DJ Nature Won: The FACE Behind “Heights of Reggae
Dancehall, GHANA
UP for your closest gaze
is DJ Nature Won, one of Ghana’s finest turntable greats. His playlist
transcends all music genres and when he takes his set at the control he
powerfully demonstrates super expert versatility and gives his audience
excellent delivery.
Basing on his renowned
career pedigree, higher event appearance frequency and compelling bashment
expertise, any Ghana reggae-dancehall documentary project that doesn’t mention
DJ Nature Won is utter bias, inaccurate and a conspiracy work of organized
sabotage to write off his praise-worthy credits.
Though, he personally never treats the other
genres as minors, but he notably has his major specialty in reggae dancehall,
hence it dawned on him to incept a mini honorary festival that would celebrate the
duo-genre and his fan audience in a grand setting.
Out of this dawning came
the “”Heights of Reggae Dancehall” --- an annual that draws out several die-hard
reggae dancehall fans together for a full night euphoric musical concert.
“Heights of Reggae
Dancehall” happens every second weekend of August each year as a mini birthday
festival to not merely celebrate the dj, but to purposely honour the Father
above for the wonderful gifts of life, talent, music and the sense of industry
unity. It’s, therefore, more a thanksgiving event than entertainment. According
to the dj, “Heights of Reggae Dancehall” wasn’t incepted for commercial gains,
but for his love for music and his appreciation of his god-given talent and
life.
“Heights of Reggae
Dancehall” is basically a lifestyle event”, DJ Nature Won confirms.
The first edition of
“Heights of Reggae Dancehall”, 15th August 2015, was a big boom and
it proved highly promising, as the venue was fairly packed to expectation. This
year’s edition which happpend just this past Saturday, 13th August,
saw a great progress; the performances were relatively far better, the sound
system gave out a good quality output, and the staging of the event was treated
with increased managerial seriousness.
DJ Nature Won intended to
make this year’s edition of “Heights of Reggae Dancehall” a homecoming treat to
5 of Ghana’s foreign-based reggae-dancehall seniors, namely: KOJO KOMBOLO -
[Switzerland, PAAPA WASTIK - [America], BLACK I - [America], RAJA FLAMES -
[Germany] and KWAME PARTAN – [Germany]. These 5 were the highlight artistes of
the event.
It was a grave
disappointment that the two much expected “GHAmericans” couldn’t fly home for
the event due to some honest reasons, but the highly satisfying senior level
performances by KOJO KOMBOLO, KWAME PARTAN and RAJA wonderfully made up for the omission of their 2 absentee brothers.
Truthfully, the make-up
would have been extra satisfying if the official DJ’s KING BASH and RAS NENE or
NATURE WON himself played some of PAAPA WASTIK’s or BLACK I’s live performance
snippets to invoke their pseudo-presence for the audience to have some Utopian sensations
at the hearing of the brothers’ recorded vocals.
There was a tall list of
supporting home-based favourites and it was a great joy seeing them on stage. These
are variously: ADD YUTE, GOLD TEETH, RAS KUUKU, JAH WYZ, IWAN, KONKARAH, KING
VUVU, BLAKK MEXXIAH, BURNING FAYA, BLOUK, CAPONE, OWURAH, FAYA TRUTH, JONI
BLAZE, MUTA FAYA, VYPA, DOUBLE D, NATURE B, ARTILLERY, K.G VYBZ and QUEEN RUKI.
The truant artistes listed
are OSAGYEFO, KOFI FANTI, WAN ROW, JUMANJICAL, RUDEBWOY RANKIN, ADDI SELF, DON
CASH, AJ LYRIKS, SCATA BADA, YARDIE, CHAMELEON, IJUDAH, NINO VYBES, ROY
GENERAL, BASTERO, NAYAH FAYA, and JUDANITE. These were on the bill, but for
some reasons they couldn’t make it up to the show. WAN ROW was having a
personal event simultaneously, that prevented him from turning up at “Heights
of Reggae Dancehall”. Some of the truant artistes also had to perform at other
rival events elsewhere during the night -- they might have finished their sets
late and exhausted that coming to “Heights of Reggae Dancehall” was hard.
OSAGYEFO and KOFI FANTI were present at “Heights of Reggae Dancehall”, though,
yet they didn’t step the stage. RUDEBWOY RANKIN was out of town.
The gender imbalance at
“Heights of Reggae Dancehall” this year was a bit appalling, as the only female
stage presence was QUEEN RUKI. Next year’s edition should have more female artistes
to incorporate the feminine energy into the game and get it balanced.
Performance stopped at
4:30am, then followed a super exciting bashment of easy skanking tunes co-played
by KING BASH and RAS NENE til a bit close to 6am when the last tune was buzzed
to whistle out the event.
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