Track Listing:

1. Politicians & Paedophiles feat. Daddy Freddy

2. Beats, Bombs, Bass, Weapons feat. Toastie Taylor

3. Executor feat. Roger Robinson

4. Live & Learn feat. Paul St. Hilaire

5. Thief Of Dreams feat. Roger Robinson

6. Superbird feat. Singing Bird

7. Run The Place Red feat. Daddy Freddy

8. Night Steppa feat. Roger Robinson

9. Some Days feat. Paul St. Hilaire

10. Fuck Y-Self feat. Wayne Lonesome

11. Killer feat. He-Man/The Rootsman

12. Living Dub feat. Roger Robinson & Paul St. Hilaire

The Bug is the producer for this album and as such the featured artists are the vocal talent therein.

More old-style than new even though the record label classes the genre as "electronic roots/ragga", the rhythms on this CD utilise a heavy bass line and it's this that makes you want to nod your head to the beat. However, the rhythms are not all-together Dancehall. Some seem to utilise other musical flavours, but they still work out sounding OK.

A couple of tracks have the artists simply talking over the rhythm as opposed to DJing, but maybe that was to achieve a certain impact in relation to the track? If so, I never really felt the "impact" and to be honest, the tracks started to bore me after the 1st verse or so.

Daddy Freddy and The Rootsman are names The Dainty Crew are already familiar with as they did an album called 'Old School, New School'.

My fave track has to be number 10 that features Wayne Lonesome who sounds a lot like Tiger when he DJs. This might be due to the fact that he has worked closely with Tiger in the past. The rhythm is a mixture of Dancehall, Garage and maybe some Drum & Base - wicked!

Overall, this is an all right album and has a few notable tracks, but I'm not sure whether it would be high up on my list of must haves for a CD collection. Also, I must note that it doesn't feature a parental guidance sticker and yet track 10 features swearing in the hook and the title...

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