Subwoofer Riddim – Horse Shoe Records

By 2014, dancehall was deep in that hard, speaker-rattling era, and Horse Shoe Records tuned Subwoofer Riddim for exactly that kind of pressure. The riddim’s title tells you the angle: heavy low-end first, with the sort of punch that suits Cobra’s sharp-edged “We Nuh Take Page” and Vershon’s brash “Handz Up” especially well. I-Octane’s “My Ting A Your Ting” gives the project a smoother, more melodic lift, while Kiprich and Twin of Twins keep the energy on the talking-and-response side of the spectrum. The set landed in early May 2014, and with clean and raw versions running side by side, it feels very much like a proper sound-system package rather than a loose collection of singles.