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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-nuary 20, 2018 (Stream + Tracklist) – Vitamin D for Dubwize!

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<Ma and Pa – Medical MJ weekly? report; 34 sec.>

Greetings,

Quick update on Bob & Rita* Nelson’s medical mj progress from Sun City West, Jah-rizona

  1. Dad’s neuropathy treatment allowed him to hit a bucket of golf balls. But the Carpal Tunnel pain isn’t any better
  2. Mom toying with the idea of vaping a 1/2 CBD, 1/2 THC oil rather than 4/1 CBD. She’s hit a mental block about becoming a “junkie” but she wants better sleep.

*Jeannette actually

Stay tuned!

Real quick.

Winter. January. Or Jah-nuary. Nuff respect to the skiers. We need the snowpack. But ugh.

How do we get our Vitamin D when the sun ain’t shining? If you have cabin fever get your Vitamin D for Dubwize. Enjoy last week’s showcase of Smile Jamaica

bless, Bobbylon

Vitamin D for Dubwize

Annotated Playlist: Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives – Jah’nuary 20, 2018; 49 sec.

Set1:

  • Eddy Grandyson – Jah Garden; Rite Sound Reggae Story (Jah Live) ’78 Fr. vinyl
  • Chariot Riders – Sensimilla Dub; Sensimilla Dub (Crystal) ’80 JA vinyl dub album of the hour
  • Half Pint – Greetings; Dancehall (Soul Jazz) ’85
  • Phyllis Dillon – Woman of the Ghetto; Midnight Confessions (Westside) ’72 cover of Marlena Shaw
  • Augustus Pablo – East of the River Nile (Original); East of the River Nile (Dexlue Edition) (Shanachie) ’78
  • Dubskin – Heavy Load; No End in Time () Boulder, Collie-rado
  • Dillinger – Cokane in My Brain; 12″ (Island blank) ’76 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

<Dillinger – powder vs. herb?; 37 sec.>

A knife, a fork, a bottle & a cork – that’s the way we spell New York!

Set 2:

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – So Much Things to Say; Exodus 40 (Tuff Gong) Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London: June 1977

<Exodus 40 – 3 disk reissue: original, Ziggy’s rmx, Live in London; 53 sec.>

  • Hi Fi Killers feat. Clinton Fearon – Tell Dem; Jamaica (Loose Groove) ’98. Seattle roots w/ Gladiators bassie
  • Rhoda Dakar – Easy Life; Cleaning in Another Woman’s Kitchen (Moon Ska World) 2007 acoustic update of 2 Tone Ska Bodysnatchers tune
  • Black Uhuru – Darkness/Dubness; 10″ (Island) ’82 UK picture sleeve 

 

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 28+  Years

  • Johnny Clarke – Tribal War; Don’t Trouble Trouble (Attack) ’76

<State of Emergency in JA, Jan. 18 2018; 1 min.>

Jamaican State of Emergency

  • Burning Spear – O’Jah; Farover (Heartbeat) ’83
  • Lacksley Castell – Cold Winter Night; Morning Glory (Negus Roots) ’82
  • Lovejoys – All I Can Say; Lovers Rock Showcase (Wackies) ’83 female duo
  • Bullwackies All Stars – Black World (Wackies) ’79 Dub Album of the Hour
State of Emergency declared in Jamaica

Set 4:

  • Peter Tosh & the Wailers – No Sympathy; Peter Tosh & Friends (Upsetters) ’70
  • UB40 – Reefer Madness; Signing Off (DEP) ’80 dub
  • Lone Ranger – Jamaican Weed; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy) ’79
  • Omar Perry & Minoo – Ain’t So Fine + Jah Is Here; Humble Lion 10″ EP (Deep Root)  2008 UK militant steppers; Minoo is female singer

