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Suggest some Dancehall RR

djkingottodjkingotto 1,704 Posts
edited November 2018 in Music Talk
i've always LOVED reggae, but don't really know the dancehall calssics that fill the floor. i usually play a quick set on the weekends, but i get tired of the same few jams. anyone have some early 90's to now dancehall knowledge? drop it!my joints, sister nancy bam bam, dawn pen no no no, cutty ranks the stopper, ring the alarm of course, murder she wrote, marjorie and a few others.... what are some of the standards i'm missing here? thanks!
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  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    seriously, there are sooooooo many i can list...

    tennor saw - golden hen
    super cat - dolly baby
    super cat - girls town
    nadine sutherland - action
    sizzla - rain shower
    barrington levy - prison oval rock
    barrington levy - really ANY of his albums really
    mega banton - sound bwoy killing
    nicodemus - boneman connection


    favorite riddims: diseases, and chase vampire
  • djdazedjdaze 3,099 Posts
    super cat - girls town

    speaking of...does anyone know of the remix of that song with the art of noise "beat box" sample?

    might have just been a mashup but I heard it like 8 years ago and it's been haunting me ever since.
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    i got the 12" of that, and that remix is DEF not on there...i am intrigued. tell me more...
  • troublemantroubleman 1,928 Posts
    sleeping bag records did two volumes of a Dancehall Classics series. Both are great. I could only find a picture for the first one


    tracklisting:
    1. Small Horsewoman -- Shelly Thunder
    2. Budy Bye -- Johnny Osbourne
    3. Boneman Connection -- Nicodemus
    4. Money, Money -- Reverend Baddo
    5. Under Mi Sleng Teng -- Wayne Smith
    6. Roach Killer -- Super Chick
    7. Under Mi Sensi -- Barrington Levy
    8. Worries in the Dance -- Frankie Paul
  • djdazedjdaze 3,099 Posts
    oh and to suggest something and not just hijack

    the NYC Badmen compilation was real good, came out in 93, dancehall with hip hop beats

    Red Fox - Dem A Murderer

    Supercat - Scalp Dem

    Capleton - Tour

    Capleton - Wings of the Morning

    Tiger - Who Planned It

    Tanya Stephens - Goggle
  • djdazedjdaze 3,099 Posts
    i got the 12" of that, and that remix is DEF not on there...i am intrigued. tell me more...

    oh I know I got it too, that was the whole reason I BOUGHT the 12" got it home and was sooooooo bummed it wasn't on there. Mashups weren't super big back then so I kinda think it was a remix but I could be wrong.
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    the NYC Badmen compilation was real good, came out in 93, dancehall with hip hop beats


  • OkemOkem 4,617 Posts
    my joints, sister nancy bam bam, dawn pen no no no, cutty ranks the stopper, ring the alarm of course, murder she wrote, marjorie and a few others.... what are some of the standards i'm missing here? thanks!

    Most of these seems to be earlier than 90's. If you're into 80's dancehall than there's no better place to start than this comp.

