Sauce Boss Riddim – Soundmakers Music

Sauce Boss Riddim comes from Soundmakers Music in 2019, but instead of a sprawling showcase, it keeps the focus on a tight, club-ready dancehall groove that runs at a brisk 96 BPM and leaves room for each vocalist to punch through. Honorebel opens the set with the title cut, while Dilly Chris, Shifta and Beenie Gunter add different shades of badness, flirtation and streetwise swagger; the raw versions for “Closer, ” “Stripper Tease” and “Steady Loving” point to a project meant to flex in both clean and uncensored form. The production has that crisp, digital bounce Soundmakers have leaned into before, with the rhythm staying lean enough for the voices to do the heavy lifting. By the time it closes on “Steady Loving, ” the riddim has settled into a sharp little 10-track package that gets straight to the point.