Took a week off from Smile Jamaica for Memorial Day Weekend. I am building a permanent home for the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives. So I spent 7 hours in my garage re-arranging vinyl for preparation for my big move in a couple weeks. Check it out!
Nearly 40 years of record collecting gotta fit in a Library 80 feet long and 10 feet wide.
I hope it all fits!
In the meantime, enjoy a Digital Dubplate of one half Orthodox Jamaican roots mashed up with Space Age Mutant Dub. I cooked this up in my Secret Dubratory.
You’ve got Roots Reggae inna mi New Age dub!
bless, robt
0-30 min.:
Aswad – Warrior Charge; Roots Rocking (Island) ’80 best of
Ganja Man – Light Up Your Spliff; Pro Cannabis IV (EFA) ’95 female mutant dub herbtune
Lazyboy TV – The Manual (Chapter 4); LazyboyTV (Universal) 2004 NY mutant dub herbtune
Culture – Garvey; Production Something (Heartbeat) ‘78
30-60 min.:
Dry & Heavy – Kick the Bong Around + Dub the Bong Around; One Punch (Green Tea) Jah-ponese Mutant dub herbtune w/ female vox
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Punky Reggae Party; 12” (Tuff Gong) ’77 Lee “Scratch” Perry prod’n
Johnny Clarke – Crazy Baldhead; Authorized Rockers (Virgin Front Line) ’76 Bob Marley cover
Jonah Dan & Bush Chemists – Guidance; Dubs From Zion Valley (JKPD) ’94 UK Mutant Dub
Coco Tea – Reggae Music; Settle Down (Cornerstone) ’8
Mungo’s Hi Fi feat. Soom T – Soundboy Police; Forward Ever (Scotch Bonnet) 2011 UK mutant dub w/ female vox
The Beat (aka the English Beat) – Doors to Your Heart 12” mix; CD Single (IRS) ’81 2 Tone ska
60-90 min.
The Orb – Towers of Dub; U.F.Orb (Island) ’92 UK Mutant Dub
Rockers Hi Fi feat. Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine of Your Love; Groove Corporation Presents Remixes from the Elephant House (Guidance) 2001 UK, cover of The Cream
<Smile Jamaica Treehouse of Horror Style: After 420 like after Halloween>
Greetings,
Since we survived the “near miss” Asteroid attack: 4.1 million miles is too close for comfort, we get to celebrate on Smile Jamaica with 3 hours of 420.
All black wax: 7″, 10″, 12″, Long Players.
The Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives is under construction, so here is all my 420 black wax: Two 3 feet tupper ware bins, A box and a Record Bag of 7″ Jamaican Jukebox. Two bags of 12″ and 10″ disco jams and a patridge inna pear tree.!
But wait! There’s more. Stitched in between the seven Leaf vinyl is all my favorite move clips, soundbytes, bongrips and Jeff Sessions anti-MJ PSAs.
<Parents beware!>
He’s probably the biggest toker of ’em all
Smile Jamaica 420 Follies:
Saturday, Apr. 22, 2017; 4-7 PM Mtn.
KRCL 90.9FM in SLC
krcl.org listen terrestrially and extraterrestrially
First re-cap after the election. I have been voting since 1984 and I can’t imagine two worse choices for President than what we got this go round: A greedy, law flaunting incompetent who helped ruin the other states in the Middle East George W didn’t destroy versus a human Cheeto reality host. Ick.
The only good that came out of this election was this Nation dubbled the number of States that can re-assert mankind’s 8000 year connection to Jah’s wisdom weed. Three other states (including my homeland – Montana) approved Medical Marijuana.
Medical MJ: Jah-rkansas, Jah-rida, Jah-tana, North Jah-kota
Jah-chigan’s legalization bid was yanked by an activist judge.
20% of this Nation now have benefitted from cannabis now.
In 2013 – 2 down, 48 to go!
In 2015 – 4 down, 46 to go!
In 2017 – 8 down, 42 to go!
In 2019 – ???
Maybe Obama will use an Executive Order and just legalize it everywhere. Finally some “Hope” for “Change” as he is packing up and moving out of the White House.
bless, robt
<8 down, 42 to go! 67 sec.>
Come on Prez? You smoked it. Your dawta got busted smoking. Since Hillary went down in flames, here is your last chance for a legacy! LEGALIZE IT EVERYWHERE
Smile Jamaica News Service reports: “Ebola defeated Bubonic Plague in the 2016 Presidential Election”
Greetings,
I predicted this. President Donald J. Trump.
