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Rapso Takeover
Artist
Brother Resistance
ReleaseProduct
Rapso Takeover
Label
Left Ear Records
Catalogue Number
LER1003
Release Date
August 31, 2015

Lovingly re-issued by Left Ear Records, Brother Resistance makes a welcome return with his 1986 'Rapso Takeover.' A seminal addition to the Rapso movement, Brother Resistance blends calypso, reggae, disco and funk with the genre's definitive, progressive form of poetry. Rising from the streets of Trinidad and Tobago through the 70s and 80s, Rapso became a way to articulate social unrest and liberate its sufferers through music. With all the charm of a ragga poet, Brother Resistance recounts street tales over bright, sunshine grooves backed by an uplifting female chorus. "You have only yourself to blame," he warns on 'Star Warz Rapso', before we're thrown into two blissed-out dubs. The steel-pan chorus through 'Ring De Bell' is pure elation, marking his calls to play music for culture and for freedom with a light-hearted grace, while 'Children of Soweto' asks us to "run quick and spread the word," something we're still ready to do almost twenty years on.

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