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Greetings,

Hope everyone had a nice Holiday. I spent the first week at my sister’s in Albuquerque. My parents just became Snowbirds, so my second week was in Phoenix.

Phoenix is a great town for vinyl. CDs are becoming irrelevant, but the racks are full of black wax and lots of people doing what I do for 30 years: cratedig. So I will be visting often in the months of Dec-March. Otherwise, vinyl melts from the store to the car!

Found some nice gems to play in 2017. For over a decade now, the first show of the year on Smile Jamaica is devoted to what I call Mutant Dub: Jamaican drum and bass with modern electronic sounds and textures awash in echodelia.

The 3 hour Mutant Dub World Tour!

As Joe Strummer sang, “Knives to the trebel!”

1. Crank the volume!
2. Set bass phasers to stun!

Happy New Year. Forward ever, backwards never!

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-nuary 7, 2017: Annotated Playlist – photos, soundbytes captions, Reggae History Lessons; 56 sec.

Set 1:

• African Head Charge – Gospel Train; Songs of Praise (ON U Sound) ’90
• The Vision – Dub Start; Dub Vision (Funfundvierig) ’88 Green Germ. Vinyl: Dub Album of the Hour
• Afro Omega – Pick Up the Pieces; Pick Up the Pieces (Afro Omega) SLC dubbers w/ female vox
• Jah Woosh – Woodpecker Sound; ON U Sound Celebration (Trance) ’88 West German comp
• Sizzla – Rainshowers (Bronx Dogs Dub Mix); Dub Selector (Quango) 2001
• Brain Damage Meets The Vibronics – Siege of Kut; Empire Soldiers (Hammerbass) 2013 Fr. w/ Arabic vox
• The Archives feat. Ras Puma – Sensibility; The Archives (ESL) 2012 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcment
• Butch Cassidy Sound Sytem – Hear What I Say; 12” EP (Fenetik) 2004 Glasgow, Scotland

 Set 2: Mutant Dub World Tour

• Samia Farah –Le Monde; Many Moods of (SAM) 2008 Fr.-Tunisian female singer
• Al Haca Soundsystem feat. Ras MC-Tweed – Libation; Inevitable (Different Drummer) 2003 Spanish
• Asian Dub Foundation – Change; Time Freeze (Caroline) 2007 best of Hindi/Pak/UK collective
• Audio Active – Paint Your Face Red; Startrec EP (ON U Sound) ’96 Jah-pon vinyl

Set 3:

• Dub Colossus – Shem City Steppers; In a Town Called Addis (RealWorld) 2008 Ethiopian female vox
• Ripple – Sunday Morning Dub; Bay Area Dubstep volume 2 (Full Melt) 2008
• Bush Chemists – Star Dub; 10” UK (Jah Tubby’s) 2006 Stormtrooper Theme from Star Wars

<Star Wars in dub>

Set 4:

• Hollie Cook – Tiger Balm; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2014 UK dubstress

<Dawta of a Sex Pistol; 20 sec.>

• Dubblestandart – This One is About Flying; Immigration Dub (Collision) 2007 Jah-stria
• Troubleman – Intergalactic You, Intergalactic Me; Far Out Spaced Odyssey (Far Out) 2010 Brazilian UFOria
• Nomadix – Juggling; Rolling Papers: Ambient Dub Selection (Roar) ’93 UK – Dub Album of the Hour

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital Mutant Dub

• Singers & Players feat. Sister P – Holy Scripture; Vacuum Pumping (ON U Sound) ’88 UK Bible stories: Mutant vinyl set
• Martin Campbell – You Lick Me First; Rootsman – The Real Thing (Channel One UK) ’97 UK
• Dub Syndicate – Pounding System; Pounding System (ON U Sound) ’82 UK
• Zulu Warriors – Chanting Dub; Warrior Dub (Mr. Modo) ’89 UK
• Doctor Pablo & the Dub Syndicate – Doctor Who?; ON U Journey Through Time & Space; 10” Dubplate (ON U Sound) 2015 UFO-ria

Set 6: Space Dust 420; 21 sec.

• 2 Bad Card – Weed Specialist; Hustling Ability (ON U Sound) ’95
• Dr. Israel & Dreadtone International – Sensimilla; Patterns of War (ROIR) Brooklyn 2005
• Soom T – I Need Weed; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2008 female weedstepper out of Glasgow, Scotland
• Dry & Heavy – Kick the Bong Around + Dub; One Punch (Green Tea) Jah-pon ’98

<“Whenever I get low, I get high!> 9 sec.

Set 7:

• The Slits – Man Next Door; In the Beginning (Jungle) ’80 – live version of The Paragons reggae classic
• Rasheda & Mystikal Heights – I Love Jah + Jah Love (Discomix); 12″ (Zion Gate) 2007 Fr.: Don Carlos cover
• The Outsider Meets High Tech Roots Dynamic – Alfa; At Channel One UK (Jah Works) ’91 UK vinyl: Dub Album of the Hour

Set 8: UFO-ria

• Ancient Astronauts feat. Akua Naru – Last Night (I Fell in Love with an Ancient Astronaut); Into Time and Bass (ESL) 2011 Germ. w/ female vox
• Spiritual Rez – March of the Reptoids + Let’s Go Out With a Bang; Apocalypse Whenever (Spiritual Rez) 2014 US
• Thievery Corporation – Stargazer; Culture of Fear (ESL) 2011
• Soko – I Thought I Was an Alien; I Thought I Was an Alien (Because Music) 2012 French female
• Tena Stelin & Jah Warrior – UFO + Unidentified Flying Dub; Lion Symbol (Jah Warrior) ’99 UK
• Flock of Seagulls – Space Age Love Song; Flock of Seagulls (Jive) ’82 UK New Wave

• Words of Wisdom: