![]() Most strikingly on tunes like My Everything he finds both the drive of dancehall and the bluesy edge of roots in a frenetic polyrhythm built around the Latin horns of David Bowies Lets Dance, an up-tempo track that could be just as home in a Trinidad carnival as a UK discothque. ![]() The skill with which he compartmentalizes multiple roles in the studio also extends to his easy movement between styles. I come up wif a melody firs and get that down, then start with the lyrics. Unless my brother engineerin for me, Im runnin from the board to the booth, back to the board Like boot camp for a one-man army, that experience molded the signature vocal style that defines Collie Buddz - a songwriter who can lay his own riddim, sing the hook and chat on the verse. ![]() Back when Beenie and Bounty used to war lyrically, seeing clashes wit Kilimanjaro an all the sound-man an everytingthe whole music scene for me took on a new meaning.Ĭlash thing an lyrical war became a part of my daily life from early out.Ĭonsistent encouragement from the various soundmen and engineers he encountered on those dub excursions led Collie to maintain a musical focus and eventually trek to Florida for a degree in audio engineering, a path that ended behind the boards of his own Bermudian studio, jointly run with his older brother (Smokey) and Sneek Success from one of Bermudas founding sounds, Newclear Weapon.īuilding riddims for other artists only expanded his love for writing and voicing his own lyrics however. ![]()
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