In 2009, DJ Zinc reemerged with the massive 10-track “Crack House EP” (which you can grab on Beatport) and if his recent teasers on SoundCloud are any indication, Zinc shows no signs of letting anytime soon.
Zinc + Benga – My DJ (ft. Ms Dynamite) [clip]
Zinc – Wile out (ft. Ms Dynamite) [clip]
Zinc – Music makers [radio rip]
[via Hotcakes]
Ms. Thing and Psycho Tanbad jumped on Dre Skull’s Smoke Machine Riddim (the riddim underlying Vybz Kartel’s “Yuh Love”), and they shot a proper video to boot. “Bonify” is screening on Hype TV in Jamaica and making a strong push in Trinidad and Barbados. Grab the mp3s below!
[Audio: http://www.mixpakrecords.com/mp3/Ms.%20Thing%20%26%20Psycho%20Tanbad%20-%20Bonify.mp3]
Ms. Thing & Psycho Tanbad – Bonify (320)
[Audio: http://www.mixpakrecords.com//mp3/Ms.%20Thing%20%26%20Psycho%20Tanbad%20-%20Bonify%20(Clean).mp3]
Ms. Thing & Psycho Tanbad – Bonify (CLEAN) (320)
2009 is done. Mavado and Vybz Kartel are pals, Buju Banton is in jail, and Sting—billed as the greatest stageshow on earth—was underwhelming as all get out. How did we get here? Last year ended with fretting about the fact that reggae music was less and less Jamaican—Matisyahu being on top of the charts and such. This year ended in pretty much the same way. However, despite worries about the state of music—the Jamaica Gleaner spent pages of its December 27 issue questioning dancehall’s parties, professors and punny printers, wondering in print about what the future holds for reggae—and the widely circulated report of an eight-copy sale figure for Vybz Kartel’s Pon Di Gaza in its first week, it was also a banner year for dancehall on the world stage.
If you want a nice comprehensive look back at 2009 in the world of reggae and dancehall, look no further than Soundclash’s two part, year in review.
The name January derives from the Roman god, Janus, a two headed god with each head facing in opposite directions—effectively looking backwards and forwards—and with our first post in 2010, we will do the same. Here is a documentary on the making of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” which includes interviews with the band, the engineers and the designer of the album art. May we aspire to make great things this year.
They’re everything most men wish they could be: dapper, sophisticated, modern, and really, REALLY good at making a new genre of house music that has the world enthralled, ecstatic and confused, all at the same time. They’re also secretly a new breed of super-human warriors who can survive being submerged in lava and can go weeks without sleep. Okay, so the last part wasn’t true, but geeez, Renaissance Man have one of the most impressive work ethics I’ve heard of in years.
They describe themselves as “a platform for contemporary dance music” and 2009 saw a rush of new users embrace the platform. With an onslaught of remixes for Turbo, Kitsune, several classy bootcuts, and EPs on Dubsided and Sound Pellegrino, Renaissance Man arrived in style.
Scandinavian upstarts Martti (Jaxxon) and Ville (Downtown) took some time while they were in the studio to talk about the resurgance of open minded dance music. [Note: this interview took place several months back, apologies for our delay in posting.]
Brendan: What are some of your first memories and experiences of house music?
Jaxxon: The city where I used to live in Finland when I was younger called Turku had a very vibrant house scene in the 90’s. The whole late 90’s deep house thing hit me hard.
Downtown: Yeah, same here. I started feeling it in the late 90s.
Jaxxon: Actually we are now working in the studio one of the O.G Finnish house guys, Sasse, aka Freestyle Man in Berlin.
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