I get together with some bredrins every Friday afternoon for bourbon and music sessions.
Of course politics are a common topic with my mates. My buddy Aquaboy, Sandroid turned Hillbot, was fairly cocky that the polls showed Hillary way ahead. Evan McMullin was gonna win Utah.
I would look over at my buddy Free-Mike and give him a cold stare and said, “When we meet next Friday, you will all be stunned.” Aquaboy would scoff. Who’s scoffing now?
Or as Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan calls it: Snooze-weak
My main blog roll is the Libertarian site, Zerohedge. Run by Bulgarian hedgefunders who predicted the 2008 economic collapse and theyrefuse to adhere to the usual corporate media consensus. They mercilessly mock the corporate media outlets.
Since I did political interviews, Radioactive 2003-2012, I am also a natural skeptic to corporate news:
CNN – The Clinton News Network
AP – Assimilated Presstitutes
NPR – Nationalist Propaganda Radio
MS-DNC
FUX News
Petroleum Bullshit Syndicate
Michael Franti: Television…drug of the nation. Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
I’m all the way Alt-Left. So from my deep political reading, I knew that Hillary Clinton was going to lose all the Midwest states but Illinois and Minnesota.
When I would run into my Liberal friends who would greet my skepticism with, “Nate Silver has Hillary Clinton a 98% likely winner.” I would scoff. The polls were oversampling Democrats who are a much smaller voting bloc since Obama came in.
4.5 million Obama voters became Indedendent. Huge mid term losses in 2010 and 2014 told me the Midwest had abandoned the Democratic Party over economic inequality.
When I would have these conversations with my Liberal friends, they would respond, “Why are you supporting Donald Trump?”.
I knew that Hillary Clinton was going to lose for these 5 reasons
Obama Fatigue – record inequality under his 8 years had Americans looking for a change at the top. Just like Obama won in part b/c of Bush Fatigue after his 8 years. Should have sent at least one banker to jail.
Obama voters would not be Hillary voters. Obama was young and black with a Muslim name. That candidacy resonated with blacks and Hispanics. Hillary is old and white. So minority vote turnout was way down. 137,000 fewer votes cast in Detroit and 129,000 fewer votes in Milwaukee cost her Michigan and Wisconsin
Millennials wanted Bernie. In the same way they came out for Obama they were YUUGE for Bernie Sanders. When he was aced out, they went back to their undervoting tendency.
Servergate/Wikileaks/Weinergate. At the end her untrustwory numbers were worse than Trump’s. In an emotions vs facts election, that was devastating for turnout and securing independent votes.
Obamacare notices went out in mid-Octboer. Average increase? 24%. Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare. Hillary wanted to “improve it.” She couldn’t come out for single payer, so if you had your policy cancelled and the new cost doubled (as happened to a classmate of mine in Montana), advantage Trump.
Poli Sci classes will be studying the DNC campaign of Hillary Clinton for decades to come. How not to run a campaign lessons
I was wrong on 3 states:
New Hampshire (for Trump) – I forgot they tend to be more conservative than their New England neighbors
Colorado (for Hillary) – I thought the rural and military areas would reject the Dems.
Nevada – I thought it would be Vegas for Hillary. Reno and the rest for Trump
I had a better result than Nate Silver!
So called polling savant, Nate Silver: 0 for 3 lately: British elections, BREXIT, Pres. Trump
I voted for Jill Stein. And I was wrong on her. I lost a bet (to my Hillbot buddy Aquaboy, in fact), that Jill would get 4%. Not even close! See you in 2020, Doctor Jill!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Nov. 5, 2016 – Annotated playlist w/ photos, captions, Reggae History Lessons; 84 sec.
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Set 1:
Triston Palma – Reggae Music Taking Over; Touch Me, Take Me (Abraham) ’82 Can. Vinyl
The Agrovators – Kaya Dub; Kaya Dub (Justice) ’78 UK: Dub Album of the Hour
Peter Tosh – Here Comes the Sun; Honorary Citizen: Jamaican Singles (Columbia) ’71 George Harrison/Beatles cover
UB40 – Reefer Madness; Signing Off (DEP/Sound) ’80 herbal instrumental
Garland Jeffreys feat. LKJ & the Dub Band – Miami Beach; Escape Artist (Columbia) ’81 feat. UK dub poet
King Kong – Legalize It; Rumble Jumble Life (Massive B) 2005 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Aisha – Glorify His Name; 10” (Ariwa) 2005 UK
Dub album of the hour. Vinyl of course
Set 2:
Keith Richards – Love Overdue; Crosseyed Heart (Mindless/Republic) 2015: Gregory Isaacs cover
Gregory Isaacs & U Roy – Love Is Overdue; Love Is Overdue (Heartbeat) ’74 original
Benjamin Zephaniah – Belly of de Beast; Belly of de Beast (Ariwa) UK mutant dub
If Mixcloud link is blanked out: Here is the 3 hour show as an embedded .mp3: 2 hr. 56 min.
