Bloody Mary Riddim – Temple Swing

Temple Swing’s Bloody Mary Riddim sits in the producer’s 2017 run of compact dancehall EPs, and this one keeps the focus tight with just three vocal cuts plus the instrumental. Genista’s “Christmas Krampus, ” Segree’s “Chemetry, ” and Frasswel’s “In These Time” all ride the same cut, which sounds spare and stern rather than glossy, with a hard skank, a lean drum pattern, and bass that stays low and insistent. The vocal approach is pointed and clipped, so the riddim leaves room for the deejays to lean into the phrasing instead of crowding the mix. It runs like a short archive piece: four tracks, three artists, and an instrumental stamped by Temple Swing Records on December 29, 2017.