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

  • Jennifer Lara – Hand to Mouth; High Times All-Star Explosion (Alligator) ’85 Chicago blues label
  • Kwame – Hell Hounds; Follow I (Polydor) ’80 US
  • Brown, Eagle & Spear – Draw the Challace (sic); Brown, Eagle & Spear (New Name) ’88 JA herbtune
  • Dub Syndicate – Roots Commandment;  Echomania (ON U Sound) ’93 UK

Set 6:

  • Bunny Wailer – Chant Down Babylon; Hall of Fame (RAS) ’95 dubble disk of Bob Marley covers
  • Ayo – Lonely; Gravity at Last (Polydor) 2008 Nigerian-German singer
  • Peter Broggs – Rastafari Liveth; Rejoice (RAS) ’97 – riddim shower (update)
  • Peter Broggs – Rastafar Liveth (extended); Never Forget Jah (Nocturne) ’82 riddim shower
  • Martin Campbell vs. Alien Dread –  Rebel Salute; Cosmic Dub Clash (Log On) 2007 Mutant Dub album of the Hour
Nigerian-German chanteuse singing reggae, soul and pop

Set 7:

  • Mad Professor – Studio 54 Dub; Black Liberation Dub Chapter 5 – Afrocentric  Dub (Ariwa) ’98 female vox on Blondie’s Rapture
  • Jimmy London – Suspicion; All Shook Up (Trojan) ’73
  • Vivian Weathers; Hip Dub; Frontline in Dub (Virgin Front Line) compilation ’78
  • TenaStelin – Mother’s Song; 10″ (Roots Hi-Tek) ‘ 2006 UK mutant dub
clever dub remix of Blondie’s Rapture

Set 8: Mutant Dubstresses

  • Dry & Heavy feat. Liklle Mai – Bright Shining Star; From Creation (Beat) 2002 Jah-pon
  • Massive Attack feat. Shara Nelson – Daydreaming; Blue Lines (Virgin) ’91
  • Waldeck – Defenceless; Abductions and Reconstructions (ESL) ’99 Thievery Corporation fmx
  • Bush Chemists feat. Talawah – Dub Up Nations; Light Up Your Chalice (Conscious Sounds) ’99 UK
  • Andrea – Breathe (Dubmatix Re-Rub); CD Single (Version Xcursion) 2006 Canadian.
  • Dubblestandart & Lee “Scratch” Perry feat. Ari Up – Idiots Dub; Reutnr From Planet Dub (Collision) 2009; Jah-strian feat. female vox from The Slits
Foundation Mutant Dub

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: June 6, 2015 (Stream + Tracklist): Triple Crown Edition!

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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah: The Bob Marley of thoroughbreds

Greetings,

<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.

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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
  • Ras Midas – Can’t Stop Rastaman Now; Confirmation (Scorcher) ’82 Request
  • Taj Weekes & Adowa – Lonesome in Babylon; Hope & Doubt (Alpha Pocket) ‘95 St. Lucia
  • Winston Holness – Mutiny; 10” (PK) ‘79

<How Winston Holness got the nickname “Niney”; 8 sec.>

  • Prince Far I – Commandment of Drugs; Message From the King (Virgin Front Line) ‘78

<He who smokes dope will hang by the rope; 19 sec.>

  • Phyllis Dillon – Midnight Confessions; Midnight Confessions (Westside) ’68 Grass Roots AM hit

<AM Radio; 12 sec.>

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Set 2: Best of Smile Jamaica: 25 Years

  • Lee “Scratch” Perry – Soul Man; Double Seven (Trojan) ’70 Sam & Dave cover

<Soul Man: Isaac Hayes; 14 sec.>

  • Gregory Isaacs – Private Beach Party; Private Beach Party (Greensleeves) ‘85
  • Sophia George – Runnings Well Dread; For Everyone (Pow Wow) ‘89
  • Burning Spear – Red, Gold & Green; Marcus Garvey (Mango) ‘75

