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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 27, 2018 – All Tricks, No Treats!

November 2, 2018 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

No Mixcloud for America. I violated the # of Halloween trailers on a CD that is allowed. Click 3 hour link here: (What a nightmare for I ‘n’ I)

<Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 27, 2018; 3 hr.>

Greetings Ghouls & Gals,

Since nearly the very beginning I ‘n’ I have harvested all the various Halloween tunes found in Reggae music.

<25+ Years of Jah-loween on 29 Years of Smile Jamaica; 24 sec.>

Over the 3 decades of Reggae Radio my Devil’s menagerie has grown to 2 60-CD suitcases, a crate full of vinyl, a box full of 7″.

About a decade ago, I started hacking up horror bytes, movie trailers and Jah-loween intros. Then like Dr. Frankenstein in his laboratory, I hunker down in my Secret Dubratory and stitch it all together.

It’s alive! It’s alive!

So now enjoy this look back to all Hallow’s Eve and admire how Horror Reggae fits the Season. 11 sec.

Roll a lickle spliff wif di papyrus. Smoking sensimenia inna Mesopotamia!

curse, Bobbylon

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 27, 2018 Jah-loween annotated playlist; 41 sec.

Set 1:

Ini Kamoze – Hole in the Pumpkin; Shock Out (Greensleeves) ’87 All Jah-loween set
Scientist – Voodoo Curse – Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampire (Greensleeves) ’81 dub album of the hour
Black Uhuru – Anthem; Anthem (Island) ’84 UK Remix – Dawn of the Living Dead

<Night of the Living Dreads inna this ya Dawn of the Living Dead; 27 sec.>

Ghetto Priest – Dungeon; Vulture Culture (ON U Sound) 2003 UK update of Willi Williams original
The Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96 Boris Pickett cover; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
GG’s All Stars – Vampire Rock; 12″ (GG’s Hit) ’78

Set 2:

Ziggy Marley – 666; Hey World! (EMI America) ’86
Sky High & the Mau Mau – Cemetary Robbery; Origination (Sky High)
*Barrington Levy – Murderer; 12′ (Jah Life) ’84 Brooklyn; murderer = vampire

Set 3:

Hollie Cook – Desdemona; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2014 UK dubstress encounters a witch in the park
Garland Jeffreys feat. Big Youth – Graveyard Rock; Escape Artist (Epic) ’81 rock/soul does reggae
Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Two Bad D.J.; 12″ (Greensleeves) ’81 duppies in Jamaica

<Duppy bait – Jamaican ghosts; 21 sec.>

Set 4:

Bim Sherman – Haunting Ground; Crucial Cuts vol. 1 (Century) ’84
Lone Ranger – Barnabas Collins; On the Other Side of Dub (Heartbeat/Studio One) ’78 soap opera vampire

<Soap opera vampire: he’ll chew your neck like Wrigley’s; 12 sec.>

Tino – The Wolfman Is Everywhere; Tino’s Breaks vol. 6 (Hallowe’en Dub) Tino Corp. 2002

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

Lee “Scratch” Perry – Judgment in a Babylon; 12″ (Lion of Judah) ’81 JA Chris Blackwell is a vampire

<Sued for libel; 43 sec.>

Black Stalin – Vampire Year; In Ah Earlier Time (Makossa International) ’80 version galore: (1) – soca
Pluto & Trinity – Vampire Year; Ire Mas Carnival (Top Ranking) ’81 JA version galore: (2) – reggae

<1978 UN Year of the Woman; 1979 of the Children; 1980 of the Vampires; 12 sec.>

Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Talk About Run; 12″ (Greensleeves) ’81 cover of Lord Kitchener’s Love in the Cemetery; 28 sec.

Set 6:

Bob Marley & the Wailers – Mr. Brown; Rasta Revolution (Trojan) ’73 dead guy who rides around in his coffin

<Who is Mr. Brown?>

Peter Tosh – Dracula; 7″ (Intel Diplo) ’76 JA
Lord Kitchener – Love in the Cemetary; Black Magic Reggae (Trojan) ’62 scoa
Dubskin – USA; No End in Time (Dubskin) Colorado – from the White to the Pentagram

Set 7:

Future Pigeon – The Mummy; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collect) 2006 LA
Death in Vegas; Aisha; Milk It – Best of (Concrete) 2006 serial killer
Ras Karbi – Babylon Gravestone; 7″ (Rockstone) ’84 JA
Fela & Africa 70 – Zombie; Zombie (Knitting Factory/Polydor) ’76

<Zombies = soldiers who blindly follow politicians; 34 sec.>

<Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 27, 2018; 3 hr.>

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 31, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Happy Jah-loween – Voodoo Isms ‘n’ Skisms!

November 6, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

tumblr_ncbtn2LszD1rpdu8lo1_500 — All Treats no Tricks on Smile Jamaica Jah-loween

<Dracula gets diabetes sucking High Fructose blood out of kiddies; 20 sec.>

Greetings,

Smile Jamaica loves Halloween. Or as I call it Jah-loween. Lots of black arts and superstition in Reggae music. I’ve tracked those Dark Arts for more than 20 years of 3 hour shows.

So this show is Deadicated not Livicated!

<20 plus years of Jah-loween; 32 sec.>

DANCING-PUMPKIN1 — Doin’ the boneyard skank

Here is the road-map through the Boneyard: Witches, werewolves, vampires, duppies and ghosts, And all menagerie of Vampires.

Voodoo that you do!

Plus nuff sound bytes, Horror movie trailers: Blacula, The Thing With Two Head, Village of the Damned, Dr. Phibes, Halloween, X-Files, Twilight Zone.

Listen with the lights out.

curse, robt

<Welcome to Hell!>

Smile Jamaica Zombie Jamboree Playlist:

Set 1:

<All Treats no Tricks; 8 sec.>

Ini Kamoze – Hole in the Pumpkin; Shocking Out (Greensleeves) ‘87

<For 20 years I have led off each Jah-loween Showcase with Ini Kamoze; 12 sec.>

Scientist – Voodoo Curse; Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81 dub to Michael Prophet

<Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires; 11 sec.>

Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dub Syndicate – Train to Doomsville; Pay It All Back vol. 2 (ON U Sound) ‘88

<Scratch: Pick up your Cross and follow me! 23 sec.>

Black Uhuru – Vampire; Sinsemilla (Mango) ‘80
The Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement; Boris Pickett cover
GG All Stars – Haunted House; 12” (Hit Disco) ‘79

download (2) — Scratch – Pick up your Cross and follow me!

