Over on the Distant Relatives website, they just released the first two of three videos documenting Nas’ and Damian Marley’s journey of shooting the »Land of Promise« video in Jamaica. Real history right here! (via Trrbo)
Hope Road is the first film and is the story of that first night. I remember before I even had a chance to set the camera up right Nas was like “Yo, yo film this… “ and launched into the whole speech he gives here about “Smokin’ Cubans on the steps of Bob Marley…” from there on I knew I had to keep the camera up and ready to go. Please wait for the little surprise after the credits… Dawn on Hope Road
Dubplates at Tuff Gong, is Part Two. On the third night Damian and Stephen Marley went to work over a new Stephen song called ‘Jah Army.’ The song is pure heat. Dubplates are the stock and trade of the Jamaican musician. Tuff Gong itself is a place filled with so much history as Stephen explains to Nas at the beginning – even Bunny Wailer made an surprise appearance.
Marvin Sparks is really pushing hard to grant Jamaican dancehall artists UK mainstream media attention. He recently sat down to interview Kartel for MTV’s »The Wrap Up« and now talked to David Constantine Brooks aka Mavado for the same show.
Even though it seems Mavado was a little shortspoken, it is still an interesting read about his new musical direction, success, negative press, his charity and working with Jay-Z.
What I’m doing now is I’m making many moods of music. I’m still singing for the gangsta’s, for the ladies and still singing to uplift the people. Now I’ve found myself working harder, because I’ve got different fans to take care of, so you’ve got to do different levels of music, y’know?
– via Marvin Sparks
Two podcasts and one mix for the upcoming weekend:
Disorda – Dub Chronicles January 2011
The first in the ‘Dub Chronicles’ series of monthly shows, rocking the finest from the foundation & forward. A Roots, Reggae, Rocksteady, Ska, Dancehall, Dubsteppin, Steppas kinda selekshun… – via Disorda
A quick thing I threw together last night – a round up of reggae and dancehall infused grime from 2010, with a bit of muttering from me. Enjoy! – via Uncarved
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The Heatwave – London Bashment
Ever since we had artists like Suncycle and a million other UK MCs killing our raves in 2005 we have been getting over excited about the UK / Jamaica link up. – via The Heatwave
Those of you who are following our blog bredren over at Mad Decent and Mixpak Records might have stumbled across WILDLIFE!‘s »Badda Don« edits featuring Gyptian, Wayne Marshall, Bugle & Mavado already.
If you haven’t or if you forgot to collect them, we are happy to hand out all four tunes in a handy single .zip file. Here’s a little preview of what is waiting for you:
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Gyptian – Watch Gal (WILDLIFE! Edit)
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For Adijah Palmer aka Vybz Kartel‘s birthday – which was yesterday – our Fatherland fellows from So Shifty dropped a nice little edit of one of his lates tunes – »Benz Punanny«. Stream it below and download it from So Shifty’s Soundcloud outlet.
