CAPITOL 1212: Rebels Arise feat. BLACKOUT JA/ Freedom feat. CLINTON SLY & THE DBLE 12 HORNS

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LEE FIELDS: You’re What’s Needed In My Life (Video)

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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. RI RA & BLACKOUT JA: Back To Boom City (2015)

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BLUNTSKULL: The Blunt Force EP (2010)

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MR BENN: Shake A Leg (2013)

Big up the Bristol Massive! Mr Benn finally comes through with Shake A Leg – an album that’s been ‘soon come’ for so long that it was starting to make even the most generous concept of ‘island time’ look like a mockery. Our man doesn’t disappoint though delivering a scorching eleven track set of varying bashment flavour – damn near any one of which could be a single. Mr Benn is famed far and wide for his hip-hop reggae hybrid sound and that is certainly present on here – most obviously in the form of Shame…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MR BENN feat. BLACKOUT JA: Run Come (2013) Free download

Now ‘ear this! It’s the champion sound of Mr Benn and the gravel-voiced Blackout JA with a Bristol bashment banger (featuring backing vox from Dub Mafia’s Eva Lazarus) just in time for Bristol’s St Paul’s Carnival this weekend. Happy days! Can’t make the carnival? Download this free below and recreate the vibe. For additional realism – buy some Red Stripe at your local offy (making sure you pay the vendor twice the actual price), leave it out in …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. BASS NACHO & BLACKOUT JA: Real Bad Boys (2013)

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? – asked Inner Circle back in ’87. It’s been a long time coming but the answer is obviously to rework the track in a digi-dancehall, nasty-ass bass stylee, call it Real Bad Boys and send it out the front to deal with ‘them’ while you scarper out the back. Which is basically what Dirty Dubsters have done – as well as replacing Calton Coffie’s irie vocals with the rather more ominous Bass Nacho and Blackout JA. While all that’s going on, Run Tingz‘ junglist remix …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS: ‘Fire It Up’ album (2013)

Please don’t adjust your seismographs – all that intense activity is just the Dirty Dubsters‘ debut album. Fire It Up finds the boys who put the ‘dub’ into Dublin lighting up the bottom end bong to finally make (split infinitive intentional) their first full-length journey into outer bass. Production crew are the Dubsters themselves of course while vocal crew are guests: Mystro, Leiko Tola, YT, Clinton Sly, Turbulence, Danny Red, Burro Banton, Sista Quanna and the mighty Blackout JA and Bass Nacho. I don’t know about you but I think it’s time for a ‘Byron Crawford’ track by track analysis – haven’t done one of them in a while. Here goes:…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLUNTSKULL feat. BLACKOUT JA: Bus It In 2 (2012)

In which Bluntskull drops some heavyweight dancehall action. In order to properly facilitate maximum bass vibes on Bus It In 2 he enlists the help of Bristolian dancehall vocalist Blackout JA. Blackout obliges with a vocal that sounds like half a ton of gravel sliding off tip-up truck which, for all I know is an extended and well-deserved tirade against Bristol’s notoriously overpriced and unreliable public transport network. He and I both know what I’m talking about though in case he ever reads this and then identifies me in town (i.e. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM