Greetings,

The great thing about the Digital Media Age and Social Media, if I take a week off the radio, I can still mash up Roots for I ‘n’ I from the comfort of home.

Enjoy my favorites from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives

Living room kinda cloudy!

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica Digital Dubplate – Roots Roulette:

0-30 min.

• Thievery Corporation feat.  Lou Lou Ghelichkhani; Temple of I & I (ESL) brand new DC dubbers w/ female vox
• Jolly Brothers – Oppression; Conscious Man (Seven Leaf) ’78 Lee Perry/Black Ark
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Exodus (Kindread Mix); Why Should I (CD Single) (Tuff Gong) ’92 rmx
• Ijahman Levi – Zion Train; Haile I Hymn (Island) ’78 feat. Steve Winwood on keys
• Sheryl Lee Ralph w/ Cedella & Sharon Marley – (I’m Hurting Inside); Mighty Quinn Soundtrack  (A & M) ’89 Bob cover
• Aswad – Nuclear Soldier; To the Top (Simba) ’87 UK 

30-60 min.

• Dennis Brown – Should I; Words of Wisdom (Shanachie) ‘79
• Wailing Souls – Things and Time; Very Best of the Wailing Souls (Greensleeves) ‘77
• Blood Sisters – Ring My Bell; Hustle! (Soul Jazz) ’79 Anita Ward disco cover
• Don Carlos – Crucial Situation; Prophecy (Blue Moon) ‘84
• The Gayladds & Baba Dread w/ Roots Radics – Little Candle + Candle Version; Understanding (Tamoki Wambesi) ‘80

60-90 min.

• M.I.A. – Double Bubble Trouble; Matangi (XL) 2013 female dubstep
• Gideon Jah Rubbaal – Judgeman (sic) Time; Free Us Now (ACL2000) ‘77
• Keith Hudson – Rasta Communication; Rasta Communication (Greensleeves) ‘78
• African Head Charge – Hymn; Songs of Praise (ON U Sound) ’91 mutant dub world sounds
• Afro Omega – Love Emergency; Love Emergency (Afro Omega) 2008 SLC mutant dub w/ female vox
• Gregory Isaacs – Sad to Know You’re Leaving; Night Nurse (Mango) ’82 lovers rock
• Linton Kwesi Johnson – Fite Dem Back; Forces of Victory (Mango) ’79 UK dub poet

90 min. – 2 hr.

• Ini Kamoze – General; Mini LP (Mango) ’84
• The Archives feat. Ichelle Cole – Boof Baff; The Archives (ESL) 2012; ½ of Thievery Corp w/ female vox
• Mike Brooks – Feeling of Reggae; Rum Drinker (Teams)  ‘79
• Matty G – Sesimilla; Bay Area Dubstep vol. 03 (Full Melt) 2011 mutant dub herbtune
• Sheriff Lindo & the Hammer – Skydubbing; Ten Dubs that Shook the World (EM) ’88 Jah-stralia Dub
• Destroy Babylon – Nuh Skin Up; The Shadow Army (MusicADD) 2008 Mutant dub cover of Keith Hudson; Waltham MA band
• Sister Carol – Wild Thing; Something Wild Soundtrack (MCA) singjay to Troggs classic

2 hr – 2 and 1/2 hr

• Winston McAnuff – Fear; Diary of the Silent Years (Makasound)
• Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood (A Fistful of Peanuts); Laika Come Home (Virgin) 2002 remix set
• Lily Allen – Nan You’re a Window Shopper; Alright, Still (Capitol) 2007 UK pop singer hates her grandma
• Mighty Diamonds – Cat O’ Nine; Ice on Fire (Virgin Front Line)  ’77 Allen Toussaint prod’n
• Bad Brains – To the Heavens; God of Love (Maverick) ’95 Punk Reggae
• Jacob Miller & Fatman Riddim Section – Healing of the Naiton + Joshua “A” Loaf; Jacob Miller Meets the Fatman Riddim Section (Crocodisc) ’78 herbtune:  Rev. 22:2 – And the leaves of the tree are the healing of the nations (2 and ½ hr.)

2 and 1/2 – 3 hr.

• Hollie Cook – 99; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2014 dawta of a Sex Pistol
• Kid Loco – Here Comes the Munchies; Kill Your Darlings (Bellville) 2001 downtro herbtune
• Misty in Roots – Wondering Wanderer; Chronicles (Kaz) ’81 Best of UK group
• Samia Farah – Homesick Blues; Many Moods of Samia Farah (SAM) 2008 Fr.-Tunisian female singer
• Lee “Scratch” Perry & George Faith – I Got the Groove; From the Secret Laboratory (Mango) ’90 update
• The Pioneers – Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye); Give and Take (Trojan) Steam soul cover
• Nora Dean – Barbwire; Monkey Business (Trojan) ‘69