Greetings,

So I was getting ready to go on air in the last half hour of Smile Jamaica. The phone rings and I pick up. The guy on the other line was pretty animated. “Hey Robert, I’m here with the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team in South Korea and we are listening to your show. Play us a tune.”

<Crown of Creation livicated to the U.S. Olympic Cross Country Ski Team; 22 sec.>

Wow! If true, I am sure the Dubstep/Mutant Dub set I was about to spin would match heavy bass to skiing a fast race. I dunno? They did medal for the first time at the Olympics. Or as I call it, the Jah-lympics

bless, Bobbylon 

 

Smile Jamaica A.rk-Ives Annotated Playlist: Jah-bruary 24, 2018: 85 sec.

Set 1:

• Cornell Campbell – O Jah Forgive Me; Stalowatt (Third World) ’76 UK vinyl

<Stalowatt = Stalwart in Jamaican patois; 23 sec.>

• Winston Edwards – Natty Dub; Natty Locks Dub (Studio 16) ’74 UK vinyl dub album of the hour
• Hopeton Lindo – Black History; Rockers Vibration (Heartbeat) ’84 Mikey Dread prod’n
• Carlene Davis – Quick Sand; 15 Classic Hits (Sonic)
• Chalawa feat. Strangers Cole – Just Like a River; Capture Land (Green Weenie) ’79 JA singer w/ Ontario Canada group
• Daweh Congo – Ganja Baby; Ghetto Skyline (Goldheart) 2008 Sweden
• Jah Shaka – Revelation 18; 12″ (Jah Shaka) ’82 UK

<Revelation 18; 28 sec.>

Set 2:

• Sister Nancy – Bam Bam; 300% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ’82 singjay classic
• Ronnie Davis – People Bawling; Wheel of Life (Upstairs) ’83
• Cedric Im Brooks – Lambs Bread Collie; Light of Saba (Honest Jon’s) ’78 horn instrumental herbtune
• Lee “Scratch” Perry – Disco Devil; 12″ (Upsetter Disco Cork) ’77 UK take on Max Romeo’s I Chase the Devil

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 28+ Years

• Don Carlos & Gold – Black History; Raving Tonight (RAS) ’83: Best of Smile Jamaica 28+ Years
• Burning Spear – I’m Not the Worst; People of the World (Blue Moon) ’86
• Jean Binta Breeze – Tracks + Nanny; Tracks (LKJ) ’91 UK female dub poet

<Who is Nanny?; 43 sec.>

• Black Uhuru – Darkness/Dubness; 10″ (Island) ’82 UK picture sleeve
• Delixx – Coming in From the Cold; Uprising in Dub (Micron) ’80 Dub Album of the Hour

Set 4:

• Chalice – Master Blaster (Jammin); Best of Reggae (Sonoma) 2011 Stevie Wonder cover
• Jimmy Cliff – No Justice; Marked For Death (Delicious Vinyl) ’90
• Thievery Corporation and Rockers Hi-Fi – Trance Mission Central; Abductions & Reconstructions (ESL) ’99 DC dubbers rmx
• Cynthia Richards  Aily I; Reggae Classics (DCC) ’73 herbtune
• Doctor Alimantado – It Cold in a Babylon; 12″ (ISDA) ’80 UK

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

• Dub Syndicate feat. Michael Franti – No No; Echomania
• John Clarke – Good Collie Weed; Visions of John Clarke (Wackies) ’79 Bronx
• Hortense Ellis – Wooden Heart; Ravers Rock vol. 2 ()
• New Age Steppers feat. Bim Sherman – Dreamers; Foundation Steppers (ON U Sound)
• Amp-Ech – Blood Stains; Against Injustice (Amp-Ech) ’87 JA

Set 6: Wailers Family Tree

• Cedella Marley Booker – He’s a Rastaman; Awake; Zion (Rykodisc) ’84 Wailers Family Tree
• Bob Marley & the Wailers – Burnin’ & Lootin’; Exodus 40 (Tuff Gong) live in London June 1977
• Bunny Wailer – Rastaman Vibration (Positive Vibration); Hall of Fame (RAS) ’95 dubble disk of Bob Marley covers
• Chris Hinze feat. Peter Tosh – Silver & Gold; Bamboo Reggae (Keytone) ’83 Dutch jazz flautist in JA

Set 7:

 

• UB40 – Strange Fruit; Signing Off (DEP) ’80 – update of Billie Holiday

<Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit; 58 sec.>

• Dubble feat. Molara – Crown of Creation; 10″ (Dub Tunnel) 2012 UK Mutant Dub w/ female vox

Set 8: Mutant Dub

• Matty G – Sensimilla; Bay Area Dubstep vol. 3 (Full Melt) 
• Alpha & Omega feat. Boney L – Babylon Children; Legend of A & O (Dopic) 2006 best of UK trance dub w/ female vox
• Dr. Israel & Dreadtone International – One; Patterns of War (ROIR) 2005 Brooklyn
• Bush Chemists – Dub Secret; Light Up Your Chalice (Dubhead) ’99 UK
• Dubblestandart feat. Ken Boothe – When I Fall in Love; Immigration Dub (Collision) 2007 Jah-stria

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