    * 1. JOHNNY OSBOURNE - Fally Ranking (No. 1 - 1980)
    * 2. BARRINGTON LEVY - Shine Eye Gal (No. 2 - 1979)
    * 3. WAILING SOULS - Firehouse Rock (No. 2 - 1981)
    * 4. GENERAL ECHO - Bathroom Sex (No. 2 - 1980)
    * 5. JOHNNY OSBOURNE - Ice Cream Love (No. 3 - 1980)
    * 6. YELLOWMAN - Morning Ride (No. 2 - 1981)
    * 7. BARRINGTON LEVY - Look Youthman (No. 4 - 1980)
    * 8. CLINT EASTWOOD & GENERAL SAINT - Another One Bites The Dust (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 9. RANKING DREAD - Fattie Boom Boom (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 10. MICHAEL PROPHET - Gunman (No. 3 - 1981)
    * 11. RANKING TOYAN - How The West Was Won (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 12. LINVAL THOMPSON - Look How Me Sexy (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 13. RANKING TOYAN - Spar Wid Me (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 14. JOHN HOLT - Ghetto Queen (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 15. JUNIOR DELGADO - Love Tickles Like Magic (No. 2 - 1979)
    * 16. BARRINGTON LEVY - Bounty Hunter (No. 1 - 1979)
    * 17. JOHNNY CLARKE - Jah Love Is With I (No. 1 - 1979)
    * 18. WAYNE JARRETT - Chip In (No. 8 - 1981)
    * 19. WAYNE WADE - Poor & Humble (No. 7 - 1981)
    * 20. WAILING SOULS - Who No Waan Come (No. 9 - 1981)
    * 21. EEK-A-MOUSE - Wa-Do-Dem (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 22. YELLOWMAN - Yellowman Getting Married (No. 2 - 1982)
    * 23. PAPA MICHIGAN & GENERAL SMILEY - Diseases (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 24. NICODEMUS - Bone Connection (No. 7 - 1981)
    * 25. DENNIS BROWN - To The Foundation (No. 2 - 1981)
    * 26. BARRINGTON LEVY - Mary Long Tongue (No. 4 - 1980)
    * 27. JOHN HOLT - Sweetie Come Brush Me (No. 3 - 1982)
    * 28. TONY TUFF - Come Fe Mash It (No. 4 - 1982)
    * 29. WAILING SOULS - Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall (No. 7 - 1981)
    * 30. BARRINGTON LEVY - River Jordan (Crucifixion) (No. 4 - 1980)
    * 31. RANKING JOE - River Jordan (No. 4 - 1980)
    * 32. TRISTAN PALMER, JAH THOMAS & RANKING TOYAN - Entertainment (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 33. DON CARLOS - I'm Not Crazy (No. 5 - 1981)
    * 34. HUGH MUNDELL - Can't Pop No Style (No. 8 - 1981)
    * 35. WAILING SOULS - Up Front (No. 1 - 1981)
    * 36. RANKING DREAD - Love A Dub (No. 2 - 1981)
    * 37. YELLOWMAN - Mr Chin (No. 2 - 1982)
    * 38. JOHNNY OSBOURNE - Trying To Turn Me On (No. 5 - 1981)
    * 39. GENERAL ECHO featuring BARRINGTON LEVY - Eventide Fire A Disaster (No. 4 - 1980)
    * 40. CLINT EASTWOOD & GENERAL SAINT - Tribute To General Echo (No. 2 - 1981)
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    i got the 12" of that, and that remix is DEF not on there...i am intrigued. tell me more...

    oh I know I got it too, that was the whole reason I BOUGHT the 12" got it home and was sooooooo bummed it wasn't on there. Mashups weren't super big back then so I kinda think it was a remix but I could be wrong.


    we were callin em blends back then...still do today as far as me personally. i had heard so many crazy dancehall blends and shit then that people were maybe pressing like 10 copies of. aarrrrrrrrrrgggggg i wish i took the opprotunity to collect some of that ish back then rather than just the regular trifecta of jazz/funk/soul
  • OkemOkem 4,617 Posts
    i got the 12" of that, and that remix is DEF not on there...i am intrigued. tell me more...

    oh I know I got it too, that was the whole reason I BOUGHT the 12" got it home and was sooooooo bummed it wasn't on there. Mashups weren't super big back then so I kinda think it was a remix but I could be wrong.


    we were callin em blends back then...still do today as far as me personally. i had heard so many crazy dancehall blends and shit then that people were maybe pressing like 10 copies of. aarrrrrrrrrrgggggg i wish i took the opprotunity to collect some of that ish back then rather than just the regular trifecta of jazz/funk/soul


    If it's just a case of an instro + acca, surely you could recreate it easily enough. There've been a whole load of ragga acapella releases since 'mash-ups' became popular again.
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    i just thought of some more...