<Burning Spear: Meet me on the bank of the beautiful river; 14 sec.>

  • Black Disciples – Workshop; Garvey’s Ghost (Mango) ’76; dub to vox
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Bozeman, MT. Lived here from 1983-1986. Meet me on the bank of the beautiful river

<Before the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives, lived in Bozeman, MT; 28 sec.>

 Set 3:

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Exodus; Exodus (Tuff Gong) ’77; Riddim Shower: Vox (1)

<Exodus: Bob’s journey to England after almost being assassinated in JA, 1976; 22 sec.>

  • I Roy – Commandment I (Exodus); Ten Commandments (Virgin Front Line) ’80 Riddim Shower: DJ (2); picture sleeve, yellow vinyl

<Riddim Shower: Vox to Deejay; 10 sec.>

  • Enforcer – Africa Way; 10” (Narrows)
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Exodus – Movement of Jah People

Set 4:

  • Mr. Bojangles – Selassie I Cup; 7” (Joe Gibbs Record Globe) ’77 American Pharoah livication

<Dreadlocks won, Baldhead place, Soul Youth to show; 17 sec.>

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  • Sandra Reid – Ooh Boy; 600% Dynamite (Soul Jazz) ‘82
  • Peter Tosh – Get Up Stand Up; Talking Revolution (Pressure Sounds) live acoustic on WXFM Chicago
  • Leroy Smart – Love & Happiness; 10” EP (PK) Al Green cover

R-2258278-1272807329.jpegSet 5: Vinyl is Vital

<No digital for I ‘n’ I>

  • Edi Fitzroy – Dreadlocks Party; Youthman Penitentiary (Alligator) ’82 Chicago; Vinyl is Vital set
  • Chantells – Rub Me Down; Waiting in the Park (Phase 1) ’77 UK
  • 10 Ft. Ganja Plant – It’s True; Skycatcher (ROIR) 2013 Upstate NY
  • Full Experience – Can’t See You; Full Experience EP (Blue Moon) ’76 France; Aura Lewis + Lee Perry
  • Junior Byles – Callyweed; Rasta No Pickpocket (Nighthawk) ’86 St. Louis; herbtune
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All killer no filler, youthman having dreadlocks party

 Set 6: Rockers do Reggae

  • The Members – The Model; Uprhythm, Downbeat (Arista) ‘82 

<The Members UK New Wave; 18 sec.>

<Kraftwerk tune; 34 sec.>

  • Ruts DC Meets Mad Professor – Push Yourself (Make It Work); Rhythm Collision Dub (ROIR) ‘82

<Ruts DC: Punkdub; 20 sec.>

  • St. Germain – Dub Experience; From Detroit to St. Germain (F Communications) ’99
  • Toure’ Kunda – Africa Lelly; E’mma (Celluloid) ’81 Senegalese
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UK New Wave group

Set 7 Instrumental Set

  • Boss Capone – No Toys in the Yard (Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula); Another 15 Dance Floor Crashers (Grover) 2013 Germany
  • Scientist – Jab; Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves) ‘80
  • Dubkasm – Gideon Armour; 12” (Sufferer’s Choice) 2006 UK

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Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Dubdadda – Cross the Border; Abassi All Stars Showcase (Universal Egg) 2006 UK Riddim Shower (1) 2006
  • Sis Sanae – Suffering Abassi All Stars Showcase (Universal Egg) 2006 UK Riddim Shower (2)
  • Disrupt – Asteroid Dub Force; Jahtarian Dubbers 3 (Jahtari) 2012 Germany
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry – On the Wire; On the Wire (Trojan) 2000 UK
  • African Head Charge – Dancing With My Drums; Live Goods (Bonjo)
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Stream of conscious champ Lee “Scratch” Perry

Words of Wisdom:

 

Smile Jamaica Reggae Ark-Ives: Preview: Jah-nuary 3, 2015: 10th Annual Mutant Dub New Year! From A-Zed

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A Tradition Unlike All Others: Smile Jamaica Presents Mutant Dub New Year: A-Zed: 10th Annual

