Ghetto Palms 74: Erup vs. Poirier! / Free King Coya Mix! / Exclusives!
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
- photo Martei Korley (F61)
When it rains it cold monsoons around here. As it happens, two different exclusives I’ve been scheming on for several weeks—1) a sneak preview of Poirier’s version of “Click Mi Finger” from the forthcoming Truckback remix EP and 2) a full, free download of the unreleased ZZK vol. 7 mixtape from Buenos Aires braincase King Coya—came to fruition simultaneously. In short, pretty much everything I’m running in this week’s blend is a crazy exclusive of some kind so let me just jump into the tracks.
Ghetto Palms: Spark Plug Riddim / Erup Interview / Exclusive “Click Mi Finger” Refix
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
Truck Back has ripped the veil off a new riddim called Spark Plug, which encapsulates the main things that are good about dancehall—incredibly tough snares, arabesque chords, frenetic energy—but is still spare enough to let any deejay fit in between the beat. Not surprisingly the initial run has brought out a rogue’s gallery of Jamaican artists literally from A to Zebra, who I think got a furlough from his 10-year rape sentence specifically to rail against white people over this beat (possibly he missed the whole Obama post-racial thing while incarcerated).
Freeload: The Heatwave’s Early Warming Mixtape
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Prancehall usually brings these Heatwave mixes to our attention, but this time around we were tipped off by the mighty Dutty Artz blog. Early Warming’s got a grip of FADER favorites on it like Erup, Buju, Mr. Vegas, Tifa, Mavado, Busy, Gyptian, Laden, Major Lazer and more and just made us dagger the hell out of our office chairs. And by dagger we mean sit in them and put words on the internet. Still, shit was wild! Sam just typed a sentence in mid-air and then did a reverse roundhouse.
Download: Heatwave’s Early Warming Mixtape
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posted on Jun 12, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Buju, Busy, caribbean, Erup, freeload, Gyptian, Laden, Major Lazer, Mavado, Mr. Vegas, The Heatwave, Tifa
Ghetto Palms: Skull Riddim / Erup Video Premiere / Eddie STATS on Seen
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago.
The big news first: the main focus of my energy for this week’s column was scheming (?like finagling except more conniving) to land an exclusive chance to premiere the new video for Erup’s “Click Mi Finger” here on Ghetto Palms. If by chance you came late, “Click” is a track that was recorded by an unknown deejay at a studio housed in the back of a container truck parked in a lot somewhere in New Kingston back in 2007. By New Year’s of that year it had torn down enough fences around Jamaica that people were nominating the Gearbox as “Riddim of the Year.” I can count myself among a small handful of deejays who broke the track in New York when I debuted it here last March, and a summer of heavy rotation on Hot 97 later, it entered the Billboard Hot 100 in November 2008. Now a full two years on, it is finally ready to premiere in a form that MTV and BET can understand and just in time for three important things: 1) another summer 2) an Erup album project with Truckback Records guaranteed to spawn: 3) follow up 45s like “Mek Noise” which can carry us through the hot weather again.
Video Premiere: Erup, “Click Mi Finger”
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FADER is proud to present the World Premiere of “Click Mi Finger” from Kingston’s star in the making Erup. “Click Mi Finger” has quickly risen to mainstream prominence with the support of our very own Eddie STATS and you can read all about Erup in the latest issue of FADER Magazine, on newsstands right now. Many many thanks to Truckback Records for the premiere opportunity, and make sure to read the latest installment of Ghetto Palms, including STATS’ words on this man and this video. Now get on the road, people!
Audio: Erup, “Mek Noise”
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“Click, click, click…” That is the sound of us (still) clicking our fingers to Erup’s jamtacular “Click Mi Finga,” which we can now hear at random points during daytime radio courtesy of Hot97. Since “Click Mi Finga” first dropped we’d heard great things about Erup, but we’re just now stumbling on “Mek Noise,” the latest in the Truck Back Records arsenal. So far we’ve only been able to get a hold of the clean version, but that’s fine cause we can sneak it into our holiday party mixes and even play it in front of the likkle yutes.
Erup, “Mek Noise”