    don carlos - spread out
    john holt - police in helicopter
    yellowman - zungazungazang (how ever you spell that)
    u roy - weather baloon (the back picture on that album is the best)


    i made this mixtape back in '01 of nothing but early dancehall & dub and that shit STILL gets crazy play around my way from my friends & their friends. that was actually the only joint i ever put out on CD so maybe that's why. i've gotten more than a couple requests through the grapevine that peoples copies are getting old & scratched up and they want new ones.
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    If you're interested in things that have come out within the last year--or even the last decade, for that matter--check this half-hour mix I made in December:

    http://theserockspop.blogspot.com/2007/12/duppy-ranks.html
  • djdazedjdaze 3,099 Posts
    i got the 12" of that, and that remix is DEF not on there...i am intrigued. tell me more...

    oh I know I got it too, that was the whole reason I BOUGHT the 12" got it home and was sooooooo bummed it wasn't on there. Mashups weren't super big back then so I kinda think it was a remix but I could be wrong.


    we were callin em blends back then...still do today as far as me personally. i had heard so many crazy dancehall blends and shit then that people were maybe pressing like 10 copies of. aarrrrrrrrrrgggggg i wish i took the opprotunity to collect some of that ish back then rather than just the regular trifecta of jazz/funk/soul

    haha I'm just keeping up with the terminology. I called them blends back then too.

    I don't remember ever hearing it again after that so it could have been something like you're describing.
  • djdazedjdaze 3,099 Posts
    i got the 12" of that, and that remix is DEF not on there...i am intrigued. tell me more...

    oh I know I got it too, that was the whole reason I BOUGHT the 12" got it home and was sooooooo bummed it wasn't on there. Mashups weren't super big back then so I kinda think it was a remix but I could be wrong.


    we were callin em blends back then...still do today as far as me personally. i had heard so many crazy dancehall blends and shit then that people were maybe pressing like 10 copies of. aarrrrrrrrrrgggggg i wish i took the opprotunity to collect some of that ish back then rather than just the regular trifecta of jazz/funk/soul


    If it's just a case of an instro + acca, surely you could recreate it easily enough. There've been a whole load in ragga acapella releases since 'mash-ups' became popular again.

    no it wasn't just an instro, it was a beat made from a sample from Beat Box...at least that's how I remember it.
  • djkingottodjkingotto 1,704 Posts
    my joints, sister nancy bam bam, dawn pen no no no, cutty ranks the stopper, ring the alarm of course, murder she wrote, marjorie and a few others.... what are some of the standards i'm missing here? thanks!

    Most of these seems to be earlier than 90's. If you're into 80's dancehall than there's no better place to start than this comp.


    thanks ya'll! yeah i knew some of those were a bit older. this gal i knew up in vancouver had radio tapes from toronto from the early 90s late 80s and just joint after joint and no idea what they were! i'll look for this comp....
  • OkemOkem 4,617 Posts
    i got the 12" of that, and that remix is DEF not on there...i am intrigued. tell me more...

    oh I know I got it too, that was the whole reason I BOUGHT the 12" got it home and was sooooooo bummed it wasn't on there. Mashups weren't super big back then so I kinda think it was a remix but I could be wrong.


    we were callin em blends back then...still do today as far as me personally. i had heard so many crazy dancehall blends and shit then that people were maybe pressing like 10 copies of. aarrrrrrrrrrgggggg i wish i took the opprotunity to collect some of that ish back then rather than just the regular trifecta of jazz/funk/soul


    If it's just a case of an instro + acca, surely you could recreate it easily enough. There've been a whole load in ragga acapella releases since 'mash-ups' became popular again.

    no it wasn't just an instro, it was a beat made from a sample from Beat Box...at least that's how I remember it.


    Well you can get the acapella here.

