Hpnotiq Riddim – Big Link Up Records

Hpnotiq Riddim is a lean 2014 Big Link Up Records dancehall set with a sharp party-and-gyal theme running through it. The cut list keeps the focus on a handful of vocal passes rather than overloading the package: Anarahk’s “House Party, ” Kadi and Fury’s “Brace Pon Mi (Raw), ” Kodie’s “Claim Up Mi Body, ” and Young-J’s “We Got It Going On” all sit on the rhythm, alongside names like Drina, Sany-G, Snypa Kyng and Tj-Sharp. The release is listed with nine tracks and ten unique artists, with the riddim itself closing the sequence after the vocal versions, a neat little move that lets you hear the instrumental after the songs have done their work. Big Link Up kept it in straight dancehall form, and the whole thing comes in as a 2014 one-riddim drop.