Ghetto Palms: GP All-Stars/Exclusive Esau Mwamwaya Refix
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
- photo Liz Johnson Artur
In the past week almost every damn artist I would consider a signature Ghetto Palms poster-child has represented with crushing new tunes or refixes in a similar vibe (Busy Signal and Erup have both been putting enough overtime lately to be excused from this session.) The common ground is a 120 bpm neighborhood situated somewhere between synth pop and ragga soca, a tempo I have given up trying to name and will simply call the “sweet spot.” Hence, the Ghetto Palms All-Stars blend.
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posted on Jul 1, 2009 in BLOGS, GHETTO PALMS tags Aidonia, caribbean, De Tropix, Di Genius, Esau Mwamwaya, Laden, Leftside, Mavado, Natalie Storm
Freeload: The Heatwave’s Early Warming Mixtape
- story THE FADER
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