Set 2:

<Tribute to the Undead>

Keith Hudson – Darkest Night; Flesh of My Skin, Blood of My Blood (Atra) ’75
Michael Prophet – Satan; Rootsman (Ariwa) ‘99
Garland Jeffreys & Big Youth – Graveyard Rock; Escape Artist (Epic) ’81 black NY rocker

<Garland Jeffreys – NYC Rocker; 17 sec.>

Barrington Levy – Murderer; 12” (Jah Life); ’84 Vampires dem suck your blood

mqdefault — Graveyard Rock – don’t get stoned on my tombstone

Set 3:

Max Romeo – I Chase the Devil; War in a Babylon (Mango) ’76 Lee “Scratch” Perry/Black Ark
Milton Henry – Them a Devil; Who Do You Think I Am? (Wackies) ’85
Devon Irons – Ketch Vampire; Baffling Smoke Signal (Heartbeat) ’76 Lee “Scratch” Perry/Black Ark
Early B – Ghost Busters; Ghost Busters (Black Solidarity) ‘85
Barnabas Collins + Graveyard Skank – Lone Ranger; On the Other Side of Dub (Studio One) ’77 Soap Opera vampire

<Barnabas Collins – Dark Shadows vampire; 14 sec.>

images — Barnabas Collins – he’ll chew your neck like Wrigley’s

Set 4: Vinyl Halloween

Gladiators – Duppy Conqueror; Gladiators (Virgin Front Line) ’80 Bob Marley cover; Duppy = Jamaican Ghost

<Bob Marley’s Duppy Conqueror – Jamaican ghosts; 10 sec.>

Crucial Bee – Mark of the Beast; Just a Sting (All-Starr) Am. Virgin Island over G. Isaacs riddim
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Judgment in a Babylon; 12” (One Drop) ’81; “Chris Blackwell is a Vampire”

<Island Label owner Chris Blackwell sued Scratch for libel; 17 sec.>

Prince Alla – Evil Forces; Evil Forces (Calabash) ’84 Florida
Pluto – Vampire Year; Ire Mas Rockers (Top Ranking) ‘81

<’78 – year of the woman; ’79 – year of the child; ’80 – year of the vampire; 15 sec.>

Alpha & Omega – X-Files Theme; Serious Joke (A & O) 2002

<X-Files Mini Series soon come>

Set 5:

David Lindley & El Rayo X – Werewolves of London; Very Greasy (Elektra) ‘88

<I saw Jack Nicholson at Trader Vic’s. His hair was perfect; 15 sec.>

Sky High & the Mau Mau – Cemetery Robbery; Origination (Sky High)
Humble Soul – Damn Vampire; Good Lord, Thank You (Kolchamuzik) ’96 Hawaiian artist
Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Talk About Run; 12” (Greensleeves) ’81 cover of Lord Kitchener “Love in the Cemetery”

<Don’t make out with your girl in the Cemetery; 15 sec.>

Pablo Gad – Blood Suckers + Dub; Blood Suckers (Celluloid) ‘78

Set 6: Mutant Dub Halloween

<Smile Jamaica – Putting the mutants in Mutant Dub>

Future Pigeon – Mummy Rock; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) 2006

<Roll a lickle spliff wif di papyrus>

<Smokin’ sensimeena inna Mesopotamia>

Tino – Wolfman Is Everwhere; Hallowe’en Dub (Tino’s) 2002
Kode9 + Spaceape – Ghost Town; 5 Years of Hyperdub (Hyperdub) 2009; Specials cover
Dan I & King Kietu – Vampire + Dub Down the Vampire; Rastafari Judgement Fire (Imperial Roots) 2009 Italian dub

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-tober 10, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Happy 26th Anniversary to I ‘n’ I

October 13, 2015 Robert Nelson 1 Comment

Greetings,

<Happy 26 Years of Smile Jamaica; 30 sec.>

In October of 1989 I began an excursion on the version: Radiothon (fund-drive) ’89 was when my bredrin Rutabaga Reese invited me to co-host KRCL’s long running Reggae program Smile Jamaica (then on from 1-4 pm Saturdays). I had just resigned from the grind of the Graveyard (Mondays 3-6 am) and figured I would finish my undergrad degree at the U of Utah and then head to Collie-fornya for Grad School.

Funny how things change. I stayed. Rutabaga and I shared Saturdays for about nine months and around July 1990 was when I took over the reigns solo.

For me programming Smile Jamaica is my absolute favorite thing on earth to do. And I like to say give thanks to KRCL for investing in the show and I ‘n’ I. Same guy, same channel, same time, same format.

I started in Oct. ’89. The Simpsons (post Tracey Ullman) started Dec. ’89. Both programs still running well-hot!

bless, robt

tumblr_m7uulsj5FE1rbm8yho1_500 — Smile Jamaica: Oct. 1989; The Simpsons: Dec. 1989

High-Lights of the Jah-tober 10, 2015 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: 59 sec.

Playlist:

Set 1:

Winston Jarrett – Solid As a Rock; Atra 10 Track (Atra) ’72 UK vinyl
Chalawa – Natural Mystic; Exodus Dub (Westons) ’77 Can.; Dub Album of the Hour
Sly & Robbie – Sesame Street; Many Moods of Sly, Robbie & the Taxi Gang (Sonic) ‘79 kids cover
Judy Mowatt – Slave Queen; Black Woman (Shanachie) ‘76
Bunny Wailer – Reggae Burden; Gumption (Shanachie) ‘90
The Specials – Rat Race; 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (Chrysalis) 2 Tone Brit ska
Black Slate – Legalise Collie Herb; Amigo (BBR) ’80 UK; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
The Tamlins – Irie Collie; 10” (Irie Ites) 2012 herb tune

download — Brought to you by the letter S for Sensi. Now you know why Oscar is so grouchy

Set 2:

The Wailers – Kinky Reggae; Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ’73: JA vs. US/UK mixes

<Catch a Fire LP: Different mixes – JA original vs. Blackwell overdubs; 28 sec.>

<Kinky Reggae differences in mixes; 71 sec.>

Althea & Donna – Sorry; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Front Line) ‘78
Willi Williams – Jah Righteous Reighn; 10” (Uptempo) ’84 Sugar Minott prod’n

images (1) — Completely different mix on the Jamaican vs. the Island US/UK version

Set 3: Best of 26 years

Third World – Third World Man; 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango) ’77

