Sjr Pres. An England Story
Soul Jazz
BEATS
‘An England Story’ is a unique album featuring over 25 years of MC culture in the UK from past to present and includes everyone from ROOTS MANUVA to TIPPA IRIE, WARRIOR QUEEN to GENERAL LEVY, ESTELLE to PAPA LEVI.
From Dancehall to Dubstep, Hip-Hop to Jungle, Grime to Garage, the MC has been present through all these UK music fashions: from the ‘fast-chat’ dancehall style of the 1980s (artists such as Papa Levi, Tippa Irie, SMILEY CULTURE), the history of UK Hip-Hop (LONDON POSSE, Roots Manuva, TY), original Jungle MCs (General Levy, NAVIGATOR, TENOR FLY), or the new wave of current Grime and Dubstep artists and producers (WILEY, STUSH, Warrior Queen, RIKO DAN).
‘An England Story’ shows how these artists defined black identity in the UK by taking the influences of Jamaican reggae and US Hip-Hop and writing songs about their UK surroundings and subject matter. Black music in Britain has fashioned its own identity in contrast to that of America, Africa, or elsewhere, by drawing on the unique relationship that the UK has with the Caribbean. As RODNEY P (of celebrated 80s UK hip-hop group London Posse) says: “This is a UK thing, it’s hip hop and it’s reggae and we do reggae - and those Americans don’t know about that”.
The album comes with extensive sleeve-notes, interviews, song lyrics and exclusive photographs and follows a path from the arrival of UK Dancehall in the 1980s to today’s Grime, Garage and Dubstep. The importance of the Jamaican soundsystem concept and its dubplates, specials, clashes and heavy, heavy bass is a constant throughout these different stylistic mutations.
Come share this story of England….
Vinyl comes on super-loud DJ pressing.
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DOUBLE CD |
SJRCD177 |
$37.95 |
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