Words by Salaam Remi, as told to Jesse Serwer:::Photo by Daison Osbourne—
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Boom Wa Dis: Burro Banton Returns
March 5, 2012
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
One of the most underrated deejays of the ’80s and ’90s and even 2000s, Burro Banton hasn’t made too many music videos but you can count on the ones he does make to be quite memorable. His latest collaborative effort with his longtime label home/producers Massive B, “Gangster Paradise” is no exception, equally solid both musically and visually. Perhaps the most notable feature of the gritty clip is the sight of the typically stoic Burro—maybe aggravated is a better way to describe his presence—getting loose with his feet. According to the Massive B YouTube page, “Gangster Paradise” will be on a Burro Banton Greatest Hits disc due out this month. Boom wa dis!
Throwback Thursdays: Max Glazer on Mikey Jarrett’s “Mack Daddy” + Burro Banton’s “Boom Wa Dis”
January 19, 2012
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Words by Max Glazer—
For a decade and then some, Federation Sound‘s Max Glazer has been known all over the world as a great dancehall DJ. But back before that he was a hip-hop journalist, penning memorable articles on people like Big L for the great but somewhat forgotten ’90s magazine, On The Go. We gave Max his old pen back so he could take us back to the days when hip-hop and dancehall were blending together in new and exciting ways, and Bobby Konders and Salaam Remi were coming together to make classics with NYC Badmen like Mikey Jarrett and Burro Banton.
Nippon the Floor: Bobby Konders x Dizzle + Major Lazer x Japan
September 26, 2011
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Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
Longtime connoisseurs of Caribbean culture know that there is a special, deep and lasting–if at times hard to explain–connection between Jamaica and Japan. Maybe they are cool for exactly the same reason that most of us form unlikely friendships; because they are always put next to each other in the J-A row of the “Island Nations” section in the United Nations’ seating chart. Or maybe you could base your whole doctoral thesis in cultural studies on how the Japanese mastery of impenetrable ritual is somehow the perfect keymaster to the gatekeeper of labrynthine, insular soundsystem culture.