<Rasta Man not Bionic Man; 18 sec.>

George Faith – I’ve Got the Groove; To Be a Lover (Mango) ’77 Scratch prod’n/Black Ark
Sister Audrey – English Girl; Roots Daughters (Ariwa) ’88 Mad Professor prod’n
Wailing Souls – Things and Time; Channel One: Hitbound the Revolutionary Sound (Heartbeat) ‘77
Soul Syndicate – Redder Than Red; Ghetto-ology Dub (Easy Star) ’79; Dub Album of the Hour (Sugar Minott)

Set 4: Jah-loween Stylee

<Jah-tober is for Jah-loween; 22 sec.>

Don Carlos – Night Rider (In Danger); Deeply Concerned (RAS) ’88; “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!”
Ijahman Levi – One Step From Hell; Two Double Six 701 (Jahmani) ‘94

<Two Double Six 701 – Ijahman’s inmate number caught with weed; 15 sec.>

Bunny & the Kiemanaires – Devil’s Angel; From GG’s Reggae Hit Stable (Jamaican Gold) ‘71
Junior Dan – Look Out for the Devil + version; Junior Dan (Hi Try)

tumblr_muz3oeiK6h1rnfmxqo1_400 — Halloween falls on Saturday this year!

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

Icarus – Land of Tarot; State of Mind (Russia Roulette) ’82 UK
Bert Brown & Olubayo – Iry Feeling; Escape From Babylon (Bertene) ’83 NY
10 Foot Ganja Plant – State of Man; Spycatcher (ROIR) 2013 NY
The Chantells – Eva; Waiting in the Park (Phase 1) ’77 UK
Sister Candy – Keep on Bubbling; Showcase (Raiders) ’84 UK

Set 6:

Peter Tosh – Get Up Stand Up; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Peter Tosh Foundation) 11/27/82; Montego Bay, JA

<Tosh: Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival: 11/27/82, sunrise; 13 sec.>

<Peter Tosh: The Sun/Son of Reggae; 18 sec.>

download (3) — 25 minutes of fire and brimstone!

Set 7: Mutant Dub

African Head Charge – Irie Day; Akwaaba (Acid Jazz) ’95 UK: Mutant Dub Set
Rockers Hi Fi – Round Reversion; Rockers to Rockers (Gee Street) ’95 UK
Rootah – Mr. Vibes; Jahtarian Dubbers vol. 3 (Jahtari) 2012 Germany
Mankind Liberation Front – Dope Dreams; Grass Soundtrack (Mercury) 2000
New Blood – Worries in the Dance; Jungle Massive vol. 1 (Payday) ’95 jungle
Ben Wa – Macrocardio Dub Infarction; Devil Dub (Black Hole) ’98 San Francisco

download (4) — Ben Wa great mutant dub out of San Francisco

Words of Wisdom:

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Sept. 19, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Return of the Anunnaki: 2900 AD

September 25, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

download (1) — Giorgio Tsoukalos – The Bob Marley of Ancient Aliens

<Smile Jamaica and Acoustic Levitation; 11 sec.>

14998457268_d40d4de048 — Ancient Alien theory suggests: it wasn’t Hebrew slaves who built the Pyramids, it was acoustic levitation using heavy bass riddims

Greetings,

My favorite television show is Ancient Aliens. Friday Nights on H2. I am fascinated with the concept of how what we know as Mesopotamian mythology predated the Bible and was really the story of Ancient Aliens. Not Skygods. Nor Greek Gods. It was the Anunnaki

A dude named Zecharia Sitchin translated thousands of Sumerian cuneiform tables and discovered a hidden history of Ancient Aliens who came from the Twelfth Planet. A place called Nibiru.

The Anunnaki – those who came from the Sky – were space miners who needed gold for their atmosphere on Nibiru.

With an elliptical orbit, there are times when Nibiru approaches Earth which has massive gold holdings. The Anunnaki land space ships in places like Sinai, Sumer (modern day, southern Iraq), the Indus Valley and of course, Egypt. Then they went to the major gold fields in Southern and Western Africa.

nibiru_orbita1 — Nibiru intersects with Earth: 2900 AD

<The 12th Planet: Nibiru – home world of the Anunnaki; 18 sec.>

From Book IV of Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles: The Lost Realms. About the “Bearded Ones”: The Anunnaki who also visited the New World where the Mayan and Incan civilizations had so much gold, it was worthless as currency.

The Anunnaki had come to Earth 432,000 years before the Deluge – a period equivalent to 120 orbits of Nibiru. Though to the Anunnaki one orbit equalled a single year which was equivalent to 3600 Earth Years. They came and went between Nibiru and Earth each time their planet came closer to the Sun (and Earth) as it passed between Jupiter and Mars.

nibiru-planet-x — Nibiru suffered climate change and the Anunnaki needed Earth’s gold to turn into gold mist to make their air breathable

But these Anunnaki were lazy. So they created mankind to mine the gold to take back to Nibiru. Superior Anunnaki DNA spliced with Homo Erectus DNA. And what happened was these Anunnaki liked human women and there was plenty of bedjamming between the two groups.

Sex-in-Sumer — “Come back to my ziggurat, baby. We’ll listen to Smile Jamaica, burn a little bush and rub a dub!”

Finally, the main Sumerian God Anu was fed up with humans. He commanded that the Anunnaki wipe them out with a massive flood.

One of the gods, Enki, took pity on mankind and decided to warn them about the Deluge meant to wipe out the annoying humans.

Was it Noah and his Ark? Pshaw. It was a Sumerian named Ziusudra in a submarine.

cover — What makes more sensi to survive a massive flood? A wooden ark or a submarine? Of course, the latter

Do I believe any of this? Sure why not. Here are the 12 planets that the Sumerians wrote about around 2700 BC. Planet, in this case, celestial body

The Sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Luna (Earth’s moon)
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus (discovery 1781 AD)
Neptune (discovery 1846 AD)
Pluto (discovered 1930 AD)
Nibiru (The 12th Planet)

The Sumerians knew about these outer planets 4500 years before local astronmers knew about them. Makes sensi to me!

bless, robt

High-lights of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Sept. 19, 2015; 34 sec.

