Blunted with a Beat Junkie

• Artist: DJ Shortkut
• Rating:
• Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Genre: Electronica

Review

A DJ mix like this has really only one purpose: to give a know-it-all DJ a chance to show off his depth of hipness. Luckily for the reggae-loving listener, DJ Shortkut both knows the Trojan label's catalog inside-out and has great taste in classic roots reggae and early dancehall. As his labelmate Madlib did before him with 2002's Blunted in the Bomb Shelter, DJ Shortkut has taken several dozen hit singles, dub versions and album tracks from the Trojan vaults (which are now controlled by the Sanctuary group, the company that also owns the Antidote label) and lined them up in a continuous mix, many represented by snippets lasting only a minute or two. If this treatment leaves you hungering for more from each artist, then so much the better -- in the meantime, there's lots of fun to be had in hearing Augustus Pablo's dubwise "Big Rip-Off" segueing with beat-matched perfection into Scotty's "Draw Your Brakes," and Dennis Alcapone's "Funky Tang" leading straight into Bob Marley and the Wailers' "Soul Almighty." There are some worthy obscurities here as well, such as George McKay's derivative but effective "Money Money" and Poppa Tollo's fine "Nuff Stylee." An excellent fusion of modern turntablist technique and old-school reggae grooves. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Kig Tubby's Explosion Dub		King Tubby	(:49)
Dubbing with the Observer		The Observers	(:34)
Jah Jah Dub	Bunny Lee	Aggrovators	(:59)
The Big Rip Off		Augustus Pablo	(1:10)
Draw Your Breaks	Derrick Harriott	Scotty	(1:23)
Entertainer	Roy Cousins	Charlie Chaplin	(2:23)
You Too Greedy		John Wayne Army	(1:36)
A Crabbit Version	Bunny Lee	Aggrovators	(1:32)
Laser Beam		Don Carlos	(1:15)
Nuff Stylee		Poppa Tollo	(1:54)
Money Money (Lyrics)			(1:49)
I Trim the Barber	John Holt, E. Lee	King Tubby	(:34)
Ali Baba (Lyrics)	John Holt	John Holt	(1:53)
Straight to Jackson's Head		Aggrovators, King Tubby	(:44)
Law of the Land	Norman J. Whitfield	Matumbi	(2:03)
Dr. Phibbs	Roy Reid	I-Roy	(1:30)
Water Boiling		The Observers	(2:23)
Stop the War Now	Norman J. Whitfield, Barrett Strong	Lloyd Parks	(2:29)
Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)		Soul Messengers	(1:59)
The Funky Tang	Dennis Alcapone	Dennis Alcapone	(1:59)
Soul Almighty	Bob Marley	Bob Marley	(2:06)
East of the River Nile	Augustus Pablo	Augustus Pablo	(2:01)
Na Na, Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)		Hexstatic	(1:19)
Collie Weed	Barrington Levy	Barrington Levy	(2:13)
Police in Helicopter	John Holt	John Holt	(1:30)
Sensee Party	Linval Thompson, R. "Eek-A-Mouse" Hylton	Eek-A-Mouse	(1:42)
Pass the Tu-Sheng-Peng		Frankie Paul	(2:04)
Entertainment		Ranking Toyan, Triston Palma, Jah Thomas	(1:38)
Friday Night Jamboree	Jah Thomas	Jah Thomas	(1:24)
Another One Bites the Dust	Henry "Junjo" Lawes	Clint Eastwood, General Saint	(1:17)
The Right Time	Neville Brown	Neville Brown	(:49)
King of the Way			(1:31)
Sun Is Shining	Bob Marley	Bob Marley	(1:44)
Dancehall Connection		Jah Thomas	(1:38)
A Little Different Way		Errol Dunkley	(1:20)
Here I Come (Lyrics)	Dennis Brown	Dennis Brown	(2:00)

Credits

John Wayne Army (Performer), Lee "Scratch" Perry (Producer), Brad Howe (Illustrations), DJ Shortkut (Mixing), Jeff Jank (Design), DJ Shortkut (Selection)