Greetings,

Enjoying Smile Jamaica’s favorite Holiday? Jah-loween? Been busy cutting up sound bytes and horror movie trailers for next week’s 3 hour Smile Jamaica Jah-loween show which falls on the actual All Hallow’s Eve.

Gonna start putting together my 3rd annual Digital Dubplate music and horror bytes only fascination this week to upload for fresh Roots on Halloween. Feel free to play at your party or to keep the kids off your porch.

Here’s last week’s Halloween Rock showcase – Digital Dubplate Mixcloud

This stream (Smile J 10/24/15) is about half Halloween. Holdovers never leftovers for this week.

curse, robt

Highlights of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 24, 2015; 49 sec.

Set 1: Halloween Tunes

• Mighty Diamonds – Party Time; Indestructible (Alligator) ’83 Chicago vinyl; Heptones cover
• Prince Far I & the Arabs – A Message; Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter 1 (ROIR) ’78 Dub Album of the Hour
• Capleton feat. Big Youth – Mark of the Beast; I Testament (Rush) ’97; Jah-loween Set
• Bim Sherman – Haunting Ground; Crucial Cuts vol. 1 (Century) ‘86
• Trinity – Vampire; Dancehall 2 (Soul Jazz) ‘79
• Future Pigeon – Mummy Rock; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) 2006 LA; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
• Wendy Shaw – Ease Off Satan; Passing Through the Flames (Issachar) ‘92

Set 2: Wailers Family Tree

• Peter Tosh – Pick Myself Up; Captured Live (EMI  America) August. ’83 Greek Theater, LA
• Bunny Wailer – Don Man; Gumption (Shanachie) ’90; “Let Him Go” update
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Who Colt the Game + version; Black Ark Sessions EP (Ascension) dominos metaphor

<Who Colt the Game at the Black Ark; 24 sec.>

Set 4: Calypso/Rock Steady Halloween

• Lord Kitchener – Love in the Cemetery; Black Magic Reggae (Trojan); ’62 calypso; don’t take your girl to the cemetery

<Love in the Cemetery; 20 sec.>

• Vulcans – Dracula; Journey into Space – The Return of Star Trek (Cactus) ‘72
• Upsetters – Vampire; Upsetter Collection (Trojan) ‘70
• Denzil Laing – Beware of the  Vampire; Dry Acid (Trojan)
• Prince Buster – Ghost Dance; Rock Steady – Hush Up (Melodisc) ‘68

Set 5: Best of 26 Years – Smile Jamaica (Oct. ’89)

• Don Carlos – Satan Control Them; Deeply Concerned (RAS) ’87; Halloween tune
• John Holt – Police in Helicopter; Police in Helicopter (Greensleeves)  ’82 herbtune
• Yellowman feat. Sister Nancy – Wha Dat; King Yellowman (CBS) ‘84

<Wha Dat? War UK vs. Argentina – Falklands/Malvinas; 23 sec.>

• Sister Carol – Spidla-ding; Black Cinderella (Jah Life/Heartbeat) ‘84

<Sister Carol – singjay definition; 8 sec.>

• Burning Spear – Slavery Days + I and I Survive; Marcus Garvey + Garvey’s Ghost (Island) ’75

<Burning Spear as a trio; 11 sec.>

Set 5: Halloween Vinyl

• Dennis Brown – Spellbound; Spellbound (Joe Gibbs) ’80 Opa-Locka, FL
• Bushman – Back Weh Vampire; 10” (Stingray) 2003 UK
• Donovan – Evil Eyes; World Power (Mango) ’88 US
• Chalice – Back Way Evil Forces; Stand Up! (CSA) ’85 UK
• Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Two Bad D.J. (Greensleeves) Two bad Duppies (Ghosts) ’81 UK; 14 sec.

Set 6:

• Ayo – How Many People?; Billie-Eve (Polydor) 2011 Nigerian/German female singer

<Ayo bio’ 18 sec.>

• Dillinger – Cocaine in My Brain; Cocaine (Charly); ’83 herb tune[

<Reggae History Lesson: Cocaine/Marijuana in My Brain>

• Black Roots – Capitalism; On the Ground (Sugar Shack) 2012 UK roots reunion
• Pablo Gad – Sad Mistake; Hard Times (Soul Village) ’80 vampire tune

<If you think vampire gonna suck my neck you’ve made a sad mistake – Pablo Gad; 11 sec.>

Set 7:

• UB40 – Madame Medusa; Signing Off (DEP/Sound) ’80; kiss off to UK leader Margaret Thatcher = Maggrot Tortcher

<Margaret Thatcher = Madame Medusa; 25 sec.>

Set 8: Mutant Dub Mutant Music

<Smile Jamaica – putting the mutants in Mutant Dub since ’89>

• Tino – Bats in My Belfry Dub; Tino’s Breaks 6; Hallowe’en Dub (Tino Corp) 2002; Mutant Dub Halloween set
• Funki Porcini’s Zombie – Flesheater Boulevard; & the Jerry Van Rooyen Remixes (Crippled Dick Hot Wax) 2000
• Heavyweight Dub Champion – Exorcism; Rise of the Champion Nation (Champion Nation) 2009 Colorado
• Beats International – Echo Chamber; Excursion on the Version (Go Disc) ’91 UK; Doctor Satan Echo Chamber
• Alpha & Omega – The Dub Is Out There + Dub Files; Serious Joke (A & O) 2002 UK trance dub; X Files Theme
• Thievery Corporation feat. Femi Kuti – Vampire; It Takes a Thief (ESL) Best of

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