    Now all you need is the beat.. theBreaks says these sample 'beatbox'

    * "Beat Box"
    Gospel Gangstas - "One Time"
    Heavy D - "Swingin Wit Da Heavsta"
    Jungle Brothers - "You Make Me Sweat"
    Marky Mark - "You Gotta Believe"
    Professor X - "Shalom"
    X-Clan - "In the Ways of the Scales"

    maybe one of those would fit.
    (as you maybe be able to tell I is bored)
  • magneticmagnetic 2,678 Posts
    http://www.jamrid.com/Riddims.php
  • OkemOkem 4,617 Posts
    Some 90's classics.

    Sail Away Riddim






    Bookshelf Riddim






    Filthy riddim





    Playground riddim/JoyRide Riddim

  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    i had heard so many crazy dancehall blends and shit then that people were maybe pressing like 10 copies of. aarrrrrrrrrrgggggg i wish i took the opprotunity to collect some of that ish back then rather than just the regular trifecta of jazz/funk/soul

    these things are def all over thrift shops, as most of the club dj's who bought 'em dumped em after 6 months...

    this is one of my favorites...

  • mordecaimordecai 2,204 Posts
    What you guys do?
    backspin, airhorn, lickshot


    i have the same problem djkingotto...

    here are some I play when the time calls for it...these are all kinda played tho too...
    Lil Vicious & Doug E Fresh - Freaks
    Cutty Ranks - A Who Seh Me Dun
    Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
    Junior Reid - One Blood
    Krystal & Shabba Ranks - Twice My Age
    Sean Paul - Deport Them, No Bligh
    Shaggy & Rayvon - Big Up
    Tanto Metro & Devonte - Everyone Falls In Love, Say Wooee
    Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go
    Yellowman - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
  • OkemOkem 4,617 Posts
    I need to learn some techniques-It's hard to mix this stuff clean, cos it seems like for the most part, the singer starts at the very beginning of the song, and they never stop till the record runs out, leaving no time to mix. So I usually mix from vocal to instrumental, then new vocal. The problem is that sometimes the instro's are a little boring, so you got to be quick on the mix. What you guys do?


    I was going to post a link to Rodigan's site, that has a real nice mix by him where he plays differnt styles, but it appears to have disapeared.
    Most ragga djs I've seen (IRL) play several tracks on each riddim, so they just cut from one track to the next, no need for any fancy beat mixing. Other wise its not unlike mixing soul/funk. But like mordecai said you cant go wrong with "backspin, airhorn, lickshot"
  • MurdockMurdock 542 Posts
    If you need to venture into da Blendz, try the classic anthem:

    Bounty Killer - Cellular Phone Remix 12"

    For any additional info I would call Soul One ... He knows all about the dancehall.
  • DeeRockDeeRock 1,836 Posts
    Telephone Love

    One Draw

    Don't Test Me

    Kuff

    Wicked Inna Bed

    Life Is What You Make It

    Chase Vampire

    Sycamore Tree

    Bashment Party

    Chi Chi Man

    Diseases

    More Punnany

    Dance the Angel

    Bad man No Dress Like Gal

    Burrup

    etc. etc.
  • The-gafflerThe-gaffler 2,190 Posts
    found a little goodie this weekend at one of my spots, this Boom Bye Bye joint with buju of course, but also got mad lion, general tk, ect. made my weekend

    also forgot to add one of my all time eastern pkwy badmon favorites fi dem danceflur

    jigsy king - rudebwoy medley




    we na ramp wit dee chi chi
  • ayresayres 1,452 Posts
    Eleven and I did a double mix CD of classic dancehall last year. We approached it to go a step deeper than the super obvious hits like Action and Budy Bye, but still joints that get played at parties a lot. This sounds like exactly the type of shit you're looking for so the tracklisting should be helpful:


    The Rub - Rub UP 2CD

    CD 1 (slower joints):

