{"id":7395,"date":"2014-03-14T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubmassive.org\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2014-03-14T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:11:34","slug":"tour-de-force-battle-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/7395\/tour-de-force-battle-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Force &#8211; &#8220;Battle Cry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dubmassive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/COVER_FRONT.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7396\" alt=\"COVER_FRONT\" src=\"http:\/\/dubmassive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/COVER_FRONT-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>What is happening in the dub world on the beginning of this year makes me dizzy a bit, of course in the positive meaning. This time I got pinned down by two guys \u2013 Double Tiger and DJ Q-Mastah, who created Tour de Force and established Dub-Stuy Records label. They also have their own 15 kW sound system, using which they want to reborn reggae\/dub and spread sound system culture in the USA. In their music they connect the old with the new, where reggae meets electronics, that\u2019s how the album is started \u2013 in \u201cBattle Cry\u201d standard winds are pierced by a tough bass, characteristic for dubstep. The beginning gives reasons to joy, and the first tune with Brother Culture on the microphone is only keeping us in that mood \u2013 in \u201cRoots lyrics\u201d he shows what he has got best. In \u201cStrong to survive\u201d we are attacked by the winds and a huge dose of bass that totally floor us with its interpretation of Sleng Teng with Jahdan Blackkamoore on vocals. After 4 so heavy tunes it\u2019s a dread to think what will be next \u2013 here beautiful voice of Jay Sparker in \u201cOld time love\u201d and a great melodica in \u201cTiger\u201d introduce us to a meditative climate, to dive into sounds served by TDF with help of Luciano. The Brooklyn\u2019s duo knew who to invite to vocally embellish their music, in the succeeding tunes Jay Speaker sings beautifully again, convincing us not to give up and to fight for what\u2019s yours. It\u2019s hard to believe that we are heading to the finish, all the more when we hear the theme from \u201cSatta Massagana\u201d bathed in electronic sauce. For the dessert there is \u201cThe Traveler\u201d, which takes us to the Far East and perfectly ends that amazing album. Definitely the TDF duo fulfilled its mission, connecting the reggae inspiration with tough, modern music full of basses, not withering in any of the by the way. Consider Tour de Force\u2019s advice: \u201cSo please, put away the headphones and the awful computer speakers\u201d and listen to that album only on a good sounding!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/132570499&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening in the dub world on the beginning of this year makes me dizzy a bit, of course in the positive meaning. This time I got pinned down by two guys \u2013 Double Tiger and DJ Q-Mastah, who created Tour de Force and established Dub-Stuy Records label. They also have their own 15Continue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[147,811,810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubmassive.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}