“Get Ready to Rock Steady”. 4 PM Utah Time (Mountain). krcl.org 90.9FM SLC
Here’s some of what I have i cooked up in the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive for this afternoon’s show
Wailers Family Tree: Tracking through Bob’s last live show in Pittsburgh, PA 9/23/80; rarities and obscurities from Peter’s dubble disk edition of Equal Rights (’77); Bunny’s Rootsman Skanking ’87
Plus sifting in quality roots from the sistren. Kif I mean Keith Richards niyahbinghi supergroup the Wingless Angels. And a whole heap of good quality Rootical Dubbers
Check it!
bless, robt
2 branches of the Wailers Family Tree “smoke up de ‘sensi!
All the love from devotees of the Seven Leaf. That sensi salutation above arrived in my text box bright and early.
Glad tidings to you and yours as well. Good luck to Collie-rado and Washington. Let’s tally up more state victories in 2014, 2016 and beyond. Selah!
Abolitionists need to make it as simple as possible in their public messaging: “it’s a plant not a drug”
2016 is gonna be another knock down drag out. “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Here (we are) stuck in the middle with you.”
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As I promised on Smile Jamaica yesterday: I did get up to post my Mutant Dub Canna-bass show on Mixcloud and on this blog. I let Mixcloud do their magic and then I made sure all the blog and twitter posts were good to go. Went do bed around midnight. I set the alarm for 4:10.
Here is my alarm clock ringer:
I stumbled to my computer and put a hawk eye on the clock. Exactly at 4:20 AM, I cracked my knuckles and hit send. 4 hours and 20 minutes of Canna-bass at 4:20 AM on 4/20
When I put this Mutant Dub 420 together in my studio with all the sound bytes and clips, I knew that the last song I was going to play was a Peter Tosh (Dub Club) remix of “Legalize It”.
That brought the whole file to 4 hours 19 minutes and 12 seconds. Easy squeeze: I just tacked on a few more cannabinoidal sound bytes to bring the mix to 4 hours 19 minutes and 56 seconds.
Lately I have been ending with a little clip from the Whitest Kids U Know. “Keep safe and keep blazing”. That byte is 3 seconds long.
So by stitching music and dialogue together I was basically 1 second off my original target goal of the 4 hr 20 min and 00 second.
So I had to “cheat” by one second to make it work. 1 second off out of 15,600 seconds. Better rate than the Atomic Clock. Wow Sensi simpatico.
I took a look at the stats on Mixcloud and it looks like 19 people have been taking me up on my advice for their 420 Sensi Soundtrack today. Kool breeze!
As promised, here is the KRCL Live edition of the 20th Annual 420 Cannabis Service Show without commercial interruptions.
Let my bredrin the 420 Bunny and myself wish you a wondrous 420 spent with family and friends for Easter, Puff Puff Passover and other compelling purposes for randomized encounters and barbecue excursions. Enjoy your libations responsibly. Otherwise, Johnny Law is gonna give you the hairy eyeball:
<Johnny Law 1 min>
I want to be the Soundtrack to your celebration with all the Mutant Dub I am fascinated by. 50 Canna-bass tunes from the likes of Thievery Corporation, Primal Scream and Dub Syndicate.
Enjoy this Secret Stash from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives. 4 hr and 20 min worth. You will be running to theSevwith Musical Munchies Selah!
I bet I am up and at ’em before any of you readers take the tykes out for any Easter Egg Hunt.
So my 4 hr 20 min Mutant Dub Herb Special is finished. Magnum Dopus!
So I’ve rinsed out 50 plus tracks from around the globe. Starts with my favorite Weedstepper Soom T and ends with the Bush Doctor Peter Tosh dubadelic 10″ pic sleeve vinyl mix from Record Store Day a few years ago.
