{"id":5329,"date":"2015-10-19T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/songs-we-love-jus-now-feat-bunji-garlin-ms-dynamite-cyah-help-it\/5329\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:03:00","slug":"songs-we-love-jus-now-feat-bunji-garlin-ms-dynamite-cyah-help-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/songs-we-love-jus-now-feat-bunji-garlin-ms-dynamite-cyah-help-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Love: Jus Now Feat. Bunji Garlin & Ms. Dynamite, 'Cyah Help It'"},"content":{"rendered":"

By E\u00f3in MacManus<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Jus Now’s Cyah Help It<\/em> EP is out Oct. 23. Elliot Francois\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Elliot Francois\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jus Now, Cyah Help It<\/em> (Feel Up Records) Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Jus Now<\/a> is a production duo split between the UK and Trinidad & Tobago, 4500 miles apart but with a long legacy of musical exchange. The credit for modern dance music defined as “multicultural” often goes to the communicative power of digital media, but the Jus Now link-up speaks to an older tradition. As far back as 1948, the fresh-off-the-boat Lord Kitchener<\/a> \u2014 Aldwyn Roberts, at the time one of Trinidad’s top calypsonians \u2014 was voicing “London Is the Place For Me”<\/a> on the quayside of Tilbury Docks. Fast forward through decades of Notting Hill Carnivals, punks making roots-reggae records, plus the 2 tone ’80s, and we arrive at the Caribbean’s biggest influence on contemporary British music: the cross-pollination of acid-house raves, West Indian shebeens and sound-system dances which begat jungle (aka drum & bass). This music’s early ’90s birth marked the beginnings of a wild lineage that would morph into a continuum of British street-rave sounds of the coming decades \u2014 garage, grime, dubstep \u2014leading to today’s constantly mutating “bass music” tag. Which brings us back to Jus Now.<\/p>\n

Sam Interface, the English half of the duo, is a drum & bass producer from Bristol, a place known for its long line of junglists, with heavy hitters like Roni Size, Krust and Die all hailing from the city. (Interface has worked with the latter.) LAZAbeam (born: Keshav Chandradath Singh), a Port of Spain-based soca producer, makes up the Trini part of the team. And on “Cyah Help It,” each brings top-drawer vocal talents from their respective scenes, with Ms. Dynamite repping for the UK and Bunji Garlin for Trinidad.<\/p>\n

The track opens with dramatic filtered chants, expectant percussion and stabs, the intro peaking with overdriven power chords and a lick of almost operatic synth pomp that begs the question, “What if Phantom Of The Opera<\/em> had been re-imagined with autotune and daggering?” Yet before that debatable idea can settle in, the drums drop, and Ms. Dynamite and Bunji Garlin take turns riding a rhythm that switches up between low-end badman stagger and UK Funky-inflected syncopation. A mixture of soundbwoy killing and party starting, it’s a combination of style and pattern that keeps things unexpected, an uninhibited bruk<\/em>-out destined to shell down bashment parties that are not limited by tempo or genre. If a carnival parade was to trample across the Atlantic, all the way from St. Pauls to Independence Square, this could be its 2015 anthem.<\/p>\n

Cyah Help It<\/em> EP is out on Oct 23 on Feel Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service – if this is your content and you’re reading it on someone else’s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Jus<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/strong> 3:08<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Jus Now’s Cyah Help It<\/em> EP is out Oct. 23. Elliot Francois\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Elliot Francois\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\"Jus<\/div>\n
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Jus Now, Cyah Help It<\/em> (Feel Up Records) Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Jus Now<\/a> is a production duo split between the UK and Trinidad & Tobago, 4500 miles apart but with a long legacy of musical exchange. The credit for modern dance music defined as “multicultural” often goes to the communicative power of digital media, but the Jus Now link-up speaks to an older tradition. As far back as 1948, the fresh-off-the-boat Lord Kitchener<\/a> \u2014 Aldwyn Roberts, at the time one of Trinidad’s top calypsonians \u2014 was voicing “London Is the Place For Me”<\/a> on the quayside of Tilbury Docks. Fast forward through decades of Notting Hill Carnivals, punks making roots-reggae records, plus the 2 tone ’80s, and we arrive at the Caribbean’s biggest influence on contemporary British music: the cross-pollination of acid-house raves, West Indian shebeens and sound-system dances which begat jungle (aka drum & bass). This music’s early ’90s birth marked the beginnings of a wild lineage that would morph into a continuum of British street-rave sounds of the coming decades \u2014 garage, grime, dubstep \u2014leading to today’s constantly mutating “bass music” tag. Which brings us back to Jus Now.<\/p>\n

Sam Interface, the English half of the duo, is a drum & bass producer from Bristol, a place known for its long line of junglists, with heavy hitters like Roni Size, Krust and Die all hailing from the city. (Interface has worked with the latter.) LAZAbeam (born: Keshav Chandradath Singh), a Port of Spain-based soca producer, makes up the Trini part of the team. And on “Cyah Help It,” each brings top-drawer vocal talents from their respective scenes, with Ms. Dynamite repping for the UK and Bunji Garlin for Trinidad.<\/p>\n

The track opens with dramatic filtered chants, expectant percussion and stabs, the intro peaking with overdriven power chords and a lick of almost operatic synth pomp that begs the question, “What if Phantom Of The Opera<\/em> had been re-imagined with autotune and daggering?” Yet before that debatable idea can settle in, the drums drop, and Ms. Dynamite and Bunji Garlin take turns riding a rhythm that switches up between low-end badman stagger and UK Funky-inflected syncopation. A mixture of soundbwoy killing and party starting, it’s a combination of style and pattern that keeps things unexpected, an uninhibited bruk<\/em>-out destined to shell down bashment parties that are not limited by tempo or genre. If a carnival parade was to trample across the Atlantic, all the way from St. Pauls to Independence Square, this could be its 2015 anthem.<\/p>\n

Cyah Help It<\/em> EP is out on Oct 23 on Feel Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service – if this is your content and you’re reading it on someone else’s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}