Guns-E-Nums Xmas Gifts!

Germanys reigning Clash-Promoter, Mr. Smoka of Guns-E-Num, just released a wicked Download-Link-Package as a christmas gift for all you guys, including a nice mix-cd, a baddd 100% Dubplate-Juggling-Audio and a exciting Soundclash.

Just click the images to download.

 

[Video] Chin interviews Ajax of Blunt Posse

via irishandchin.com

Flyer for Riddim Clash 2010

Seems like the Line-Up wasn’t just a rumour, as I recently found the Flyer for this years Riddim Clash.

Riddim Clash 2010 Line Up

Don’t know if this is really official yet, but one of Guiding Star’s Members put the Line Up for this years Riddim Clash on the DHR Board.

CITY LOCK, the reigning champion from Germany
GUIDING STAR from France
BLUNT POSSE from the US of A
ROOTSMAN from Canada
POISON DART, the one from Antigua
HEAVY HAMMER from Italy

Well, I don’t know.

[Download] War Fever Soundclash

Ajax of Blunt Posse Sound outta the Bronx just posted the audio for last weekends War Fever Clash against Herbalize-It on his Facebook Site.

The Promoter of the Clash, Guns-E-Num, decided to gave the audios to the sounds involved, and let them spread the clash if they want to, but decided not to release them by himself cause him a litte vex bout the turnout of this clash.

All the people who always scream for the recording of such an event within not even a day since it kept, and live inside a regular driving radius but didn’t show up should be ashamed to bloodclaat! Because of such habits not many people are still willing to put their effort and money in to promote soundclashes, stageshows and big dances.

Nevertheless I’m gonna post the audio still, because i want to gave the sounds and especially Mr Smoka, of Guns-E-Num, a little shine and let you hear what you have missed.

Maybe you will show up at the next event of Guns-E-Num, or any other promoter, and support the thing.

Think about it.

(Download the Clash by clicking the Flyer)

Blunt Posse won the War Fever Clash

last night in Mannheim, Germany.

Overall it was a deserved victory for the Sound outta the Bronx. Herbalize-It couldn’t connect with the massive like they use to do in past clashes.

Don’t know if it was me, because I was very tired, but the clash didn’t really catch me, not many tunes stuck to my mind from that night. Also barely no big speeches were made.

Anyways, big up Mr. Smoka and Guns-E-Num Clash Promotion for putting up all this effort, trying to push the whole soundclash culture forward. You large.

Big up Herbalize-It for participate, and of course, big up Blunt Posse Sound on the win.

War Fever Soundclash Video Teaser

Guns-E-Num is about to promote their next big clash in a few weeks between Blunt Posse out of the Bronx and the Dutch Champion Herbalize-It.

The whole thing going down at the 12th of June in Mannheim, Germany at Rude 7.

Host of this War Fever Clash will be Elmar of the everlasting Sentinel Sound. Make sure to witness.

Mr. Smoka, of Guns-E-Num, just uploaded a Video Teaser for the Clash.

Next Clashs in the making

There are so many clashes coming up in the next few months, that I want to try to give you a short update on what’s happening next.

The very next Clash will be Axxion Pack from Sweden vs Jah Ark Manifest from Norway in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 22nd of January. Promoted by Rough Lynx Sound.

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Up next, there is a nice little war going on between the two bavarian sounds Renegade and Nicetime Intl., 12th of February at Backstage in Munich

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Also in February, the reigning Riddim Clash Champion City Lock, from Berlin, enter two Clashes. On the 13th, the Kill or Die trying Clash 2010 against Dancehall Soldiers from Italy in Venice. And then, just one week later, on the 20th of February against Guiding Star from Paris in Geneva.

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February the 27th you have two Clashes on one night.

Irie Crew from Nancy, France against One Love Hi-Powa from Rome, called Sottotetto Cup Clash in Bologna

And, at Germanys U-Club in Wuppertal, Herb-A-Lize-It from Enschede, Holland vs Young Hawk Sound out of the Bronx, NYC, USA

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March the 19th, Frankfurts Bashment Machine Soundbwoys Destiny gonna clash versus Northern Lights from Udine, Italy in Bologna.

