Dub Pistols’ smoky ‘Ganja’ video

Dub Pistols’ smoky ‘Ganja’ video

21 February, 2010 | 6.33AM

• Written by: Zack Rico
• Filed under: Videos: dub pistols, sunday best recordings

Weed heads will have much to puff over when watching Dub Pistols’ new video (above) for the group’s new single ‘Ganja’, taken from their latest album ‘Rum & Coke’.

The London posse’s ode to da reefa delivers an expected but enjoyable hit of laid-back, feel-good dub, hip hop, and reggae, lyrically justified by UK rhyme king Rodney P.

The fat video joint centres around a group of baked smokers, who have a little bit too much fun with the magic dragon wherein they start to hallucinate. Now that’s a situation that Barry Ashworth and friends would never find themselves in!

It’s the dancefloor remixes (in the player below) though, that are rolling me.

Atomic Hooligan’s raw breaks and electro hybrid is a nasty slice of modern dancefloor funk, that jumps effortlessly from happy house to chilled out reggae, before winding back into a fist pumper of grime-flavoured UK bass. Absolute filth!

2 Bit Thugs’ dubstep version is similarly naughty. With a twisted bassline and jumbled breakbeat, the track pops into an odd acoustic guitar-sounding lead, and makes excellent use of Rodney P’s rap.

There is also an excellent nu skool breaks version from Ben & Lex, that at times moves towards dubstep. And with such a spaced out original, it makes sense that Dub Pistols would do their own wacky Cosmic Dub, which indie dance fans will surely dig.

All in all, this smoker is just in time for the spring.

• (0) Comments
• (2718) Views
• Get Dub Pistols 'Ganja' on Beatport