ALBUM DESCRIPTION

DJ Frost Presents The Street Light Mixtape... another hot release from the Lion Of Judah Sounds! This CD contains 33 massive tracks with a variety of styles ranging from dancehall to roots to hip hop. Featured backing riddims include the Dropleaf Riddim, Hard Times Riddim, Old Times Riddim, Military Riddim, and even a set of various hip hop riddims under the "Hip Hop movement" section. In classic mixtape style, various DJ's and vocalists take their turns doing their thing on popular riddims with a healthy dose of chaotic sound effects supplied by producer DJ Frost. The artist lineup features such big names as Sherwin Gardner, Monty G, and Mr. Lynx as well as other well-known microphone verb slingers as Yankee, Avalanchee, and a host of others. Overall, this should be a welcomed addition to your musical arsenal. There is enough crowd-pleasing ammunition on these 33 tracks to keep this CD in heavy rotation for a long time.

Review by: Solomon Jabby

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NOTE: To truly appreciate this CD you must appreciate Jamaican music culture. On any given Friday night in Jamaica, you will find various types of live performances/concerts echoing throughout the dark streets; you'll hear roots/culture shows, dancehall bashments, church gospel concerts and of course, soundsystem events.

Every city in Jamaica has at least one soundsystem and these sounds that sometimes play until dawn are the pulse of popular music in the Caribbean. Sounds are notorious for the freshest dubplates/specials, and quick mixes from one cut to the next over the same riddim. If you have ever heard recordings by sounds such as Metro Media or Stone Love, you would liken them to a fast paced showdown of the greatest Jamaican hits of the moment. Filled with video game-like sound effects and replete with sirens and selector interruptions, soundsystems in their own right are considered equal to or greater than the artists themselves. They are the mouthpieces of the artists and the crowd decides what's hot and what's not. If a song is a hit it is sure to be wheeled (pulled back and repeated over again).

This concept, when translated into the New York hip-hop culture gave birth to the mix-tape phenomenon that gave the initial street-cred necessary to blow up underground artists like 50 Cent and EMIN3M. On the Christian scene, turn-tableist DJ Maj gave us our first set of gospel mix tapes (which despite it's name is not a "tape" at all--but rather a CD).

A few years ago, top label VP records broke ground when they started making their best selling "Reggae Gold" series a double disc project. The second disc was a DJ mix CD by the hottest sound at the moment done in a traditional soundsystem stylee. Today there are various Christian soundsystems such as His Majesties, Bishop Yesehaq, and the Precious Blood Sound, all spinning gospel reggae for Jesus. In this same vein, Lion of Judah's DJ Frost is revolutionizing gospel reggae with the genre's first various artist soundsystem styled mixtape. Pick up a piece of history--buy this CD today!
(Mark Mohr)