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Showtime riddim

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The Showtime riddim, produced in the Dave Kelly/Madhouse orbit in 1997, is one of 1990s dancehall's best-known riddims: hard, minimal and club-ready, with multiple vocal cuts that made it a reference point for the era's sound.

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In Jamaican music a rhythm track is not the background to one song. It is a shared address that dozens of records live at, and it works like an index to the whole archive.

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