Back 2 Da Future Music Representin': How Does Janet Kay meet Fatboy Slim inna Canadian Dub Conference

Back 2 Da Future – How Does Janet Kay meet Fatboy Slim inna Canadian Dub Conference?

I’ll tell ya! As we speak, there is a young lady of Guyanese parentage in Toronto, Canada by the name of Melanie Fiona who is making some tsunami sized waves in her home town as well as in the States as she is signed to Jay Z’s Roc Nation label. Formerly known as Syren Hall, she had an R’n’B/Lovers track called ‘Somebody Come Get Me’ that got a lot of love a couple summers back even finding itself on a VP compilation! What has got tongues wagging over this side of the pond is a track on her debut album, ‘The Bridge’, called ‘Sad Songs’. The cause of the wagging tongues is the choice of riddim. For just as Jasmine Sullivan recently had a massive hit with a Reggae backing track, or riddim as we know them, Melanie has done the same. But whilst Jasmine’s inspiration was discovered on a French released dub album, our Mel’s comes from West London in the shape of one queen of Lovers Rock otherwise known as Janet Kay.

Ms Kay who would later find veritable superstar status in Japan was bestowed her Lovers Rock crown by virtue of the fact that her 1979 hit, ‘Silly Games’, is the most successful bona fide pop hit of the Lovers Rock genre in its heyday. And it is this Dennis Bovell production that adorns Ms Fiona’s future hit. This however, is not the first time that ‘Silly Games’ has been revisited, just recently, there was much talk over a version of the track by blue-eyed Reggae hopeful, Bobby Kray, which also boasted Mr Bovell on production. But outside of the Janet Kay original, the most successful version came in the summer of 1990 with Lindy Layton who recorded her version in tandem with our highness. At that time Lindy was launching her solo career as she’d had a number 1 pop hit, ‘Dub Be Good To Me’ as the lead singer of a group called Beats International. Beats International was a loose collective of musicians created by one Norman Cook who had a habit of using different pseudonyms for different recordings as a superstar DJ. The one pseudonym that seems to have stuck over the years though is Fat Boy Slim.

And that is how Janet Kay meets Norman Cook Inna Canadian Dub Conference.

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