    1. Reggie Stepper / Ninja Man - Intro
    2. Buju Banton - Buju Moving
    3. Buju Banton - Love Sponge
    4. Pinchers - Bandalero
    5. Cobra - Gundalero
    6. Sizzla - Explain to Almighty
    7. Half Pint - Substitute Lover
    8. Tony Rebel - Fresh Vegetable
    9. Tenor Saw - Golden Hen
    10. Shabba Ranks - Peanie Peanie
    11. Shinehead - Know How Fi Chat Rock
    12. Frankie Paul - Cassandra
    13. Cocoa Tee - I've Lost My Sonia
    14. Frankie Paul - Alesha
    15. Supercat - Under Pressure
    16. Reggie Stepper - Cu Donuh
    17. Frankie Paul - Pass the Tusheng Peng
    18. Johnny Osbourne - Water Pumping
    19. Garnett Silk - Everything I've Got
    20. Buju Banton & Wayne Wonder - Bonafied Love
    21. Delroy Wilson - I Don't Know Why
    22. Barrington Levi - Under Mi Sensi
    23. Ini Kamoze - World A Music
    24. Barrington Levy - Murderer
    25. Carlton Livingston - 100 Weight of Collie Weed
    26. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
    27. Eric Donaldson - Cherry Oh Baby

    CD 2 (faster joints):

    1. Mega Banton - Sound Boy Killing
    2. Buju Banton - Love Me Browning
    3. Johnny Osbourne - Ice Cream Sound
    4. Red Dragon - Good Hole College
    5. Super Cat - Mud Up
    6. Terror Fabulous - Behold
    7. Beenie Man - Slam
    8. Buju Banton - Only Man
    9. Spragga Benz - Tingz A Gwan
    10. Buju Banton - Man A Look
    11. Terror Fabulous - Number 2
    12. Wayne Wonder / Don Yute - Love In Excess
    13. Little Twitch - Bucket-A-Shit
    14. Cutty Ranks - Ease Up
    15. Lady G - Breeze Off
    16. Beenie Man - Let Him Go
    17. Degree - Traffic Blocking
    18. Beenie Man - Old Dog
    19. Alley Cat - Hot Gal
    20. Spragga Benz - Girls Watcher
    21. Wayne Wonder - Dreamland
    22. Beenie Man - Memories
    23. Beenie Man - Dengue Fever
    24. Ricky General - Skettle Bomb
    25. Nardo Ranks - Burrup
    26. Buju Banton - Love How The Gal Dem Flex
    27. Daddy Screw - Model Pon You On Time
    28. General Degree - Mr. Do It Nice
    29. Simpleton - Coca Cola Shape
    30. Joseph Stepper - Wife
    31. Roundhead - Punny Printer
    32. Admiral Bailey - Woman You Sweet
    33. Beenie Man - Teenie Weenie
    34. Louie Culture - Big & Bold
    35. Spragga Benz - Machine Gun Kelly
    36. Beenie Man - One Girl
    37. TOK - On the Radio
    38. Bounty Killer - Anytime
    39. Beenie Man, TOK & Mr. Vegas - Reload
    40. Lexxus - Ring Me Cellie
    41. Shabba Ranks - Trailer Load A Girls

  • hugh_lucerohugh_lucero 485 Posts
    Dj Meistro's 'Ramdidance2' is very nice - theres a snippet of it here
  • meistromocomeistromoco 954 Posts
    Dj Meistro's 'Ramdidance2' is very nice - theres a snippet of it here

    Thanks dood. Glad you are feelin it. Here is the track list...it's got some newer rootsy joints, some lesser known classics, and some joints for the dance..

