{"id":10041,"date":"2025-01-17T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2025-01-17T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:41:37","slug":"dance-dance-dance-with-isiah-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10041","title":{"rendered":"Dance, Dance, Dance with Isiah Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For artists like Isiah Mentor, making music means getting people to dance together. Concerned at the lack of partners on the dance floor, the singer wrote and produced <strong><em>\u2018Dance with Women Again\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which was released in January.<\/p>\n<p>The song is done to Toots and The Maytals\u2019 \u201854-46\u2019, one of reggae\u2019s most enduring dance tracks. \u2018Dance With Women Again\u2019 is done for the veteran artist\u2019s Village Roots Records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the late \u201890s to 2000, I noticed that people stopped dancing together. The evolution of dancehall music and the psychological evolution of this generation is on a self-destructive trajectory. The old days can definitely be revived because the world is begging for authentic dancehall and reggae music,\u201d Isaiah Mentor reasoned. \u201cIt was my idea to redo this iconic riddim because of its demanding rhythmic power and comfortable keys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Dance With Women Again\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is different in tone and feel from some of his previous songs, including the ominous <strong><em>\u2018Demons Among Us\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which he also produced.<\/p>\n<p>Originally known as Lilly Melody, Isiah Mentor cut his teeth in Waterhouse, a community in Kingston known for producing roots acts like The Wailing Souls, Black Uhuru and Junior Reid.<\/p>\n<p>He came of age as an artist during the 1980s, when \u2018rub-a-dub\u2019 reggae was fashionable, thanks to riddims like the <strong><em>\u2018Sleng Teng\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which was created in Waterhouse. Back then, it was customary to see partners locked in on the dance floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For artists like Isiah Mentor, making music means getting people to dance together. Concerned at the lack of partners on the dance floor, the singer wrote and produced \u2018Dance with Women Again\u2019, which was released in January. The song is done to Toots and The Maytals\u2019 \u201854-46\u2019, one of reggae\u2019s most enduring dance tracks. \u2018Dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10042,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10041\/revisions\/10042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}