Set 1: Harvest Time

<Time to clean out the bad weeds, separate them from the good for the day of harvest is here — Don Carlos; 10 sec.>

Wayne Jarrett – Every Tongue Shall Tell; Showcase (Wackies) ’82 Brooklyn, NY vinyl; Horace Andy cover
Sly & the Revolutionaries – Marijuana; Black Ash Dub (Trojan) ’80 Dub Album of the Hour
Don Carlos & Gold – Harvest Time; Raving Tonight (RAS) ’83: Harvest Time Set
Sugar Minott – Herbman Hustling; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy) ’84; Seven Leaf collection
Black Survivors – Herb Pon Top; Nations of the World (Sword Lion) ’95 Revelation 22:2: the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nation

<Revelation 22:2; 12 sec.>

Dr. Israel & the Brooklyn Sound System – Sensi Man (the Ghetto Theatre Proudly Presents the Further Adventures of); Black Rose Liberation (Baraka Foundation) 2003 Brooklyn jungle herbtune
John Holt – Police in Helicopter; 12” (Holt) ’82 herbtune

<You burn down our collie fields, we burn down your cane fields — John Holt; 33 sec.>

22-2-360x225-hs-2008-16-bw-full_tif — Read your Bible. Listen to Reggae.

Set 2:

The Wailers – Baby We’ve Got a Date; Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ’73: JA vs. US/UK overdubs

<Catch a Fire: JA original mashup Island overdubs; 57 sec.>

<Differences in JA vs. US/UK: Baby, We’ve Got a Date; 1 min. 22 sec.>

Lijadu Sisters – Bobby; Danger (Knitting Factory) ’75 Nigerian twins do Reggae

<Twin Nigerian Sisters; 35 sec.>

The Congos – Some Are Having Fun; 10” (Ariwa) 2002 UK; Cedric Myton/Mad Professor

Set 3: Best of 26 Years Smile Jamaica. Milestone….pun intended!; 10 sec.

Burning Spear – Ethiopians Live It Out; Presenting (Studio One) ‘72
Joe Higgs – Life of Contradicditon; Life of Contradiction (Micron/Pressure Sounds) ‘75
Althea & Donna – They Wanna Just; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin Front Line) ‘78
The Revealers & the Crucial All Stars – Jail House Free + Rikers Island Dub; Jack Ruby Hi Fi (Clappers) ’81 Brooklyn, NY
Mad Professor – Ultimate Experience; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Professor (Ariwa) ’94 Dub Album of the Hour

Early addition to the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives, Oct. 1988

Set 4:

Peter Tosh – Bush Doctor; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Peter Tosh Foundation) 11/27/82 Montego Bay, JA
Bunny Wailer – Gumption; Gumption (Shanachie) ‘90
Super Chick – Me a Champion; 10” (Hitbound) ‘83

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

Louise Bennett – Day O; Jamaican Folk Songs (Smithsonian Folkways) ’57 10”; 8 sec.

Ken Boothe – Good Woman; Reggae For Lovers (Generation) ’79 Missisauga, Ont.
Wailing Souls – Walk the Chalk Line; Knotty Vision (Nighthawk) ’83 St. Louis, Missouri
Mighty Diamonds – No Crying, No Bawling; Indestructible (Alligator) ’82 Chicago
Horace Andy – New Broom; Sounds of Jamaica Top Ten (Studio One) JA

<Smile Jamaica’s motto: New broom sweeps clean, but old broom knows the corners; 10 sec. >

Set 6:

Tena Stelin – Flying Saucers; 7” (River Bank) 2001: Song about the Anunnaki – Ancient Aliens

<Ancient Aliens in the Bible and Sumerians via the Anunnaki; 68 sec.>

<Return of the Anunnaki; 55 sec.>

<UFOria on Smile Jamaica; 24 sec.>

Mad Professor & Puls Der Zeit – Sex and Crime Dub; Meet at Checkpoint Charlie (ROIR) ’89 West German dub w/ female vox
Cornell Campbell – Magic Spell; Hot Bomb! (Westside)
Barry Brown – My Woman; 10” (Hitbound) ‘80

<Channel One and Hitbound: The HooKim Brothers; 15 sec.>

Set 7:

Samia Farah – Du Signe du Lion (The Sign of the Lion); Many Moods of (SAM) 2008 Fr. Tunisian female
Smashmouth feat. Chopper – Virgin Girl; Halfbaked Soundtrack (MCA) ’98 herbtune, Eek a Mouse cover; 19 sec.

Original Survivors – Come Away Jah Children; Black Slavery Days (Clappers) ’80

Set 8: Mutant Dub UFOria; 47 sec.

Spiritual Rez – Let’s Go Out With a Bang; Apocalypse Whatever 2014; UFOria Mutant Dub Set
Dubadelic – Thuds Like Scuds; Bass Invaders (Word Sound) ’98 Brooklyn
Armagideon – Galactic Travel; Natural Elements Dub (Armgideon) ’95 UK
Audio Active – Adventures in Time and Space; Happy Happer (ON U Sound) ’95 Japanese
Audio Active & Laraaji – Space Visitors For Tea – That Lump On Your Head; The Way Out is the Way In (All Saints) ’95
Alpha & Omega – Rhythm of the Ancients; The Half That’s Never Been Told (Steppas) 2014 UK trance dub w/ female vox

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: September 12, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist) – Go Green Bay!

September 15, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

images (4) — Green Bud Bowl Packers all the way to the Stooper Bowl

Greetings,

Finally. NFL starts. No more deflategate. No more Roger Goddell (rhymes with HELL)

Just my Green Bud Bowl Packers put a beat down on the Cutler-riffic Chicago Bears; 12 sec.

3 Truisms from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives; 12 sec.

Reggae ‘n ‘ Duwize
San Francisco Giants baseball
Green Bay Packers football

<Green Bud Bowl Packers; 2 sec.>

bless, robt

<High-lights of the Sept. 12, 2015 Ark-Ive; 48 sec.>

Playlist:

Set 1:

Azeem & Session – Jah Children; Live and Direct (M.Al’s) Oakland vinyl
Black Slate – Romans Dub; Ogima (TCD) ’81 UK: Dub Album of the Hour
Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari; So Long; By the Rivers of Babylon (Shanachie) nyahbinghi drum
Phyllis Dillon – Woman of the Ghetto; 100% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) Marlena Shaw cover
Abyssinians – Jah Marley; Last Days (Tabou1) ’99 Bob tribute
Gregory Isaacs – Mr. Cop; Sensational Extra Classic (Trojan) ’78; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

<Cool down your temper Mr. Cop! 9 sec.>

Barry Brown – Jah Lead Us; 10” (Attack Gold)

Set 2:

The Wailers – 400 Years (JA + US/UK); Catch a Firee (Tuff Gong) ‘73

<Catch a Fire: JA vs. Island overdubs; 33 sec.>

<400 Years: JA mix vs. Island mix; 50 sec.>

Ethiopians – Satan Boy; From Matador’s Arena vol. 2 (Jamaican Gold) ’70 Halloween soon come!
Christine Miller & Hi Tek Players – Trod Away Home; 10” (Roots Hi-Tek) 2006 UK; militant steppers

Set 3: Best of 27 Years Reggae Radio

The Selecter – My Collie (Not a Dog); Too Much Pressure (2 Tone) ’80 herbtune; 13 sec.

