I really enjoyed DJ Rayna´s laid back review on the reggae year 2008 in FM4´s 2008on45 marathon show. This is what he played:

Alton Ellis “Come Down”
Stephen & Damian Marley “The Mission”
Anthony B & Horace Andy “Enter The Kingdom of Zion”
Mavado “Money Changer”
Ce’Cile & Bounty Killer & Lord Kossity “Tonight”
YT & Million Stylez & Williamz Blackout “Champion Sound”
Morgan Heritage & Busy Signal “Run Dem Whey”
Fantan Mojah “Stronger”
Sizzla “Crucial Time”

Here´s the download link.

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Terry Lynn Williams’s first album, Kingstonlogic 2.0, is one of the most exciting debuts I’ve heard in ages. A passionate, furious, playful, snarling polemic from the tough Waterhouse (“a place well known as a slaughterhouse”) neighbourhood of the Jamaican capital, it throws reggae, dub, techno, electro, rap and pop into the blender, wields its pen and thunderous ricochet rhythms against injustice, corruption, hypocrisy and violence, and introduces a genuinely innovative and thrillingly multifaceted new talent to music in 2009. There is a sharp sense of menace behind these songs, as if the gun with which Williams poses on the sleeve is constantly in danger of being used to settle matters - an appropriate undertone, given the culture in which she grew up, and which she excoriates on the album. Everything MIA should be, but isn’t (there’s not a hint of catwalk chic here), Terry Lynn is a real find.

Times Online say so.

P.S. Watch out for the upcoming video for “Kingstonlogic” - another Rickards Bros. production.

P.P.S. Also check out this fine Kingstonlogic remix by Kovee.

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On Facebook, I stumbled about a great review of Sting 2008 from our friend Eve Mann. She attended the event and wrote-up her personal feelings about all the lyrical fussing and fighting which I´m happy to share:

Every year I promise it’s the last year I am ever attending Sting. Yet every year, there I am behind VIP - sighting bottles, fighting pickpockets and avoiding being trampled. Thus far I have managed to keep all my bodily fluids in place and I am happy that from my first Sting with Kris Kross to Sting 2008, the only incident I ever had was losing my house key and having to wake up my mother.

“The Settlement of All Arguments” that’s what Sting 2008 was billed as. Personally I am not sure if the audience has grown up over the years, or if it’s too much trouble to fill plastic bottles with water or piss to hurl at the lame-Os but there were many loose ends going into the New Year. Usually Sting is black and red. The artiste clearly makes their point when the crowd thinks it was executed in an efficient enough manner and then said artiste won’t have to dodge a rain of bottles. If you can’t dodge well, then you see the red. To be honest, the evil side of me really misses the days of bottle flinging and the ensuing excitement.
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For New Year´s Eve, I tried for the first time to make my own festivals as a side dish for trouts, typical German fish. Following the recipe and the instructions on Jamaica Travel and Culture,

1 1/2 cups flour
3 tablespoons cornmeal
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla,

I was quite satisfied with the result even though I have to admit it is still a difference eating them in a nice little restaurant in a harbour just out of Kingston…

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Please support seen. designer Gabe in Karmaloop´s Cool Kids t-shirt design contest and VOTE FOR HIS SUBMISSION. I guess the idea behind his illustration is pretty clear -“The new black version of the Beastie Boys”, anybody? - and it´s wickedly executed, too.

P.S. Wondering why Obama´s in there? He´s black, he´s cool and he´s from Chicago. Nuff said.

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Happy new yeezy, kids, it’s  Tim Turbo side by side with MashUp Crew’s Marflix One for the first Tim Turbo Thursday in two-oh-oh-nine.

And because it’s the first day of 2009 and we all did have a a great party yesterday, I got some music to sit back and relax for you. Marflix tried the same, but in the end of his set he gone berserk and knocked the recreation on the head.

Anyway, we got two complete different sets, with a heap of different bass-music (in the broadest sense) and I hope you enjoy your home-afterhour together with us. There is no tracklist again today, because we recorded the sets at Marflix´s place. Actually that´s no excuse, but you can hear us talk at the beginning and the end of my set. Ask me in the comments for particular tune-names or ask here or here or here or here. If you are online right now at random, you could maybe send me a tune you did and if I like it I play it in one of my next TTTs. Or you could subscribe to our wonderful podcast and never miss an episode again (blablabla).

After the show it’s the after party and after the party is the hotel lobby and after that we get waisted at the afterhour maybe, listening to the first 2009 Tim Turbo Thursday.

Speak along: It’s 2009 -  Basses for the masses!

Tim Turbo Thursday #6 - Tim Turbo

Tim Turbo Thursday #6 - Marflix

We wish you a bassy 2009!

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