Another tradition bites the dust on Smile Jamaica via the heinous Digital Millennium Copywrong Act.
Let us count the ways the DMCA has screwed me on Smile Jamaica
No bootlegs (I have dozens of killer Reggae bootlegs and rarities)
No more 3 hour artist shows (No Bob Marley A to Z like I have done). Can’t play more than four songs by an artist in a 3 hour bloc
No Album Side. Back in the day I used to play a whole side of a rare, non-CD disk to go beyond the one shot. Can’t play more than 2 songs in a row off an album
No more Dub Album of the Week. The latest outrage. For 27 years I have always talked over a singular dub release to keep a consistent flow bubbling so the music never stops. But Mixcloud keeps flagging the shows for DMCA violations. Their algo’s pick up the signature of the CD even tho I have “wrecked the mix” by talking over it. Nope.
<DMCA follies (1): No more Dub Album of the Week; 15 sec.>
<DMCA follies (2): No more than 4 songs per album; 30 sec.>
So I decided to just punt away from CD’s …
<…No aluminum for I ‘n’ I>
and drop down some Black Wax. All 12″ singles. Long dubble length, combination style all the while.
3 Hours of Disco Mix; 19 sec.
Plus bass-delic echo
The role that the 12″ played in Jamaica was strictly for the dance. Dreads and pretty girls would head for the club. The clubs wanted the deejays to stretch out the songs so that a guy could rub a dub with his best gal and work up a thirst.
From there the 12″ spread into the New York and Miami discos catering to the gay, Latin and urban black markets. Reggae always ahead of its time!
<Reggae History Lesson: The 12″ Single started in Jamaica; 37 sec.>
They prattle on about their impending retirement while I choose the music
6:30 – Grab some dinner
7-9 pm – Ancient Aliens on History Channel.
11pm – Watch 1 Episode per night when the sun goes down. Can’t skywatch in the daylight
Midnight – Decompress while looking for UFO’s in the moonlight
Read a Chapter of Ancient Alien Expert: Zecharia Sitchin: Earth Chronicle Series: The Lost Realms (Book 4) – About the Maya and new world Alien contact
Saturday: Start putting my music together for Smile Jamaica…
<Roadmap for Jah-gust 8, 2015 Ark-Ive; 90 sec.>
Wailers Family Tree: Wailers Catch a Fire mix ‘n’ match. Tosh live. Bunny does Bob; Melody Makers love Jah. 3 takes of Stir It Up
Roots Dawtas: Contemporary Reggae stylee
Disco Mix ‘n’ Vinyl Is Vital: Black Wax Attack
Mutant Dub: Intergalactic Dubwize
Best of 27 Years: My faves from 80’s Reggae Radio
Tribute to HIM – Held over, never left over from Selassie’s birthday: July 23, 1902
Set 1:
Junior Byles – Thanks & Praise; Rasta No Pickpocket (Nighthawk) ’86 St. Louis, MO vinyl
Alek6 – Inside; Inside (Hammerbass) 2010 Fr.; Dubstep Album of the Week
Aswad – Pass the Cup; BBC Sessions (BBC) 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Live in the Studio: 6/3/82
<The Cup = Chalice: 30 sec.>
Black Roots – I Am Flying; On the Ground (Sugar Shack) 2012 UK reunion
Sister Carol – Get It Straight Africans; Jah Disciple (RAS) ‘89
Enforcer – Pension; 10” (Narrows)
<Youth better save for your pension! 13 sec.>
Bunny Wailer – Pieaka (Bus Dem Shut); Gumption (Shanachie) ’90; dancehall Bob Marley cover
<Wailers Family Tree: Bunny does Bob in a Digital Stylee! 20 sec.>
Set 2:
Peter Tosh – Not Gonna Give It Up; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Tosh Foundation) 11/27/82: Montego Bay, JA
Alpha & Omega – Rastafari; Voice in the Wilderness (A & O) ’96 trance dub w/ female vox
Johnny Nash – Stir It Up; I Can See Clearly Now (Columbia) ’72 Bob cover
<Johnny Nash cover Bob Marley; 20 sec.>
Set 3: Roots Dawta Set
Ayo – Get Out of My Way; Gravity at Last (Wrass) 2008; Roots Dawta Set: German-Nigerian singer songwriter
They prattle on about their impending retirement while I choose the music
6:30 – Grab some dinner
7-9 pm – Ancient Aliens on History Channel.