Toots Hibbert – Freedom Train; Toots in Memphis (Mango) ’88 soul covers
Aswad – Tradition; Distant Thunder (Mango) ’88 UK
Ruts DC & the Mad Professor – Love and Fire; Rhythm Collision Dub (ROIR) ’82 UK punkdub
Jah Lloyd – Sharp Razor; Herb Dub (Teams); Dub Album of the Hour

sddefault — 2 Tone Ska Herbtune with female vox

Set 4:

Peter Tosh – I’m the Toughest; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Peter Tosh Foundation); 11/27/82: Montego Bay, JA
Bunny Wailer – Never Grow Old; Gumption (Shanachie) ’90: Toots cover
The Tennors – Ride Your Donkey; Broken Flowers (Focus) Rock Steady tune from Jim Jarmusch Soundtrack

<Jarmusch and Tarantino Soundtracks: Top Rank! 17 sec.>

Boney ‘L’ & Vibronics – Babylon Children; 10” (Jah Tubbys) 2006 UK militant steppers w/ female vox

Set 5: Vinyl is V-Ital Set

Lloyd Robinson – Cuss Cuss; Studio One Showcase volume 2 (Studio One) Vinyl is Vital Set: Riddim Shower (1): JA original

<Cuss Cuss; 16 sec.>

Dub Syndicate feat. Bim Sherman – Cuss Cuss; Strike the Balance (ON U Sound) ’89 UK: Riddim Shower (2): mutant dub cover

<Style Scot RIP; 28 sec.>

U Roy – Dynamic Fashion Way; Studio Kinda Cloudy (Trojan); ’69 Keith Hudson prod’n over Ken Boothe
Dr. Alimantado – This Little Bird; (Tell Me You Are Having a) Wonderful Time (Keyman) ’88 UK

<Even the birds ‘n’ bees’zes give Jah di Praises! 8 sec.>

Marcia Griffiths – Truly; At Studio One (Studio One) JA

maxresdefault — Dub Syndicate head man killed 2014

Set 6: Roots Dawta Set

Samia Farah – Cool (Original); Samia Farah (Sony) ’99 Tunisian-French

<Samia Farah: French language dubstress; 20 sec.>

Angie Stone – Wish I Didn’t Miss You; Fatboy Slim: Late Night Tales (Thrive) 2007
Aisha – I Can’t Change; There Is More to Life… (Ariwa) 2005 UK
Ayo – Who; Ticket to the World (Motown) 2013 Nigerian-German singer
Reggae on Top All Stars – Cutting Dub; Chalice Dub Part One (Reggae on Top) ’95 Dub Album of the Hour

images (2) — Samia Farah: French-Tunisian dubstress

Set 7:

Yellowman – Disco Reggae; King Yellowman (Columbia) ’84 Bill Laswell prod’n
Sophia George – Final Decision; For Everyone (Pow Wow) ‘86
Robbie Valentine – Don’t You Be Blind; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2008 UK militant steppers

Set 8: Mutant Dub

2 Bad Card – Weed Specialist; CD Single (ON U Sound) ’95 UK mutant dub set; herbtune

<Space Dust! 4 down, 46 to go! 9 sec.>

Dr. Israel & the Brooklyn Jungle Sound System – Equal Rights; Black Rose Liberation (Baraka Foundation) 2001 NYC
Snoop Lion feat. Angela Hunte – So Long; Reincarnated (Mad Decent) 2013
Audio Active – Robot War (Adrian Sherwood Dub Mix); Apollo Choco Remixed (ON U Sound) ’98 Japan
Abassi All Stars feat. Kenny Knots – Wicked Intention; Showcase (Universal Egg) 2006 UK
Alpha & Omega – In the Beginning; Overstanding (A & O) ’82 UK trance dub
Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers feat. Lizzard – Satta I; & the Dub Dancers (Makasound) 2008

Words of Wisdom:

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-gust 22, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Theremin Stylee!

August 25, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

Greetings,

Here’s what the Jah-gust 22, 2015 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives features: 34 sec.

bless, robt

Set 1:

Jah-Malla – Reggae For It Now; Alive and Well (Clappers) ’80 NY vinyl
Doctor Dread – I For An Eye; Theremin in Dub (Tsosume): to Bob Dylan’s I and I; 2013 Hungary, Dub Album of the Hour

<The Theremin – adds a spooky sound to dubby Reggae; 28 sec.>

Peter Tosh – Don’t Look Back; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Peter Tosh) sunrise 11/27/82, Montego Bay, JA
Aisha – Sweet Love; Raise Your Voice (Twinkle) ‘95
Barry Brown – We Nuh Run; Richman Poor Man (Moll-Selekta) 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
GT Moore – Ganja Flower; 12” (Jah Works) 2002 bonus mutant herbs

thereminpic_custom-9d554abc953090a42ef8fd9b9b7a900bc18b6dc5-s6-c30 — Leon Theremin – add a spooky touch to your dubwise

Set 2:

Bunny Wailer – See and Blind; Gumption (Shanachie) ’90; Johnny Osbourne cover
Judy Mowatt – Sisters’ Chant; Black Woman (Shanachie) ‘76
Aswad – 54 46; BBC Sessions (BBC) Toots cover live for radio broadcast

<Live at the BBC; 26 sec.>

Dennis Brown – Give a Helping Hand; 10” (Observer Gold)

Set 3:

The Jayes & Ranking Trevor – Queen Majesty; Hitbound! The Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat) Request
Keith Hudson – Musicology; Rasta Communication (Greensleeves) ‘78
Ayo – Real Love; Billie-Eve (Polydor) 2011 German-Nigerian female
Pato Banton – Satan; Mad Professor Recaptures Pato Banton (Ariwa) ‘89

Set 4:

Sunshot Band – Dial M for Murder; Dial M for Murder in Dub Style (Pressure Sounds); ’80 Dub Album of the Hour

<Reggae History Lesson: Chris Blackwell remixes Midnight Ravers; 46 sec.>

The Wailers – Midnight Ravers (JA vs. UK/US mix); Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ‘73

<Midnight Ravers: original JA mix vs. Chris Blackwell’s remix; 44 sec.>

Desi Roots – Warning; 12” (DEB) ’75; Dennis Brown prod’n

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

Marcia Griffiths – Gypsy Man; Sweet Bitter Love (Trojan) ’74 UK Curtis Mayfield cover; Vinyl Set
I Roy – Dr. Phibbs; Hell and Sorrow (Trojan) ’73 UK
Horace Andy & the Rhythm Queen – Love Is a Treasure (Rough Trade) ’85 UK; Freddy McKay cover
Edi Fitzroy – Work on Mr. Farmer; Youthman Penitentiary (Alligator) ’82 Chicago, IL
Chalawa feat. Johnny Osbourne – Rich Inna Jah Jah Love; Capture Land (Green Weenie) ’78 Ontario, Can.

