Ragga (short for ‘ragamuffin’) is the term for later-model dancehall reggae adopted by the sound system crowds to highlight their existence somewhere outside polite Jamaican society. Ragga is the all-digital style that came about in the mid-1980s, which took computerization to such a degree that, for the first time, reggae rhythms were made with no bass line. Ragga ...
to deliberately corrupt American R&B. We just wanted to do it with our Jamaican feeling.’ Ernest Ranglin Styles Ska Rock Steady Roots Reggae Dub Reggae UK Reggae Reggae Pop Ragga Dancehall Bobo Dread Deejays US Reggae Deejays Reggae Style Reggae music is characterized by the emphasis on the off-beat, which pulls the tempo back and gives the music a ...
(Vocals, b. 1951) Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Isaacs is one of the top reggae artists of the last four decades. After a handful of records for smaller labels he started his own African Museum label with fellow singer Errol Dunkley. He also recorded for myriad other producers, and discs with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Sly and Robbie ...
Robbie Williams in 2006, and in 1997 teamed up with Mick Hucknall for a hit version of ‘Night Nurse’. They also played a large part in the Dancehall and ragga movements of the late 1980s and 1990s, working with the likes of Chaka Demus and Pliers, and Shabba Ranks. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | ...
From Port of Spain on Trinidad to Nassau in the Bahamas, from Miami through to Port-au-Prince: you are never far from a great rhythm in the Caribbean. While Jamaican reggae and Cuba’s son, mambo and salsa have been exported to the world, there is a wealth of great music on the other islands, from calypso and zouk ...
of re-branding that came from the scene itself – the producer side that wanted to allow filmic sounds to speak for them rather than some patois MC. By downplaying the ragga, producers and DJs were effectively saying that they wished to communicate a message or mood sonically rather than verbally. Some have argued that drum’n’bass is the UK’s equivalent to ...
, DJ Lime being the other half, Slipmatt took Jimi Polo’s old house anthem, ‘Better Days’, and created the happy blueprint using techniques evident in the ‘On A Ragga Tip’ hardcore hit. Selling 10,000 copies on the underground scene, ‘SMD#1’ led to Slipmatt forming his own Universal label to release productions by other DJs/artists such as Hixxy ...
As the 1990s began, dance music was really only subdivided into house or techno. However, another genre was forming alongside the explosion of big outdoor raves – hardcore, where extreme hedonism met a kind of underclass desperation. Hardcore has meant different things at different times. In the early 1990s, different parts of Europe had different words for ...
flailing to the skittering drums where desired. Some saw this new sound as devoid of a feminine element, and the combative dancing as too masculine. But the number of ragga gals who would wind their bodies to the music put an end to that notion. Turned onto the music by future DJs Kemistry and Storm at Rage, a young ...
pop is just that. Typically the drums play a basic pop rhythm with the familiar reagge beat provided by the guitar and keyboards. Introduction | Reggae Styles & Forms | Ragga | Reggae ...
is as a foundation for the urban styles jungle and UK garage, and UK artists such as So Solid Crew and Mis Teeq are always quick to cite their ragga roots. ‘There was a serious identity crisis among black kids born in England... we needed to document what was happening.’ David Hinds Leading Exponents Millie Small Matumbi Steel Pulse ...
Ridiculed as a braggart, pimp, card shark and pool hustler, the audacious, self-proclaimed inventor of jazz Jelly Roll Morton was also hailed as a pioneering composer, gifted arranger, dazzling pianist and the greatest entertainer that New Orleans ever produced. He was one of the first jazz musicians to strike a perfect balance between composition and ...
When The Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow made an impact on the mainstream pop charts in 1979, rap was immediately palmed off as a novelty. However, the style not only survived, but has proved to be so influential that, in varying degrees, pop, rock, heavy metal and reggae have all borrowed from hip hop ...
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