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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): Jah-gust 20, 2016: Can’t roll a spliff pon your .mp3!

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Original burlap edition for separating your seeds and stems.

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Greetings,

Last hour of Smile Jamaica Juggling wax with the monitors cranked to 11 in the Studio at KRCL. Booming a recent vintage 45 from a So Cal roots group called the lions.

Their lyric talks about going back to the roots because: “you can’t roll a spliff pon your .mp3:

Original vinyl issues of Bob Marley’s Rastaman Vibration hard “burlap” ridges for that 420 ritual  tradition.

That’s why my slogan is: No digital for I ‘n’ I

bless, robt

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-gust 20, 2016 Annotated Playlist:

Set 1

  • Zap Pow – This Is Reggae Music; Reggae Rules (Rhino) ’80 US vinyl
  • Augustus Pablo – A Java (Instrumental version); Message Music (Pressure Sounds) digital productions of the 80s/90s; Dub Album of the Hour
  • Calvin Stuart – The Alphabet Song; The Sound of Channel One: King Tubby Connection (Motion) A-Z from the Bible
  • Foreign Exchange – Damned If I Do; Occam’s Razor (First Step) ’99 NY
  • Glen Brown – Clensiness (sic) Dub; The Way to Mt. Zion (ROIR) dub
  • UB40 – Mi Spliff; Credit to the Nation (bootleg) ’86 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement, Europe ’86 live
  • The Congo’s – Rasta Congo Man; 10” (Congo’s) 2006 update of Curly Locks riddim

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Set 2:

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Johnny Was; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) ’76; unreleased alternate album mix

<Johnny Was alternate mix>

  • Abyssinians – Say It Again; Reunion (Artists Only) ‘98
  • Ayo – Help Is Coming; Ayo (Interscope) 2006 Nigerian-German female
  • Horace Andy – Why Oh Why; 10” (Hitbound) ‘83

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Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica 26+ Years

  • Twinkle Brothers – It Dread All Over; Live (Genes) Reggae Sunsplash ‘82
  • Mutabaruka –Whey Mi Belong?; Check It! (Alligator) ’83 dub poet
  • Misty in Roots – Lifeboat; Wise and Foolish (Kaz) ’82 UK
  • Joy White – Tribulation; United Dreadlocks (Rhino UK) ‘77
  • Israel Vibration & Soul Syndicate – Dub Worries; Israel Dub (Greensleeves) ‘78

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Set 4:

  • Rhoda Dakar – Easy Life; Cleaning in Another Woman’s Kitchen (Moon Ska) 2007 2 Tone ska singer, Bodysnatchers acoustic update
  • Bunny Wailer – Rockers; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’79: best of roots era
  • Trevor Hartley – Smoke & Chill; Hartical (Jove) ’94 UK herbtune
  • Barry Brown – Living as a Brother; 10” (Trojan)

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Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

  • Leroy Smart – Propaganda; Burning Sampler (Burning Sounds) ’78 UK red vinyl: Vinyl is Vital Set
  • Full Experience feat. Aura Lewis – Young, Gifted & Broke; At Midnite (Blue Moon) Fr. EP – female vox to Marcia Griffiths “Young, Gifted and Black”
  • Joe Higgs – One Man (Kouchie Pipe); Unity is Power (One Stop) ’79 UK
  • George Faith – Please Stay; Raver’s Rock vol. 2 (Vista Sounds) ’84 UK
  • Ijahman Levi – Master Ideas +; Ijahman & Friends (Jahmani) ’79 UK

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Set 6:

  • Peter Tosh – Coming in Hot (Live); Honorary Citizen (Columbia) box set
  • Zema feat. Mark Wonder & the Gladiators – Overcome Good with Evil; Overcome (Melchizedek) So Cal female vox
  • The Green – Transparent People; Ways and Means (Easy Star) 2011 Jah-waiian
  • Wayne & Johnny – Ackee Monkey; 10” (Hitbound)

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Set 7: Jamaican Jukebox 7″ 45s

  • Cedric ‘Im Brooks – Theme From Shaft; 7” (Soul Jazz) soul cover
  • The Lions – This Generation; 7” (Lions Bread) LA group
  • Hopeton Lewis – Dreadlocks Chalice; 7” (Thorough Bred) ’75 herb tune
  • Dhaima – Jah Jah I; 7” (Paradise) ’77 UK

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Set 8: Mutant Dub Set

  • Soom T – Boom Shiva; Ode to a Carrot (Jahtari) 2008 female weedstepper out of Glasgow, Scotland: Mutant Dub Set
  • Knatty P – We Know; Universal Roots – U.K. Reggae Stars (Universal Egg) 2008 UK
  • Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers – Bagdad in Dub; Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers (Makasound) 2008 Fr.
  • Sevendub – U & Dem (High Altitude dub); Dub Club Edition (Collision) 2006 Germ.
  • Bucolic – Mo’Style; Dzyan Blood (BSI) 2000 US
  • Bally Sagoo – Funky Rickshaw Dub; Pro Cannabis 4 (Dope Media) 2001 Hindi dub

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Smile Jamaica Playlist: Jah-gust 13, 2016 (Stream + Tracklist) – The Jah Days of August!

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Greetings,

The dog days of August? No! The Jah Days of Jah-gust. When it’s hot and everything is dried out. The AC is maxed and the lawn is barely green, how do you break away?

Grab a cold one of choice and settle in for 3 hours of riddim showers! Fall soon come!

bless, robt

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Jah-gust 13, 2016: High-lights

Set 1: Seven Leaf 7″ Jamaican Jukebox

  • Michael Smith – Give me a Little Dub Music; Mi Cyaan Believe It (Mango) ’82 US vinyl, dub poet
  • Israel Vibration/Roots Radics – Prejudice; Dub the Rock (RAS) ’95 Dub Album of the Hour
  • Stranger Cole & Gladdy w/ the Gaytones – One Toke Over the Line (Gay Feet) 7” Brewer & Shipley gospel cover

<One Toke over the line Sweet Negus>

  • Lincoln Grant – Marijuana; 7” (Big A) ‘80
  • Frankie Paul – Weed Without Seed; 7” (Techniques) Sinsemilla = weed w/o seed
  • Ronnie Davis – Kaya; 7” (Attack) ’78: Marley cover
  • Dawn & Christine – Free Marijuana; 7” (Thompson Sound)
  • Prince Buster – Minister of Ganja; 7” (Prince Buster’s Record Shack pre)

<Prince Buster – Jamaica’s Minister of Ganja & Space Exploration>

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Set 2: Wailers Family Tree

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Selassie Is the Chapel; (JAD) Request: ’68 Orioles doo wop/gospel cover: Wailers Family Tree Set
  • Peter Tosh – Mystery Babylon; Jamaica (Putomayo) rare single
  • Bunny Wailer – Cool Runnings; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’81 Best of
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – War; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’76: rare unreleased alternate mix – added one verse at the end

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Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 27+ Years

  • The Selecter – Celebrate the Bullet; Celebrate the Bullet (Chrysalis) ’81: 2 Tone ska w/ Pauline on the vox
  • The Kingstonians – Winey, Winey; Sufferer (Attack) ‘70
  • Jimmy Cliff – Club Paradise; Club Paradise (Columbia) ’86 soundtrack
  • Reggae George – Reggae Collie; King Tubby on the Mix vol. 2 (Original)  ’84 herbtune
  • Gregory Isaacs – Changing Dub; In Dub: Dub a de Number One (Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour

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Set 4:

  • Zap Pow – Nice, Nice Time; Trojan Story (Trojan) ’72
  • Candy McKenzie & the Upsetters – Long Enough; Return of Sound System Scratch (Pressure Sounds) Lee Perry prod’n
  • Martin Campbell – No Farmer; Historical Tracks (Channel One UK)
  • Wayne Smith – Time is a Momment in Space (sic); 10” (Jammy$) ‘84

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

  • Casselberry & DuPree’ – Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister?; City Down (Icebergg) ’86 Milwaukee
  • Tanglewood – Reggae Music Sweet; Rise & Shine (Creole) ’84 Fr.
  • Aswad feat. Vin Gordon & Michael “Bammie” Rose – Warrior Charge; Babylon Soundtrack (Takoma) ’80 UK – trombone instrumental
  • The Splenders – Sometimes Coffee; Your Jamaican Girl (Studio One) ’71 JA over “Throw Me Corn”
  • Clint Eastwood – Ganja Baby; Jah  Lights Shining (Vista Sounds) UK ’84 UK

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Set 6: Rockers do Reggae

  • Bob Dylan – God Gave Names to All the Animals; Slow Train Coming (Columbia) ’79 nursery rhyme
  • Lijadu Sisters – Bobby; Danger (Knitting Factory) ’76 Nigerian sisters
  • Flo and Eddie – Happy Together; Jah Flo & Prince Edward I (Rhino) ’81 of the Turtles
  • War – Why Can’t We Be Friends; Why Can’t We Be Friends (United Artists) ‘75
  • Israelites – Ganja Melody; Sensi Dub Volume 8 (Original) Dub Album of the Hour
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Reggae lick indeed!

