Digital English – Dub Plate Style Vol.1

Heavy on the bass and steeped in that early digital dancehall feel, Digital English – Dub Plate Style Vol. 1 has the kind of raw, cut-to-the-chase energy that sounds tailor-made for sound system play. Daddy Pecka and Screechie Dan kick things off with “Rising To The Top, ” while Daddy Pecka returns for the tougher “Badness A Chuck, ” and Ranking Joe’s “Fade Away” keeps the dub-plate mood anchored in veteran deejay style. Elsewhere, Junior Wilson, Ken Albert, Knight Rider and Nippa T push the riddim through lover’s rock, anthem talk and yard-style chat, with Original Computer Packman adding two especially rough-edged cuts. Marked as a 198X dancehall set with ten different artists, it sits right in the moment when the genre was moving from roots to the sharper, stripped-back computer sound that would define the decade.