KRCL is a community radio station which means it doesn’t sell advertising but raises funds to operate via a radiothon. We take 2 shows in the Spring and Fall to replenish the coffers.
That means that I have to fund raise for donations after every song. So I put up these Digital Dubplates in lieu of 3 hours of begging for kasheesh.
Last week it was all Roots Reggae. This week the genre I “invented”: Mutant Dub. Contemporary electronic sounds with Jamaican drum & bass and echo.
At max volume it will clean the cobwebs from your speakers!
bless, Bobbylon
0-30 min.
2 Bad Card – Pabloesque; Hustling Ability (ON U Sound) ’95
Afro Omega – Whatcha Need + dub; Pick Up the Pieces (Afro Omega) 2007 SLC w/ female vox
Brooklyn Funk Essentials feat. Everton DaSilva – I Got Cash; Make Them Like It (Shanachie) 2000
No Xmas until Black Friday. No Xmas Reggae til Dec. 1. So enjoy some Holiday Reggae set (including a Hanukkah jam).
<Happy Reggae Hanukkah; 53 sec.>
Just got back from Las Vegas on a cratedig. So we hear the fruits of that labor. More vinyl than CDs. The CD is going, going, gone. Vinyl, even rare vinyl for I ‘n’ I as a collector, was really a good trip.
And in the land of 10 down (with 40 to go), I wasn’t a criminal. Here was my stop in Vegas. Since I’m an Ancient Astronaut Theorist, (who believes in the 12th planet Nibiru), of course my go to Vegas dispensary was Planet 13.
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica Annotated Playlist: Jah-cember 1, 2018: 1 min. 54 sec.
Set 1:
Al Campbell – Words of Wisdom; Rainy Days (Hawkeye) ’78 UK vinyl
Soul Syndicate & Big Youth – Inside Out; Reggae Gi Dem Dub (Nichola Delita) ‘ JA vinyl dub album of the hour
Sammy Dread – Jah Guide; Roadblock (Hitbound) ’82
Zema – Joy in the Morning; Black Sheep (Melchizedek) 2003 So Cal female
Johnny Clarke – Waiting in Vain; Sings Bob Marley in a Dancehall Style (Rhino UK) ’77 Bob Marley cover
Dillinger – Hearsay; 12″ (A & M) ’81 US picture sleeve
Happy 2018! By tradition for the past decade or so, I have devoted the first Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive of the year to Mutant Dub. What I tend to end the shows with in the last half hour, showcased 3 hours of drum and bass glory.
Not everyone is a fan of the “wobble” as much as the Orthodox Roots Reggae “echo.” I can expect at least one listener to call in that it is all too much. (2018 complaint received around 6:15 this year.)
Yet, I was also encouraged by people calling in to say how unexpectedly refreshing it is to hear a classic Massive Attack tune on a Roots Reggae show. (I cast the Reggae net far and wide.) Much love shown to the ON U Sound massive. Creation Rebel, Dry & Heavy, New Age Steppers and Singers & Players. Adrian Sherwood – the Godfather of Mutant Dub
Adrian Sherwood – the Godfather of Mutant Dub
And this year a listener checked in to say that he was unhappy with the flat sound of his Klipsch speakers. (I also fire up Klipsch at the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives.) Until he flipped on Smile Jamaica and the bass woke-up on his Hi-Fi.
<Smile Jamaica brings out the bass in your speaker array; 24 sec.>
After two weeks showing love to my family from Albuquerque to Sun City West, AZ – it felt good to get back on the decks and juggle bassadelica for all who love and loathe the modern sound of downtro, dubstep, lounge, jungle, electronica, post-punk, 420 dubbers, Roots Dawtas and Disco Mix vinyl.
Lo-fi for I ‘n’ I
I took up the show right in the middle of a personal crisis. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, committed enemy to the Seven Leaf, waited until Collie-fornya legalized the collie weed on New Year’s Day 2018 and sicc’d his Justice Department attorneys to stop the people’s will.
I just set my parents up with medical marijuana in Arizona and literally the day after my Pops get his card, Sessions lowered the boom.
My Dad has neuropathy in his feet, sciatica and still has pain from a recent carpal tunnel surgery. Mom’s has knee pain and wants to get off anxiety meds and sleep aids.
Marijuana and its CBD/THC concoctions are the way. 28k die per year of opioid overdose. In the 10k history of mankind and the Seven Leaf, zero fatalities.
So in the first set of Smile Jamaica Mutant Dub New Year I fight back as best I know how. Through music and riddim.
<Medical MJ in Arizona vs. Jeff Sessions; 89 sec.>
States rights for Marijuana just like abortion laws, voting requirements and gun laws. Nuff hypocrisy
Even in conservative Utah, our governor believes that Utah Medical Marijuana is an inevitablity.
And why shouldn’t he? His name is Gary HERBert; 78 sec.
I am going through a home remodel. Pretty much since the beginning of March, my whole house has been chaotic as the contractor built me a real Ark-Ive. No more having to search through dozens of book boxes looking for that Mutant Dub herbtune recorded by a female singer.