Greetings,
Smile Jamaica loves Halloween or as I say: Jah-loween! For going on 20 years now I have played all treats no tricks the last Saturday in Jah-tober;
Because my job is a sound editor, I created some sound art: 81 soundbytes or Horror movie trailers that I edited in my home studio. One after each song.
Dracula, Blackula, War of the Worlds. Nuff Vincent Price: Michael Jackson and Dr. Phibes and even Alice Cooper. Halloween and X-Files soundtrack. Nuff Blaxploitation Village of the Damned.
I get a call from a listener when I stitched in the Vincent Price interlude from Alice Cooper’s “Black Widow”. Listener goes, “I called two shows on KRCL requesting “Black Widow,” They didn’t play my request and then I heart it on Smile Jamaica.”
Boo-tiful
curse, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 29, 2016 – Annotated Playlist – Jahloween: sets, soundbytes, Reggae History Lessons, photos and captions; 37 sec.
Set 1:
Ini Kamoze – Hole in the Pumpkin; Shocking Out (RAS) ’87
Scientist – Dance of the Vampires; Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81: Dub Album of the Hour
The Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96: 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Talk About Run; 12” (Greensleeves) ‘81 – don’t make out w/ your girlfriend in the boneyard! 20 sec.
Set 2:
Future Pigeon – Mummy Rock; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) 2006 roll a lickle spliff w/ di papyrus
<Smoke some Sensi-menia inna Mesopotamia; 12 sec.>
Easy Star All-Stars feat. Mikey General & Spragga Benz – Thriller; Thrillah! (Easy Star) 2012: Michael Jackson cover
GG All-Stars – Vampire Rock; 12” (Hit) ‘77
Set 3:
David Lindley & El Rayo-X; Werewolves of London; Very Greasy (Elektra) ’88 Warren Zevon cover
The Hooters – All You Zombies; Nervous Night (Columbia) ’85: pop hit
Barrington Levy – Murderer; 12” (Jah Life) ’84 Murder is a vampire
Set 4:
Max Romeo – Hotel California; Something is Wrong (Mediacom) Eagles cover re: Anton Lavey’s Church of Satan; 26 sec.
Humble Soul – Damn Vampire; Good Lord, Thank You (Kolcha Muzik) Jah-waiian artist
Set 5: Vinyl is V-ital
Laurel Aitken – Witchdoctor From Amsterdam; Eskapdade en France (Blue Moon) ’90 EP Fr.
Crucial Bee – Mark of the Beast; Just a Sting (All-Star) US Virgin Islands
Horace Andy – The Devil; Don’t Stop (Island in the Sun) ’85 NY
Amp-Ech – Living Dead + Version; Against Injustice (Amp-Ech); 4 sec.
Set 6:
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Judgment in a Babylon; 12” (One Drop) ‘81Chris Blackwell is a vampire sucking the blood of the sufferah’s; 54 sec.
Sky High & the Mau Mau – Cemetary Robbery; Origination (Sky High)
Willi Williams – The Dungeon; Messenger Man (Blood and Fire) ’80 about being in jail for herb
Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Two Bad D.J.’ 12” (Greensleeves) ’81: duppies in the cemetery
<All Treats! No Tricks! – Smile Jamaica Loves Halloween>
Greeetings,
It’s Fall and winter is coming. So that means October is Jah-loween Season on Smile Jamaica. The ghouls , witches and vampires doing rub a dub in the boneyard.
