"Deadly Dragon inna CINCO DE MAYO Style" Selectors: Scratch Famous, JD, Queen Majesty & Mr. K Date: 5/5 (Tue) Location: APT Downstaris (419 W, 13th St) Time: 10pm - 4am Subway: 14th St (A, C, E, L) Admission: No Cover
"Friendly Fridays" Selectors: Galis Sound, Outstanding Sound with Red Lion Date: Each & Every Friday Location: Caribbean American Ent. Cen (1640 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn) Time: 10pm - Until Admission: $10 (Adv) $15 (@the Door) Free Ital Food All Night!!
Underground 60's, 70's, 80's Rub a Dub Dance!
"When Dance Was Nice" Feat: Jah Lion, Rock of Gibraltar, African Violet and Soecial Live Rub a Dub Artist Date: 5/9 (Sat) Loaction: Al Paragus HQ (520 East 23rd St, Brooklyn) Time: 10pm - 4am Subway: Newkirk Ave (Q, 2, 5) Admission: Love Thy Neighbor
First came DEADLY DRAGON INNA ROOTS STYLE and now we are coming with the big Part Two -- DEEJAYS INNA ROOTS STYLE. This CD is a celebration of the often overlooked power of seventies Roots DJs. In our opinion certain DJs in the 70s could take hold of a serious underground roots riddim and ride it to a place of pure consciousness just as well as any singer. So, we have put together a mix of 38 tracks by DJs like Bongo Gene, Jah Stitt, Big Joe, Prince Far I and more that had that perfect combination of driving riddim and ferocious vocals. From one track to the next, the power of the DJ grows and grows so we hope you enjoy this ya one! As always, our CDs are mixed live with 2 turntables, mixer and sound effects...absolutely no computer overdubs or edits.
Big up to all who attended the rootical dance by Ras Kush of Black Redemption Sound & Digital English w/ special guest Judah Eskendar Tafari, Red Lion and others....
It was a night of pure roots, steppers inna Black Redemption style!
Boom Shot! We recently linked up with the man Dennis Star for our next series of reissues and we wanted some things that have never been reissued before. The first is this amazing version of Perdominent by Papa San. Everyone knows the Black Solidarity version but this one was recorded around the same time over a different track that lets San's speed style come to the fore with mad effect. This one TUFF like metal mi boss! As always, this comes direct from Dennis Star's master tapes and is strictly limited to a pressing of 500 pieces. EXCLUSIVE to Deadly Dragon Sounds!
Boom Shot! We recently linked up with the man Dennis Star for our next series of reissues and we wanted some things that have never been reissued before. This one is Horace Martin's definitive take on the Revolution riddim. Ruff vocals and lyrics slamming like a fist against one of the tuffest versions of Revolution ever cut As always, this comes direct from Dennis Star's master tapes and is strictly limited to a pressing of 500 pieces. EXCLUSIVE to Deadly Dragon Sounds!
Orginal BDP Crew member and foundation hip hop artist Just Ice stopped by the store to stock up on some WICKED 45s -- Nuff respect to one of the original innovators of the Hip Hop nation!
"Mission 45 Clash Tournament" Date: 4/18 (Sat) Loaction: Studio Partita (大阪府大阪市住之江区北加賀屋4-1-55 名村造船跡地) Time: Open 22:00 / Start 0:30 All Night Ticket: Adv 3000yen / Door 3500yen
Featring Sound: Sound Platinum from Osaka Rock Desire from Osaka Oasis Rising Sound from Osaka Fire Works from Osaka Blazing Master from Kyoto Sweetsop from Tokyo
"Roots Steppers Dubdance" Feat. Judah Eskander Tafari, Digital English, Black Redemption Date: 4/19(Sun) Location: Santo Party House (96 Lafayette St, New York) Time: 10pm Open Subway: Canal St Admission: $10
On Friday, April 10th the Legends David Rodigan, Jack Scorpio, King Jammy and Downbeat the Ruler met at Amazura for one of the biggest clashes of the year.
