Ghetto Palms 77: Mavado + Natalie Storm / Sizzla + De Tropix / Exclusive Refixes

I cannot tell a lie, y’all. It was not a particularly good week for dancehall. My ears got so sick of trance synths, auto-tune and trap drums they almost walked off the set before I had anything to palmcast. (sidebar: seriously, music dudes of the world—change it up. I have defended auto-tune and I am not on some DOA type purism but please, pick your spots. Rotate your stock. Let that field lie fallow for a season. Give the next piece of gear a bligh.) There would be no joy in ghettopalmsland at all if not for some fresh remixes injecting new shoots into the landscape. Natalie Storm jumped on some tambarzao drums, De Tropix and Shredah whupped some UK biz on Vybz and Sizzla and coupe decale and kuduro are apparently crossing the streams in France of all places. Before I knew it I had a Ghetto Palms Allstar part 2. Which just underscores the philosophy behind this column—a little cross-pollination is good for the soil.

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Ghetto Palms 68: New One Drop—Collie Buddz / Jahdan / Vybz / Jr. Gong

A Jr. Gong thing again. His new 45 “Holiday” just struck me because compared with the Nas collabo I ran a few weeks ago, it really shows how versatile he’s gotten since Halfway Tree. The hook, even though it’s powerful, sets you up you for the standard (insert first name) Marley tribute to Bob band-style vocal. But then the riddim cuts out and you just hear Saddam throat cut off/ The dollars ting go soft in a straight Supercat, Warning! Warning, ducking bottles at Sting circa 1991 flow. I could spend some time breaking that down several ways—for one, as a measure of ‘Cat’s still-crazy influence. It could be enough that the two top selling reggae artists in the world—Damian and Sean Paul—both owe the largest part of their swagger to you. But when Bob Marley’s heir is looking at you as the blueprint to update his father’s vision for the 21st century, that’s big.

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Ghetto Palms: Jahdan Blakkamoore / 77Klash

It’s been a long, long time coming…but y’all knew a Klash was gon’ come. Or more accurately a Klash and Jahdan, because it would be criminal to overlook Klash’s partner in crime, he of the coffee in a thermos-like niceness on the singjay stylings. Friends of the column and spiritual godfathers of 2000Tone, 77Klash and J. Blakkamoore have been podcasted, refixed, Dutty Artzed, Gen F’d up and namechecked, but the two most prolific and influential Ghetto Palmists on my home planet of Brooklyn have yet to get a palm of their own. And that is all going to come to a clashing halt right now.

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Freeload: Jahdan Blakkamoore f. 77Klash, “Best I Ever Had freestyle” MP3

When we heard Jahdan Blakkamoore 77Klash! freestyle Radiohead’s “Climbing the Walls” over Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” our brain had a minor malfunction because that many awesome polar sounds/words in a short space makes our shit feel like one of those Dairy Queen brownie batter Blizzards. Blizzard-like in his own way and just as much on the tongues of young summer lovers, Blakkamoore’s name has been criss-crossing town from rooftops bumping Major Lazer to cellars of New York’s tropical parties. While we’re waiting for more, including his Buzzrock Warrior album slated to drop mid-September and the upcoming Bazooka Shot Mixtape, we’ve been listening to anything that we can can get our sweaty palms on including our very own Ghetto Palm mix.



Download: Jahdan Blakkamoore f. 77Klash, “Best I Ever Had freestyle”

FADER TV: Major Lazer Live at the F62 Party

Last night about 400 of our closest and overarchingly attractive friends rolled up on a secret Bushwick rooftop for one of the most epic FADER issue release parties in recent history, celebrating FADER #62, starring Major Lazer and the new Mad Decent vanguard. We rented some palm trees, made a lifesize cardboard cutout of Rodney Dangerfield holding a boombox and handed out buckets of Budweiser and Southern Comfort. After amazing performances by NY princesa Maluca and Philly destruction punks Popo, Major Lazer commandeered the stage. Everybody at the party flocked to them like moths to flame: Their album dropped yesterday, and after their NY performance on Saturday, it seems like the entire city just developed an Empire State-sized boner for them. So when they performed party faves “Pon De Floor” and “Hold the Line,” with bespoke-neon hypeman 77Klash, extra focused hand drummer Prince Terrence, and two of the most energetic young mummies we have ever seen, the crowd became the definition of berzerker. It was kind of cold outside, but it felt like the perfect spark for hopefully the best summer ever.

