FFTANG! FFTANG! » Dancehall http://fftangfftang.com Global bboy beats and urban bass, with a tropical twist. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:40:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Uproot Andy http://fftangfftang.com/2011/06/uproot-andy/ http://fftangfftang.com/2011/06/uproot-andy/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:38:20 +0000 fftang http://fftangfftang.com/?p=819 Uproot Andy

Making a rare UK appearance tonight (Favela Chic) and tomorrow (Notting Hill Arts Club) is Brooklyn DJ Uproot Andy. Been wanting to catch this guy in action for years… If you’re unaware of the man’s output school yourself below.








]]> http://fftangfftang.com/2011/06/uproot-andy/feed/ 0 Shimmy Shimmy Ya http://fftangfftang.com/2011/02/shimmy-shimmy-ya/ http://fftangfftang.com/2011/02/shimmy-shimmy-ya/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:21:59 +0000 fftang http://fftangfftang.com/?p=447 ODB

It appears Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s ’95 Wu anthem ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ is everything to fuck wit’. Mash ups abound. I constantly used to play it over Pest’s Chicken Spit, which now sounds barren to me when heard ODB-less. Here are some recent mash-ups, covers and remixes…

J Boogie shimmies shimmies up the Nicodemus remix of Empresarios‘ Cumbia…

While Hiphopreggae Dubs swipe the beat and overlay Beenie Man vocals…

Forgetting that mashup business, Prince Fatty cover it from scratch…

As does El Michels Affair. With added niños…

Tommy Diaz reworks it into a bmore track…

And the track that first led me down this nueva cumbia rabbithole. Finally now available to download at a decent bitrate: Uproot Andy‘s classic ‘Brooklyn Cumbia’…

Still you know what they say: Ooo baby I like it raw…

*Edit*
I’ve just been sent this jungle version of the Prince Jammy cover by Axewound. oh oh OH!

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I’ll be playing a set at Ginglik’s COVER UP night this Friday. And to set the mood here’s some cumbiaized Specials.

Fantasma – Ghost Town by Newton Las Pelotas!

FANTASMA – GHOST TOWN

And not a cover per se, but a great dancehall refix of Britney…

Britney Spears – Breaktime Womanizer (Maasto Refix) by Maasto Records

BRITNEY SPEARS – BREAKTIME WOMANIZER (MAASTO REFIX)

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