Half the set is devoted to instead of the usual’s King’s Music. Now it’s the Devil’s turn. Scratch. As in Lee “Scratch” Perry. Half the show devoted to the Witching Season: Best of 27 Years (the early discoveries in ’89-90), vinyl, 7″ Jamaican Jukebox and the undead and of course MUTANT dub
Don’t get stoned on my tombstone!
bless, I mean curse, robt
Set 1:
Lord Creator – Such Is Life; Heart of the Ark vol. 2 (Seven Leaf) ’78 UK vinyl: Lee Perry/Black Ark prod’n
Chalawa – Exodus Dub; (Micron) ’77 Can. Dub Album of the Hour to Marley’s Exodus
Peter Broggs – Pick Up the Reggae; Rastafari Liveth! (RAS) ‘82
Lee Perry – Jungle Lion; 300% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ’73 instrumental
Dennis Bovell – Living in Babylon; Babylon Soundtrack (EMI) ‘80
Bushman – Backweh Vampire; 10” EP (Stingray) 2012 UK EP Jah-loween tune
Lovejoys – One Draw; Lovers Rock Showcase (Wackies) ’83 female duo on Rita Marley’s herbtune: 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
An A+ grade doesn’t do justice. Lee “Scratch” Perrry and his mythic Black Ark. Such is Life indeed
Set 2:
Peter Tosh – Black Dignity; Honorary Citizens: Jamaican Singles (Columbia) ’69 rarity
Trinity – Vampire; Dancehall 2 (Soul Jazz) ‘79
Jennifer Gad – Babylon Must Fall; Solid Foundation (Flag) ‘92
Dennis Brown & the Observers – Live After You; 10” (Observer Gold) ’75 Niney prod’n
Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 27 Years – Jah-loween Set; 11 sec.
<Neocon Margaret Thatcher – Middle finger from UB40; 37 sec>.
The Iron Lady: Britain’s Margaret Thatcher. Showed that women could be Neoliberal/Neoconservative too
Set 5: Jah-loween Vinyl is Vital set
Inner Circle – Duppy or Gunman; Rock the Boat (Trojan) ’74 UK: duppy = J’can ghost
Clint Eastwood and General Saint – Talk About Run; Two Bad D.J. (Greensleeves) ’81 UK: update of calypso tune about making out w/ your girl in the boneyard
Cultural Roots – Devil-ites; Drift Away from Evil (Revolutionary Sounds) ’82 UK
Prince Alla – Evil Forces; Evil Forces (Calabash) ’84 Opa-Locka, FL
Chalice – Back Way Evil Forces; Stand Up! (CSA) ’85 UK
Set 6:
Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths – United We Stand; Just My Imagination (Trojan) ’70 update of soul cover by Brotherhood of Man
All my heroes are named Bob: Marley, Crumb and Dylan. Congrats to Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan. The first popular music artist to be chosen. Well deserving.
So I start off Smile Jamaica with a 3 song Reggae Tribute to his Bobness!
<Winner, winner Nobel Prize chicken dinner! 33 sec.>
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 15, 2016: Annotated Playlist – photos, captions, soundbytes, Reggae History Lessons; 51 sec.
Bob Dylan Tribute
Wailers Family Tree
Vinyl is Vital
Jah-loween Stylee
Disco Mix 10″/12″
Roots Dawtas
UFO-ria inna Mutant Dub Stylee
Intro: 33 sec.
Set 1: From one Bob to another: Dylan Tribute – Nobel Winner
<Amazing achievement. Nobel deserving; 52 sec.>
Jimmy London – Ride On; Welcome to My World (Burning Sounds) ’78 UK vinyl
Sould Syndicate – Black Pride – Dub; King Tubby & Friends – Sound System Dub Vol. (Original) JA vinyl, 1975-78: Dub Album of the Hour
Bob Dylan – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door; Live at Budokan (Columbia): ’78 Reggae Tribute to Nobel Laureate, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan – Man Gave Names to All the Animals; Slow Train Coming (Columbia) ’79 Gospel Grammy winner
Bob Dylan – Jokerman; Infidels (Columbia) ’83 Sly & Robbie on the riddims
Peter Broggs – Internaitonal Farmer; Rastafari Liveth! (RAS) ‘82
African Pearl – Zion Bound; 10” (Ariwa) 2005 UK: female roots
Set 2: Wailers Family Tree
Peter Touch & Hugh Roy – Rightful Ruler; Honorary Citizen: Jamaican Singles (Columbia) ’69 box set
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Jamming (Long Version); Exodus (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’77 bonus track
<Dessert before dinner: dub before the vox – Jamming; 18 sec.>
Set 3:
<Request: The one album that led to Smile Jamaica – Black Uhuru Anthem; 35 sec.>
Black Uhuru – Black Uhuru Anthem; Anthem (Island) ’84 Night of the Living Dead, Request; 19 sec.