>>Flyer Update<<

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Then, April, the 10th, at Stratford Rex, London:

The US Worldclash vs UK Cup Clash Tag Team Clash.

Already announced by Chin on his Blog a few weeks ago, but now I found the Line Up on Sentinels Homepage.

Sentinel, Mighty Crown, Blackkat as Team US Worldclash vs Rodigan, Bass Odyssey and another Sound as TeamUK Cup Clash.

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And finally, the clash I am looking forward the most. This years edition of the great War inna East, promoted by the notorious Herb-A-Lize-It Sound from Enschede.

Mighty Crown versus Supersonic. April, the 17th.

Best thing in years, hands down.

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Update: Found this on Blunt Posses Myspace

12th of June 2010: Blunt Posse vs Herb-A-Lize-It Rude 7 in Mannheim, Germany

Edit:

Finally, here is the Flyer for this Clash:

Young, gifted and baaad #16

We’re flying across the pond for another time and heading to the city that never sleeps aka the 5 Boroughs aka the Big Apple.

To be excactly, we’re visiting just one borough uptown called the Bronx.

Maybe you already noticed that I’m not just sticking to the “Young” anymore, neither to the very “Upcoming”, but I think thats not the worst thing if I can feature such sounds as the big, bad and bold

BLUNT POSSE from the Bronx, NYC

#Please introduce your Sound and all the members to the readers.

BLUNT POSSE SOUND FROM BRONX N.Y.

As far as “members” its a Posse of us. Immediate members you we would say Father Blunt, Ajax, Mr. Lee, Dutchman, & Diamond (and we currently working with a new addition to the posse name Mix A- Lot).

Then the street team consists of Aggie B, Tru Dad, Ricky, Run Run, Big Ralph and a few others. So its really and truly a Posse.

#When was the founding of your Sound and since when do you djing?

The Sound was officially launched around 1997 by Father Blunt, Ricky, Dutchman & Tru Dad.

Ajax came along a year and a half later. We got our start doing house parties, basement dances & block parties.

#Can you describe which style your sound plays mostly?

These Days our sound is balanced as a hardcore jugglin clash sound. The style of the sound can vary on any given night. It all depends on the vibe of the patrons.

#Please tell me about the most important cornermarks in the sounds history, like clashes, the baddest dances, etc.

One of our major “corner marks” in Blunt Posse History was when we first played Killamanjaro for our first big dance in a club called ACT III in the Bronx. Afrique sound was originally billed for the dance with Kilamanjaro but they backed out of it two weeks before the date. The owner of the club asked Father Blunt if he could fill in for Afrique. That night everyone including Ricky Trooper was in for a big suprise.

Another cornerstone in Blunt Posse history was when we clashed Mighty Crown in the Bronx. They underestimated Blunt Posse and the dance is talked about still today.

A more recent accomplishment was defeating Bass Odyssey & Luv Injection in UK War Of The Worlds.

#Which plans do you have for your sound in the near future and what are the real longtime plans for it?

In The Near Future we plan To create an even greater international perspective for the sound and eventually turn BLUNT POSSE into a brand.

#Which persons, sounds, artists have influenced you musicallywise?

Basically every soundsystem & producer that has contributed to this dancehall movement in some way or another is an Influence  to Blunt Posse “musically wise”.

#What was the first dubplate you ever voiced, and do you still play it?

One Of The first dubs we ever voiced was “Mr D.C.” by Sugar Minott and we still play it today. We even revoiced it with Sugar in combination with a DJ.

Thank you very much for your time and big up yourself. Also a big thank you to Bonita Desperado again!

