Friday

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                                                                                                                                        The clue with chill hop is right there in the name, it's no more than a fusion of chill out music and hip hop. A playlist is         worth a thousand words so the newly minted "Slow Hop" playlist* is just to the right & it's Youtube & Deezer versions at the bottom of the post but there is something I'd like you to read and listen to first. The old cliche goes you have to know the past to understand the present so, if you're interested, let's take a brief look at hip hop's early days and the origins of chill out music to fully understand how chill hop came about and got to where it is today.  

Island usually gets the credit for establishing Britain as ska and reggae's second home, but it was a chaotically run London indie label that created the scene in the first place. Before Island opened an office in London, Blue Beat had the keys to Prince Buster, Laurel Aitken, Derrick Morgan and Owen Gray, and brought rasta drummer Count Ossie and sound-system originator Duke Reid over from Kingston to play Lewisham and Brixton.

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