<World politics is like a boxing match: Natty Dreadlocks vs. Babylon; 14 sec.>

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tember 16, 2017: Annotated Playlist: 33 sec.

Set 1:

• Bunny Wailer – Rockin’ Time; In I Father’s House (Solomonic) ’80 JA vinyl
• The Revolutionaries – Killer’s Goal Range; Spider’s Web (Virgin Front Line) ’78 UK vinyl dub album of the week to  I Roy’s The General
• Gideon Jah Rubbaal – Natty Dreadlocks a Superstar; Free Us Now (ACL) ‘77
• Hepcat – Dance Wid’ Me; Hepcat; Out of Nowhere (Moon Ska) ’95 LA ska
• Empress Rasheda – Hail HIM (Acapella); Foundation in Roots vol. 1 (Roots) ’95 UK dubstress
• Sugar Minott – International Herb; 12” (Stamma) ’83 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
• The Melodians – Get Up and Dance; Irie Feeling (RAS) ‘83

<Adventures in Cratedigging: The Melodians – Irie Feeling; 51 sec.>

Set 2:

• Afro Omega – Love Emergency; Love Emergency (Afro Omega) 2008 SLC mutant dubstress on vox
• Johnny Clarke – Rebel Soldering; Don’t Trouble Trouble (Attack) ‘75

<Soldering = slang for the Jamaican stud; 12 sec.>

• Prince Alla – Sun Is Shining; More Love (Jah Warrior) 2002 update
• Misty in Roots – Crying Out For Peace; 1” (People Unite) ’81 UK

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 27+ Years

• Bad Brains – I and I Survive; Rock For Light (Caroline) ’83 punk dub

<HR throat of Bad Brains – weirdest interview I ever did; 40 sec.>

• Judy Mowatt – Put It On; Black Woman (Shanachie) ‘76
• Burning Spear – Bad to Worst; Fittest of the Fittest (Heartbeat) ‘83
• Don Carlos & Gold – Jah Jah Hear My Plea; Raving Tonight (RAS) ‘84
• Roots Radics – Storming the Death Star; Scientist and Jammy Strike Back (Trojan)

Set 4:

• Peter Tosh – Glass House; Honorary Citien (Columbia/Leacy) ’82 live in Calgary, Canada

<If you live in a glass house, don’t throw stones!>

• Chris Hinze feat. Peter Tosh – Puss and Dog; Kings of Reggae (Keytone) ’81 Dutch flute player w/ Word, Sound and Power in JA

<You’ve got jazz flute inna mi roots reggae! 26 sec.>

• Dillinger – Buckingham Palace; Plantation Heights (Mango) ’76

<Smoking spliff wif Queen Elizabiff! 11 sec.>

• Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking (Trojan) ’78 UK

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

• Prince Far I – Natty Champion; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK
• Barry Brown – Conversation Slip Away; I’m Still Waiting (Rocktone International) ’83 Brooklyn cover of Stephen Stills’ Love the One You’re ith
• Sister Carol – Black Cinderella; Black Cinderella (Jah Life) ’84 Brooklyn
• Eek a Mouse – Sensee Party; Skidip! (Greensleeves) ‘8 UK
• Three Dimension – Undertaker; Roadblock (Nubian) ’89 UK

Set 6:

• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Jamming; Exodus 40 (Tuff Gong) ’77 original + new Ziggy rmx

<Exodus 1977 to 2017; 69 sec.>

• Black Uhuru – Somebody’s Watching You; Anthem (Island) ’83 Rockwell soul cover

<Rockwell; 31 sec.>

• Aisha – Don’t Tell Me No More Lies; 12” (Twinkle) ’95 UK
• Brentford Road All Stars – Moon Ride; Downbeat the Ruler (Heartbeat/Studio One) ’70: Dub Album of the Hour

Set 7:

• Nicky Thomas – New Morning; Doing the Moonwalk (Trojan) ‘73

<Bob Dylan’s New Morning; 26 sec.>

• Bush Chemists – Long Time I No Smoke; Dub Fire Blazing (Dubhead) 2001 UK mutant dub herbtune
• Mungo’s Hi-Fi & Soom T – Bong Bong; 12” EP (Scotch Bonnet) 2013 UK herb mutant dub w/ female vox

Set 8: Mutant Dub

• Thievery Corporation feat. Sista Pat – Wires and Watchtowers; Cosmic Game (ESL) 2004 
• Dr. Israel & the Brooklyn Jungle Sound System – Sensi Man; Black Rose Liberation (Baraka Foundation) 2001 herbtune
• Singers & Players feat. Prince Far I – Water the Garden; Revenge of the Underdog (ON U Sound) ‘82
• Systemwide – Reclame; Pure and Applied (BSI) 2002
• Alpha & Omega – Sharu Att Our Aunt (Beginning and End); King and Queen (A & O) ’89 UK trance dub w/ female vox

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