Blue Square Riddim – Bena Production

Bena Production’s Blue Square Riddim from 2012 comes with that clipped, streetwise dancehall energy that was doing the rounds in the early digital era, and it’s the kind of juggling that lives or dies on attitude as much as the rhythm itself. Don Andre’s “Badness Inna We Long Time (Raw)” feels like the sharpest pull here, sitting alongside cuts from Dane Ray, Cubanis, Voltage and Rae Tay without losing the thread of the riddim’s bounce. Bena keeps the arrangement lean and percussive, with enough space for the deejays to lock in and ride the groove rather than fight it, and the version at the end folds the whole thing back on itself nicely, almost like a producer’s signature tag left on the table.