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

  • 90.9FM in Utah
  • Stream:  Tune In Radio
  • Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
  • Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

Greetings,

<Mutant Dub  New Year>

25 years of Smile Jamaica I have given you lots of traditions:

Weekly:

  • Dub Album of the Week: So the music never has to stop
  • 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
  • Vinyl is V-Ital: halfway
  • Jamaican Jukebox: 7″ 45 RPM
  • Disco Mix: Heavyweight Extended Mixes on 10″ or 12″ Vinyl
  • Wailers Family Tree: Chronologically Playing Bob, Bunny & Peter’s solo works
  • Mutant Dub: last half hour

 Annual:

  • 4:20 Cannabis Service Show (closest Saturday to April 20); 20+ years
  • Jah-loween Monster Hash: (closest Saturday to Oct. 31); 20+ years
  • Mutant Dub New Year: First Sat. in January; 10 year

So that is whatI have in store for you today. Mutant Dub: The crossover sound I end each Ark-Ive stretched out of 3 hours.

Jamaican Drum & Bass + textures and echo from techno, dubstep, electronica, downtro and lounge = Mutant Dub.

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You’ve got Electronica in my Orthodox Jamaican Dub: Mutant Dub

A to Z High-lights

  • Q for Qaballah Steppers
  • X for X-O-Dus working with Dennis Bovell
  • Y: Yabby You meets Mad Professor
  • Zed (in the UK they say A to Zed; not A to Z): Zion Train
  • #: 2 Bad Card via ON U Sound

Herbtunes, UFOria/conspiracy, Vinyl, Marley & Tosh remixed, Roots Dawtas, Pink Floyd,

The Holy Trinity of Mutant Dub Innovators: Jah Shaka, Adrian Sherwood, Mad Professor

Bassgasmic Dubwize World Tour!

bless, robt

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Blasphemy

<Mutant Dub New Y ear>

Mashes up Nicely with Mutant Dub Christmas: Online Only Digital Dubplate Ark-Ive; 3 hours

<Mutant Dub Christmas>

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

  • 90.9FM in Utah
  • Stream:  Tune In Radio
  • Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
  • Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for live alert and stream upload/blog posts

 

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive Preview: June 7, 2014: Johnny Cash, Yoko Ono & Lords of Acid

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Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer sing Bob Marley: Rockers do Reggae!

Greetings,

Smile Jamaica’s Chart Progress on Mixcloud: (May 24, 2014 Ark-Ive)

  • #5 on Vinyl
  • #15 on Reggae
  • #17 on Dub

Here is where you can go to help me push the latest podcast edition, May 31st into the charts. Give thanx!

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive Podcasts

This is the first Saturday of the month. For about the first decade of my 25 years hosting Smile Jamaica, I used to do a special feature every first Saturday musical episode: The Reggae Album Side of the Month.

My Reggae mentor, John “Rutabaga” Reese – who was hosting Smile Jamaica when I moved to town – started the Vinyl showcase. It was mainly so he could step out for a cigarette and get caught up on the monkey-butlering we deejays have to do at KRCL

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Monkey Butler – someone forced to do annoying, menial tasks of useless purpose in addition to, and at the same time, as their regular job

In tribute to my spar Rutabaga, I continued the Album Side of the Month. Smile Jamaica is mostly a Jamaican Jukebox of singles, (i.e. a single selection off an album or 7,10, or 12″ piece of vinyl singles). I wanted to play an obscure and top rank Reggae album from Side A or B: Tracks 1-4 or 1-5, usually. A roots Reggae album not re-issued on CD. Gems from my 30 year collecting Ark-Ive. Vinyl is Vital, of course. Sink into the riddim. Relax, stay awhile. Jus’ cool, dreadie.

