It’s a lotus flower fractal of energy that lets the listener, dancer, and artist coalesce a spiral of perspectives into a collective experience, all inna one sound. The art of “juggling” over a “riddim segment” is classic in the foundation of Jamaican and West Indian music. “Mash Down Riddim” makes the possibilities seem infinite and Satta Sound keeps the dance moving and the ideas flowing. Satta Sound’s DJ style mixdown provides the opportunity to glorify certain aspects of the original riddim – all the while creating new songs and hooks for the books, magically displaying just how much creativity can spawn from a bass line and a beat.
It serves as a dissection and explosion all at once.
While the original “Mash Down Georgetown” reasons and gives tribute to Blakkamoore’s home country of Guyana, the “Mash Down Riddim” provides a platform to let other artists illuminate on a host of diverse subjects delving into themes as near and far as the pandemic, ganja, the likeness of H.I.M, as well as the benefits of simply slowing down. In this day, we have the pleasure of hearing the brilliance of Satta Sound, straight outta Warren VT, spinning up a massive mixdown of the “Mash Down Riddim” into a streaming, non-stop back-to-back captivating 22 minute segment, featuring all artists juggling the sound from one to another. “Mash Down Riddim” finds Akae Beka, Pressure, Lutan Fyah, Clatta Bumboo, The Movement, Medisun, Lloyd Brown, Messenjah Selah, Ras Teo, and of course the original artist Blakkamoore – all chanting over the scorching sound of Blakkamoore’s “Mash Down Georgetown” which was first featured on the phenomenal full length record “Upward Spiral” in May 2020. It features a myriad of voices considered to be crown jewels of our time in roots reggae. Forever honoring the legacy of His Excellency Haile Selassie I, “Mash Down Riddim” is the 9th riddim to come from this heavy modern reggae production team/trio in a riddim series.
In the middle of summer 2021, Zion I Kings came through striking hot with the release of the “Mash Down Riddim” to the masses.
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