This is more like it. Elephant Man is on a mission to bring the fun back to Dancehall. His latest album is called “Dance and Sweep – Adventures of the Energy God”, and it features a fantastic piece of cartoon cover art that brings back memories of those old Greensleeves album covers (especially the Scientist [...]
A modern dancehall album that doesn’t look like a modern dancehall album! Understated, well designed, nice fonts. Gappy Ranks has just released his debut album and the album cover is really nice. The album itself couldn’t strictly be classed as hardcore dancehall by any means (although Gappy has released pure dancehall tracks in the past), [...]
Capleton had been around for years on the dancehall scene before his major label debut on Def Jam Records was released in 1995 – and surprisingly it wasn’t an overproduced affair (despite a couple of obligatory hip-hop mixes) and it retained an authentic dancehall sound. In the early to mid-90s there was a huge ‘culture [...]
Released on Island/Mango Records in 1992 at the height of the ‘bogle’ craze, this is stripped down minimalist dancehall – which is saying something for a genre that can create songs out of next-to-no raw materials or funding. This is really hard to find anywhere now, but I’d love to know the story behind this [...]
Inspired by the Cutty Ranks Anthology that we posted about previously, we’ve decided to look at another Cutty Ranks album with some pretty unique album art for an early 1990s dancehall record. The Stopper came out in 1991 on Fashion Records and on Profile Records (major label) which goes some way to explaining the stylised [...]
