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Killamanjaro vs. Pow Pow Movement - a detailed review

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The event that everyone was waiting for, finally happened. For the first time, a Jamaican sound clashed against a European sound on European soil. And it were not just "some" sounds, but the big bad Killamanjaro from Kingston carried out a musical war against the mighty Pow Pow from Cologne, Germany.
Read here how Killaswitch experienced the clash to happen, plus some after-clash statements by some of the main actors.
Here we go with the event which might be called event of the year for continental Europe - the long-awaited clash between the mighty Pow Pow Movement from Cologne/ Germany and Jamaica's top-a-top sound Killamanjaro. Many speculations were made in the forefront of it, opinions differed, but everyone was aware that this clash won't be a child's play for none of the sounds. And as Pow Pow selector Ingo announced heavy preparations in his Cla.at interview, everyone was curious about the new gems in Pow Pow's dub crate.

Of course, when such bis event is taking place in Europe, Cla.at can't omit presenting it to the readers massive. So I made my way from Cologne to Stuttgart, backed by camera, recording device and much eager to see a true giants clash. After annoying 7 hours train ride, I checked into the partyplace, and it was a real oasis. Amidst a grey industrial area, there was a backyard gritted with sand, featuring beach-valleyball net, tabeltop football, hammocks, Carribean food and selector Tigga from Boss Hifi playing rockers music. What an irie place to be ! The backyard got more and more crowded and people were waiting for the main event to happen. Prominent guests started to fill the place, you could see Spider from Supersonic walking around with Jamaican roots vocalist Taffari and a brethrin, Scarra Mucci was also at the place entertaining a little crowd with some stories from JA, members of several big sounds could be spotted too. Around 10 o'clock, Pow Pow crew aswell arrived.

The clash was going to take place in an indoor area, and around 10 o'clock the warm-up dance started, first carried out by Blessed Love with a talented selection (though quite ugly lickshot fx), followed by Sentinel Sound, who really set the place on fire and got nuff forwards for brandnew dubs. Elmar, the Sentinel MC, announced the clash to come in 10 minutes at some point, and the massive already went wild, trying out their whistles and horns and giving Sentinel even more forwards. And really, after 10 minutes Pionear, owner of Germaican Records and the referee for the night, came up the stage. The trophy, an owersize golden cup, was shown to the public, and Pionear announced the rules: rounds a 15min, 30min, 2x15min and dub fi dub, no tune to be played twice, no 45s; solid standart soundclash rules, no extra gimmick rounds like last WC. The starter had to be picked by a coin, which got thrown by a girl from the massive, and it happened that Pow Pow had the privilege to start first. But to start first in a soundclash, is not just a privilege but a double-edged sword: On the one hand, you can set the standarts for the night, but on the other hand, if your opponent has a deep dub box, you give him a chance to gain power through the possibility of counteracting tunes. Pow Pow opened the first round with a nice dub from Patrice, a roots artist from Hamburg. Hard to say if it was the right choice, sure it's a good way to promote a great national artist worldwide, but Pow Pow got nearly no reaction to this dub. Therefor they moved the crowd with the rest of the first round, playing great foundation tunes and collecting nuff forwards. Many experts agreed afterwards that the first 15min round was Pow Pow's best round. Anyway, Pow Pow got nuff applause and noise for their first 15min, and then Freddy Krueger from Killamanjaro got pon the turntables. He came alone to defend his sound, and this was the first thing he stated on the mic. Then he got the massive boiling, and it was more boiling than during the Pow Pow segment. Was it because he had much bigger tunes ? I don't think so... In the first round already Pow Pow played very outstanding and non-standart foundation dubs, but Pow Pow sticked strictly to foundation (with some exceptions), while Freddy played many quick and new riddims, more digital stuff, and the part of the massive that just come to dance and not exactly to judge the sound's dubboxes, responded to Jaro's fast-paced tunes eagerlier than to Pow Pow's deep, but slow-paced roots selection. Freddy aswell did let more room for speeches, while Pow Pow's MC Devon was also brilliant pon the mic, and, in my opinion, smarter than Freddy while answering to speeches, but wasn't able to hype the crowd with his movements or his voice temper to that extend like Freddy, at least in the first rounds. Well, all in all Freddy totally hyped the crowd in the first round, I can't say that he had really MUCH bigger tunes that Pow Pow, but he just went mad behind the decks and got the crew totally extatic.

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