    1. Chezidek - Who I Am
    2. Fantan Mojah - So Many Problems
    3. Sizzla - Show More Love
    4. Sugar Roy & Conrad Crystal - Righteous Train
    5. Lutan Fiyah - A Lie
    6. Pinchers - Kingston Jamaica
    7. QQ - Never Know the Use of Her
    8. Alborosie - Slam Bam
    9. Sizzla - Shout it Out
    10. Smokie Benz & Tony Tuff - Fulfillment Time
    11. Al Poncho - Me Come From
    12. Capleton - I Know
    13. Buju Banton & Pinchers - Don & Dupes
    14. Pinchers - Don is Don
    15. Top Cat - Pass the Chalice
    16. Scion Success - Number 1 Title
    17. Super Cat, Sugar Minott & U-Roy - A Class Rub-a-Dub
    18. Apachie Scratchie - Father and Son
    19. Michael Famous - Run Them
    20. Pinchers - Bandelero
    21. Wickerman - Bow Delero
    22. Tony Rebel - War & Crime
    23. Papa San - Herb in the Morning
    24. Tony Rebel - Something Ah Guh Happen
    25. Wayne Ranks & Louie Culture - Circle Africa
    26. Super Cat - Come Down
    27. Capleton - Punany Wid Di Dum
    28. Daddie Ruppie - Punanay Can't Done
    29. General TK - Long Donkey Meat
    30. Louie Culture - Ganga Lee
    31. Louie Culture - Pressure
    32. Simpleton - Coco Cola Shape
    33. Capleton - No. 1 Pon the Look Good Chart
    34. Mad Cobra - Fat & Buff
    35. Beres Hammond - No More Pain
    36. Pinchers & Bounty Killer - Twenty One
    37. Tony Rebel - Firing Strong
    38. Gospel Fish - Wickedest Thing in Life
    39. Frankie Paul - Dancehall Run Hat
    40. Chaka Demus & Pliers - Boom
    41. Steven Marley, Damien Marley, & Buju Banton - Traffic Jam (rmx)

    Here is the track list to part 1 (paypal me $8 for this one)...same formula as part 2:

    1. Intro/Perfect - Hand Cart Boy
    2. Damien Marley ft. Eek-a-Mouse & Bounty Killer - Khaki Suit
    3. Super Cat - Girls Town / Pharcyde - Passin Me By / Stalag Riddim
    4. Junior Kelly - Love So Nice
    5. Techniques & Lady G - Samfie Lover
    6. Super Cat, Frankie Paul, Heavy D - Big & Ready
    7. Capleton & Method Man - Wings of the Morning / Life Riddim
    8. Lady G - Naturality
    9. Luciano - Burn
    10. Chronicle - Jah Rise
    11. Razah - The Only One For Me
    12. Burro Banton - One for the Money
    13. Burro Banton - Settle Yourself
    14. Pampidoo - Synthesizer Voice
    15. Little Twitch - Good Work
    16. Red Rose - Under Mi Fat Ting
    17. Flourgon - Bounce
    18. Red Dragon - Duck
    19. Papa San & Lady G - Legal Rights
    20. Tinga Stewart & Ninja Man - Cover Me
    21. Tony Rebel - Guns and Ammo
    22. Tony Rebel - Hypocrites
    23. Buju Banton, Tony Rebel, Terry Ganzie - Tribal War
    24. Beres Hammond, Buju Banton, Assasin - Loving in the Street
    25. Loving in the Street Version
    26. Richie Spice - Devil
    27. Chuck Fender - Hip Hip Hooray
    28. Sugar Minott & Sizzla - Dem a Rush Me
    29. Richie Spice - The Way You Living
    30. Anthony B - System
    31. Turbulence - Rest a Show
    32. Fantan Mojah - Hungry
    33. George Nooks - Call on Jah
    34. Richie Spice - Operation King Fish
    35. Pinchers - Fire
    36. Anthony Cruz & Buju Banton - Too Bloody
    37. Yami Bolo & Capleton - Put Down the Weapon
    38. Terror Fabulous - Jah Works
    39. Half Pint & Anthony B - Two to One
    40. Sugar Roy & Conrad Crystal - Tired of It
    41. Richie Spice - Bad Lamp
    42. Richie Stephens - Friends and Lovers
    43. Tanya Stephens - We Nah Run
    44. Gregory Isaacs - Cool Down the Dub
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