You guys can check these Live Audios and Mixes from Blunt Posse in the meantime:

Sizzla Kalonji 45 Mix

Blunt Posse live@U-Club, Germany, March 2008:

Run down for World Sound Cup Clash

Just found this on DHR, thanks to Leslie from detroitreggae.com:

It took almost 71/2 hours to fly from Atlanta to London’s Gatwick Airport. But being able to attend World Cup 2009 was well worth it. Detroitreggae.com arrived at the Brixton O2 Academy at approximately 11:15pm. There was no line outside and I started to wonder if there would be a low turn out. Inside just about 200 people were assembled. This crowd would grow to almost 3500 by the time the event ended. Early juggling was done by local London sounds, Eartquake, Stereo Mello, World Tower & I believe Super Cliff. Normally early juggling sounds do a good job of helping to create a early vibe in the dance so that the feature sounds would already have a crowd that’s already in the vibe. But it seems to me that these sounds were more interested in showing off their dub arsenal. Never have I heard so many “early juggling sounds” for a clash play whole rounds of nothing but dubs. While some of the dubs did well to get a few forwards such as World Towers’s Singing Melody, ’1st thing early Sunday morning’ and his Cocoa Tea “we kill dem now” Super Cliff’s Sanchez ’ Lots of sound in life” did well all the other dubs did nothing to increase the vibe. As most people just stood there watching.
The clash started at around 12:45 to 1am. The host for the night was shared between Dancehall DJ Lexxus and Romo. Each did well in spelling out the rules and keeping things in order. Lexxus was quite funny when he said, ‘ Barrier Free a hear say you wicked wid martial arts, but this war is not physical, only verbal” However, while spelling out the rules for the clash they made a very shocking announcement. There would be no homophobic comments to the crowd in other words no battyman forwards, sounds were ok in calling each other battyman but they could not ask the crowd if they hate battyman etc. later in the dance Ajax from Blunt Posse would make a excellent speech about this controversial rule. More on that later. The clash started with a NO ELIMINATION ROUND and then it went into round 1, 2 etc.
Shashamane was picked to go 1st., however, because of technical difficulties in hooking up their laptop they were bypassed and Barrier Free who was picked to go second went 1st instead. I must be honest I like most others thought that Barrier Free was just another Mighty Crown wannabe, but by all accounts BF had their own style and did well in holding their own.. Their 1st dub was a counteraction of sorts when they played a tune that said “ sound nuh ready” mocking Shashamane for not being ready to play. Thay got a big forward for this. They then played a Sanchez ‘Here I am” followed by a Cocoa Tea & Bounty Killa combination”Who shall BF fear & the Lord is my light and salvation”. This also received a big fwd.. Jah Cure’s “ Love is the only solution”, Buju’s “Murderer”, Johnny Osbournes, “No ice cream sound” and Bounty Killa’s “If a war dem want it fe start”, ended a solid round for BF getting 80 to 90% of fwd’s for most of their round.
Shashamane was able to get their system working so they were allowed to get back in the rotation. Sha. (I will just call them Sha from now on) started out with the Kenyan national anthem. They then went to Half Pint’s “Greetings I bring” and then Demarco’s “Duppy know who dem fe frighten” followed by Bounty’s “Inna de dance Sha have im Eagle” followed by Mavado’s “Nuh sound bwoy caan kill we” at this point however, the MC for Sha (his name by the way is African) got booed for reading his song list from a sheet of paper he had in his hand . Suffice to say he never came out with that sheet in the second round . They did ok in this round getting a few fwds etc.
One Love from Italy was next. They also started out with their national anthem. That was followed by the Godfather theme song. They played a solid round getting many fwds in their round. In fact after hearing all the sounds One Love definitely had the lead going into the second round. They played a few Berris Hammond’s, Buju Banton‘s “Sound fe dead“ and Mavado’s “This is what One Love do”.
