Unknown DJ - Toasting Over Slim Smith's Time Has Come. YouTube Description: "Iron Sound UK dub plate from 1972 chanting over Slim Smith's hit of the same year Time Has Come also versioned by DJ Jerry Lewis for Bunny Lee...........enjoy!!"
Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Rap Roots - Toast To The High Life. . .
Unknown DJ - Toasting Over Slim Smith's Time Has Come. YouTube Description: "Iron Sound UK dub plate from 1972 chanting over Slim Smith's hit of the same year Time Has Come also versioned by DJ Jerry Lewis for Bunny Lee...........enjoy!!"
Friday, April 8, 2011
The Origins of Hip Hop - Jamaican Sound System Toasting
"Freedom Train" by U Roy chanting over The Heptones version of "God Bless The Children" (released in JA 1972 on the Pressure Beat label by Joe Gibbs).
Definition: Toasting is a style of lyrical chanting which, in Dancehall music, involves a deejay talking over a riddim. Though the art of chanting over a beat is quite ancient, and found in many African-based musical traditions, toasting became quite popular in Jamaica in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and "sound systems" (traveling deejays and producers with large speakers and a library of beats and riddims) would feature toasting as part of their musical entertainment.(Via.)
Toasting is not only important in Jamaican music, but also featured heavily in the development of American popular music, as it was Jamaican-born toaster DJ Kool Herc who brought the style to Queens, subsequently setting off the entire history of rap and hip-hop music.
U-Roy Chant Down Babylon [LIVE] at Montreal Reggae Fest 2009.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Rub-A-Dub-DUB & I Still Can't Get Clean...
"A Dread Dub (Glebstar Dubstep Remix)" by The Aggrovators.
The Best Dubstep 2009! UKDubstepTV.
"My Trees" by Starski & Novakane.
"Stuck On You (Fake Blood Remix)" by Little Boots.
"Deep Roots Dub" by Vibronics.
I've heard Borgore before (#1 on the 2009 dubstep countdown), but his shit is too dirty/sexist in addition to being dirty/dubstep for me. Fake Blood claims to isolate individual syllables from the artists (s)he remixes to make them say, "Fake Blood." From dutty back to Jamaican dub, bred'ren.
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