Creation Rebel/New Age Steppers – Painstaker; Threat to Creation (Cherry Red/ON U Sound) ’81 dub to New Age Steppers cover of Michael Rose “Observe Life
African Princess – Jah Children Cry; 12” (Jah Shaka) ’80 UK
Scientist – Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves) ’80: Dub Album of the Hour
This album made me a Reggae Fanatic – Hard to live in dread in the dawn of the living dead!
Set 4: Best of Smile Jamaica – 27 Years
Yellowman – Morning Ride; One in a Million (Shanachie) ’84
<The Morning Ride – a different commute!; 25 sec.>
Aisha – Evil Spirits; High Priestess (Ariwa) ‘88
Barry Brown – Run Wicked Man; Far East (Hitbound) ‘81
Keith Hudson – My Eyes Are Red (Unlreased Version); Brand (Pressure Sounds) ‘77
The morning ride is the longest ride
Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital
Icarus – Land of Tarot; State of Mind (Russian Roulette) ’82 UK
Earl Sixteen – Freedom; Heart of the Ark vol. 2 (Seven Leaf) Black Ark/Lee Perry prod’n
Clint Eastwood – Sweet, Sweet Jamaica; Sex Education (Greensleeves) ’80 UK
Tony Tuff – Born in the Ghetto; Presenting Mr. Tuff (Black Roots) ’81 JA
Aura Lewis Meets Lee “Scratch” Perry – At Midnite; Full Experience (Blue Moon) Fr. EP – Black Ark prod’n
Set 6:
Tino – Bats in My Belfrey Dub; Hallowe’en Dub (Tino’s) Jah-loween beats artist
Yesca – Searchin’; Up in Smoke Soundtrack (Warner Bros) ’78 herbal update of the Coasters 50 r & b
Ther Herbaliser – The Hard Stuff; Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ninja Tune) 2002 UK mutant dub herb tune
Version feat. Sista Widey – Put On; 10” (Webcam Hi Fi) 2007 Fr. mutant dub
Black Roots Players – Redder Than Red; Ghetto-ology Dub (Easy Star) ’79 Dub Album of the Hour
Makes your flesh creep: next 2 Saturdays nuff Jah-loween on Smile Jamaica. 3 hours Digital Dubplate mix on Mixcloud Oct. 31
Set 7: Jah-loween Stylee
Black Survivors – Catch a Vampire; Nations of the World (Sword Lion) ’95 UK
Garland Jeffreys feat. Big Youth – Graveyard Rock; Escape Artist (Epic) ’81 – NY bi-racial rocker
<Don’t get stoned on my tombstone! 25 sec.>
Rupie Dan & Jennifer Gad feat. Macka B – Devil Dance; Solid Foundation (Flag) 1992
Bomb the Bass feat. Sinead O’Connor & Benjamin Zephaniah; Empire; clear (Quango) ’95 UK mutant dubbers; Empire=Vampire
Don’t get stoned on mi tombstone!
Set 8: UFO-ria: 38 sec.
Audio Active – Space Children; Tokyo Space Cowboys (ON U Sound) ’94 Jah-pon
Rockers Hi Fi – Dick From Outaspace; Rockers to Rockers (Gee Street) ’95 UK
Every fall, we hunker down and spend two Saturdays raising money. Smile Jamaica only exists becuase of the commercial free nature of community radio KRCL
So I didnt’ put up the last two weeks’ steams since we beg ‘n’ plead after every song.
So enjoy Fall with fresh roots!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 10, 2016 Annotated Playlist – tracklist, photos, captions and Reggae History Lessons
Set 1:
The Jay Tees – Prayer to Jah; Pirate’s Choice (Studio One) ’81 JA vinyl: female group
Black Slates Meet Soul Syndicate – Bum Dub; Moodie in Dub vol. 1 (Moodie) ’78: Dub Album of the Hour
The Rastafarians – Jah Greatest Blessing; Orthodox (Makasound) ’81 Rasta Cruz, Collie-fornya
Bunny Wailer – Warrior; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’90: Johnny Osbourne cover from roots best of
Dennis Alcapone – Revelation; Guns Don’t Argue (Trojan) ’70 comp.
