Unnu dun kno seh a Empire mi seh. So yu can si why mi buck di volume pon da 1 ya an beat down di place, when I unexpectedly heard this midway thru Santogold & Diplo's brilliant 2008 Top Ranking mixtape:
EMPIRE AN J.O.P. AT DEM TO BUMBOCLAAT!!!
Big up UK dubstep producers Benga & Skream fi dat.
Other highlights on the 'dubtape':
1. Santogold's brilliant rocksteady/dub reprise of the punk classic by The Clash, Guns Of Brixton (updated as a Brooklyn anthem), which I'd included in my last post
2. Get It Up with M.I.A., featuring a great Native war dance sample
3. A sick remix of Shawty Lo's Dey Know
4. Vicious verses by some of London's wikidis toasters over the now-legendary Creator beat
5. all interspersed with a great sampling of classic ska, rocksteady, reggae and early dancehall chunez sprinkled throughout.
There's something so... delicious about how Jamaican producers made music in the '70s, with the echoing vocals and amped-up live instruments and the minimalism of the riddims... for a long time I've resisted the tendency of foreign musicologists to recognise dub as a precursor genre between rocksteady and dancehall, but this mixtape, which showcases dub's influence on international music perfectly, has changed my mind. It took a DJ from Philly to school me on the music of my own country.
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