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Very sorry. What I MEANT to say was "it's roots-ARCHIVES.com."

I remember Maddy Maddy Cry. I know there are others who did that style, but not enough to call it it's own genre. It's like a lot of things in dancehall, when someone comes up with a novelty, many others imitate it briefly until people get burned out on it.

thanks for the link,interesting song.i am glad though that style was short lived.
before I saw the link I troed thinking of any tunes that might fit that description .all I could think of remotely close was peter metro 'better she gwaan' from his no problem lp.

Mr. Joseph Hill shed some tears in the song "I tried" on this:
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I heard that Prince Far I and Adrian Sherwood were sobbing their eyes out all throughout the mixing of the Cry Tuff Dub Encounter series...

Apparently, they had the scene where Bambi's mother gets killed on a loop on a TV in the studio - and when that wasn't enough, onions were chopped directly on the sound board, the idea was that spilling tears on the master tape itself would create a unique and very hard to copy sound.