Greetings,

if blanked out at Mixcloud:

<Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-gust 8, 2015; 2 hr. 51>

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Sorry for the hassle, robt

 

Greetings,

<Have yourself a ball! 5 sec.>

My Weekends define Rinse ‘n’ Repeat

• Friday: Bomb out of work around 4pm
• Hail up my bredrins Bourbon Lad and Aquaboy* for what we call Prayer Group

*(my friend was bit by a shark)

Shark Attack

• They prattle on about their impending retirement while I choose the music
• 6:30 – Grab some dinner
• 7-9 pm – Ancient Aliens on History Channel.
• 11pm – Watch 1 Episode per night when the sun goes down. Can’t skywatch in the daylight
• Midnight – Decompress while looking for UFO’s in the moonlight
• Read a Chapter of Ancient Alien Expert: Zecharia Sitchin: Earth Chronicle Series: The Lost Realms (Book 4) – About the Maya and new world Alien contact

Saturday: Start putting my music together for Smile Jamaica…

<Roadmap for Jah-gust 8, 2015 Ark-Ive; 90 sec.>

• Wailers Family Tree: Wailers Catch a Fire mix ‘n’ match. Tosh live. Bunny does Bob; Melody Makers love Jah. 3 takes of Stir It Up
• Roots Dawtas: Contemporary Reggae stylee
• Disco Mix ‘n’ Vinyl Is Vital: Black Wax Attack
• Mutant Dub: Intergalactic Dubwize
• Best of 27 Years: My faves from 80’s Reggae Radio
• Tribute to HIM – Held over, never left over from Selassie’s birthday: July 23, 1902

Set 1:

• Junior Byles – Thanks & Praise; Rasta No Pickpocket (Nighthawk) ’86 St. Louis, MO vinyl
• Alek6 – Inside; Inside (Hammerbass) 2010 Fr.; Dubstep Album of the Week
• Aswad – Pass the Cup; BBC Sessions (BBC) 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Live in the Studio: 6/3/82

<The Cup = Chalice: 30 sec.>

• Black Roots – I Am Flying; On the Ground (Sugar Shack) 2012 UK reunion
• Sister Carol – Get It Straight Africans; Jah Disciple (RAS) ‘89
• Enforcer – Pension; 10” (Narrows)

<Youth better save for your pension! 13 sec.>

• Bunny Wailer – Pieaka (Bus Dem Shut); Gumption (Shanachie) ’90; dancehall Bob Marley cover

<Wailers Family Tree: Bunny does Bob in a Digital Stylee! 20 sec.>

Set 2:

• Peter Tosh – Not Gonna Give It Up; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Tosh Foundation) 11/27/82: Montego Bay, JA
• Alpha & Omega – Rastafari; Voice in the Wilderness (A & O) ’96 trance dub w/ female vox
• Johnny Nash – Stir It Up; I Can See Clearly Now (Columbia) ’72 Bob cover

<Johnny Nash cover Bob Marley; 20 sec.>

Set 3: Roots Dawta Set

• Ayo – Get Out of My Way; Gravity at Last (Wrass) 2008; Roots Dawta Set: German-Nigerian singer songwriter
• Gracy & the Herbman Dub – Real; Movements (Funfundvierzig) ’94 Germany
• Zema – Fear Not; Black Sheep (Melchizedek) 2005 SoCal
• Etana – Jamaican Woman; I Rise (VP) 2014 JA

<Etana: Don’t call her a gospel singer; 18 sec.>

Set 4:

• The Wailers – Stir It Up (JA & US/UK mixes); Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ‘73

<Jamaican Mix and US/UK overdubs; 78 sec.>

<Stir It Up Mix ‘n’ Match; 50 sec.>

• Heptones & the Observers – Mr. Do Over Man (Observer Gold) ‘78

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital Set

• Twinkle Brothers – Respect and Honour;  Respect & Honour (Twinkle) ‘87 UK
• Ashanti Roy & Sister Bunny Brissett – Food For a Rainy Day; Berlin Wall (High Times) ’92 JA
• Ringo – Ganja Exchange; Woman a Ginal (Top Ranking)  ’81 Miami FL; herbtune

<The pathway out of O-sterity: Ganja for the Foreign Exchange; 9 sec.>

• Gregory Isaacs & Prince Far I – Uncle Joe/Come Off Mi Toe; Crucial Cuts (Virgin Front Line) ‘83 UK

<Prince Far I’s Words of Wisdom; 14 sec.>

Set 6: Best of 27 Years

<From year 1 and  2; 27 sec.>

• The Beat (aka The English Beat) – Big Shot; Dance Craze (2 Tone) ’81 2 Tone Ska Soundtrack
• Cedella Marley Booker – Put It On (Lord I Thank You); Awake Zion (Rykodisc) ’84; Bob’s mom on a Bob tune

<Gospel Reggae from Bob’s mom; 34 sec.>

• Albert Griffiths & the Gladiators – Country Living; Country Living (Heartbeat) ‘85

<Fort Benton, Montana – Country Living; 20 sec.>

• Yellowman – Beat It; Galong, Galong, Galong (Shanachie) ‘85

Set 7:  Livicated to His Imperial Majesty: July 23, 1892

• Third World – Jah Glory; 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango)  ’76: Livicated to Jah: July 23, 1892
• Dillinger – Only Jah Can Help; Songs For Jah (Reggae Best) over Wayne Jarrett vox
• Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers – Get Up Jah Jah Children; Hey World! (EMI America) ‘86
• Hell and Fire – Show Us the Way; Hit Bound! The Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat) ‘77

Set 8: Mutant Dub

<Smile Jamaica’s 2nd favorite hobby>

• Sir Larsie I – Hail Up Harderwise; Dub Budz Vol. 1 (Phoenix Upliftment) 2006 Mutant Dub Set
• David Holmes feat. Sarah Cracknell – Gone (Second Night Without Charge); This Films Crap Let’s Slash the Seats (Go) ’95 Soundtrack
• Systemwide – Snipers; Pure and Applied (BSI) 2002 Portland dub w/ female vox
• New Age Steppers – Radial Drill; New Age Steppers (Statik/ON U Sound) ’81 Adrian Sherwood UK
• Audio Active & Laraaji – Think Cosmically; The Way Out Is the Way In (All Saints) ’95 Jah-pon