An England Story - 25 Years of the MC in the UK

track title time cd1 01. YT - England Story 04:00 02. Suncycle - Somebody 03:32 03. Doctor & Davinche - Gotta Man 03:21 04. Ty & Roots Manuva - So U Want More (Refix) 03:41 05. Papa Levi - My God My King 04:03 06. Tenor Fly - Bump and Grind 03:23 07. Skibadee - Tika Toc 03:36 08. Riko - Ice Rink Vocal 03:55 09. Jakes & TC - Deep 04:30 10. Jah Screechy - Walk And Skank 04:51 11. Top Cat - Love Mi Ses 03:14 cd2 01. Warrior Queen & The Heatwave - Things Change 03:43 02. Glamma Kid - Fashion Magazine 03:35 03. General Levy - Champagne Body 04:06 04. London Posse - Money Mad 06:11 05. Navigator & Freestylers - Ruffneck 07:06 06. Stush - Dollar Sign 03:31 07. Tubby T - Ready She Ready 03:30 08. Blak Twang - Red Letters 04:34 09. Estelle & Joni Rewind - Uptown Top Rankin 03:35 10. Tippa Irie - Complain Neighbour 03:13 Runtime 85:10 min Size 109,6 MB Release Notes: The development of Black music in the United Kingdom owes much to the influence of Jamaican and US music on each succesive generation of Carribean immigrants to the UK - from Windrush to the present day. UK based MCís take these influences, mix them up with local references and styles thus creating an identity of Black British culture. This is constantly evolving not just musically but also in terms of each subsequent generationís relationship to British society. As Tricky put it in Massive Attack's Blue Lines, of "English upbringing, background Caribbeanî An England Story shows the links and musical path from the arrival of UK Dancehall and Soundsystems in the early 1980s, through successive musical movements such as Jungle, UK Hip-Hop, up to todayís Garage, Grime and Dubstep. The global pre-eminence of American hip hop means that music like grime and UK hip hop is often seen as a form of rap, whereas it owes as much to reggae music and culture as it does to any American influence. 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". Since the evolution of the 'fast chat' dancehall style of the early 80s, the influence of reggae music and culture has been crucial to the development of urban music in Britain: from the heavy sampling of Jamaican vocals/instrumentals employed by jungle, hardcore and garage, to grime's London take on the soundclash, the riddim version and patois-inflected rhymes. The importance of the Jamaican soundsystem concept and its dubplates, specials, clashes and heavy, heavy bass is a constant throughout these different stylistic mutations

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dattylondoner (2008-03-27)

... Over 130 downloads and not a single thanks. Last time i upload to a public tracker

carl_h (2008-03-27)

Thanks mate! Got some more out of the Soul Jazz Records catalogue?

morganic (2008-03-30)

Worrd up,
Nuff Respect fo'reprezentin tha British scene.
1Love

kryckha (2008-04-06)

great, thanks.

BL_aka_Di (2008-04-08)

Respectoze

spboid (2008-04-15)

Super!!!
thanks.

Capt.Crunk (2008-04-17)

Big thanks for the upload, track #9 kicks serious ass :)

useruser0101 (2008-06-02)

mad props to the uploader, respect

fanta2k (2008-07-30)

Thanks Datty

syndikalist (2008-08-06)

Big Up Datty!

MCTed (2008-08-24)

Big respec' datty!

kid-fix (2008-09-01)

All about skiba Tika Toc! Nice one mate ;-)

Cunning_Stunt (2008-12-17)

cheers brotha!

lolrofl1 (2009-01-25)

yeeah ive been looking for the first track but never found it - thanks :D :D

bibombl1970 (2010-07-03)

THANKS MAN MY ENGLISH NEBER IS VERY PLEACED WITH THIS THANKS!!!

majalogan (2010-11-01)

Bo-hoo for you dattylondoner piss off to your little private tracker then with the other nerds who don't get it .... if you share just because you want people to thank you you're a wanker