Set 7:

  • Denise Darlington – War No Right; Studio One Women (Soul Jazz/Studio One)
  • Laurel Aitken – Skinhead Train; Rise & Fall (Unicorn) ’69 rock steady
  • The Beat – Ranking Full Stop; Dance Craze (2 Tone) ’80 live 2 Tone ska
  • Tapper Zukie – Marcus; MPLA (Virgin Front Line) ’78 dj over Mighty Diamonds
  • Sly Dunbar – A Who Say; Hitbound – The Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat) ’78 instrumental

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Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Orange Blossom – Nafsi (My Soul); Everything Must Change (Wrasse) 2004 w/ female Arabic vox
  • Bomb the Bass feat. Spikey Tee – Darkheart (7” mix); clear (Quango) ’95 UK
  • The Playgroup – Going for a Song; Epic Sound Battles vol. 2 (ON U Sound) ’83 UK instrumentals
  • Succulent – Freshly; Natural Progression 12” EP (Worship) US vinyl
  • Zion Train – One Consciousness; Homegrown Fantasy (China) ’95 UK trance

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Track List): July 23, 1892: Happy 124th Year Birthday – Selassie I

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The Lion of Judah shall break every chain. And give I the victory again and again. Happy Birthday!

Greetings

<Happy Birthday, Lion of Judah; 30 sec.>

the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Elect of God. Everliving God. Earth’s Rightful Ruler. Light of the World. The Power of the Trinity…..Haile Selassie I – His Imperial Majesty, July 23, 1892

Early in my Smile Jamaica career (since 1988/89), I was getting crosseyed with a friend who slurred, “What’s the deal with all this I Love Jah? Are Rastas gay.”

I snapped out of my fog and could feel anger before I took Gregory Isaacs’ advice and cooled down the pace.

I calmly replied: “Jesus Loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”

Happy Birthday to the well spring of the concept I have developed of: Reggae music is the power of Rastafari gospel.

Marcus Garvey said: Look to the east for a black king shall be crowned. And lo, in 1930 Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael become his Imperial Majesty: Haile Selassie I – the Power of the Trinity. 52 sec.

Smile Jamaica celebrates that legacy with 3 hours on his 124th anniversary of his birth. 1 min.

Livicate, never deadicate

bless, robt

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Very regal. And reminiscent of ……
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…My Sumerian ancestors the Anunnaki

Set 1:

  • Naturalites – Picture on the Wall; Rub-a-Dubble vol. 1 (CSA) ’85: Happy Birthday Haile Selassie: July 23, 1892
  • Joe Gibbs & the Professionals – Snipers; All Mighty Dub Chapter 4 (Joe Gibbs) ’79: Dub Album of the Hour
  • Culture – Calling Rastafari; Calling Rastafari (Nighthawk) ‘82
  • Grace Nelson – Jah Is Real; Ire Hi Fi: Play de Music 2007
  • Black Uhuru – I Love King Seasslie: Tear It Up (Mango) ’82 live
  • Errol Dunkley – Created by the Father; Darling Ooh (Attack) ‘72
  • Winston Jarrett – Selassie Is the Chapel; By the Rivers of Babylon (Shanachie) ‘95
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Michael, Puma and Duckie – The group that got me into Reggae

Set 2:

  • Tenor Saw – Who’s Gonna Help Me Praise (Jahovah); Fever (Blue Mountain) ‘85
  • Aisha – One God, One Aim, One Destiny; True Roots (Ariwa) ’94 Marcus Garvey’s slogan
  • Barrington Levy – Please Jah Jah; Prison Oval Rock (RAS) ‘84
  • Mr. Stone – Jah Jah Higher Than I; Sufferation (Auralux) ‘79

<One God, One Aim, One Destiny; 52 sec.>

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Set 3:

  • Judy Mowatt – King of Kings; Only a Woman (Shanachie) ’82 nyah ballad
  • Eric Rebel Lion Bubbles – Jah Bless I; Roots of Black People (Progressive International)
  • Aswad – Oh Jah; Not Satisfied (CBS) ’82 UK roots
  • Bim Sherman – Lamb of Judah; Bim Sherman Meets Horace Andy & U Black in a Rub-a-Dub Style (Original) ‘79
  • Version Dread – Why Version; 18 Dub Hits From Studio One (Studio One/Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour

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Set 4:

  • Rita Marley – Thank You Jah; Who Feels It Knows It (Shanachie) ‘81
  • The Wailing Souls – Jah Is Watching You; On the Rocks (Greensleeves) ‘83
  • Misty in Roots – How Long Jah; Live at the Countervision (Kaz) UK live ‘79
  • Michael Prophet – Praise You Jah Jah; Serious Reasoning (Mango) ‘80

