THANK YOU FATHER

[Machine Translation] I-OCTANE grew up in Sandy Bay, Clarendon, Jamaica, the birthplace of reggae. He is the hottest reggae artist in Jamaica today and has been called the next SIZZLA because of his powerful voice, which is described as spit fire, and he loves to sing. Around 2008-9, the two major forces dividing Jamaica's popularity were the GULLY faction led by MAVADO and the GAZA faction led by VYBZ KARTEL. As the popularity of gangsta artists heated up and violent incidents inspired by them occurred frequently, Jamaica wanted a new star, a new movement. At the height of the "bad man" era, when people were losing love and forgetting about their roots and culture, he said, "I sing about positive things," and his songs such as "DIFFERENT PAGE," which reached No. 1 on the Jamaican Top 20 chart, "MAMA YOU ALONE," which sings about his love for his mother, and "MAMA YOU ALONE," which is a song about a woman's love for her child, were released in Jamaica in the late 1960s. He has been honing his skills at established labels such as PENTHOUSE and ARROWS, and has become a leading figure in the reggae scene in recent years. He recorded a single [MISSING YOU] on CASHFLOW RECORDS, a label that has been leading the reggae scene in recent years, and it was a big hit. In the summer of 2011, he will be touring Japan, visiting six major cities in Japan. The label has also released a number of big hits that are sure to be played nightly in the dancehalls in 2011, including the herb-praising [PUFF IT], [NUH RAMP WID], which was released to bad minds, and its sequel [NO LOVE INNA THEM]. The label has released a series of big hit tunes that have been played every night at dancehalls in 2011, establishing the ironclad hit theory of I-OCTANE x CASHFLOW RECORDS. Now that we have witnessed the extraordinary popularity of the label's releases, the expectations and attention paid to this album, which will be released first in Japan, are quite high.

レゲエ発祥の地ジャマイカはクラレンドンのサンディベイで育ったI-OCTANE。「自分は音楽に情熱を燃やす人間だ」と自負する彼は、常日頃から歌う事を愛し、スピット・ファイヤと形容されるその魂から歌い上げる力強い歌声からネクストSIZZLA(シズラ)の呼び声も高い、現在最もホットなレゲエアーティストだ!I-OCTANEが頭角を表し出した2008～9年頃、ジャマイカの人気を二分していた2大勢力といえば、MAVADO(マヴァド)率いるGULLY(ゴリー)派とVYBZ KARTEL(バイブス・カーテル)率いるGAZA(ガザ)派。ギャングスタアーティスト人気が過熱し、それに触発されたバイオレンスな事件が多発する中、ジャマイカは新たなスター、ムーブメントを欲していた。人々は愛を失い、ルーツ&カルチャーを忘れる、そんなバッドマン全盛期に「俺はポジティブなことを歌にする」と言い放ち、ジャマイカTOP20チャートで一位を獲得した[DIFFERENT PAGE(ディファレント・ページ)]、母への愛を歌う[MAMA YOU ALONE(ママ・ユー・アローン)]、失った友へのレクイエム[LOSE A FRIEND(ルーズ・ア・フレンド)]といったヒットチューンを連立、カルチャームーブメントを再熱させた。PENTHOUSE(ペントハウス)、ARROWS(アローズ)といった老舗レーベルでスキルを磨き、近年のレゲエシーンを牽引するレーベルCASHFLOW RECORDS(キャッシュフロウ・レコード)にてシングル[MISSING YOU]を録音し大ヒット、遠く離れたここ日本でもその人気と知名度は一気に広まり、2011年夏には全国主要都市6カ所を巡る来日ツアーも決定している。また、ハーブ賛美の[PUFF IT(パフ・イット)]、バッドマインドへ向けて放つ[NUH RAMP WID(ナー・ランプ・ウィズ)]、その続編とも云うべき[NO LOVE INNA THEM(ノー・ラブ・イナ・ゼム)]、といった2011年のダンスホールで毎夜必ずプレイされる大ヒットチューンを同レーベルから連発し【I-OCTANE×CASHFLOW RECORDS】の鉄板ヒットセオリーを確立させた。リリース=ヒット曲という異常な程の人気振りを目の当たりにしてしまった現在、日本先行発売となる今回のアルバムに寄せられる期待と注目はかなり