South Rakkas have gained the most fame for their blazing dancehall riddims (“Clappas,” “Red Alert,” “Bionic Ras,” “Chinkuzi” anyone?) and Stimulus Package doesn’t disappoint on the digital irie tip. With cameos from the likes of Capleton, Serocee and Mr. Agony, this is the best post-modern dancehall album since Major Lazer dropped their heaviness. “Double Up” with Killa Queenz and Lady Chann is ultra banging on this front, but dancehall isn’t the whole story here—South Rakkas cover the whole of electronic grooves and beyond here, demonstrating their depth. There are tracks featuring the surprising likes of Australian electro-indie hype band Grafton Primary and Satomi Matsuzaki of indie-noise iconoclasts Deerhoof (uh, WHAT?!!!). As well, it’s awesome to hear Mylo’s “Drop The Pressure” turned into a dubplate riddim on “Dance Wid We” (again, WHAT??!?!) and “Like U Like” is on some Justice shit. As well, South Rakkas’ remix of “Hands Up” is like Daft Punk gone dubstep, and that ain’t a bad thing! Then again, this diversity shouldn’t be so surprising from producers who can flex from Beenie Man and Bounty Killer one moment, T-Pain the next, and then on to the likes of Lily Allen, Beck, Duran Duran, Kelis, Tricky, and Yo Majesty. This is truly future funk – it’s thrilling to hear all these genres getting a South Rakkas freak out.

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Also, here is SRC’s DJ mix of the Stimulus Package for a taste of their supreme mixology. It’s a crime they released this after December 31st—New Year’s Eve woud’ve been a lot more live with this Stimulus Package! It’s a festival of sounds, traversing the streets of Brazil and big rooms of South Florida to the dancehalls of Jamaica and New York. As always, South Rakkas turns up the volume and isn’t taking prisoners. Hands up! And again, did we we mention it’s FREE? So get it now.

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You’ve heard South Rakkas Crew, even if you didn’t realize it: the Crew – actually the duo of Alex Greggs and Dennis “Dow Jones” Shaw – have been responsible for some of the hottest bangers around, both their own, and others. South Rakkas are down with Diplo’s Mad Decent label (which released the SRC classic “Mad Again”), and have done production for M.I.A.  Greggs alone has a rep for mixing/production that gets him work with all the heavy hitters: T-Pain, Lily Allen, Kelis, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Justin Timberlake, Beck, Yo Majesty, Tricky and Duran Duran have all benefited from his genius studio skills.

This Toronto-via-Florida-via-Los Angeles have also made some of the sickest dancehall riddims shredding woofers today (no surprise Diplo is a fan and collaborator): their riddims include “Clappas,” “Red Alert,” “Bionic Ras,” and “Chinkuzi,” and they’ve produced biggies like Elephant Man and Mr. Vegas. But digital reggae isn’t all that South Rakkas can do – they’re masters of all danceable grooves, as is clear from the Crew’s latest track, “Robot’s Revenge.” It is a stunner, baby: mixing French filter funkadelica with soaring classic-rock guitars, “Robot’s Revenge” gets down like the bastard offspring of Daft Punk, Electric Light Orchestra, and Boston! Our pal Alex Metric actually debuted “Robot’s Revenge” on his BBC radio show, and a release is likely on Adam Freeland’s Marine Parade label is imminent. Is their anything this crew can’t do?