MI0001397723 — Marcia Griffiths covers Curtis Mayfield

Set 6: Best of Smile Jamaica – 27 Years Reggae Radio

Mighty Diamonds – Tracks of My Tears; Ice on Fire (Virgin Front Line) ’77 Smokey Robinson cover

<Reggae loves Smokey Robinson; 20 sec.>

The Beat (aka the English Beat) – Jeanette; Special Beat Service (Go Feet!) ’82 UK 2 Tone ska
Sister Carol – Down in the Ghetto; Black Cinderella (Jah Life/Heartbeat) ‘84
The Jolly Brothers – Babylon a Fight Rasta; Conscious Man (Seven Leaf) ’77 Lee “Scratch” Perry prod’n. My favorite album of all time

<Out of thousands, Jolly Brothers Meet Lee “Scratch” Perry is #1; 20 sec.>

Set 7:

Earl Morgan & the Heptones – Boo-Yarka Dub; DC Dub Connection (Auralux) ’82 Dub Album of the Hour
Abyssinians – $19.95 plus Tax; Reunion (AO!) ‘98

<Why the CD died: $19.95 plus Tax; 44 sec.>

Anthony B – Spliff Tail; Universal Struggle (VP) ’97 herbtun
Errol Dunkley & Errol Bellot – Live Upright + Everything Possible; 10” (Reality Shock) 2011 UK
Sugar Minott & Soul Syndicate – Ghetto-ology; Ghetto-ology (Easy Star) ‘79

download (6) — $19.95 Plus Tax: The Mark of the Beat. Greedy record companies led to this…

Set 8: Mutant Dub

New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up – Fade Away; New Age Steppers (Statik) ’81; Jr. Byles cover w/ female vox

<Junior Byles meets Mutant Dub; 13 sec.>

Back to Base – Play With Fire; Heading For the Door (MPR) 2000 UK
Kenny Knots & Junior Kigwa – Wicked Man + High Grade; Abassi Allstars: Showcase (Universal Egg) 2006 herbtune
Alpha & Omega – Solomon and Sheba; Overstanding (A & O); ’92 UK trance dub
Dubphonic – Babylon Insight; Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions: The Second Chapter (Guidance) 2000 Chicago, IL

Words of Wisdom:

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: August 1, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Jah-maican Independence Weekend

August 4, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

Greetings,

Since coming back from my Jah-tana Roadtrip: Southwest and North Central Montana I have dropped 3 thematic episodes of Smile Jamaica:

Best of Smile Jamaica and 27 Years of Reggae Radio – The 70’s
Best of Smile Jamaica and 27 Years of Reggae Radio – The 80’s
Jah Love – 3 Hours for HIM Happy Birthday: July 23, 1892

So now back to the usual Roots ‘n’ Dub Shuffle:

bless, robt

<Comin’ in Hot!: Roadmap for the 3 Hours; 50 sec.>

Wailers Family Tree: Mix and Match “Catch a Fire: Tosh live, Marcia Lovers Rock; Bunny dancehall
Best of 27 Years: Faves from the beginning ’88-’89
Rockers do Reggae: 1st Saturday of each month
Vinyl is Vital
Rastafari Tributes – Holdover, never left over from last week’s Ark-Ive
Mutant Dub

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives Jah-gust 1, 2015: Annotated Playlist – photos, captions, soundbytes, reggae history lessons!

Set 1:

Melodians – Get Up and Dance; Irie Feeling (RAS) ’83 DC vinyl
Soul Syndicate/Sugar Minott – Ghetto-ology Dub (Easy Star) ’79 Dub Album of the Week
Bunny Wailer – Warrior; Gumption (Shanachie) ’90: Johnny Osbourne cover
Marcia Griffiths – It’s Impossible; Steppin’ (Shanachie) ‘79
Fred Locks – Vision of Redemption; 10” (Sip a Cup) 2003 UK militant steppers
Barry Brown – Pass Up the Chalice; Rich Man Poor Man (Moll-Selekta) 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
AKB – Where/Where’s da Dub; Future Present (AKB); ’96 Al Kirk Band = Halloween tune

<Where are the Priests and the Prophets to save us from the Vampires!?; 15 sec.>

Sugar-Minott-Ghettology — Sugar Minott: “Don’t know much about biology, geography, history. But I know ghetto-ology”

Set 2:

The Wailers – Concrete Jungle (JA + US/UK mix); Catch A Fire (Tuff Gong) ’73; much different mixes

<Jamaican ghetto mix of Concrete Jungle vs. Twangy guitar overdubs; 84 sec.>

<Concrete Jungle Recap: 57 sec.>

Hollie Cook – Win or Lose; Twice (Mr. Bongo) 2014 UK dubstress

<Hollie Cook – Dawta of a Sex Pistol; 10 sec.>

The Observers – Zorro/Cutting Sword; 10” (PK) ’79 Mine instrumental

Set 3: Best of 27 Years

Sister Carol – Lost in a Space; Jah Disciple (RAS) ’89 space travel is a waste

<Cydonia on Mars; 36 sec.>

Dillinger – Loving Pauper; Cocaine (Charly) ’76 over Dobby Dobson
Michael Prophet – Righteous are the Conqueror; Righteous are the Conqueror (Greensleeves) ‘81

<Justin Hinds in DC, 1998; 22 sec.>

Justin Hinds & the Dominos – Sweet Lorraine; Travel With Love (Nighthawk) ‘84

<Space Travel no isms or schisms!; 22 sec.>

Face-on-mars — Cydonia “man made” Monument on Mars

pluto-heart-new-horizons — Livf on Pluto?

