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Bingie Trod

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Out of all the various riddim albums that I've listened to over the years from all the various producers on all the various labels with all the various artists voicing them perhaps no other riddim to date has CONFUSED me more than the Bingie Trod.

In just analyzing the riddim itself, you get a wonderfully beautiful and vibrant roots riddim which would seemingly make itself the perfect backdrop for some of the better cultural artist to make their best material on. . .

Not so, something (which I have yet to figure out) is wrong with the Bingie Trod! Its unbelievable! May it be the tempo, it is one of the slower modern roots riddims, it actually sounds like a slightly souped up version of something right out of the legendary Count Ossie's studio. So the mystery comes when you see just how many and who fails to hit the mark on the Bingie Trod which is produced, surprisingly, by the epitome of dancehall mediocrity (with respect to Bling Dawg), Alozade.

Alozade's first mistake was to voice himself for the riddim, strike one. The second was to go out and get his buddy Elephant Man, strike two; and although he does a decent job on Times Getting Harder, you wouldn't expect Spragga Benz on this type of riddim either, strike three.

After that you go through and see Bushman, Richie Spice, Junior Kelly ALL fail to hit the mark on the riddim. Also, though these days he has shown to be quite the wizard with the pen when it comes to the Love Song, 2005's Artist of the Year Turbulence also misses on Love You; and Bascom X's rather unusual vocalizing completely scratches his Away Away; and shockingly Anthony B chooses to go just about slack on his Gi Mi Dat, and I'm wondering just what is going on!

What's good here is the always dependable Luciano on his beautiful What is Man? Truly underappreciated vet and background singer Pam Hall scores a winner on her love song Ole Fashion, Jah Mason shows a fine effort on as well on his Nuh Time at All which was the message that every (or most) artist here should have went for. Sizzla Kalonji's up and down goes up here as he goes nicely over the type of riddim he established himself on, with his fine Break Down Babylon. Of course the coup de grace here is by far the opener, Jah Cure's massive Hi Hi is probably the reason this one received an album, the tune is one of the best of so many fantastic shots from the magically voiced artist.

Overall, through all the mess here, the true winner is the riddim and you have to give Alozade his credit there, the Bingie Trod was easily one of the best riddims of early 2005 and the year altogether. And shame goes to the label, VP, (at least on my copy) for not delivering a clean version of this massive riddim, despite 'promising' to do so on the track list. I say go for the 45's on this one, you don't really need the cd. (Plus, if you buy the complete vinyl version you get Norris Man's wicked All Vanity and Chrisinti's equally wicked With a Plan, and a nice tune from the late Simpleton)