11pm – Watch 1 Episode per night when the sun goes down. Can’t skywatch in the daylight
Midnight – Decompress while looking for UFO’s in the moonlight
Read a Chapter of Ancient Alien Expert: Zecharia Sitchin: Earth Chronicle Series: The Lost Realms (Book 4) – About the Maya and new world Alien contact
Saturday: Start putting my music together for Smile Jamaica…
<Roadmap for Jah-gust 8, 2015 Ark-Ive; 90 sec.>
Wailers Family Tree: Wailers Catch a Fire mix ‘n’ match. Tosh live. Bunny does Bob; Melody Makers love Jah. 3 takes of Stir It Up
Roots Dawtas: Contemporary Reggae stylee
Disco Mix ‘n’ Vinyl Is Vital: Black Wax Attack
Mutant Dub: Intergalactic Dubwize
Best of 27 Years: My faves from 80’s Reggae Radio
Tribute to HIM – Held over, never left over from Selassie’s birthday: July 23, 1902
Set 1:
Junior Byles – Thanks & Praise; Rasta No Pickpocket (Nighthawk) ’86 St. Louis, MO vinyl
Alek6 – Inside; Inside (Hammerbass) 2010 Fr.; Dubstep Album of the Week
Aswad – Pass the Cup; BBC Sessions (BBC) 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Live in the Studio: 6/3/82
<The Cup = Chalice: 30 sec.>
Black Roots – I Am Flying; On the Ground (Sugar Shack) 2012 UK reunion
Sister Carol – Get It Straight Africans; Jah Disciple (RAS) ‘89
Enforcer – Pension; 10” (Narrows)
<Youth better save for your pension! 13 sec.>
Bunny Wailer – Pieaka (Bus Dem Shut); Gumption (Shanachie) ’90; dancehall Bob Marley cover
<Wailers Family Tree: Bunny does Bob in a Digital Stylee! 20 sec.>
Set 2:
Peter Tosh – Not Gonna Give It Up; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Tosh Foundation) 11/27/82: Montego Bay, JA
Alpha & Omega – Rastafari; Voice in the Wilderness (A & O) ’96 trance dub w/ female vox
Johnny Nash – Stir It Up; I Can See Clearly Now (Columbia) ’72 Bob cover
<Johnny Nash cover Bob Marley; 20 sec.>
Set 3: Roots Dawta Set
Ayo – Get Out of My Way; Gravity at Last (Wrass) 2008; Roots Dawta Set: German-Nigerian singer songwriter
<Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: July 18, 2015: Best of 27 Years II – The 80’s; 2 hrs. 50 min.>
Greetings,
Loyal Mixcloud Smile Jamaica listeners. Feel free to listen to the Audio player above or at the end of this blog post. Not sure what happened. All I can think of is I must have replayed one of my Dub tracks that I chat over so the music never has to stop. Can’t do that according to the bullshit piece of legislation called the Digital Millennial Copy-wrong Act
Mixcloud’s naughty naughty:
Why can’t I listen? Licensing rules by country
Mixcloud is a licensed Internet radio service with agreements with various Collecting Societies around the world (who in turn pay royalties to labels and artists based on their individual recording and publishing deals).These agreements stipulate certain rules around what type of radio shows and DJ mixes can be listened to on Mixcloud:US Rules:
– Maximum 4 tracks by an artist (and max 3 consecutively)
- Maximum 3 tracks from an album (and max 2 consecutively)As music lovers ourselves, we understand that this may be frustrating, and we are working on new frameworks with rights-holders to build a better service for everyone.
***’
What bites is how can anything think I am trying to scam a copyright holder when I purposefully talk over the music so it is worthless to steal. Riding dub riddims while I announce the set list has been a part of Smile Jamaica since the very first show in 1989!
Grrr.
When this scam of a bill, another sellout to the music cartel, was being debated. I wasted my time by writing to Orrin Hatch explaining how I always give: artist, song, album, label. I don’t want people to steal the music I play. I want them to buy the music I play.
He sent me back some bullshit about how he was a music artist of note (yeah, right) and he was concerned about piracy.
We the Sheeple take in the neck yet again from our “leaders”.
<Orrin Hatch gives the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives the finger>
As they say in the dancehall, “Hey Mi Selecta, rewind and come again!”
bless, robt
Greetings,
<Thanks for the positive feedback spinning Reggae Radio for 27 years! bless, robt; 17 sec.>
I have been fortunate enough to do Reggae Radio for 27 years now. July 1988-Aug. 1989 Graveyard stylee on 3 o’clock Roadblock (3 to 6am) Then by pure good luck of timing I moved over to Saturday Afternoons with Smile Jamaica (4 to 7 pm.) Oct. 1989-
<Much love to Juan Verde – John Greene. Who hired me to work for free on KRCL way back in 1988; 44 sec.>
I got accepted into grad school at UCLA but didn’t get a fellowship so I stayed put in Utah. Worked my way into the U of U’s academic library about the same time as I did Smile Jamaica.
