Morphosis Riddim – Uim / Jbad Productions

Morphosis Riddim moves with a crisp, mid-tempo dancehall bounce, the kind that leaves room for the vocals without ever sounding bare, and the whole thing keeps its focus tight across eleven cuts. Bugle opens the set on the title track, while Jah Vinci’s “Reminisce” and Blak Diamon’s “Leave Me” are the cuts that give the riddim its emotional pull; the “raw” versions of both songs also point to a versioning approach that was still very much part of the dancehall playbook in 2019. UIM and JBad line up a varied cast — Navino, Proghes, Ras Ash1st, LVNA — but Anju Blaxx is the thread running through it all, appearing on every song and closing the project with the instrumental, which leaves the production’s clean, slightly lean shape hanging in the air.