Wednesday, October 10, 2018

BLACK METAL

No apologies here. You know how, when you first hear a song you that you've never heard and you actually like, maybe even a lot, you hesitate to consider it a favorite? You might just be in a mood that is more conducive to some shit jam. And then you hear it again a while later and it sounds just as good, even better? You listen to it again periodically and then after a while it kind of dissipates into the ether of your not-discerning-enough gluttonous music library. Happens to me a lot. But this also happens to me. I pull a random mix CD to listen to while driving and hear this, now officially a favorite, song. It sounded so good, really loud and booming. Here's the surprising part. It's what's known as cod reggae, or close to it. Cod reggae is watered down not-quite reggae, by and large by white people, and I hate that shit. But when it comes in the form of Clout's "Sunshine Baby" I'll lap it up. Theirs isn't really reggae, except that it is. It relies on the bass, and ultra simple rhythm (can you even call it "riddim" when it's from South Africa and it's white?), and the pace is the same. It does have a lot of brass and a lot of strings but they're wrapped around a cool organ riff and that mother lovin' bass, more punctuating than anything else. This one is good, one of those freak one cult record wonders. "Sunshine Baby" has a posse.

The song has been posted before but it's been years and this time I bring extended versions, one an officially released EP and the other a mysto-remix that appeared on a boot of remixes.

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Listen:
Clout - Sunshine Baby (streaming) at YouTube
Clout - Sunshine Baby mp3 (via Mediafire) at Sound Boutique
Clout - Sunshine Baby (Maxi) mp3
(via ti1ca) at Docover Official EP b/w Save Me in a zip
Clout - Sunshine Baby
(streaming) at YouTube Mysto-remix

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