Freeload: 77Klash f. Matt Shadetek, “Pressure”

We’ve been following the individual trails of Brooklyn’s own power-chatter 77Klash and beatmaker extraordinaire Matt Shadetek for a real hot minute, as musical innovators of the biggest borough and as style inspirers (shout to Klash’s reversible multicolor vest and purple button-down he wore during his special live performance on FADER Radio in Austin. Individually, we sweat them, but together, they make a transcendent kind of bass-laden magic (see: ““Brooklyn Anthem“). This new Klash track with the evil grimey deez by Shadetek is the Jamaican-influenced equivalent of two fuzzy eyebrows slanted downward in a mean face, or maybe just the sound of your huge crew rolling up to the park in like, five trucks. We will roll with you, dudes!



Download: 77Klash f. Matt Shadetek, “Pressure” (via Mad Decent)

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Freeload/Stream: 77Klash + Miss Banks + Drop The Lime Megapost

Last time we posted about Miss Bank$, we were hoping 77Klash would link her up with some properly tweaked beats, and email has answered our prayers. “P-U-S-S-Y” is Miss Banks over Klash’s Skully riddim (the same he went over for “Caroline,” which is on a FADER 7-inch and easily downloadable). It is possible this song is entirely too raw for a girl who we think is still in high school. Should we even be allowed to listen to this? Is Trina her mom? Either way, she definitely says “the weed is smelling like shampoo.” We can’t print any of the other lyrics. Klash is working on a Skully riddim comp and has a slew of folks planned.

Klash also sent over his new song “Dangerous Nights” from a different EP he has coming out. Drop The Lime produced this it and brings them both solidly pointed in the half direction between weirdo British people with face piercings and serious weed habits that are obsessed with reggae and dancehall and the people in NY and LA (and on the internet) that like to stay out really really late in dark clubs hitting themselves in the face because the bass is too deep. Majorly deep. Check out a stream of that song below and download the Miss Bank$’s filthiness.



Download: Miss Bank$, “P-U-S-S-Y”



Stream: Drop The Lime f. 77Klash, “Dangerous Nights”

Freeload: Miss Banks, “Seventeen” + “Gimme A Chance”

Our friends at Klash City Records just signed up a girl whose song we ripped from MySpace last week in order to play it on our weekly radio show. Her name is Miss Banks, she’s from Harlem and she writes rhymes like a drunken sailor. The song we played on the radio was “Gimme A Chance” and is now legitimately downloadable, and Klash City just put up an mp3 of another good one called “Seventeen,” which is her rapping over Ladytron. Hopefully 77Klash will cook up some weird original production for her so we don’t have to do another electroclash cover.



Download: Miss Banks, “Gimme A Chance”



Download: Miss Banks, “Seventeen”

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Freeload: Bosco Delrey f. 77Klash, “Round N Round”

If you read this site a lot, you probably remember us predicting the first big trend for music in 2009: Hillbillyhall. It’s a combination of achy breaky vocals, slide guitars, laptop beats and toasting. It’s gonna be HAAUUUGGGE but don’t search for it on here, it’s really hard to find that post. Anyway, the trend is now manifested in the persons of Bosco Delrey from Philly and FADER fave 77Klash from the BK who’ve collaborated on one of the strangest songs we’ve heard since Squirrel Nut Zippers put it to bed.



Download: Bosco Delrey f. 77Klash, “Round N Round”

FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch Series #8: 77Klash

Beginning with the newest entry in our FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch series, we will have the songs from each side available for free download. Yesterday we had the A-side, an exclusive track by Telepathe named “Heat.” Today we’ll have 77Klash’s exclusive track, “Caroline.” Later this week, we’ll have an interview with 7-inch cover artist Dash Shaw. We also have physical copies of the record available (for free!). Email us at contests@thefader.com with your name and address for a copy until we run out.

“Caroline’s more of a dance tune,” Gize of 77Klash says about the track, “which is very different from my usual tunes.” And he’s right: when “Caroline” opens, it seems to have more in common with house than hip-hop; then 77Klash aggressively spits quickly over the squeaky, distant synthesizers and thumping beat and we’re left with nothing less than a wild hybrid of sounds.

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