Bassodyssey did not have Squingy so Worm took the MC role along with DJ Mark. This was one of Bassodyssey worst rounds I have ever heard. They hardly got any fwds for this round. They played a Dewayne Stevenson “A drum pon sound fe dead” a Berris, Bushman’s “fire pon a weak sound” Pinchers ’here I come, here I am” Mavado, “Bassodyssey me special, me special”, they ended the round with a Kartell. Throughout the round however, they got a few forwards, most of it was boring and unexciting.
Bodyguard’s debut back into the clash arena was very much anticipated. But they too failed to connect with the crowd and therefore had a very weak round. Johnny was not there so Junior Vibes and some selector that I had never seen on Bodyguard was doing the mixing. Junior Vibes played a few new tunes in this round but stuck mainly to the older Bodyguard favorites. They started with a Sizzla “Bodyguard a big murderer” they went to a Bounty Killa medley, starting with “Bodyguard come fe kill we nuh tek nuh argument” on the sick rhythm then, “ Gunz out and tun on” then “Bright and facety and out a order” Junior cats “ Killing pussy and we kill dem fe fun” was next followed by another Bounty Killa, “ Shooting like Alcopone” Junior Vibes made a big speech in that round stating that” Every sound come up yah a play national anthem after a nuh footbal match we deh, a bloodcloth war” this received a big forward. He finished the round with a London artist call Styro G who called out the other sounds name in the dub, but this tune got no forward. The Bounty Killa medley surprisingly enough did not get the type of forwards that bodyguard was anticipating in fact other than the 1st Killa all the rest got lukewarm responses.
Luv Injection was next. All I can say is that they need Corporal Bailey if they ever have a chance of winning a clash. They virtually got no forwards for their whole round and was even booed a few times.
Blunt Posse was next. They did well. It was funny when the host for the night announced BP by saying that they were flown in on Airforce One and sent by President Obama. BP also started out with the American National Anthem. They then played a Laddy “I believe that’s the artist name” that called out all the sound names in the clash. Ajax was the first to start some great speeches. He pointed out that” Dem say we caan bun nuh battyman a wah kinda corporation dat” he then played a Sister Nancy on the taxi rhythm. He then told Shashamane “ Sha pop dung and play second dem love play after man” They then played a Cocoa Tea, ’ I tell a soundboy not to test BP”, a Kartell and Szzla combination followed which got a big forward. He also played a Bounty Killa, Gabriel and a Buju each received good forwards. That was the end of the non elimination round.
The 1st round saw the elimination of two sounds. Luv Injection and Bassodyssey. I can’t think of a recent clash where Basodyssey was eliminated in the 1st round.
Barrier Free was 1st . The Mc for BF (never caught his name) accused BP of chatting too much “in fact you now name Blunt Pussy” then they played a Nitty Kutchie “you chat too much because you suck too much pussy” this recieived a big forward. Infact Barrier Free’s whole round was good. Godd dubs from Junior Gong, Shabba & Bounty Killa ended the round.
Shashamane was next they too had a solid round. Tunes from Eeka- mouse and Shabba’s “some sound boy what’s the matter with them” received big forwards. The biggest thing that Shahamane did in that round however, was to kill Bodyguard’s Lt. Stitchie “Bodyguard mad mad, mad” they received hardly any forward for the tune but it prevented Bodyguard from getting one either because they could not play back the tune.
One Love’s round was very solid many forwards during their round. Biggest of which was “Tra la la here comes the Outlaw” They played a Courtney Melody a Mafia me Mafia” which received a big forward Barrier Free would later counteract that tune with their own Courtney Melody.
Body Guard, Bassodysey and Luv Injection each had a weak round. Luv injection did however, play a Degree ‘ Lord wow we nuh want nuh Bodyguard, Junior Vibes a suck pussy hard” This did receive a big forward.
Blunt Posse did ok, not as good a round as their 1st but good enough to get to the second round. During this round they played a Mavado, Kartell and Spice combination and a Bounty Killa on the sick rhythm, “ Dem nuh friend Fish” which got booed.
2nd round Barrier Free who was dressed in jeans and t-shirt in the earlier round changed clothes and came out in a white karate uniform with black belt. The place erupted in laughter. He then immediately counteracted One Love’s Courtney Melody with his own ‘A ninja me ninja”. The clash was a no holds bar so sounds were free to play both 45’s and dubs in their round. Barrier Free played Tenor Saw’s ‘Bangarang” to a big forward. He the played a Johnny Clark ‘Barrier Free nuh fear no sound” and then a Sugar Minott, “Coming from the country” to another big forward