The rules for this one were fairly complex but important to keep in mind for this narritive. There were four 15 minute rounds. Each of these rounds were worth 3 points. When these rounds were done, all artists go straight to Chune Fi Chune. Each win in the Chune fi Chune round is worth 1 point. After 5 tunes one person gets eliminated and then there are 5 more chune fi chune worth 1 point each.
ROUND ONE:
Rodigan was up first -- dressed to the nines -- and set the tone with a nice Peter Hunningdale Dub of Marley's THANK YOU LORD. He then went into some nice likkle set of chunes highlighting both his knowledge and his awareness of the dancehall vibes of Brooklyn.
Jack Scorpio then got up and appeared to seriously be a giant -- Dude must be 6' 7" and towered over the st age. His first tune was Beres' No Disrespect and it seriously flopped. I started almost to get nervous that Scorpio would just play some seriously boring music and totally kill the vibe. But, surprise of surprises, the man started pulling a heap of nice dubs of Jammy's sleng teng including Bushman's "Call the Hearse" and John Wayne's "Call The Police". Scorpio felt the vibes and was doing all sorts of crazy dances and basically getting the crowd on his side by surprising everyone with his energy.
Down Beat was next and played a good, but uninspired set including Gladiators "Tribulation Dub" and Sluggy's "Lightning & Thunder". However, this set kind of fizzled out in the end with some Gregory dubs that didn't really work.
Jammys got up and played some classic Jammys and got an okay response with Johnny's "In The Area" and Nitty Gritty "Good Morning Teacher" but slowed down with selection and fizzled out.
Winner: SCORPIO
2nd Round:
Rodigan had a wicked round going into his Bounty Killer box and dropping a heap of nice dubs. Ended the round with some old pre-release specials from Slim Smith that I thought were wicked. These were specials that Rodigan picked up in the 70s from KING TUBBY that were one-of-a-kind mixes of "My Conversation" and "Beatude".
Scorpio got up and started his set with some weird ass soca shit and just basically flopped himself from the start.
Downbeat Took this round in a massive way playing a killer set of Marcia dubs including "I Shall Sing" and a massive set of Dubs that started with Ken Parker's "My Whole World is Falling Down" and then rode that riddim with a Shabba and a nice Sluggy dub of "95% Black".
Jammy then took the stage and en ded up getting booed.
Winner: DOWNBEAT!
3rd Round:
Rodigan just kind of flopped in this round playing nothing special.
Scorpio got up and did nothing special except for one Dobby Dobson dub which got a nice forward.
Downbeat came out wicked starting with a killer Jr. Delgado dub on the Revolution riddim and then tore down the place with a set of Pressure & Slide Dubs. Then got a HUGE forward with Roy Richards "Freedom Blues" and ended in a massive way with a Mighty Diamonds dub of "Tear off the Roof"
Jammy came out and flopped again and got mad boos.
Since time was moving fast, they went straight for the Chune Fi Chune.
J ammy won this one with Super Black - Deh Wid You.
Jammy continued to win the Chune fi Chune with a set of classic Jammys tunes, a Tenor Saw dub, so me Nitty Gritty and eventually eliminated Rody and Scorpio.
Then it was Chun e fi Chune with Downbeat and Jammys both having 6 points.
At this point Downbeat lost his stride getting too caught up in incontroversies relating to a suspect B urning Spear dub that Jammys played. If I were Down Beat I would have countered Jammy's selections with some classic 80s material that I know he has like Red Rose "Tempo" or something like that. If he had done that it would have thrown Jammy's momentum. In any case Jammy's ended up winning with 9 points to Downbeat's 7 points. I thought it was too bad that Downbeat played so wicked in the Rounds and ended up getting beaten out in the Chune fi Chune as Jammy's played TERRIBLE in the rounds. But that is the Clash Life and these things happen.
Big up to ECさん (Overheat) as his brilliant film "RuffN' Tuff - Founders of the Immortal Riddim" debuts in the US at the Sacramento Film Festival on April 2.
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