Greetings,
Winter is when I usually spend the most time in my Ark-Ives. Organizing, sorting, reminiscing about how and where I bought these musical curios.
I had a couple days off and was really in a vinyl listening mood. After 30 years on the shelf, the vinyl still sounds criss as the Rasta might say (aka crisp).
Doubt any of these are readily found on .mp3 and not many on CD. Gems and obscurities for surety!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: March 4, 2017: Vinylicious!; 37 sec.
Set 1:
- Natural Roots – Children of Jah; Natural Roots (Only Roots) ’84 Fr. – Vinyl is Vital Show
- Jah Shaka – Zulu Chalice; Sensi Dub vol. 5 (Original) ’91 Dub Album of the Hour
- The Morwells – Educate Your Mind; Best of (Nighthawk) ’81 St. Louis
- Matumbi – Music in the Air; Seven Seals (Harvest) ’78 UK green vinyl
- Mighty Diamonds – Stand Up to Your Judgement; Stand Up to Your Judgement (Hitbound) ’78 JA: Request
- The Jay Tees – A Prayer to Jah; Pirates Choice (Studio One) ’81 JA female duo
- Ras Shaka – Ganja Parrot; Melchizedek Vibes (Melchizedek) ’96 Florida herb tune
Set 2: 4:20 Cannabis Set
- Sugar Minott- International Herb; Jamming in the Street (Wackies) ’86 Bronx
- The Melodians – Irie Feeling; Irie Feeling (RAS) ’83 DC
- Prince Far I – Don’t Deal With Folly; Free From Sin (Trojan) ’79 UK
<Don’t deal with folly, smoke up the collie!>
- Steel Pulse – Drug Squad; Caught You (Island) ’80 UK
- Jean Binta Breeze – Dubwise + Confusion; Tracks (LKJ) ’91 UK female dub poet
<Binta: Arabic & Swahili for Dawta; 4 sec.>
Set 3:
- Reggae Regular – Tribute to the D.J. (Greensleeves) ’84 UK
- Simple Simon – Judgement Time; Bad Man (Kingdom) ’85 UK Eek a Mouse singjay
- Oku Onuora & AK7- Slum Dweller Declares + Dread Times; Pressure (Heartbeat) ’84JA dub poet
- Scientist – The Anti-Christ; Dub 911 (Nature Sounds) 2005 Dub Album of the Hour
Set 4:
- Leroy Sibbles – Rock and Come On; On Top (Micron) ‘82 Can.
- Riot Squad – Peacemaker; What the Hell is Going On (Riot Squad Inc) ’89 Margate FL
- Tad’s Logic Dub Band – Science; Chapter 1 Dub Mix (Tad’s) ’84 UK: Thomas Dolby inna rub a dub stylee; 13 sec.
- The Clash – Bankrobber/Robber Dub; Black Market Clash (Nu Disk) ’80 10” EP Mikey Dread prod’n
<$90 dollars Phoenix vinyl; $4 Randy’s Records bought 1986; 35 sec.>
Set 5: Roots Dawtas
- Rasta Generation Band feat. Miss Mack – Cracking Up; Stand by Jah (Black Spade) ’90 San Francisco
- Blondie – The Tide Is High; Top Chrysalis 2 (Chrysalis) ’80 US Paragons cover
- Sister Carol – None of Babylon Business; Liberation For Africa (Serious Gold) ’83 DC
- Sis Nya – Zion I; Jah Music (Jah Shaka) ’87 UK
Set 6:
- Twinkle Brothers – Let The Music Play; Burden Bearer (Twinkle) ’83
- The Vision – Youth Dub; Dub Vision (Funfundvierzig) ’88 West. Germany Green vinyl
- Willin Prophets – Pressure; Resurrection EP (1Up) ’87 LA
- Ruffy & Tuffy – If The Third World War Is a Must; Climax (Black Star) ‘88 Finland
<War with Russia; 63 sec.>
- Version Dread – Dub Specialist (Heartbeat/Studio One) 18 Dub shots from Studio One, Dub Album of the Hour; 16 sec.
Set 7:
- Wayne Wade – What’s Going On; Poor and Humble (Live & Learn) ’82 DC
- Tony Tuff – Follow Fashion; Sailing (Park Heights)
<Jamaican saying: Follow Fashion Monkey>
- The Shakers – Emergency Call; Yankee Reggae (Elektra) ’76 Judy Mowatt covery by American band
<The Shakers – Rolling Stone’s worst Reggae LP ever released; 16>
- Frankie Paul – Brothers; Strictly Reggae Music (Londisc) ’84 JA
Set 8: Mutant Dub
- Alpha & Omega – King & Queen; King & Queen (Alpha & Omega) ’89 UK trance dub w/ female vox
- Basement 5 – Work: Dub; In Dub (Island) ’80 UK – future members of Big Audio Dynamite
- Dub Syndicate feat. Skip McDonald – Roots Commandment; Echomania (ON U Sound) ’93 UK
- Moody Boys – A.U.N.; Journey into Dubland (XL) ’90 UK
- Martin Campbell – Everywhere I Walk; Rootsman the Real Thing (Chanel One UK) ’98 UK
- Singers & Players feat. Brent Dowe – These Eyes; Vacuum Pumping (ON U Sound) ’89 Melodians singer on the Guess Who
- Creation Rebel – Starship Africa Part 1; An ON U Journey Through Time and Space; 10” (ON U Sound) 2015 picture sleeve
Words of Wisdom:
Smile Jamaica 