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Day 10 Cannabis Service Month: Progress Report of Mutant Dub 4/20 Digital Dubplate Canna-bass Show

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Greetings,

Qannabis? No Canna-bass!

That wobbly stack of disks is what I have left to “harvest” (ha ha) to my exclusive online-only Mixcloud Digital Dubplate Show: 420 Canna-bass!

What Is Mutant Dub? Episode 4: Space Dust

4 hours and 20 minutes on 4/20 at 4:20 AM.

  • Rise ‘n’ Shine!
  • Wake ‘n Bake!
  • Wake the Town ‘n’ Tell the People!

With a week to go, I have rinsed out 197 minutes of a total (4 x 60 plus 20, by my liberal arts math, that adds up to…) 260 minutes of acoustic levitation inna Herbal meditation!

63 minutes plus cannabinoidal soundbytes to go. Selah!

Here’s a little “nugg’s” worth, free sample:

<Mutant Dub Herb Show: Space Dust clip; 6 min>

bless, robt

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Gremlins in the mix: Alas, no Ark-Ive for Apr. 12, Smile Jamaica

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Greetings,

Curses, foiled again!

Wanted to Ark-Ive yesterday’s edition of Smile Jamaica. Terrible signal quality in the digital file, so I had to discard it.

I suspect a conspiracy by the dark forces arrayed against the Seven Leaf.  (20 of the 28 Roots & Dub selections from yesterday’s show were pot propaganda).

Usually I spend Sunday chopping up sound files and stripping out the commercial interruptions during the day prior’s broadcast of Smile Jamaica. Gonna post Ark-Ive Editions here (see Tab above) as well as at Mixcloud

I guess I have to do my taxes instead. Below is the Playlist, at least. You can read it like I read the Major League box scores in the papers.

Next Saturday: “4 score and 20 bongrips ago” . I  got 1 score of years devoted to Cannabliss. …

It’s Smile Jamaica’s 20th Annual Cannabis Service Show; 4-7 PM, Mtn. Time. 90.9FM in Utah and krcl.org online.

Let’s hope for better luck next Saturday. Jah guide!

Before my head hits the pillow this evening, my Federal Taxes will be nice and printed. My Utah State form will be nice and printed. Then tomorrow morning all I haffe  do is skank on over to the Post Office and buy one of those stamp thingees.

Now under what pile of Cds in the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive did I stash that effing W-2?

Fi-yah burn!

bless, robt

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Smile Jamaica Playlist; Apr. 12, 2014

4:00-7:00 PM

Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus – Sip Your Cup; Rally Round (Shanachie) ’85 nyahbinghi herb tune

Marcia Griffiths – Feel Like Jumping; Naturally (Shanachie)

10 Ft. Ganja Plant – Rooftop Duel; 10 Deadly Shots vol. II (ROIR) 2012 Dub Album of the Week

Aswad – Ethiopian Rhapsody; Aswad (Mango) ’76 UK roots group Aswad = ‘black’ in Amharic, Arabic; instrumental

Pato Banton – Give Me Oil; Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton (Ariwa) ’85 UK

Pablo Paul – Don’t Dope; 12” (Kingston Connexion); 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

Black Slate – Legalise Collie Herb; Amigo: The Best of Black Slate (Ensign); UK dubble dose of herbs

Israel Vibration – Feelin’ Irie; Got to Move (RAS); triple herbs; ***End of Set 1

John Holt – Police and Helicopter; 12” (Holt); herb tune with police siren effect

Max Romeo – Wet Dream; Pray For Me (Trojan); best of set. Riddim Shower (1): vox

Dave Barker – Wet Version; Monkey Spanner (Trojan); Riddim Shower (2): Deejay

Sister Carol – Wicked Collie; Jah Disciple (RAS) ’89; herb tune; ***End of Set 2

Bob Marley & the Wailers – Natural Mystic; Live Forever (Tuff Gong); first song of last concert: Sept. 23, 1980; Stanley Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA

Althea & Donna – Jah Music; Uptown Top Ranking (Virgin) ’78; deejay duo

Sugar Minott – Strictly Sensi; 12” (Livity); ***End of Set 3

Lone Ranger – Ganja Man; To the Top (Studio One) JA Vinyl is Vital herb set

Teddy Brown – Get Stoned; 12” (Eruption)

