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RIDDIM SOUNDCLASH 2005
War of The Worlds 2k5
Text by RIDDIM.DE , translated by Stical
Supersonic (Berlin)
LP international (Brookln, NY)
Caveman (Kingston, JM)
Immortal (Birmingham, UK)
Murderation, Soundboy Killing, musical war, Judgement time, Death in The arena, Mortal Kombat... While the outside world means serious times , we try to get over the insanity by music. Welcome to the Battlefield! On 15 October in the Munich Muffathalle all aggressions will unload themselves. Violence is symbolically realized, so that it may dissolve itself into air . Soundboys are capable of showing what the true warlords are not able. Instead of deposing fragment bombs to commit suicide assassination attempts or shooting with high-speed fire weapons acetate coated metal plates , silver polycarbonate disks and spontaneous verbal assaults are used - life can be so simple.
With the third RIDDIM Soundclash ,half of the world will musically compete against each other. Even if at the final round three sounds remain on the track, all will nevertheless leave the slaughterhoiuse upright and with their heads raised Whereas in real life the people serve more as cannon fodder, here genuine democracy is used. The massive has the power over live and death of the sounds. Only the music is decisive , whereas origin, skin color, class and religion play a role elsewhere.
Supersonic
While last year they were knows as outsiders , at least on paper still , this year Panza, Spider and Uzzla step into the ring as title defenders, after they sent the serial killer Ricky Trooper, Europes Internationally most exposed sound One Love and the ex-Jaro-selector Freddy Krueger sovereign to the bottom. This time they will have to prove whether they can convince the massive also of themselves without their underdog status .
But above all next to their – in Busloads measurable – local advantage, most of all Spiders’s self-confident occurrence, his hitting power on the mic as well as Panzas deliberation with the disk choice and their imaginativeness when Cutting Dub Plates speaks for itself.
Only their thin Clash history could be looked at as an disadvantage for the citizens of Berlin, who have started six years ago.
With their last year participation with the RIDDIM Soundclash 2001 with the "Kill Or Killed" Clash in Cologne they only stood up against Sentinel, Budadub and Wadada .
At Reggae Summer 2003 they were getting close to Soundquake.
LP international
One cannot complain oneself over a thin Clash-history. with Puma, Danger and Super Don from Brooklyn. Love People International, the public name of the sound, are tied with the legendary Biltmore era, named after the Ballroom of the same name in New York, where in the early up to the to middle 90ies, several sounds went up against each other.
Already from this time, when LP fought –even today memorable clashes - with King Addies, Bass Odyssey, Black Kat and Killamanjaro they were labeled as "King OF New York", a surname, which they also earned officially themselves at the end of last year in the Clash of the same name. At the sight of their dub box their competitors might become dizzy Only with their Dub Plates of great ones such as Dennis Brown or Garnet Silk they could battle for whole evenings. In addition crates of Specials come from the time, when Dancehall was not yet measured in bpm. Only in the new Tune segment one could come close to this sound. Exactly that became hazardous for LP with the World Clash 2004 , when they had to lower their sails shortly before the Dub Fi Dub.
Caveman
Neither does Kingston’s Cultural Sound with their Foundation background suffer in a lack of dubplates.
Already at the end of the 60ies , established by Dr. Cavemans Father, Lee Perry’s cousin , Stainton “Archie” Moore, it was clear to all members and selectors from the beginning what direction they were going to take.
When he took over the sound in 1980, he stood upright next to Black Scorpio , Stone Love, Killamanjaro and Metro Media.
At Caveman the Roots-school of the 90ies ruled the school benches.
It was here that next to Luciano, Jah Cure and Bushman especially Sizzla learned his first steps, who’s first dubplates for Father Caveman and Ini-Man date from 1992 and who’s Specials make out the tallest portion of their Dubbox.
Since the mid 90ies the two Rastas operate a studio, in which from morning till late at night, established and upcoming artists hang around, who they record on Specials , as far as they are worthy of this title. The only thing they lack since years , is the habit of clashing.
Immortal
Even if the Second Winner of this years UK Cup Clash only exists since 1999, the sound founder and Selector Tyrone Melody by his affiliation with Luv Injection can look backu on an substantially longer sound history , like also MC One Rass, son of Father Jaweh, which is the not completely inexperienced Selector of the legendary UK sound Wassifa.
Already four years after their establishment the – in total - five Soundboys from Birmingham 2003 created havoc during the elimination round of the English NR. 1, "Winner Takes All" and could only be stopped in the finals by Classique.
5 Years later nobody was able to stood in their way in the same clash mentioned earlier, so that they –well earned – took the English World Cup invitation and there because of their convincing performance, only to be stopped by Mighty Crown in the Dub Fi Dub, qualified for this years NY World Clash.
They are not afraid of tunes, but to make them more known outside of England, the guys will have to work further on their presentation.
We’ll see each other on the 15.10. inside the Munich Muffathalle. Excuses do not apply. Tickets can be found at
www.muenchenticket.de.
Sorry voor de evt typfouten.
LP is nen big, big sound.
Caveman bestaat al serieus lang.
Maar ja , Supersonic heeft een heel goede MC en ja Immortal who knows ?
en een wicked lineup.
en een wicked lineup.