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Set 5:

  • Jay Tees – A Prayer to Jah; Pirate’s Choice (Studio One) JA vinyl
  • Sylford Walker – Give Thanks and Praise to Jah; Lambsbread International (Blood and Fire) ‘79
  • Twin Roots – Jah Say Love; Heart of the Ark vol. 2 (Seven Leaf) UK vinyl
  • Toney Tuff (sic) – King of Kings; Presenting Mr. Tuff (Black Roots) ’81 JA vinyl
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A prayer to Jah – rare vinyl from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives

Set 5:

  • Melodians – Jah Reggae; Irie Feeling (RAS) ‘83

<Top seller in the SLC record shop where I worked for a year; 25 sec.>

  • Spliffy Dan – Jah Bless; Rockers Showcase III (Rockers International) Philly vinyl
  • Prince Far I – Jah Footsteps; Ten Commandments (Rhino UK)
  • Peter & Lucky – Jah Bible; Cornerstone Presents Real Rock: 70’s & 80’s (Cornerstone) JA vinyl

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Set 7:

  • Burning Spear – Jah No Dead; 12 the Hard Way (Tribesman)  ‘80

<Jah No Dead; 46 sec.>

  • Daweh Congo – Jah Is My Shepherd; Human Rights & Justice (Roots & Culture) 2000
  • Sister Carol – Jah Is Mine; Black Cinderella (Heartbeat/Jah Life) ’84 over M. Jackson/P. McCartney
  • Ranking Dillinger – Jah Show Them the Way; None Stop Disco Style (Clocktower) dj over Linval Thompson 12 Tribes ‘76
  • Burning Babylon – Sproing Dub; Beat, Beat, Beat (I-Tones) 2008  Dub Album of the Hour

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Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Sugar Minott & Rhythm & Sound – Let Jah Love Come; See Mi Yah (Burial Mix) 2005 Germ.
  • Dan-I & King Kietu – Hail Rastafari; Rastafari Judgment Time (Imperial Roots) 2009 Jah-taly
  • African Head Charge – My God; Songs of Praise (ON U Sound) ’90 Adrian Sherwood/African mashup
  • Alpha & Omega – Jah Protection; Overstanding (A & O) ’92 UK trance dub with female vox
  • Hughie Izachaar – Jah Love Sweeter; Rastafari Teachings (Reggae on Top) ’96 UK
  • Peter Broggs – Rastafari Liveth!; Rastafari Liveth (RAS)  ‘82
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Rastafari Liveth indeed. Thank you Jah!

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: July 16, 2016 (Stream + Tracklist: Happy 28th Anniv. – CD Stylee!

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Greetings,

<Celebrating 28 Years of Reggae Radio-  best of the early years; 28 sec.>

Spring of 1988 my college roommate and I were having pizza at The Pie near the University of Utah campus. They were playing the local community radio station, KRCL over their hi fi.

We heard for a new volunteer call. My roommate was doing modern 80’s indie sounds and I was doing Reggae on the Univ. of Utah’s radio club K-UTE. Even on that low frills setup (they only broadcast in the Student Union) we had some radio experience. How to mix songs, do set breaks, maintain logs etc.

So we went down to KRCL and pitched our shows. KRCL was set for modern indie sounds but they wanted to expand their ethnic music programming. They accepted my application to do a Sunday Night/Monday  AM show I called 3 o’clock Roadblock – after the Bob Marley song on Natty Dread. The show went from 3AM to 6AM.

After about six weeks of training, I debuted either late June or early July 1988. For the nite owls, insomniacs and graveyard workers. Not a lot of listeners but I learned radio. I did that for a year or so (during the coldest winter in 40 years.) I had to call AAA twice that winter.

In Oct. of ’89, I switched to Saturdays on Smile Jamaica. We were on at 1pm back in the 80’s. My bredren Rutaabaga Reese and I together until about summer of 1990 and then I flew solo. And I just keep on keeping on!

So we celebrate that legacy today with 28 years of Roots Reggae and Dubwize!

Selah!

bless, robt

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This album lit the fuse

Smile Jamaica’s Top 5 Salt Lake City Record Stores, 1986-1990

  1. Smokey’s Records; (defunct mid 90’s)
  2. Cosmic Aeroplane (defunct around ’90)
  3. Randy’s Records (still going, mostly vinyl now!)
  4. Starbound (defunct mid 2000’s)
  5. Mad Platter (defunct)
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Still slinging the roots!

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: July 16, 2016: Annotated Playlist – 28 Years: CD version; 17 sec.