I was handling the topsy turvy nature of workmen, dealing with the contractor, weather delays, etc. 4 months of inconvenience for a lifetime of organization.
The room looks great. New roof, siding? Awesome.
Time to unpack and fill the shelves in the brand new, good for you, Smile Jamaica Ark-IveNo more life as a music/media hoarder
Until the garage….the charlatans who sold me my house in 1995 scammed me. Rotted wood of the detached garage on my alley way. Put on dirt, not concrete footings. Filled the walls with cardboard filler and some sort of cotton candy junk. I can’t believe the whole thing never collapsed after 20 years of snow storms on that roof.
So they had to demolish it rather than repair it. $13k later. Parking my car on the street in the Sugarhood. It seems like it’s taking forever.
Has looked like this for 2 weeks. I think they did roofing and siding on my house in about the same time it is taking them to work on the garage. Grrr. Home remodels
Long story short. I had a home emergency right as I was leaving for last week’s Smile Jamaica. I told them I had no choice. I would have to get the show started, try to call a substitute and then rush home.
So I did just that. Got home about 5:30 for a five minute consult. Enjoy this Mutant Dub showcase cooked up in my Secret Dubratory to make amends for cutting and running last Saturday over the Airwaves.
bless, Bobbylon
Smile Jamaica’s Digital Dubplate: Mutant Dub Endless Summer of 2017
0 – 30 min.
Doctor Dread feat. Bob Dylan – I and I Dub; Theremin Dub (Tsosume) 2013
2 Bad Card feat. U Brown – Equality and Justice; Hustling Ability (ON U Sound) ’95 UK + JA DJ
Been on a cratedig during the Thanksgiving Holiday. So I have been away from the decks at KRCL Smile Jamaica.
My fascination beyond Reggae is what I have called Mutant Dub for nearly 30 years: Take Reggae drum & bass and weld it on to contemporary dance, dub echo and modern pulsating electro beats.
So I hunkered down in my Secret Dubratory this week and cooked up what I call Digital Dubplate shows. Bonus roots and dubbers.
From A to Z. From Audio Active out of Jah-pon to Zombi Italian dubbers. Massive Attack, The Slits, ON U Sound, Bill Laswell and Thievery Corporation.
Dub ‘n bass will put a smile pon your face!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Digital Dubplate: Mutant Dub A-Z Playlist:
0 – 30 min:
Audio Active – Audio Active’s Adventures in Time and Space; Happy Shopper (ON U Sound) ’95 Jah-pon: Mutant Dub A-Z
Bomb the Bass feat. Justin Warfield – Bug Powder Dust; clear (Fourth & Broadway) ’95 tribute to William Burroughs
Creation Rebel/New Age Steppers – Chemical Specialist; Threat to Creation (Cherry Red) ’81 dub to Jah Woosh Woodpecker Sound
Dub Dynasty – Thundering Mantis; Thundering Mantis (Steppas) 2014 UK
Ex-Centric Sound System – Ex-Centric Dub Show; Electric Voodooland (Loud) 2000 Brooklyn Afro-Dub
Fat Freddy’s Drop – Silver and Gold; Blackbird (Fat Freddy’s Drop) 2013 New Zealand
Gorillaz – Revolving Doors; The Fall (Virgin) 2010 UK
30-60 min
The Herbaliser – Sensual Woman; Session 1 (!K7) 2000 UK best
Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart feat. Dolores O’Riordan – The Sun Does Rise; Take Me to God (Island) ’94 UK
King Earthquake – Serious Dub; Dub Plates Chapter Two (King Earthquake) 2010 UK
Bill Laswell – Cyclops; Points of Order (Innerhythmic) 2001 US
Massive Attack – Be Thankful For What You Got; Blue Lines (Virgin) ’91 UK
60-90 min
Nickodemus – Back From Africa (Derek Sessions rmx); Endangered Species Remix (ESL) 2006 NY
The Orb feat. Nina Walsh – Ghostdancing; Cydonia (Universal) 2001 UK
Primal Scream – Higher Than the Sun; Screamadelica (Sire) ’91 UK
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno – Dub Del Pacifico; Death of the Revolution (TruThoughts) 2008 UK
Cydonia – human faced pyramid on Mars
90 min – 2 hr.
Revolutionary Dub Warriors – Warrior; Deliverance (ON U Sound) ’94 UK
The Slits – Man Next Door; In the Beginning (Jungle) ’80 Live in SF and Cincy: Paragons cover by UK female punk group
Thievery Corporation – Exilio (Rewound); Babylon Rewound (ESL) 2004 DC
Undivided Roots – Move Up; ON U Sound Discoplate Collection Part II (ON U Sound) ’82 UK
Veve’ – Maka; Veve’ (WordSound) ’98 Brooklyn
2-2 and 1/2 hr
Desmond Williams – This Morning; Delights of the Garden (ESL) 2002 DC
X-O-Dus – See Them a Come; 12” (Factory) ’80 UK
Yerba Buena – Fever; Island Life (Razor & Tie) 2005
Zombi – DE3; Escape Velocity (Relapse) 2011
2 Bad Card – Leaving Rome; CD Single (ON U Sound) ’95 UK
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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