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Album Side of the Month: rare, vinyl only, top rank

Then a piece of bullshit legislation came into law that made my Album Side of the Month illegal. The DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). No more than 3 songs in a row off an album. I couldn’t do a whole 3 hours of one artist, like Bob Marley, anymore. No bootlegs. A bunch of other twaddle that did absolutely nothing to stem the tide of illegal downloads.

Clinton signed this in 1998 and it will be the reason I don’t vote for his wife in 2016. I wrote to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch to try and stop this bill from becoming law.

I basically told our Senator for Life my tale of woe, “Hey Dread, I’m a radio deejay in Salt Lake City, Utah. The state you supposedly represent. My show is called Smile Jamaica. I have this tradition of focusing on one album by an artist to hear what Reggae sounds like on a long player piece of wax. Rather than my usual habit of  juggling individual songs, featuring different artists, on a variety of formats. A little context. Part of my tradition of Reggae History Lessons. I’m trying to educate while I entertain. I’m showing off the fruits of my Ark-Ives. I have zero interest in aiding and abetting song  theft. I want people to buy this music. Begging you a ten cent, Senata Haatch!”

“I volunteer my time on a non-commercial radio station. I am committed to public service in the community.I don’t get paid. Don’t want to get paid. How about a non-profit exception for what I do?”

I basically got the International Symbol of Ill Will

<Orrin Hatch 1; Smile Jamaica 0; 40 sec.>

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The International Symbol of Ill Will

So that brings me back to Johnny Cash. In the immortal words of Bob Marley, “When one door closes, another will open.” Somewhere in the last decade I have started a different, legal, tradition for the first Saturday edition of the month on Smile Jamaica.

Rockers do Reggae

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Yoko Ono makes her debut on Smile Jamaica this afternoon

Last month I gave you Billy Idol’s maiden voyage on Smile Jamaica. This week I have: Johnny Cash (debut), Taj Mahal (perennial) Wayne McGhie: Canadian-Jamaican soul/reggae hybrid and Yoko Ono (debut).

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: June 7, 2014 sets:

  • Rockers do Reggae (above)
  • Bonus Rockers: Version galore on Bob Dylan’s Man in Me: Matumbi vs The Clash; Morcheeba (mutant dub with female box) and I will end the show with Lords of Acid: mutant dub herb tune (debut). Yes, hard techno comes to Smile Jamaica in the same show as Johnny Cash. Selah!
  • Dub Album of the Week: More rock/dub crossover: The Mad Professor Meets Ruts DC: Rhythm Collision Dub (ROIR). Punkdub
  • Wailers Family Tree: Bob Marley’s last live show in Pittsburgh, Jah-sylvania: Sept. 23, 1980; Peter Tosh rarities & obscurities from Equal Rights ’77; Bunny Wailer – Rootsman Skanking ’86
  • Vinyl is Vital: (midway). All female artists laying down the crispy black wax attack.
  • Mutant Dub: (last half hour): Even more Rockers: downtro-dubby cover of Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay”.
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Smile Jamaica debut: mutant dub swings off its axis into post industrial: Unholy Trinity: mutant dub(ish), female vox, Seven Leaf: “Marijuana in my Brain”

Good luck to Collie-fornya Chrome. It is going for the triple crown today at the Belmont Stakes. If he wins, I am going to play a Jamaican horse race tune with Dreadlocks versus The Pope around 5:00 PM

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Jah Guide Collie-fornya Chrome. First horse since ’78 to win the Triple Crown? 4:52 Mountain Time we’ll find out

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smile Jamaica live every Saturday 4-7 PM Mtn. Time:

  • 90.9FM in Utah
  • Stream:  Tune In Radio
  • Ark-Ive. Here on Smile Jamaica blog; without commercial interruptions
  • Twitter: SmileJ_KRCL for when it is live

Current chart status for May 31, 2014 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive (3 days):

  • Vinyl: 11
  • Dub: 41
  • Reggae: 59

Give a listen, spread the word, move Smile Jamaica up the charts!

bless, robt