Here’s how your Holiday Weekend works: Good Friday, Record Store Day Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday
I will hit send on the Interwebs this Sunday 4/20 at 4:20 AM at the Smile Jamaica Mixcloudpage as well as here
Mutant Dub Files: Episode 4 – Space Dust. 260 minutes of Seven Leaf mixed with heavyweight dub
For once I don’t say a word. Just herbal meditations and Canna-bass
Here’s the Straight Dope:
Bong – 4
Collie – 1
Dope – 4
Flavors – 2 High Grade, Lebanese Blonde,
Ganja – 1
Growing/Farming – 1
Hemp – 1
Herb – 4
High/Stoned – 4
Legalize – 3
Lifestyle – 5
Marijuana – 3
Police/Arrested – 2
Rizla/Rolling – 3
Sensimilla – 4
Spliff – 2Weed – 3
Countries/Places:
Brazil: 1
Brooklyn: 2
France: 1
Jah-cago: 1
Jah-maica: 2
Jah-many: 3
Jah-pon: 5
Jah-scow, Scotland: 3
Jah-stria: 2
Jah-suchusetts: 1
Los Jahngeles: 2
Ska-dinavia: 1
UK: 21
US: 4
Wash’n DC: 3
“See ya” or more like “hear me” Sunday AM and have this Dub Episode for your Soundtrack as you celebrate early and often
In America we say A-Z. Across the pond they say A-Zed. Day 14 of Smile Jamaica’s Cannabis Service Month is a foreshadowing of the Sunday 4/20 show at 4:20 AM of 4 hours and 20 minutes in Canna-bass sounds.
<Soundbyte: What’s Yer 420? 1 min Smile Jamaica Ganja Choir>
Here is what you can expect to hear with 4 hours and 20 minutes online at Mixcloud (linked here of course) and the last half hour of this Saturday’s edition of Smile Jamaica: 90.9FM KRCL. krcl.org. 4-7 PM Mtn. Time
Mutant Dub Herb Warriors World Tour: A-Z
#s: 2 Bad Card – Weed Specialist; Hustling Ability (ON U Sound) UK
A : Audio Active – Free the Marijuana; We Are Audio Active – Tokyo Space Cowboys (ON U Sound) Jah-pon “Just turn up the maximum…higher….Higher….HIGHER!!!!”
B : Brooklyn Jungle Sound System – Sensi Man (the Ghetto Theatre Proudly Presents the Further Adventures of); Black Rose Liberation (Baraka Foundation) Dr. Israel’s collective out of Brooklyn, NYC
C : Creation Rebel – The Dope; Psychotic Jonkanoo (Statik) early ON U Sound: He who traffics in dope will hang by a rope
D: Digitaldubs – Liga Legalise; #1 (ROIR); Brazil
E: Martin EZ – Light It Up; Babylon Central Soundtrack (ESL)
F: Future Pigeon – The Mummy; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) Los Jahn-geles, Collie-fornya “Roll a lickle spliff wif d’papyrus! Smoking Sensemeenia inna Mesopotamia!”
G: Groove Corporation feat. Dillinger – Cocaine in My Brain; Remixes From the Elephant House (Guidance) UK
H: Headcornerstone – Hot Like Fire (Groove Corporation Rmx); King Size Dub Chapter Nine (Echo Beach) Jah-many
I: Barry Isaac – Mr. Calliman; 10″ (Reggae on Top) UK
J: Jahtarian Dubbers – International Farmer; Jahtarian Dubbers vol. 2 (Jahtari); Peter Broggs Roots original; Jah-many
K: Kenny Knots & Bush Chemists – Good Sensimilla; Gimme De Music (Conscious Sounds) UK
L: Lazyboy TV – The Manual (Chapter 4); Lazyboy TV (Universal)
M: Major Lazer feat. Mr. Evil & Mapei – Mary Jan; Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do (Mad Decent) Jimmy Cliff? No! Jimmy Spliff
O: Overproof Sound System feat. Cheshire Cat – The Herb; Nothing to Proove (sic) (Different Drummer) UK
P: Pama International – Evening Time; Float Like a Butterfly (Asian Man) UK
S: Earl 16 – Herbman Corner; Steppin’ Out (WEA)
T: Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde; Mirror Conspiracy (ESL) Washington, DC “too low to find my way, too high to wonder why”
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!
Thanks to the democratization of media you don’t have to own your own radio station to do “radio shows”. KRCL used to allow us to stream shows off their website, but changes in the system put the kibosh to all that.
I am feeble at social media but I do know that people don’t expect to consume any media “live” as it happens. That’s why we have DVR’s for TV and podcasts for Radio Shows.
