Mix Up Riddim – Various Artists

Mix Up Riddim lands in that 2007 dancehall-reggae space where the rhythm does the heavy lifting and the voicing keeps it moving, with Christopher Martin’s “Fi Yuh Money” and General Degree’s “Dem A Fool” giving it some of the sharpest personality. The set leans on a mix of smooth sing-jay cuts and rougher talk-over energy, so you get Blacker, D Major, Danny English and Delicious sitting naturally beside harder-edged names like Hawkeye, Lady G and Iceman. General Degree’s song appears twice, in edit and raw form, and the same treatment is given to Iceman and Lady G, which suggests the producer wanted both radio-ready versions and the full street mix in the same package. That sequencing gives the riddim a little extra bite, moving from polished cuts into the uncut versions without losing momentum.