Set 4:

Peter Tosh – Coming in Hot; Live at the Jamaica World Music Festival (Peter Tosh): Nov. 27, 1982 – Montego Bay
Anthony B – Marley Memories; Universal Struggle (VP) ’97 Bob tribute over ska era “Put It On” Wailers riddim
Ika Black – Human Life; Special (Keyman) ‘86 female singer

Set 5: Rockers doing Reggae

Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now; I Can See Clearly Now (Columbia) ’72

<Bob Marley wrote for Johnny Nash; 7 sec.>

<Johnny Nash: reggae, soul, AM pop; 22 sec.>

The Ruts – Jah War (Live); Criminal Minds (Recall) UK Punks do Reggae

<Punkers in solidarity with Rastas in UK 14 sec.>

Nina Hagen – African Reggae; Nina Hagen Band (Columbia) ’80 German Reggae
Corey Harris – Walter Rodney; Zion Crossroads (Telarc) blues pays tribute to assassinated leader of Guyana

<Walter Rodney of Guyana; 15 sec.>

walterrodney2 — Guyana’s Walter Rodney. Caribbean leader/martyr

Set 6: Vinyl Is Vital

Tyrone Taylor – Cottage in Negril; Cottage in Negril (Love) ’86
Aura Lewis Meets Lee “Scratch” Perry – At Midnite; Full Experience (Blue Moon); Fr. EP w/ female vox
Prince Jazzbo – Jamaican Collie; Head to Head Clash (RAS) deejay herbtune
Burning Spear – Travelling; Knotty Vision (Nighthawk) ‘82

Set 7: Tribute to Haile Selassie

Black Slate – Calling Jah; World Citizen UK
King Kong – Jah is My Best Friend; Rumble Jumble Life (Massive B) ’97
Rastafarians – Jah Greatest Blessing; Orthodox (Makasound) ’81 Rasta Cruz, Collie-fornya
Israel Vibration – Jah Love; Strength of My Life (RAS) ‘88

<Israel Vibration – Polio survivors, Rastas; 38 sec.>

Set 8: Mutant Dub

African Head Charge – Conspiring (Dancing to My Own Drums); Pride and Joy: Live (ON U Sound) ‘91
Zion Train – Get Ready; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK trance dub w/ female vox
Systemwide – Rise Up; Pure and Applied (BSI)
Snoop Lion – Rebel Way; Reincarnation (Berhane Selassie); Snoop vs. Major Lazer
Les Nubians – El Son Reggae; One Step Forward (Virgin) French/Chadian sistas

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: June 20, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Bumbaclaat!

June 25, 2015 Robert Nelson Leave a comment

Greetings,

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

Peter-Tosh-sheik-360x240 — Bumbaclaat to chase the Devil away

<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

General Echo – Lovers Corner; 12” of Pleasure (Greensleeves) ‘80

<General Echo – 12″ of Pleasure; 19 sec.>

Michael Prophet – Fight it to the Top; Serious Reasoning (Mango) ‘80
Ranking Ann – Black Rock Posse; A Slice of English Toast (Ariwa/RAS) ‘82

Deejay cocksman killed by cops in Jamaica

Set 4:

<Why Chris Blackwell remixed The Wailers – Catch a Fire LP; 50 sec.>

The Wailers – Stop That Train; Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ’73 (Jamaican Mix)
The Wailers – Stop That Train; Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong) ’73 (Blackwell’s remix)

<Recap the differences – Stop That Train: JA mix vs. US/UK mix; 51 sec.>

Bunny Wailer – Sounds Clash; Gumption (Shanachie) ‘90

download (5) — Remix with psychedelic guitar and gospel organ

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

Marcia Griffiths – Melody Life; At Studio One (Studio One) ’68 JA

<Marcia Griffiths – The Aretha Franklin of Reggae; 3 sec.>

Ringo – Ganja Exchange; Woman a Ginal (Top Ranking) ’81 Miami herb tune
Nicodemus – Mother in Law; She Love It in the Morning (Hitbound) ’82 Brooklyn, NY
Michael Palmer – Jah On My Mind; Star Performer (Tonos) ’84 UK
Tristan Palmer – Jail House; Joker Lover (Jah Guidance) ’82 Jamaica, NY

Set 6: Seven Leaf Herbtunes

Al Campbell – Light Up Your Chalice; Weed a Bun vol. 1 (Charm) 2005
Lloyd Hemmings – Rude Boy; Firehouse Revolution (Pressure Sounds) ’86; One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer update; King Tubby’s dancehall prod’ns

<One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer = One Draw, One Cigarette, NO BAIL! 9sec.>

Blessed – Herb Tea; Blessed (Explorer) 2007
Ernie Ranglin – Easy Skanking; Tribute to a Legend (Kariang) ’97 guitar instrumental

Set 7:

Jimmy Cliff – Viet Nam; In Concert: Best of Jimmy Cliff (Warner Bros.) ‘76
Lorna Asher – True History; Straight to Your Heart (Twinkle) ‘99
Junior Keating – Conquering Lion; Weekend Lover (Roots) ‘80
Rupie & Lynford Anderson – Promoters Grease; Rupie’s Scorchers (Trybute) high steppers chatterbox
Don Carlos – I Don’t Care; 10” (Negus Roots) ‘83

<Negus: King in Amaharic; 13 sec.>

Set 8: Mutant Dub

Audio Active – Sunset Doesn’t Mean We Lose the Sun; We Are Tokyo Space Cowboys (ON U Sound) ’94 Japan
Alpha & Omega – Prophecy Fulfilled; Watch & Pray (A & O) ’92 trance dub w/ female vox
Kanka – Skunky; Don’t Stop Dub! (Hammerbass) 2005 France
African Head Charge – Hymn; Touch I (ON U Sound) ’94 UK EP
Snoop Lion & Jahdan Blakkamore – Harder Times (Berhane Sound System) 2013 dubstep
Dub Gabriel feat. U Roy – Luv n’ Liv; Raggabass Resistance (Destroy A/C) 2013

Words of Wisdom:

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Playlist); Jah-tober 25, 2014: Jah-loween Dubhouse of Horror!

October 27, 2014 Robert Nelson 1 Comment

monsters-dancing — Smile Jamaica’s Dead Man’s Party

Greetings,

Jah-loween Special Edition; 2:09>

$T2eC16FHJHQFFhho(iz3BR44)grHHQ~~60_35 — Chris Blackwell is a Vampire. Lee “Scratch” Perry: I am a stud, I do NOT drink blood!

