Nadine Sutherland - Big Tingz

Though her name may not be so well recognised, Nadine Sutherland's voice is known to even the most casual dancehall fan through her vocals on the massive early 90s hit Action with Terror Fabulous. Her releases over the last few years have mostly been lovers/roots reggae tunes, but here she sings over a bouncy, feel-good riddim that owes as much to soca and reggaeton as it does to dancehall. The soca influence is also evident in her exhortation to "flash all the rags dem high". Indeed, in a rare Jamaican show of Caribbean solidarity, Sutherland calls out a host of other islands (Barbados, St Lucia, St Martin, Guyana, Haiti - even Cuba) alongside the usual diasporic locations of Miami, London and Canada.

This review was featured in the first issue of Woofah, a magazine dedicated to reggae, grime and dubstep.

Released on 7" vinyl by Eight76

Posted by Gabriel Heatwave | Wednesday 06 June 2007