Shashamane was next he immediately critized Barrier Free for dressing up in white by saying, “ Inna Africa dem dress up inna white before dem bury de dead” They got their most forwards in this rounds. Dubs by Nicodemus, Capleton, Leroy Gibbons and a big dub by the legendary Johnny Ringo had the crowd screaming for more.
One Love came on and made one of the best speeches of the night. OL said, ’ A wha dis, dem a jiggy jiggy out the clash like dem deh a passa passa or duty Friday” the crowd broke out in laughter, horns blaring etc. They then played an Admiral Bailey, “When me check it out lawd” Ninja man “a gwine murder dem” received a huge forward. Another good speech was made when he said, “ A Italy we come from we nuh use karate a machine we use and kill people” then played Pinchers, “Bonderlero” the crowd erupted, big forward. The round ended with Brigadier Jerry, “A Italy we born and grow” another big forward. This round clearly went to One Love
Bodyguard was very dissapointing. They played “jah, jah see dem a come” which got booed. “Show me unouu hand” “ hills and valley” A Wayne Wonder & Buju combination but all this was to no prevail, Bodygurad was Eliminated in the second round.
BP was next. This was their worst round hardly any forwards. They played a Shabba Ranks, Tyrus Riley and a Sizzler but never received the big forwards. He did however do much better than Bodyguard.
The next round was the 45 round. I scored it even between Shashamane & One Love with Barrier Free 3rd. I gave the edge to One Love however, because of the speech he made b4 he started his 45 round. He said, ‘Engineer fix up the turntable right cause when it come to 45 we nuh play MP3 and laptop and dem fuckery deh” Biggest forward was for ’Oh Cherry oh Baby” played by Shashamane. Blunt Posse tried their best getting a big forward for their Peter Tosh, “Dem want I fe come a dem funeral” Ajax made another big speech for the night, he said, ‘ It was made clear that you can’t bun nuh battyman, One Love a unou tell de promoter fe nuh bun nuh battyman or else when we go back a Italy dem ago hate we” then he played “Fire pon Rome” by Anthony B this received a big forward. BP, however could not overcome in this round and he was quickly eliminated in the 3rd Round
The 4th round was a Six Shooter. Each sound had 6minutes each. Barrier Free’s Greggory Issacs, “ Who is going to Play BF tonight” got a small fwd but by this time he had failed to connect with the crowd and he was quickly eliminated in the 4th round
Barrier Free Eliminated in the 4th round.
Shashamane used this round to show just how deep his dub arsenal was, they drew dubs by Barry Brown, King Kong’s , “Trouble again” Scion Success’ “ You done dead already” A Yellowman and Johnny Osbourne. Not to be out done One Love played a few King Kong’s an Admiral Tibbet, “The war isn’t over”
The final round was tune fe tune. The best of 10. Never have I seen such a close contest in the tune fe tune segment. One love went up 2 nil on dubs by Bob Andy & Marci Griffits combo & Uroy which Shashamane critized as a dub by a Dj and therefore should not have been played. However Shashamane would win the next three to go up 3 to 2 with dubs by Marcia Griffits “ Killing a sound is a easy thing to do”, Inner Circle, ’ A long long time we nuh have no nice time” and Eeeka Mouse. One Love’s Wailing Souls was booed extensively.. The next tunes was declared a draw. A Don carlos by Sha & a Alton Ellis by One Love. One Love won the next round to tie it 3/3. Shashamane would go ahead with a Mighty Diamonds, “Mercy on a soundboy’ One Love’s Berris Hammond failed miserably. One Love would come back in the next round to tie it up 4/4 with a Johnny Clark. Shashamane went a head 5/4 with a dub form Linval Thompson which killed the Micheal Rose dub by One Love. For the last and final tune the winner of which would win the clash. Shashamane drew “big ship sailing” by Freddy Mcgrerror which received a big forward. One Love’s Johnny Osbourne & Sammy Dread combination was no match and Shashamane was declared the winner.

Ps I tried to be as accurate as I could if I happen to get a tune out of order it was not intentional.
Lesliehero
Detroitreggae.com