 06/11/2008 NUTS AND BOLTS: Ghetto Priest – vocals, Sandman – producer/MC
STOMPING GROUND: London, UK, formed 2007
SET TO SOUNDTRACK: Dark streets and seedy clubs
DESTINED TO UPSET: Hip hop purists
YOU’RE IN BUSINESS IF YOU LIKE: Disciples, African Head Charge, Adrian Sherwood, Black Twang, Mr Thing
Screaming Soul is the genre defying collaboration between Ghetto Priest of Asian Dub Foundation, and MC/producer, Sandman, aka Doobie of the Underground Alliance. The pair spews forth a bastardised amalgamation of roots, rap, hip hop and dub, with even the occasional hint of noir jazz glimmering through the fuggy beats.
Their music takes you on a tour of down-and-out London, where gentle Gil Scott-Heron keyboards and soulful reggae vocals are swamped under dub basslines, with spitfire raps over the top. Their debut single, ‘Warfare,’ is the darkest of their work so far, opening via eerie keyboards swaggering with such menace it makes Massive Attack sound like the Monkeys. The overtly political reggae vocals hark back to the days of reggae soundsystems when Jamaican culture was imported to Blighty en masse in the early seventies... Listening to Screaming Soul you can almost feel the claustrophobia of dim rooms filled with the stale skunk smoke of yesteryear.
Warfare is out now (Holy Voodoo)
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