FADER’s Ghetto Palms Top Rankin / Best of 2008
Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago. Now he compiled the best of his series into one post. Here is what Eddie had to say abot the chart: - Let’s be clear. This is not an Eddie STATS end of the year critical
picks list. This is the Ghetto Palmes d’Or for musics released in 2008.
For instance: even though Santogold, Vampire Weekend, Natty, Hypnotic
Brass, etc. etc. all dropped CDs in ’08 that I personally fucks with
(and even though a few have even been smuggled into mixes in this
space) for one reason or another they were not exactly Ghetto Palms
material. Appropriate to the New Year’s season, that meant assembling
this short-list involved a lot of soul searching about exactly what the
concept of this column is, and what makes all these far-flung sounds
fit into one category. Most of the entries are free downloads and all of them are streamable. – Wicked list!
