Travel Riddim – Explorer Recording

Travel Riddim from Explorer Recording sits in that early-2000s reggae pocket where a clean, steady groove leaves room for voices like Capleton, Everton Blender and Louie Culture to do the heavy lifting. Issued in 2005, it keeps the cast tight at six cuts, which gives the set a focused feel rather than the sprawl you get on some various-artist projects. Capleton’s “Never Let You Down” has the kind of direct pull you’d expect from him, while Everton Blender’s “Travelled The World” and Louie Culture’s “Guard You Yard” keep the conscious side of the riddim front and centre. The sequencing moves from Ambitious through to the version last, so the producer clearly wanted the vocal runs to land before the instrumental closes things out.