Brass Trax presents: Dancehall’s Answer
When the mercury is pushing the upper 90s, it’s time to nice up the dance, like they do in Jamaica. There’s nothing that sounds better in a sweaty summertime club than the slack rhythms of dancehall reggae. You know about versioning. A dancehall DJ (that’s the vocalist) sings or chats over pre-existing tracks, known as “rhythms” or “riddims,” which get recycled over and over again. The hottest rhythms have been versioned more times than anybody can count and have gone through as many revisions as a Faulkner novel. Dancehall selectors love to weave together skeins of tunes on the same rhythm; nothing mixes better with a drum track, after all, than the very same drum track. Today, Brass Trax begins a crash course
presenting the biggest hits on classic reggae rhythms, so that next time you hit the dancehall, you can confidently tell the selector to “pull up.” Now, meet the “Answer.”
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