why so many mentions of soundboys?

bobsabarker · Post by **bobsabarker** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:07 am

i dont know if its just tradition with uk dance music (i dont know much about it the history of it), but why is "soundboy" a prominent topic for naming singles or songs themselves? sorry if its a stupid question, but i'd like to know!

digiman · Post by **digiman** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:32 am

it comes to modern dance music from reggae/dancehall soundsystem culture

bobsabarker · Post by **bobsabarker** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:49 am

thank you! makes sense.

Whistla · Post by **Whistla** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:25 am

SoundMAN = a compliment
SoundBOY = a cuss

signus · Post by **signus** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:42 am

Who doesn't love killin a soundboy/soundboys?

bunjcore · Post by **bunjcore** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:48 am

soundboy fi dead!!
Even though its normally me accidentally boshin up masters, flickin switches on mixers and lookin puzzled as the dancefloor clears...

fused_forces · Post by **fused_forces** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:16 pm

Signus wrote:Who doesn't love killin a soundboy/soundboys?

Cant get enuff of it.

syhr · Post by **syhr** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:41 pm

i have personally dispatched 3 soundboys already today and i haven't even had lunch yet.

mattrelton · Post by **mattrelton** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:46 pm

Pass me a dubplate, we gonna kill a soundguy tonight. Pass me a dubplate, a soundguy gon' surely die!

abs · Post by **abs** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:12 pm

I killed a soundbwoy earlier today, it's what it's about.. murderation all across di nation, soundguy has gotta die innit.

ST100 · Post by **ST100** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:28 pm

syhr wrote:i have personally dispatched 3 soundboys already today and i haven't even had lunch yet.

lukki · Post by **lukki** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:16 pm

Catch my tune with Mind Mada - "Funeral for a Soundbwoy" dropping on Betamorph next month

...and Fused Forces' "Soundbwoy Murder" coming our March 2nd on Shift

...and My collab with Werd 2 Jah - " Kill em with style" forthcoming 12" on Stupid Fly Records("Soundbwoy Dead Time" in the vox hehe)

for all Soundbwoy Death Needs...Tunes mentioning Killing Soundbwoys are great for following said Soundbwoys on the decks...Always fun

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:33 am

chances are, it's because there's a hell of a lot of soundbwoy's rinsin' tired mp3 riddims!

Hey mr. undertaker, make 'dem a coffin
no no my mistake, make it two
i say one fi di selecta, one fi dem owna.......

l que · Post by **l que** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:23 am

Fused Forces wrote:
Signus wrote:Who doesn't love killin a soundboy/soundboys?
Cant get enuff of it.

it's what i live for

digiman · Post by **digiman** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:06 pm

Check my special mix on the theme of killing sounds / sounbwoys:

http://digiman.podomatic.com/entry/2009 ... 9_48-08_00

betamorph recordings · Post by **betamorph recordings** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:30 pm

lukki wrote:Catch my tune with Mind Mada - "Funeral for a Soundbwoy" dropping on Betamorph next month

...and Fused Forces' "Soundbwoy Murder" coming our March 2nd on Shift

...and My collab with Werd 2 Jah - " Kill em with style" forthcoming 12" on Stupid Fly Records("Soundbwoy Dead Time" in the vox hehe)

for all Soundbwoy Death Needs...Tunes mentioning Killing Soundbwoys are great for following said Soundbwoys on the decks...Always fun

HamCrescendo · Post by **HamCrescendo** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:32 pm

soundboy gets a straw stuck down his shaft and sand and bits of glass poured down it.

OoGuN · Post by **OoGuN** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:15 pm

But....... wait.....

Wasn't every soundman once a soundbwoy? If they all get killed then there won't be any new soundman, will there.

A bit shortsighted if you ask me, but fun nevertheless

I was lucky enough to hear Warrior Queen call someone a SoundBwoy for real

did · Post by **did** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:20 pm

syhr wrote:i have personally dispatched 3 soundboys already today and i haven't even had lunch yet.

chimpo · Post by **chimpo** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:32 pm

bobsabarker wrote:i dont know if its just tradition with uk dance music (i dont know much about it the history of it), but why is "soundboy" a prominent topic for naming singles or songs themselves? sorry if its a stupid question, but i'd like to know!

a lot of uk music is heavily inluenced by reggae but a bit more hyped up
the hypest form of reggae is the soundclash where selectors often draw for specials (1 off tracks with resung lyrics) off big reggae artists
most of these specials have new resung lyrics based around killing dibby soundboys/ drum pan sounds etc

anothere reason why these sample are so frequent is that a lot of jungle and dubstep tracks with dancehall/reggae vocals arent official remixes or original voicings, they use accapellas that they get off cds or the net or whatever. a lot of reggae tracks you cant get the original accapellas of, but sounds leak out accapellas of their specials theyve had done. so the accapellas available are special 'sound killer' versions. you often hear the artists bigging up the sounds name in these vocal dubstep bits.

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