” (mp3)
from “Metropolis Is Burning”
(The Shadow Cabinet)
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Drinkme – “Service With A Snarl”
There’s more attitude in this song than some folks will comprehend in their whole life. A great minimalist collision of ska, punk-funk and power pop steeped in a raging broth of estrogen AND testosterone. In short there’s nothing about this that I don’t like. A novel kind of anthem. Genius.
Drinkme
“Service With A Snarl” (mp3)
from “Service With A Snarl EP”
(Impossible Things)
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