crucial

my favorite song right now

Baby Shotta : Movado with Ward 21 on the Nookie 2k6 riddim. This thing runs through my head every day.

Movado - Ward 21 - Baby Shottas

You can even buy it on iTunes

Movado with the gorgeous drifting song, Ward 21's Suku—the bass dude. Good cop bad cop. Ward 21 always play their voice talent like an orchestra. Suku is the one that intones hypnotically on that single deadly pitch. Suku also produces many of my favorite Ward 21 tracks. Sometimes his voice is filtered like a mosquito in your ear and you don't even notice him (threatening you sweetly with japanese version ak-47s, ass-kickings into the middle of next weeks and turning people off like switches for being snitches). Kunley is the main voice talent, and Rumblood is the guy who keeps saying "you know how we roll" on every frickin track.

Bashment has finally rolled into a new generation. Beenie (just got married), Ele, Sizzla and Capleton are all veterans now and the dancehalls are fresh with Adonia/Idonia, Busy Signal, Delly Ranks, Alozade and now Movado.

Delly Ranks is also a producer. Here's Movado again on the way fresh sounding Red Bull and Guinness Riddim (and best riddim name this year) :

Movado - weh dem ah do - Red Bull and Guiness Riddim

buy:
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/210367-01.htm

I'm not going to leave these up for very long. Jamaicans don't buy a lot of CDs and so these artists depend on EU and UK sales, but mostly from live shows.

Update: Damn, when I got back to NYC I found "weh dem ah do" was in the billboard top 100, in heavy rotation on Hot 97 and our boy Movado was on the cover of the Fader. He does stand out huge.

Must read this:
http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/12/14/weh-dem-ah-do

q. Where did "anyway" come from ?

a. “Outta my mouth it comes from!” he says. “‘Real McCoy’ started it. Remember? Me went inna the studio and the riddim played and me just say, Anyway! Gangsta fi life, bwoy! Just from anger. We stressed out and frustrated and things wicked for we so…Anyway!”

He was supposed to play at the Fader issue release party, but of course he didn't show up.

Links and things

I am timeblind on myspace. thanks for the add.

I am crucialfelix on del.icio.us which is where I link to all the interesting shit I come across.

I put my photos up on flickr

NYC events iCal : anything that looks good.

Berlin events (parties, shows, vernissage, films): subscribe to google calendar / iCal

When I listen to music at home it all gets echoed onto here and on my Last.fm page. Most of the time I don't use that cause I don't want you to see me obsessively listening to my own mixes, really bad working titles.

You can read some posts I thought were interesting from various feeds.

I've been doing the Dance Music Business Resource since 1995, back when it was on hyperreal.org. Articles and info for artists and small labels. Recently I've been posting interesting industry news items and adding some new content about downloads etc.