Crucial Bee – Cutting Up Sensi; Just a Sting (All Starr) US Virgin Islands

Lovindeer – Free the Marijuana; De Blinkin’ Bus (TSOJ) ’78 JA

Peter Tosh – Legalize It; Dealing With the Shytstem (bootleg); Live at the Roxy, Los Jahn-geles, Collie-fornya; ***End of Set 4

Peter Tosh – Vampire (Demo); Equal Rights (Columbia/Legacy); ‘77dubble disk rarity

Al Campbell – Collie Herb; 12” (Jah Life); herbtune ***End of Set 5

The Toyes – Smoke Two Joints; The Toyes (CD Tunes) ’96 herbtune; request

African Head Charge – Take Heed and Smoke Up Your Collie Weed; King Size Dub: ON U Sound Special (Echo Beach); mutant dub herb tune

Sugar Dee – High Grade; 12” (Know Thyself); mutant dub herb tune; ***End of Set 7

Reuben da Silva – Sensi Skank; 12” (Reggae Roast)

Dub Unit feat. Speng Bong – Ganjaman (Cubiculo)

Dubkasm feat. Levi Roots – Sensimilla Addict; 12” (Dubkasm); Horace Ferguson

Jah Mason – Brain Food; 12” (King Dubbist)

Day 6 Cannabis Service Month: Smile Jamaica’s Herb Ark-Ives A-Z

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Greetings,

Somebody asked me recently just how many actual songs do you have devoted to the Seven Leaf?

I am running two accounts of iTunes at the moment and just haven’t collapsed all 50,000 songs I have “harvested”  to iTunes into one spot. on my Go Flex External Hard Drive

Best guestimation of Smile Jamaica’s herb tunes: Reggae, Dub, Rock, Soul, Blues,Gospel (ha ha)  etc. It is at least 800.

And that doesn’t include probably another 150 on vinyl LP/12″. And probably 300 or so 45’s: classic Reggae as well as Ragga.

There is a whole sub genre just in the Mutant Dub world on 10″ and 12″. I probably have 30-40 of those extended mix dub workouts too.

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So here is a little sampling of some of my Ark-Ives A-Z

bless, robt

Roots Reggae:

  • #: 10 Foot Ganja Plant – Bass Chalice; Bass Chalice (ROIR) 2005
  • A : Aswad  – Pass the Cup; Not Satisfied (CBS)  ’82; cup = chalice = Rasta ritual smoking utensil
  • B: Broggs, Peter – International Farmer; Rastafari Liveth! (RAS) ’82
  • C: Culture International Herb; International Herb (Virgin) ’79

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  • D: Dillinger – Marijuana in My Brain; Marijuana in My Brain (Jamaica Sound) ’79
  • E: Eek a Mousse – Sensee Party; Skidip! (Greensleeves) ’82
  • F: Fun Boy Three – Farmyard Connection; Waiting (Chrysalis); two guys named Peter & Bob growing a lickle herb
  • G: Gold & Don Carlos – Harvest Time; Raving Tonight (Negus Roots) ’83
  • H: Human Rights (HR) – Who’s Got the Herb? (Railroad) ’91; lead throat of Bad Brains on the original done up by 311 as a cover 

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  • I:  Israel Vibration – Red Eyes; Forever (RAS) ’91
  • J: Jah Lion – Colombia Colly; Colombia (Mango) ’76
  • K: King Sighta – Dollar Fe a Reaffer (sic); Master of All (Sunshot) ’78
  • L: Lovindeer – Free the Marijuana & Grow the Weed; De Blinkin’ Bus (TSOJ) ’82
  •  Miller, Jacob & Ray I – All I Want For Ismas & Deck the Halls; Natty Christmas (RAS) ‘ 78; “all I was for Ismas is my collie herb”. “deck the halls with boughs of collie”

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  • N:  NiyoRah – Positive Herb; A Different Age (I Grade) 2005
  • O :  Osbourne, Johnny – Mushroom; Fally Lover (Greensleeves) ’80; don’t pee in my garden or mushroom will grow. Gimme d’good sensi instead 
  • P: Prince Hammer – Export Ganja; Respect I Man (Tamoki Wambesi)
  • Q: Queen Omega – Ganja Baby; Weed a Bun vol. 1 (Charm)
  • R: Reid, Norris – Collie Field; Roots & Vine (Rockers International)
  • S: Steel Pulse – Macka Splaff; Handsworth Revolution (Mango) ’78
  • T: Linval Thompson – I Love Marijuana; I Love Marijuana (Trojan) ’78