2 Bad Card – Weed Specialist; CD Single (ON U Sound) ’95 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Starkey Banton – Loose Talk; 10” (Coptic Lion) dj to Barry Brown’s Big Big Pollution
Set 2:
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Waiting in Vain (unreleased mix); Exodus (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ‘77
Sister Nancy – Bam Bam; 300% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ’82 – ska, soul, rock steady, funk & dub in Jamaica
Tennors – Ride Your Donkey; Broken Flowers Soundtrack (Decca) ’68 Jim Jarmusch movie
Capital Letters – House Breaker; Rootikal Rebild + Rootikal Dubwise; 12” (British Reggae Archive) 2014
Set 3:
Jah Bull – Free Jah Children; Rockers International (Greensleeves) ’80 A. Pablo prod’n over Delroy Williams
Cassandra – Thank You For the Many Things You’ve Done; Babylon Soundtrack (EMI) ’80 UK lovers rock
Sugar Minott – The People Got to Know; Ghetto-ology + Dub (Easy Star) ‘79
Keith Hudson – Image Dub; Brand (Pressure Sounds) ’77 Dub Album of the Hour
Set 4: Rockers do Reggae
Keith Richards – Words of Wonder; Main Offender (Virgin) ’92
Tom Tom Club – Bambootown; Close to the Bone (Sire) ’83 Talking Heads side group
Prince Flo & Jah Edward – Dancing Mood; (Epiphany) ’81 Turtles members cover Delroy Wilson ‘81
The Turtles meet Soul Syndicate
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital Set
Black Stalin – Vampire Year; In Ah Earlier Time (Makossa International) ’80 NY – Soca Halloween tune: Vinyl is Vital Set
Snowman – Black Heroes; Rockers Showcase Volume III (Rockers) ’87 Phil.
Jean Binta Breeze – Dubwise + Confusion (Warner); Tracks (LKJ) ’90 UK female dub poet, LKJ prod’n
Jah Walton – The Seed You Sow; Magnificent Seven (Burning Sounds) ’78 UK red vinyl
Set 6:
Peter Tosh – You Can’t Fool Me Again; Honorary Citizen (Columbia) ’69 Jamaican singles box set – nursery rhyme
Jimmy Cliff – You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down; Club Paradise Soundtrack (CBS) ‘86
Rupie Dan & Jennifer Gad – Reparation (Flag) 2000
Love Joys – All I Can Say; Lovers Rock Showcase (Bullwackies) ’80 female duo
Ronnie Davis – Raining Dub; Jamming in Dub (Kingston Sound) Dub Album of the Hour
Set 7: Jah-loween
Dubskin – Heavy Load; No End in Time (Dubskin) 2009 Boulder, Collie-rado; vampires: Halloween Set
Lee “Scratch” Perry & the White Belly Rats – de Devil Dead (Live); Panic in Babylon (DAMP) 2004
The Reddies – Voodoo Woman; Cultivation (Reddies) 2009 Jah-stin, Texas
Set 8: Mutant Dub
African Head Charge – Hold Some More; Songs of Praise (ON U Sounds) ’90
Dubsac – Dub Anthem; Dubsac (Annica) 2007
The Archives – Melodical Funk; The Archives (ESL) 2012 DC: ½ Thievery Corporation
Audio Active – Robot War; Apollo Choco (ON U Sound) ’97 Jah-pon
Ari Up – Baby Mother + Version; Dread More Than Dead (Collision) 2005 female singer of the Slits and New Age Steppers
Fall Radiothon is my anniversary for co-hosting (and then hosting) Smile Jamaica Oct. 1989.
That adds up to 27 years folks! And so I choose to celebrate with deep gems out of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: 3 hours of the black wax attack.
Memories by the score rotating at 33 and 1/3 RPM
bless, robt
No digital for I ‘n’ I
Internship at the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives
Annotated Playlist: Sept. 17, 2016 – Smile Jamaica All Vinyl
Set 1:
Morwells – Reggae Party; Wiser Dread (Nighthawk) ’82 St. Louis – 3 Hours All Vinyl
King Tubby – Roots of Dub (Moll-Selekta) ’75: Dub Album of the Hour
Ras Tesfa & Jafrica – These Things; Voice of the Rastaman (Shanachie) ’85 NJ
Dennis Brown – Concrete Castle King; Visions (Blue Moon) UK ‘78
The Gladiators – Oh What a Joy; The Gladiators (Virgin Front Line) ’80 UK
Lillian Allen – Conditions Critical; Conditions Critical (Redwood) ’87 Canadian Dub Poet
Bobby Culture, Brimestone & Fire, Louie Rankin, – Big Big Bust; Tidal Wave (Unicorn) ’83 Santa Monica, Colly-fornya; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
<Big big bust; 6 sec.>
Set 2:
Paul Blake & Bloodfire Posse – Pink Panther; Are You Ready? (Synergy) ’86 UK: Henry Mancini soundtrack
John Brown – Easy Dreadlocks; Atra 10 Track (Atra) ’88 comp. UK
Tapper Zukie – Simpleton Badness; Man Ah Warrior (mer) ‘73/’77 NY dj
Aisha – Every Problem; Daughters of Zion (Twinkle) ’95 UK
Set 3:
Peter Tosh – Wanted Dread & Alive; Wanted Dread & Alive (EMI America) ’81 US – my first Reggae LP; 39 sec.