Jump straight to the Jah-loween Ark-Ive…if you dare!

Here is the musical torture of Smile Jamaica Jah-loween Spooktacular: Jah-tober 25, 2014

<Ranking Dreads vs. the Living Dead!>

Unlike Fox running the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror in November when it loses its impact after All Hallow’s Eve, the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives celebrates the last Saturday before Oct. 31st!

<Dubhouse of Horror; 43 sec.>

Me being a librarian by trade, I had to be extra organized. I separated my 666 Jah-loween tunes by demography. Then I had my cheat sheet of 75+ horror soundbytes and movie trailers that I chopped up inna vivisection stylee during the month of Jah-tober in my Secret Dubratory buried in the crypt of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives

Here is my Jah-loween Demonology:

Witchdoctors practicing Black Magic, Voodoo and Jamaican Obeah
Blood Suckers: Barnabas Collins, Dracula and assorted vampires
Devils: Lucifer, Satan with the Mark of the Beast pon their ugly faces
Dungeons, Coffins, Graveyards and Boneyards
Frankenstein
Ghosts and Jamaican duppies
The Mummy
Skeletons
Werewolves

halloween-monsters-2 — Injustice League of Super Demons skanking for 3 hours on Smile Jamaica

< 3 hours of Reggae Spooktacular: Pick up your Cross and follow me!>

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives; Jah-tober 25, 2014: Annotated Playlist (photos, captions, Reggae History Lessons, soundbytes)

curse, robt

< All trix, no treats. 100% High Fructose Corn Poison free!>

headless — I dare you to listen in the dark. Don’t wet yourself. It’s nothing to lose your head over!

Set 1:

Ini Kamoze – Hole in the Pumpkin; Shocking Out (Greensleeves) ‘88
Scientist – The Voodoo Curse; Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81; Dub Album of the Week
Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dub Syndicate – Train to Doomsville; Pay It All Back vol. 2 (ON U Sound) ’88 mutant dub
Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers – 666; Hey World! (EMI) ‘86
Future Pigeon – The Mummy; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) 2006, 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

<Roll a lickle spliff wif di papyrus! Coughin’ in di coffin; 23 sec.>

Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Talk About Run; 12” (Greensleeves) ’81 duppies in the boneyard

<Don’t take your best gal to the Boneyard for a rub a dub session!; 23 sec.>

mummy — Roll a lickle spliff wif di Papyrus. Let’s smoke out in Mesopotamia wif a lickle spliff of Sensimillia

Set 2:

Scientist – Dance of the Vampires; Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81
The Toyes – Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96; Boris Pickett cover, herbtune

<Boris Pickett in a rub a dub herbal stylee; 12 sec.>

Dillinger – I Thirst; Kingston Ruler (Charly) ’79 Barnabas Collins: soap opera vampire from Dark Shadows; 31 sec.

David Lindley & El Rayo-X – Werewolves of London; Very Greasy (Elektra) ’88; Warren Zevon cover; Rocker does Jah-loween; 10 sec.

Bob Marley & the Wailers – Mr. Brown; Rasta Revolution (Trojan) ’74 about a dead man driving his coffin through the streets of Kingston; 31 sec.

misterbrown — Mr. Brown driving around in his coffin

Set 3:

Scientist – Blood on His Lips; Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves)
Peter Tosh – Mark of the Beast; Honorary Citizen (Columbia Legacy); about police beating; 7” rarity; 25 sec.

Junior Murvin – Lucifer; Police and Thieves (Mango) ’77 Lee Perry/Black Ark/Upsetters
Barrington Levy – Murderer; 12” (Jah Life) ’84 vampires in jacket and tie

markofbeast — The Omen. 666 underneath that brat’s cap. “I see the mark of the beast pon their ugly faces.”…Tosh

Set 4:

Scientist – Cry of the Werewolf; Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves)
Black Uhuru – Anthem; Anthem (Mango) ’84; Dawn of the Living Dead; 24 sec.

Bushman – Back Weh Vampires; 10” EP (Stingray) 2012

Unknownskull — I ‘n’ I living dread inna dis ya Dawn of the Living Dead…Michael Rose Black Uhuru

Set 5: Vinyl Is V-Ital Jah-loween

Scientist – The Mummy’s Shroud; Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampire (Greensleeves) ’81
Eek a Mouse – The Freak; Eek-a-nomics (RAS) ’88 Addams Family riddim
Laurel Aitken – Witchdoctor in Amsterdam; Eskapade en France (Unicorn) 12” EP
Crucial Bee – Mark of the Beat; Just a Sting (All Starr) US Virgin Islands; over Gregory Isaacs riddim
Pluto & Trinity – Vampire Year; Ire Mass Rockers (Top Ranking) ‘81

<1980: United Nations International Year of the Vampire; 15 sec.>

Unknownbela — Bela Lugosi. Prefers his ghoul-ash O Postive

Set 6:

Scientist – The Corpse Rises; Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves) ’81
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Judgement in a Babylon; 12” (One Drop) ’81 Chris Blackwell is a Vampire

<Scratched sued for libel by Island Records owner, Blackwell; 75 sec.>

Lone Ranger – Barnabas Collins; Barnabas in Collins Wood (Wave) ’79 JA vinyl; riddim shower (1): deejay
Ansel Collins? – Vampire Rock; 12” (Hit) ’78 riddim shower (2); vox
Winston “King Cole” – Black Magic Woman; Impact! (Universal Sound); Fleetwood Mac cover
The Specials – Ghost Town; Stereo-Typical (2 Tone); box set
Roots Manuva – Duppy Writer; Duppy Writer (Big Dada) 2010 mutant dub

Set 7: Mutant Dub Jah-loween

Scientist – Night of the Living Dead; Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
Gorillaz – Ghostrain; G Sides (Virgin) 2002 Mutant Dub Set
Alpha & Omega – Dub Is Out There; Serious Joke (A & O); X Files Theme 2002
Tino – Wolfman is Everywhere Dub; Tino’s Hallowe’en Dub (Tino Corp) 2002
Bomb the Bass feat. Sinead O’Connor & Benjamin Zephaniah – Empire; clear (Quango) ’95 Empire = Vampire
Scientist – Your Teeth in My Neck; Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
Natacha Atlas – I Put a Spell on You; Best of (Mantra) 2005; Nina Simone blues cover

Unknownvamp — “My teeth in your neck, baby!”

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.

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