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  • U: UB40 – Mi Spliff; Little Baggariddim (Virgin) ’85
  • V: ?
  • W: Wailing Souls – Ishen Tree; On the Rocks (Greensleeves) ’83
  • Y: Yellowman – Operation Eradication; One in a Million (Shanachie) ’84
  • Z: Zephaniah, Benjamin – Get High; Rasta (Workers Playtime) ’85

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Day 3 Cannabis Service Month: 2013 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive 4:20 Cannabis Service Show

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Greetings,

From KRCL last year when Smile Jamaica‘s 4:20 Cannabis Service Show actually fell on April 20. While we wait for Saturday, Apr. 19; 4-7 on 90.9FM KRCL or KRCL.org

As they say in Jamaica, “Rewind and come again!”

bless, robt

Smile Jamaica’s 4:20 Cannabis Service Ark-Ive: Apr. 20th, 2013 (3 hrs.)

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Day 1: Happy Cannabis Service Month!

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(***The operator of the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives wishes those reading to know that we do not endorse, encourage or engage in illegal activity. These writings are in spirit with anti-authoritarian subcultures and are meant solely for informational and or educational purposes only. Edutaiment isn’t illegal….yet***)

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Greetings,

Everyone knows about the 12 Days of Christmas. But what about the 20 Days of Cannabis? 420 that is. Anyone who has listened to Smile Jamaica over the, well, decades now knows that April is pretty much in bloom with the Seven Leaf  Saturday Afternoons on Community Radio Station KRCL..

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For going on twenty years – on air between 4 and 7 PM Saturdays – every 4:20 is given over to what I euphemistically call “herbtunes”. I call it the Cannabis Service Announcement. A spin on non-profit radio and its promotion of *Public* Service Announcements. These Reggae and Dub boomshots sing praises to the Wisdom Weed.

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The closest Saturday to the 20th day is devoted to an entire show of herbal meditations on all formats and styles: vinyl, singles: 7″, 10″ & 12″, cds and digital*; Roots Reggae, Mutant Dub and Rockers doing Reggae. 180 minutes celebrating free speech and diverse lifestyles. Selah!

*I even have Bob Marley’s Kaya (with the title  track and “Easy Skanking” spliff tales) on 8-Track. No player to hear it on, alas.

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Because of my job as Audio Engineer in the Marriott Library, I have a slick ProTools digital recorder. So my job pretty much requires me to be a whiz at editing digital files (a skill I originally honed at KRCL on 1/4 inch tape). So I edit a whole heap of sound clips to enhance the mood elevated listening experience. Clips from Cheech and Chong, George Carlin and Steve Martin. Movie dialog from Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Saturday Night Live.

I taught myself the DVD audio-track ripper Handbrake just so I could chop a soundbyte out of the Reggae documentary “Land of Look Behind”. From crowd footage at Bob Marley’s funeral, a youth steps forward and shouts “Bob Marley smoked 100 splits a day! A 100 splits a day mon”.

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Saturday, April 19th. 4-7 PM Mountain Time on krcl.org or 90.9FM in Salt Lake City region.

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My annual April Cannabis Service Show. Yeah. It’s silly and obnoxious and totally rude. It’s my favorite show of the year. A lot of my Reggae deejay fraternity are disallowed by their Program Directors to play even a single marijuana ditty. Praise Jah for anything goes KRCL. “Your station that rules the nation!”

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Here is the story behind why I decided to livicate (not dead-icate) a potent blast of pot propaganda 20 minutes into each and every Smile Jamaica. And then some.

This could have been about 20 years ago. I was chatting up one of KRCL’s Drive Time deejays in a record store. His show was on one of the Week Days between and 3 and 6 PM. He got the clever notion to bust out a little weed set during his show that he called 4:20 Funk

Alas, someone at the station put the clampdown on his little exercise in musical free speech. 4:20 Funk was banned. Of course, when he told me his tale of woe I made sure the very next Saturday to debut my own Spliff Tales that I christened Cannabis Service Announcements. You have to be fearless and not back down because freedom of expression is under assault.

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So in the Spirit of the Season on this Smile Jamaica blog, I will post 20 Cannabis related posts. I’m behind obviously so I’ll do two a day till I catch up.

Studio kinda cloudy!

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bless – robt

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