Album: Various artists, Dancehall 2 (Soul Jazz)
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Your support makes all the difference.Two CDs documenting the passage of Jamaican "dancehall" music of the early 1980s, from Lone Ranger, Tristan Palma, Ini Kamoze and Yellowman through to the shoutier newer-school voices of Tiger and Buju Banton.
Over the duration of two dozen DJ-dominated extended mixes, we hear how the expediencies of high-turnover, low-cost production accelerated reggae away from the song-based music of the 1970s towards a new model based on the virtues of hard rhythm and harder declamation. Tuffer than tuff.
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