The man carries tracks, without his passion and energy many of these instrumentals would be interesting but sub-par dub tracks. “Them Things Deh” and “General” have a deep, synth bass style juxtaposed with Kamoze’s attentive, varied vocals. There’s also a great tripped out segment during the outro that really shows the production power behind Sly and Robbie. Kamoze’s vocals just have such a wide range, they absolutely demand your attention.
The track has has been extensively sampled in electronic music, as well as Damian Marley’s “Welcome to Jamrock”. “World-A-Music” is a roots-reggae reminiscent track, featuring a lot of keyboard emphasis and worldly goodness and wisdom. It’s a great song to start the album off to, giving you a heavy dose of that cerebral, sparse style that is present throughout the album. Kamoze’s vocals on the track are hypnotizing, and there’s some really spaced out keyboard on here. The album starts with a track featuring their heavy use of the drum machine, “Trouble You A Trouble Me”, a jamming track featuring juxtaposed toms and punchy clashes. The album would be a collaboration between Ini Kamoze as vocalist and writer, and famed reggae musicians Sly and Robbie, percussion and bass/guitar respectively.
Ini Kamoze’s vocals blend perfectly within this style, never failing to captivate, his voice is usually the driving momentum of a track, bursting with emotion and character. Often times percussion and Kamoze’s voice will sound more distant than the centerpiece bass and piano, creating an atmospheric quality to the music that lends a certain psychedelia. There is a bleak, dark attribute to the production of tracks. Ini Kamoze’s debut is an electronic piece from the early ages of digital music, and as such it comes across as sort of a sparse piece. It would be reggae music founded on the use of the drum machine. Best known for the dancehall international hit “Here Comes The Hotstepper” in 1994, Ini Kamoze was, at the beginning of his career, an innovator of bringing digital music into roots reggae.
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