<Mom not a fan of the Seven Leaf nor Ted Nugent; 36>
Sophia George & Charlie Chaplin – Ain’t No Meaning; Fresh (Winner) ’85 UK
Mexicano – Lovers Conversation; Jah Woosh – Gunfight at O.K. Korral (sic) (Pioneer International) Can.
Edi Fitzroy – Youthman Penitentiary; Youthman Penitentiary (Alligator) ’82 Chicago blues label
Augustus Pablo – East of the River Nile (Shanachie) ’77: Dub Album of the Hour
Mama Nelson – original funder of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: first Reggae LP
Set 4:
Eek a Mouse – Do You Remember?; Skidip (Greensleeves) ’82 about Middle Passage
<The Days of Slavery; 8 sec.>
Cornell Campbell – My Country; Roots, Rock, Reggae (Creole) ’78 Fr.
Abbacush – Back Attack; In Progress (People Unite) ’84 UK female roots group
<Abba – father; Cush – mother Africa; 9 sec.>
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Punky Reggae Party (Dub); 12” (Tuff Gong) ‘77
<Punky Reggae Party – no boring old farts!; 26 sec.>
packed like sardines in a tin
Set 5:
Singers & Players feat. Brent Dowe – These Eyes; Vacuum Pumping (ON U Sound) ’88 Melodians singer does The Guess Who
Gregory Isaacs – Rock On; Reggae Party (Disc Internatiopnal) ’83 FR.
U Roy & Delroy (Wilson) – You Keep on Running; With a Flick of My Musical Wrist (Trojan) ’71 dj comp
Sista Ruby – Supa Dupa; (Keyman) ’99 UK: Dr. Alimantado prod’n
Set 6:
Bunny Wailer – Burial; Sings the Wailers (Mango) ’80 Peter Tosh cover
Phyllis Dillon – Right Track; Popular Roots (Virgin Front Line) ’85 2 LP UK label sampler
<Reggae History Lesson: Virgin Front Line labell 31 sec.>
Johnny Clarke – Cold I Up; Trojan Story vol. 2 (Trojan) ’82 UK: 3 LP Box Set
Papa Kojie & Blue Riddim – Nancy Reagan Re-election Remix (ORA) ’85 St. Louis
<Nancy Reagan nostalgia; 9sec. >
Scientist – King of Dub (Kingdom) ’81 Dub Album of the Hour
“She sit upon the lap of Mr. T, leading us all to World War III”
Set 7:
Krieger-Densmore Reggae Bonanza – Get Up Stand Up; 12” (Rhino) ’83 US – ½ Doors do Bob Marley
Pressure – Stir It Up; Pressure (Pool Production) ’83 US; Bob Marley cover
Marcia Grifiths – Here I Am; Sweet Bitter Love (Trojan) ’74 Al Brown soul cover
Sister Netifa – Daughters of the Soil; Woman Determined (Aluta) ’88 UK dub poet
Michael Johnson & the Killer Bees – Holy Smoke (Dedicated to the American Indian); Groovin’ (Tropic Sounds) ’87 Austin, TX
Don Carlos – Cool Johnny Cool; Deeply Concerned (RAS) ’87 DC
Basement 5 – Work: Dub; In Dub (Island) ’80 UK members went on to Big Audio Dynamite
Prince Far I – Jamaican Heroes; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK
Killer dub poet
Words of Wisdom
Smile Jamaica is hosted by Robert Nelson on 90.9 FM KRCL in Salt Lake City, Utah (Saturdays, 4-7 p.m. MT). Ark-ives available weekly here at the Smile Jamaica blog.