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TROKA - El Chivito (¡Treez!)

London producer Jstar blazes trails with his high quality productions and deep digging selections.

With a multitude of productions on major record labels through to independent releases, Jstar is also a top quality tour manager and global DJ with over 15 years experience rocking dancefloors around the world. He mixes up bass music, Tropical beat and Dancehall with Reggae influences. 

His latest project sees him teaming up with stable of talented singers and MC’s for his first studio album, 'Stand To Order’ and Dub Ep ‘Dub To Order’.

Check Jstar's mix for NiceUp, where he has dug some heavy roots business with conscious messages for these times. Respect!

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Jstar Roots Mix for NiceUp

Here is the first release of Scoop Light Records. This tune is a collaboration with Sersha, a young reggae artist from Yaoundé, Cameroon, who sings, on an "acoustico-digital" riddim, serious lyrics about what is happening in East Africa nowadays.

Sersha - What must be done

Transmissions

Roll Dem (Versions)

Roll Dem (Roots Version) [feat. Gappy Ranks]

Roll Dem (Roots Riddim) [feat. Gappy Ranks]

Moroccan percussion meets an Arky STEPPER, so be ready for some ROARING BASS... enjoy the track. One love strictly

BUY (Support artists)

The Sufi Boy

Few releases coming out of Africa this year promise as much as the ZIK ZAK album from ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, featuring underground artists from all sides of the continent, coupled with world-class production from the veteran German producers. Blazing ahead of this African Odyssey comes the KAMPALA FIRE EP, showcasing a selection of strictly Ugandan tracks from the album: Roots Reggae, Dancehall and Hip Hop from one of the most energetic and original music scenes on the continent. 

Chanting in Luganda and English, C WYNE NALUKALALA opens the set with a rebel salute to the youth. This is most relevant in a country where the majority are under 21 and the country’s dictatorship has ruled for over 35 years. Though his name means “Troublemaker”, C Wyne is a respected cultural leader in the ghettos of Kireka, spreading a positive social and political message with his tough Dancehall style.

On DDALA (meaning “Real”), SPYDA MC drops his “Lugaflow” in the local Hip Hop vernacular. The rapper-Rasta exhorts us to stay authentic and not hide behind fake titles. SPYDA is a member of Rasta drummers NILOTIKA CULTURAL ENSEMBLE and Hip Hop crew CYPHER KABAKA, mixing enlightened spirituality with the grit of the African street.

BANI Fyah and BLESSED SAN both hail from the musical melting pot of South-Eastern Kampala, where they dominate the popular all-night Reggae sessions. BANI FYAH drops lyrics condemning slackness and corruption, while freestyle lunatic BLESSED SAN mashes up the scene like Idi Amin. 

The sound of the forest and tribal drumming brings us back to the Nile - the cradle of humanity - in the Dub-drenched stoner’s delight SOURCE OF LIFE by the Rasta drum circle NILOTIKA CULTURAL ENSEMBLE. Uganda is where the Rastafarian Nyabingi culture originates, taking its name and culture from an ancient East African warrior queen. Nyabingi’s resonance can be heard throughout this EP, but most especially in this deep, spiritual Roots track. 

ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS describe their music as “Boom Dub”, a fusion of Boom Bap and Dub Reggae. Across this ground-breaking Afro-European EP they infuse Roots, Hip Hop and Bashment with their Orientalist, dubwise style. Life-long followers of Nyabingi music, ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS apply its percussive and hypnotic sounds to each of these tracks, adding a timeless and organic quality to contemporary urban music. 

All the vocal recordings were done at the studio of their long-term partners, East African Records (EAR), a community-based organisation in Kampala that supports upcoming artists. The KAMPALA FIRE EP is a testament to the heights that can be achieved when ground-breaking international production is applied to one of the most energetic urban music scenes in Africa.

Kampala Fire

KAMPALA FIRE

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Ancient Astronauts - Do It To The Beat feat. Blessed San

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Dubmatix is continually evolving his style, taking new influences on board on each new recording; by now it simply doesn’t do justice to the incredible breadth of his work to slap a ‘dub’ sticker on it. 

"...collaborations see him effortlessly incorporating all conceivable facets of reggae and dub with a striking self-assurance and combining them with an exceptional willingness to experiment and take new directions."

This kaleidoscope of variety is particularly in force of his upcoming brand new album. As well as working as a musician and producer, Jesse King is also a sought-after remixer and app designer, with recent remixes including tracks for the Easy Star All-Stars, John Brown's Body, Zion Train, Martha & The Muffins, Don Letts and Mungo’s HiFi. 

For his new album he spent 2 years in the past and a lot of time in tweaking the knobs on high class Roots Tunes inna crossover style…! 
SOUND CLOUD REVIEW DEC 2014