[ Soul Jazz Records / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 10 March 2008
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This 2CD set is a unique album featuring over 25 years of MC culture in the UK from past to present and includes everyone from Roots Manuva to Tippa Irie, Warrior Queen to General Levy, Estelle to Papa Levi.
'An England Story' is a unique album featuring over 25 years of MC culture in the UK from past to present and includes everyone from Roots Manuva to Tippa Irie, Warrior Queen to General Levy, Estelle to Papa Levi.
From Dancehall to Dubstep, Hip-Hop to Jungle, Grime to Garage, the MC has been present through all these UK music fashions: from the ʻfast-chatʼ dancehall style of the 1980s (artists such as Papa Levi, Tippa Irie, Smiley Culture), the history of UK Hip-Hop (London Posse, Roots Manuva, Ty), original Jungle MCs (General Levy, Navigator, Tenor Fly), or the new wave of current Grime and Dubstep artists and producers (Wiley, Stush, Warrior Queen, Riko Dan). 'An England Story' shows how these artists defined black identity in the UK by taking the influences of Jamaican reggae and US Hip-Hop and writing songs about their UK surroundings and subject matter.
The album comes with extensive sleeve-notes, interviews, song lyrics and exclusive photographs and follows a path from the arrival of UK Dancehall in the 1980s to todayʼs Grime, Garage and Dubstep.
'An England Story' also shows the importance of the Jamaican soundsystem culture - its dubplates, specials, clashes and heavy, heavy bass - that has been a constant throughout these different stylistic mutations over the last 25 years. Similarly fashions, slang, dance moves and much more continues to be influenced by the clash between contemporary Jamaican and US music and culture.
Disc 1:
1. YT - England Story
2. Suncycle - Somebody
3. Doctor & Davinche - Gotta Man
4. Ty & Roots Manuva - So U Want Morre (revox)
5. Papa Levi - My God My King
6. Tenor Fly - Bump and Grind
7. Skibadee - Tika Toc
8. Riko - Ice Rink Riddim
9. Jakes & TC - Deep
10. Jah Screechy - Walk and Skank
11. Top Cat - Love Mi Ses
Disc 2:
1. Warrior Queen & The Heatwave - Tings Change
2. Glamma Kid - Fashion Magazine
3. General Levy - Champagne Body
4. London Posse - Money Mad
5. Navigator & Freestylers - Ruffneck
6. Stush - Dollar Sign
7. Tubby T - Ready She Ready
8. Blak Twang - Red Letters
9. Est'elle & Joni Rewind - Uptown Top Rankin'
10. Tippa Irie - Complain Neighbour