Planted my flag and never left both institutions. Last week I decided to celebrate that legacy with a stroll down musical memory lane. Tried to recreate my first show. Being a Librarian I put all my faves into some semblance of chronological order. Pretty much from 1970-1979 for 3 hours.
Had lots of great listener feedback. Thanking me for 27 years of service and killer music selection. When you have something in the neighborhood of 10,000 pieces of Reggae. 30 songs out of that Ark-Ive are are hard as diamond.
But I didn’t get into Reggae until 1986. So my contemporary absorption of Reggae would have been the 80’s era.
This week’s Podcast Ark-Ive celebrates that era.
Bob Marley died 1981
Yellowman became King of Reggae: slackness began to ascend while Roots started to wobble when Edward CIA-ga, the right wing Ronald Reagan fan took over Jamaica. The Socialists fell away and the Rastas lost their power base.
Cocaine took over for Ganja
Like all genres in the 80’s synthesized music began to replace traditional drum and bass.
Dancehall eclipsed Roots Reggae
***
I was alienated by modern dancehall. My contemporary fix was more into Mutant Dub. I paint a rather bleak picture!
But there was some great Roots Reggae even if the riddims started to blend traditional Reggae with digital drum and bass. This show fixates on the best of the 80’s Reggae that I collected alongside Reggae Revives and 70’s rarities.
I learned from the deejay on Smile Jamaica when I was a civilian listener, John “Rutabaga” Reese. He had the best Roots Reggae instincts of anyone around. I used to listen like the student I was, notebook in hand, jotting down names and titles of killer shots. One after another. Then I would take my list to the Bay Area and spend my student loan money building my Roots Collection; 22 sec.
bless, robt
Here’s what’s on tap for the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: July 18, 2015 – Best of 27 Years Version 2: Favorite 80’s: 1980-1988; 1 min. 52 sec.
Set 1:
Black Uhuru – Party Next Door; Anthem (Island) ‘84
<During 3 O’Clock Roadblock I led off each show with a Black Uhuru jam; 29 sec.>
Jah Shaka Meets Aswad – Addis Ababa; In Addis Ababa (Jah Shaka) ’84 Dub Album of the Week
Peter Tosh – Reggaemyelitis; Wanted Dread & Alive (EMI America) ’81
<My first reggae LP; Xmas ‘81. Thanks Mom!; 15 sec.>
The Beat (aka The English Beat) – Tears of a Clown; I Just Can’t Stop It (Go Feet) ’80; 2 Tone Ska; Smokey Robinson cover
<The Beat called English Beat in US to avoid confusion over SoCal new wave/power pop group; 27 sec.>
John Holt – Police in Helicopter; Police in Helicopter (Greensleeves) ’82; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
<John Holt – You burn down our weed fields, we’ll burn down your sugar cane and cassava fields; 31 sec.>
Black Slate – Reggae Music; Amigo (bbr) ’80 UK
Michael Prophet – Help Them Please; Gunman (Greensleeves) ‘80
<Reggaemyelitis – There is no cure!; 25 sec.>
Set 2:
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Coming in From the Cold; Uprising (Tuff Gong) ‘80
Ranking Roger & Blue Riddim – America and Russia/Selective Service System (Nancy Goes to Moscow); 12” (ORA) La Habra, CA
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Street 66; Bass Culture (Mango) ’80 UK dub poet
The Selecter – Three Minute Hero; Too Much Pressure (2 Tone) ’80 UK; 2 Tone ska
Set 3:
Dennis Brown – If I Had the World; Foul Play (A & M) ‘81
Aswad – Back to Africa; Showcase (Mango) ’81 UK
Rastafarians – Hold on Jah Jah Children; Orthodox (Makasound) ’81 Santa Cruz, CA
Set 4:
Steel Pulse – Ravers; True Democracy (Elektra) ’82 UK
Peter Broggs – Rastafari Liveth!; Rastafari Liveth! (RAS) ‘82
Fab 5 – Ooh! Ahh!; Countryman (Mango) ’82 sountrack
Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse; Night Nurse (Mango) ‘82
<Jah’s Heavenly Choir: The Crown Prince of Reggae and his bredrin The Cool Ruler; 11 sec.>
