Jump to the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: Jah-cember 6, 2014
Annotated Playlist:
Set 1:
- Horace Andy – Musical Episode; Exclusively (Solid Groove) ’82 UK vinyl; Wackies prod’n
- Dub Specialist – 17 Dub Shots From Studio One (Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Week
<Studio One Dubwize; 21 sec.>
- Black Uhuru – Natural Reggae Beat; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Heartbeat) ’83 w/ Sly & Robbie
- Capital Letters – Smoking My Ganja (Rootikal Deep Riddim Dubwise); 12” EP (Greensleeves); 4:20 Cannabis Service
- Announcement; mutant dub version
<Cannabis Service Herbtune; 31 sec.>
- Equators – Feelin’ High; Hot (Stiff) ’81 UK ska
Set 2:
- Aswad – Invisible Sun; Roots Revival (Ark 21) ’99; Reggae cover of Police tune
<Police and Reggae; 34 sec.>
- Aisha – One God, One Aim; True Roots (Ariwa) ’94 Mad Professor prod’n
- Kenny Knots & Bush Chemists – Going Home (Conscious Sounds) 10” 2003 UK mutant dub
- Capleton & Big Youth – Mark of the Beast (African Star) ‘97 niyabinghi ballad
Set 3:
<Wailers Live at Leeds: 11/23/73; 40 sec.>
- The Wailers – Duppy Conqueror; Live at Leeds 11/23/73; Burning Disk 2 (Tuff Gong)
<How Bunny and Peter left the Wailers; 88 sec.>
- Phillip Frazer – Good Morning Mr. Officer; Blood of the Saint (Silver Kamel)
- Johnny Clarke – One Love: Tribute to Bob Marley in a Dancehall (Rhino UK); Bunny Lee/Bob cover
- Marcia Griffiths – Sweet Bitter Love; Steppin’ (Shanachie) ‘79
<From the Wailers to Bob Marley & the Wailers; 25 sec.>
Set 4:
- Bunny Wailer – Hot Foot Head; Rule Dance Hall (Shanachie) ‘86
- Joe Axumite – Troubled Land; Black World (Wackies) ‘79
<Axum – Ancient Ethiopia; 11 sec.>
- Robbie Levi – War; 10” (Conscious Sounds) 2010 mutant dub Bob Marley cover of Selassie UN speech
Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital!
<Strictly Black Wax, No digital for I ‘n’ I; 12 sec.>
- The Gladiators – Oh What Joy; The Gladiators (Virgin Front Line) ‘ 80 UK; Vinyl is V-Ital Set
- Bam Bam – Star Wars + Star Wars Dub; Power of a Woman (Bam Bam International) ’87 Los Jahngeles, Collie-fornya; female artist
- Freddie McGregor – Leave Jah; Freddie McGregor (High Times) ’78 JA; Chinna Smith prod’n
Set 6: Best of Smile Jamaica (1978, 1984)
<Student Loans funded the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives; 13 sec.>
- Keith Hudson – I Broke the Comb; Rasta Communication (Greensleeves) ’78; Best of Smile Jamaica set
- Ini Kamoze – Hail Mi Idrin; Mini LP (Island) ’84 Sly & Robbie
- Justin Hinds & the Dominos – Travel With Love; Travel With Love (Nighthawk)
- Don Carlos – Gimme Gimme Your Love (Blue Moon) ‘84
Set 7: Peter Tosh harangue from the One Love Peace Concert
>Tosh’s harangue nearly got him killed; 20 sec.>
- Peter Tosh – Speech + Funeral (Burial); Talking Revolution (Pressure Sounds); One Love Peace Concert; 4/22/78; 12 minute harangue
Set 8: Mutant Dub Set
- African Head Charge – Free Chant; Shrunken Head (ON U Sound) Best of
- Joe Ariwa & the Trixsters – Swagga Dub; Dubstep Dub (Ariwa) 2011 UK
- Alpha & Omega – Come Down Moses; Tree of Life (A & O) ’96 UK trance dubbers w/ female vox
- Dubphonic – Outland; Relight (Hammerbass) 2009 Fr.
- Abassi All Stars – Edutainment; Dub Showcase (Universal Egg) 2007 UK
- Future Pigeon – Yuppy Conqueror; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Fanatic) 2006 Los Jah-ngeles, Collie-fornya
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