[Rhythm Question] Daville - I'll Be Your Best Friend

[Reggae Rhythm Update]

Can you identify this rhythm? Is it based on an oldie? Seems to me it probably is.

http://www.rhythmupdate.com/files/davil ... friend.mp3

Thanks.

[Inyaki]

Very similar to:

Marcia Griffiths - Melody Life

and

Bob Andy - Desperate Lover

but slightly different (no chord changes?)

[ks.kerenski]

In 1998 Jahmali recorded a track (Conscious Lover) on the same riddim . Just like Daville's Il be your best friend (2007/8 release) it was a Penthouse production (Donovan Germain).

I also think it is based on an oldie (but at the moment I don't know on which riddim). Hopes this helps.

[ks.kerenski]

It seems to be the Love is a Message riddim (1998)produced by Donovan Germain.
riddim played by Mafia & Fluxy, Dean Fraser
original cut (also named Let Me Love You) by Jacob Miller for Studio On in 1968

[Inyaki]

Yep, that's the one.

[Reggae Rhythm Update]

Thank you KS!

[ks.kerenski]

The Jacob Miller song can be found on the Rock Steady Coxsone Style LP.

http://www.downbeat-special.co.uk/rocksteadycoxson.html

[dj tubbs]

love is a message jacob miller studio 1