The track that’s most widely considered to be the dancehall prototype would be Wayne Smith’s (Under Mi) Sleng Teng (1984). Although the seminal drum machine part in the track could be said to be ...

By Kat Bein For Ape Drums, the last 12 months have been crazy. The Houston-bred producer has been steady grinding on the reinvention of dancehall since 2014, which sets him up perfectly for pop ...

About a year ago, the world really started taking notice of Houston native Ape Drums, who brings a definite dancehall flair to his tracks. He's been producing since he was 15, has already ...

It features loose guitar-driven dancehall drum patterns, and intricate strums as Bieber croons on the hook, “If you feel you’re sinking/ I will jump right over into cold, cold water for you.” ...

the music has switched to "Dobra Doompa," a more modern-feeling number with a dancehall drum pattern and a bouncing bass line. We're still a little disappointed they didn't have that giant dude ...

Miami-based producer Ape Drums is no newcomer to the dancehall or electronic music scenes. He’s been addicted to those Caribbean riddims since he was a young’n, and ever since he learned to ...

Over the last year or so, we've been like many of you–falling in love with the dancehall-influenced EDM that Houston's Ape Drums has been turning up with. You can't miss him: he's remixing ...

The compilation embraces a variety of aspects of experimental club music, including dancehall, drum ‘n’ bass, leftfield techno and broken beat sounds, taking the listener on a journey of sounds ...

In 1989, Jamaican dancehall producers Cleveland “Clevie ... used a variation of that drum pattern on his own Pounder riddim. When the reggaeton genre started up in Puerto Rico in the ...