Set 5:
Twinkle Brothers – Since I Throw the Comb Away; Live at Reggae Sunsplash (Genes) Aug. 7, 1982 Montego Bay, JA
<Since I Throw the Comb Away – lost my job, my family and my girl; 27 sec.>
Mutabaruka – Everytime A Ear de Soun; Check It! (Alligator) ’83 dub poet
Prince Far I – Survival; Umkhonto we Sizwe – Spear of the Nation (Tamoki Wambesi) ’83
<Prince Far I: You know a rude bwoy by the way he wears his cap; 34 sec.>
Set 6:
Bad Brains – Rally Round Jah Throne; Rock For Light (Caroline) ’83 DC Rasta punks do reggae
<Bad Brains produced by The Cars – Ric Ocasek; 19 sec.>
Aisha – Prophecy; High Priestess (Ariwa) ’88; Faybiane Miranda cover
<Freelance album: held hostage in UK til they recorded an album since Gregory Isaacs was a no show; 39 sec.>
Yellowman – Strong Mi Strong; King Yellowman (Columbia) ’84 Bill Laswell
Set 8:
UB40 – All I Want to Do; Rat in Mi Kitchen (A & M) ’86 UK
<Traded a cassette dub of this album for U of U football tickets when a linebacker from Collie-fornya heard this booming out of my dorm room 1986; 28 sec.>
Sophia George – Girlie, Girlie; For Everyone (Pow Wow) ‘86
Toots Hibbert – Love and Happiness; In Memphis (Mango) ’88 Al Green cover
Alpha Blondy & the Wailers – Jerusalem; Jerusalem (Shanachie) ’86; Cote d’Ivoire artist
Words of Wisdom:
<Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: July 18, 2015: Best of 27 Years II – The 80’s; 2 hrs. 50 min.>
In 1972 George Carlin did a famous routine on the Seven Dirty Words you can’t say on television (or radio)
shit
piss
fuck
cunt
cocksucker
motherfucker
tits
In Jamaica you might want to add a #8: bumbaclaat. When Aunt Flo comes a callin’ each month, Rasta women in Jamaica living in the hills don’t go for Kotex or Tampax but have to do what rural and poor women have done for centuries: rags.
In some Rasta societies the stigma of menstruation makes women “unclean” and they are often kept apart from the Rasta men.
The term used for these menstruation rags in Jamaica: bumbaclaat. Bumba slang word for….pussy. Claat/cloth = Bumbaclaat. It can also mean the rag you use to wipe your backside. A nasty epithet forbidden in polite company but a rude retort akin to dropping F-bombs from the stage.
Peter Tosh is most identified with the term. He put a song entitled “Bumbaclaat” on his album Wanted Dread & Alive. HIs American record label was none too happy and excised the song from domestic release. If you have seen the Tosh biography Red X, he talks about how a duppy (Jamaican malevolent spirit) paralyzed Peter one night and his only way to break free was to scream out BUMBACLAAT! to free himself from demonic possession.
That story is one of many I tell on the June 20, 2015 edition of Smile Jamaica. End of June 2015 tallies up 27 years of Reggae Radio for I ‘n’ I on KRCL 90.9FM Salt Lake City, Utah. Give thanx!
bless, robt
<HIgh-lights of the June 20, 2015: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: 73 sec.>
Summer jam skiffle and soul covers
4:20 and Seven Leaf set, 4 down, 46 to go!
Wailers Family Tree: Tosh teaches us a swear word. Wailers mix ‘n’ match on Stop That Train – Catch a Fire. Marcia at Studo One. Bunny Wailer Gumption. Chalice covers Stevie livicated to Bob
Best of 25 Years: My favorite selections from 1988-1990 on Reggae Radio
Roots Dawtas – Marcia, Lorna, Ranking Ann, Fabiane, Alpha & Omega trancers, Marvels do Aretha
Vinyl is Vital: herb, dawta, deejays, youthmen
Mutant Dub: Jah-pon, Snoop, African Head Charge
Set 1:
Jimmy Riley – Summertime; 12” (DEB) ’75 from Porgy and Bess
<Summertime and the living is easy; 17 sec.>
Burning Babylon – Sproing-a-Dub; Beat, Beat, Beat (I Tones) 2008 Boston; Dub Album of the Week
Ken Boothe – In the Summertime; Keep on Running (Trojan) ’70 Mungo Jerry cover; 15 sec.
Marvels – Rock Steady; 100% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ’71 Aretha Franklin cover w/ female vox; 7 sec.
