I have this thing about mixing footage of the 5 AM Dancehall crowd with very non-dancehall type music. Music from the soundtrack to Beasts of the Southern Wild. (Peter Dean Rickards)
The Mixpak family strikes again:
The official video for Popcaan’s cut on Dre Skull’s Loudspeaker Riddim, ‘The System’, has landed! Filmed in Kingston and directed by Dayo, it features the young deejay describing the trials and struggles of ghetto youth in the face of the system.
See outtake photos here: peterdeanrickards.com/solaris.
According to Downsound Records’ new Twitter account, »Kingston Signals« returns.
Not as a weekly webcast program, but as a participant witness of Jamaican culture and music as it is today. (via Downsound Records)
Once again, label boss Josef Bogdanovich and photographer Peter Dean Rickards are joining forces.
The duo had pioneered webcasting a Jamaica-based web program live from the turntables of Jamaica’s most respected sound-systems to broadband back in 1999. The program hosted and profiled the greatest that Jamaican music had to offer. From the younger sounds like Coppershot spinning tracks for a pre-famous Sean Paul, to veterans like U-Roy and King Yellowman performing live on King Stur Gav.
Listen to the first ever Kingston Signals broadcast which happened at 80 Constant Spring Road in Kingston Jamaica on December 1999 below. It featured Exodus Nuclear as the lead sound with artists such as Spragga Benz and Delly Ranks making appearances.
Kingston Signals – The First Broadcast | Metro Media + Exodus Nuclear by KingstonSignals
Jamaican deejay LA Lewis – best known for meeting Prince Charles, being beat up by Beenie Man, and having his name painted on walls all over Kingston – turns a conceptual artist. Watch »The Seven Star General« announcing the news on yesterday’s edition of Entertainment Report above.
A lot of artist win Grammy and sell platinum records but LA Lewis actually sell his brief!
With appearances by Diplo and London-based art curator Rachael Barrett, the piece even made LA LEWIS trend globally on Twitter (via Ross Sheil). 7 to the world!
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