{"id":42534,"date":"2017-11-28T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/equiknoxx-the-dancehall-scientists-are-back\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:21","slug":"equiknoxx-the-dancehall-scientists-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/equiknoxx-the-dancehall-scientists-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Equiknoxx: the dancehall scientists are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10282 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Equiknoxx_Header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Equiknoxx_Header.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Equiknoxx_Header-759x380.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Equiknoxx_Header-1010x505.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Equiknoxx_Header-661x331.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Equiknoxx_Header-465x233.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Equiknoxx_Header-375x188.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Jamaican crew\u00a0Equiknoxx just released their album\u00a0<em>Col\u00f3n Man <\/em>via\u00a0DDS, english duo Demdike Stare&#8217;s record label.<\/h3>\n<p><em>Bird Sound Power,\u00a0<\/em>released in 2016,\u00a0was\u00a0an hugely acclaimed project\u00a0which featured Equiknoxx&#8217;s productions made between the late &#8217;00s and 2015. The Jamaican Dancehall visonary &#8211; Gavin Blair (Gavsborg) and Jordan Chung (Time Cow) are the main core &#8211; returns with their\u00a0&#8220;first album proper&#8221;,\u00a0<em>Col\u00f3n Man<\/em>,\u00a0recorded\u00a0between December 2016 and June 2017. Darker and more psychedelic than their first outfit,\u00a0<em>Col\u00f3n Man\u00a0<\/em>skilfully blends Jamaican riddims and futurist electronic sounds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/356198306&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The label explains that\u00a0<i>Col\u00f3n Man<\/i>\u00a0gets its name from a Jamaican tale and song about a &#8220;mysterious character&#8221; who was &#8220;one of over 100,000 Jamaicans who returned from working in C\u00f3lon on completion of the Panama Canal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This tale becomes &#8220;a metaphorical foundation&#8221; for the album, which acknowledges &#8220;the vital groundwork of previous generations of producers, whilst soundly contextualising their mutant new advancements of Jamaican dancehall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10280\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds.jpg 632w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/equiknoxx-colon-man-dds-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Cover picture by\u00a0Sander de Wilde<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican crew\u00a0Equiknoxx just released their album\u00a0Col\u00f3n Man via\u00a0DDS, english duo Demdike Stare&#8217;s record label. Bird Sound Power,\u00a0released in 2016,\u00a0was\u00a0an hugely acclaimed project\u00a0which featured Equiknoxx&#8217;s productions made between the late &#8217;00s and 2015. 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