Max Romeo – My Jamaica Collie; Pray For Me (Trojan) ’73; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; over My Jamaican Girl
<Max Romeo – My Jamaica Collie; 13 sec.>
Chalice – Master Blaster (Jammin’); Best of Reggae (Sonoma); Stevie Wonder tribute to Bob Marley
<Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster Jammin’; 6 sec.>
<Bought this one at the Mall-Wart; 26 sec.>
Set 2:
Peter Tosh – African; Live at the Jamaican World Music Festival (Peter Tosh Foundation); 11/27/82: Montego Bay, JA
<Jamaican swear word: Bumbaclaat!1 min. 41 sec.>
Fabiane – Prophecy; 12 the Hardway (Tribes Man)
Dennis Brown – No More Shall I Roam; 10” (Observer) ‘74
Set 3: Best of 25 Years – Smile Jamaica
Bim Sherman – Slummy Ghetto; Across the Red Sea (ON U Sound) ’82
<High-lights of the June 13, 2015: Smile Jamaica Arkives; 2 min 18 sec.>
Dub Album of the Week: Black Disciples dubs to Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey LP
Vinyl Is Vital: All Seven Leaf Black Wax. 4 down, 46 to go!
Jamaican Jukebox: 7″ 45s. Rarest of the Rare!
Best of 25 Years: My Favorites year one of Reggae Radio: 1988-1990
Mutant Dub
Wailers Family Tree: Dubble dose of Stir It Up: JA vs. UK/US mixes. Bunny Wailers dubble dose of Ballroom Floor. Tosh lie at the Jamaica World Music Festiva; 11/27/82 – Montego Bay, JA
Roots Dawtas: Marcia Griffitsh, French Dubstress,
Disco Mix: Don Carlos, French mutant dub
Set 1;
Don Carlos – I Love Jah; 10” (Negus Roots) ’80
Black Disciples – The Ghost; Garvey’s Ghost (Mango) ’76 Dub Album of the Week
African Head Charge – Somebody Touch I; Shashamane Land (ON U Sound) ’93 Africanized Mutant Dub
<Shashamane: Jamaican Rastas in Ethiopia; 24 sec.>
Marcia Griffiths – I’ve Got to Go Back Home; Naturally (Shanachie) ’78 Bob Andy cover
<Zion is My Home: Fort Benton, Montana; 15 sec.>
Pioneers – Feeling High; From the Beginning (Jet Star) ’79; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
<4 down, 46 to go!; 12 sec.>
The Specials – Stereotype Pt. 1 & 2; More Specials (2 Tone) ’80 UK; 2 Tone ska
Set 2: Best of Smile Jamaica: 25 Years
George Faith – Opportunity; To Be a Lover (Mango) ’77 Lee “Scratch” Perry Black Ark
<Blues Reggae Singer: George Faith; 15 sec.>
Jimmy Riley – From the Ghetto; Clocktower Classics (Clocktower); ’75 Brad Osborne prod’ns
Ernest Wilson – I Know Myself; Channel One Hitbound: The Revolutionary Sound (Heartbeat) ’74 HooKim Bros. prod’n
<HooKim Brothers: Chinese Jamaicans; 23 sec.>
Mad Professor vs. Puls Der Zeit – Abu Dhabi Check; At Checkpoint Charlie (ROIR) ’89 German dubbers
<Cold War II: The Sequels are Never Better Than the Original; 27 sec.>
Set 3:
Peter Tosh – Stepping Razor; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Peter Tosh Foundation); 11/27/82 Montego Bay, JA
<Christened the Bob Marley Performing Arts Center; 18 sec.>
Taj Weekes & Adowa – Lonesome in Babylon; Hope & Doubt (Alpha Pocket) 2005 St. Lucia; Request
<Adowa: Where the Ethiopians defeated the Italian invaders; 27 sec.>
Version feat. Naima – Jah Jah Love; 10” (Webcam Hi Fi) 2007 Fr.; Mutant dub w/ female vox
<Saturday Afternoons on 90.9FM. Don’t touch that dial!>
History was made on Saturday. First time since Affirmed in 1978, that a horse won the Triple Crown: Kentucky Derby, Preakness and lastly, the Belmont Statkes. Nuff Respect to American Pharoah! 17 sec.
Here is what I’ve got on tap for the June 6 2015: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives
3 hours of all killer, no filler; 59 sec.
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: June 6, 2015 Annotated Playlist: photos, captions, Reggae History Lessons, soundbytes
Set 1:
Michael Palmer – Jah Jah You Come; Ghetto Living (Bebo’s Music) ’85 Wheaton, MD vinyl
Earl “Heptones” Morgan – DC Dub Connection (Auralux) ’82 Dub Album of the Week
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.