So my easy access to uploading Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives was in limbo. I might have carped about this on air and was glad that a listener, (Nerdshow – based in Ogden), turned me on to the wonders of Mixcloud.
So I can put up a sort of digital media archive or Ark-Ive for Smile Jamaica. As I say on air, “Listen on your time not my time”. When a listener complained about slogging through Public Service Announcements, Radio Underwriting/Advertising and other interruptions, I started editing that stuff out and just have the streams pump Reggae, Dub and me talking about it. Telling stories.
But since I have a personal studio I have started doing online only content. No commercials. No time limit.
My musical fascination is what I call Mutant Dub: the crossover electronic bass and modern effects with Rasta themes, ricochet echo and orthodox Jamaican drum & bass. Not quite electronica nor lounge but heavier and “out on the perimeter” from Roots Reggae. By tradition, I tend to spend the last half hour in this sound during each edition of Smile Jamaica.
In a 3 hour show I figure that last half hour can be the experimental, challenging and odd stuff that keeps me motivated doing media for 25 plus years.
I try to use Smile Jamaica to enlighten people about this niche that appeals to a rather small subset in both the Reggae and Dance markets, I have built some special Mixcloud only shows devoted to Episodes that I call What Is Mutant Dub?
I have produced 3 so far:
Episode 1: What Is Mutant Dub?
Episode 2: Adrian Sherwood’s ON U Sound Label: LP 1-20
Episode 3: Dubwize Halloween
So now I am working on What Is Mutant Dub? Episode 4: Space Dust. Little green men toking juicy green herbs. I have 2 hours done so far. It incorporates all my favorite cannabis sound bytes. Especially the anti-marijuana hysteria high school industrial films that warn “one puff will lead to murder!”
<PARENTS BEWARE!!>
So I’m on my way to 4 hours and 20 minutes from Mutant Dubbers like Dub Syndicate, Zion Train, Thievery Corporation and Audio Active. A World Tour devoted to the Seven Leaf.
<Smile Jamaica Mini-Dub Symphony, 40 sec.>
I will debut this Special Digital Dubplate Show the morning of April 20th. Sunday soundtrack to yr Wake ‘n’ Bake! 4 hours and 20 minutes
Facebook: None. I hate Facebook. They spy for the Security State. Tom Green said of Facebook, “Voyeuristic narcissism”
I toil as a University Librarian at the Marriott Library, University of Utah. My title is Manager of the Audio Studio in the Digital Scholarship Lab.
This is my attempt to use New Media/social media to showcase how my avocation (Community Radio) intersects with my vocation (Academic Librarian/Digital Humanities)
So here is what I hope to accomplish with yet another blog on the Internet.
My Terrestrial Radio experiences: (KUTE 1987; KRCL 1988-); Postive Vibration, 3 o’clock Roadblock, Global Gumbo, Smile Jamaica, Radioactive
Smile Jamaica Ark-ives: Playlists, Podcasts/Mixcloud, Music reviews, reggae/music news, deejay/radio tips and stories, autobiography: 25+ years of radio, Mutant Dub Files
Cratedigging: music collecting, cataloging, organizing, obsessing, autobiographical story telling, vinyl formats, reggae archives, Itunes archives/playlist hierarchy, rock/soul/techno/world interest
Academia: New Media, Multi-media Archives, Digital Humanities, University audio projects/digital archives, Interviewing for Research, Media Trends, Mass Media, KUER Music, Middle East Library, Curriculum Library/Education, Religious Studies: Islam, Eastern Rite Christianity, Rastafari
Interests: Progressive Politics, Ancient Aliens, UFO Watching, Seven Leaf, Green Bay Packers, San Francisco Giants.
All my heroes are named Bob: Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Bob (R.) Crumb
Magazines subscribed to: Rolling Stone (Lifetime Subscription), Mojo, Uncut, Mixmag, The Nation, Sports Illustrated, Vice Magazine
I have a steep distrust of social media long before Edward Snowden and really have a steep learning curve on social media. This is the first time I’ve not embraced the new media trend. iTunes was the last media trend I jumped into from the start. Social media baffles me. I have no instinct for it. So I will stumble along til it’s second nature.
So I am calling this The Empty Barrel. From the Jamaican saying, “The empty barrel makes the most noise!”
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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