Tagged: Assassin
Ghetto Palms 120: Serani / Future Fambo / Dancehall Again!
Daseca again! Everybody’s favorite makers of gun-drop, Island pop, and dubstop snapped back this week with a new riddim that is decidedly not a hybrid or micro-genre of anything except in the sense that they … read more »
Ghetto Palms 113: Vegas / Wayne Wonder / Exodus—Exclusive Daseca Riddim!
I could try to do a Ghetto Archipelago headline without mentioning Monday’s Labor Day festivities here in New York. But that would just be silly. Three million strong, Brooklyn Carnival is the elephant in the … read more »
Ghetto Palms 100: Refix Special #2: The Very Best / Los Rakas / Busy Signal/ Bunji Garlin / Chief Boima
There’s been so much damn genre-splicing going on around here that I was literally forced, gun to my head, to record a refix special edition part II—plus I had too much fun doing the first … read more »
Assassin’s New Agent Sasco Mixtape is Absurdly Good
One of our favorite dancehall deejays slays every good beat from the last few months. It almost makes us tired just listening to this dude’s reckless abuse of the microphone. Download: Assassin is Agent Sasco … read more »
Ghetto Palms 91: Rihanna f. Assassin / De Tropix / Serani / Gyptian / Mujava
I tend to be kind of a DJ-centric snob about the audio for this column, but every once in a while I end up with a ton of ghetto-platinum material from the artists I have … read more »
Gabriel Heatwave’s UK Funky Bashment Mixtape MP3
It was only a matter of time before the hottest dance music in London, with its African influences and syncopated jangling, began drifting into reggae territory. On Gabriel Heatwave‘s mix for XLR8R, he shows exactly … read more »
Freeload: Two Mixtapes Killed by Assassin
In FADER #60, we positioned Assassin as dancehall’s perpetual next big thing, calling him the “permanent underdog.” And while he still hasn’t reached the worldwide status of a dude like Mavado, these two mixtapes, from … read more »
Freeload: Assassin “Pum Pum Surveillance”
This the second Assasin track to make the blog in a week. Not because the collegiate dancehaller is on a roll (he is) or because producers Daseca murk the boards consistently (they do), but because … read more »
Freeload: Assassin, “Money” (Work Out Riddim)
We profiled dancehall producer Stephen “di genius” McGregor back in Issue 48 in our Beat Construction section, detailing his rise from son of Freddie to teenage riddim killer, and even projecting that his relationship with … read more »
Freeload: Assassin f. Busy Signal, “Line Fi Line” & Assassin, “Surveillance”
Assassin’s Gully Sitn was a sleeper album for us, mostly because it was so dense and would often swing from being ultra hard and aggressive to touching and melancholy the next. We’ve been jamming a … read more »
