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Babylon Soon Fall (Rockers 7" mix)

from Babylon Soon Fall by Subatomic Sound System + Screechy Dan

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These perilous times call for dangerous music. Musical victory to make oppression crumble and spirits rise. ”Babylon, Your whole entire system soon fall down!” A message from Brooklyn to the world, echoing a long tradition started in Screechy Dan’s birthplace Trenchtown, Jamaica, of chanting down corruption through song. In this case, incantation is done by voice, by the banging of the drums, by earthquaking bass vibrations, and by howling saxophones. Brought to you by the same Subatomic Sound System lineup as on Lee “Scratch” Perry’s acclaimed “Super Ape Returns To Conquer” album and the 2020 boomshot single “Champion Sound”, this has been a big tune live for years on Subatomic tours that many selectors have been asking to get in their record box. Jamaican percussion legend Larry McDonald is on the congas & shakers.

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Babylon your whole entire system
soon fall down!
Yes it a go drop a ground!

Wicked man you're whole entire system
soon fall down!

A go face fire burn!

Babylon your whole entire system
soon fall down!
Yes it a go drop a ground!

Wicked man your whole entire system
soon fall down! Yeah!

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Long time them have we down ya
so I slave hard

Want we fi vote and after that
yuh draw card

Reap what we sow and play we like record

Think a little bit of corn, we plant inna yuh yard
make your industry expand and then get broad

Hatred me see yuh give we
fi the reward

Plus you change my name from Junta to Howard
Huh?
Why this a gwan dear Lord?!

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Watch here now!
I am a youth who nah go fight against humanity
So when you see me with a group of me family
Observe we a observe the teachings of his majesty
So nah call we cult nor no secret society
There ain't no secret in the Father's philosophy
True, you no humble and you hate people like me
(Yuh) Want distribute the devil's trick-o-nometry
Say we no want that there popularity

You think a little bit of time they rob we as well?
Big up the righteous from yah so to Israel
No make them tell yuh nothing cause a pure lie them tell
Dem boy deya
Babylon you must burn a hell

The righteous shall live on
While the Babylon kingdom fall
No matter how them think they're standing tall
They must drop off a di wall

So me say

credits

from Babylon Soon Fall, released November 27, 2020
Produced, mixed, & mastered by Emch at Subatomic Sound in NYC & LA. Singing, chatting, & yodeling: Screechy Dan | Congas & percussion: Larry McDonald | Saxophone: Troy Simms | Bass, Keys, Guitars, Samplers, Melodica, & Dub Effects: Emch | Art by Irie Design, France. Recording engineered in Brooklyn at The Bridge Studio by Amon and at Subatomic Sound by Emch

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Subatomic Sound System New York, New York

NYC based bass music, dub, and dancehall. Touring worldwide with Lee Scratch Perry for over a decade. Founders of Dub Champions Festival. On Brooklyn Radio 24-7.

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