Set 1:

  • Black Uhuru – What Is Life? (E.T. Thorngren rmx); Anthem (Island) ’83

<It was Black Uhuru that made me a Reggae fanatic; 1 min 3 sec.>

  • Impact! All-Stars; Java; Java Java Dub (Impact!) ’72 UK vinyl: Dub Album of the Hour
  • Naturalites & Realistics – Picture on the Wall; Rub-a-Dubble vol. 1 (CSA) ’86 UK

<#1 hit of the Islands – Picture on the Wall; 31 sec.>

  • Yellowman – Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt; Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt (Greensleeves) ‘83
  • Peter Broggs – International Farmer; International Farmer (RAS) ’82 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
  • Natural Beauty – Nice Up Dancee; Nice Up Dancee (RAS) ’86 UK dawta trio
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July 23 – all Haile Selassie on his birthday, 1892

Set 2: Seven Leaf Set; 13 aec.

  • Carlton Livingston – Trodding Through the Jungle; Retrospect (Grapevine) 
  • Equators – Feelin’ High; Hot (Stiff) ’81 UK ska
  • Benjamin Zephaniah – Get High; Rasta (Workers Playtime) ’83 UK
  • Capital Letters – Smoking My Ganja; 12” Mix; Headline News (Greensleves) ’79 UK youth group
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…with Chalice in hand!

Set 3:

  • Third World – 96 Degrees in the Shade; 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango) ‘77

<Jamaican Heroes martyred in their fight against the Brits; 32 sec.>

  • Aisha – Evil Spirits; High Priestess (Ariwa) ’88 Mad Prof.
  • The Beat – Tears of a Clown; I Just Can’t Stop It (Go-Feet) ’80 Smokey Robinson 2 Tone ska cover
  • Don Carlos – Jah, Jah Hear My Plea; Prophecy (Blue Moon) ‘84
  • Chalawa – Natural Mystic Dub; Exodus Dub (Micron) ’77 Can. Dub cover of Bob Marley
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Jamaican martyrs waiting their turn on the gallows

Set 4: Wailers Family Tree; 23 sec.

The Dreads:

  • Peter Tosh – Till Your Well Runs Dry; Legalize It (Columbia) ’76, William Bell cover
  • Bunny Wailer – Burial; Sings the Wailers (Mango) ’81, Tosh cover
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – 3 o’clock Roadblock; Countryman Soundtrack (Mango) ’82: diff. mix: the name of my 1988-89 Reggae show; 1min.

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Set 4: Wailers Family Tree – Sistas

  • Rita Marley – Beauty of God’s Plan; Harambe (Shanachie) ’82
  • Judy Mowatt – Put It On; Black Woman (Shanachie) ’76 Bob Marley cover
  • Marcia Griffiths – Melody Life; Steppin’ (Shanachie) ‘79
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Set 6:

  • Alpha Blondy & the Wailers – Jerusalem; Jerusalem (Shanachie) ’86 Ivory Coast

<Jerusalem: English, French, Arabic, Hebrew>

  • Sister Carol – Jah Is Mine; Black Cinderella (Jah Life/Heartbeat) ’84 Carpenters + Michael Jackson/McCartney
  • Dennis Brown – Money in My Pocket; Words of Wisdom (Shanachie) ‘79
  • Prince Far I – Survival; Umkhonto we Sizwe (Tamoki Wambesi) ’83 deejay; Spear of the Nation

<Mandela’s ANC army faction: Burning Spear + Spear of the Nation>

  • Augustus Pablo – Thriller; Thriller (Echo) ’80 UK vinyl; Dub Album of the Hour

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Set 7: Rockers do Reggae

  • David Lindley & El Rayo X – Bye Bye Love; El Rayo X (Asylum) ’81

<Live at the Zephyr Club; 22 sec.>

  • Eric Clapton – Willie and the Hand Jive; 461 Ocean Boulevard (Polygram) ’74 soul cover done reggae
  • Hot Chocolate – Confetti Day; Every 1’s a Winner (Infinity) ’78 UK soul/rock/reggae
  • Patti Smith – Redondo Beach; Horses (Arista) ‘76
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Zephyr Club, Salt Lake City: Summer 1988

Set 8: Mutant Dub Set

  • African Head Charge – Gospel Train; Songs of Praise (ON U Sound) ’90 UK
  • Akabu – Warrior Queen; Warrior Queen (ON U Sound) ’95 UK female group
  • Jah Woosh – Woodpecker Sounds; Wild Paarty Sounds vol. 1 (Cherry Red) ’81 UK ON U Sound mi
  • Badawi – Turbo Auto Drive; Bedouin Sound Clash (ROIR) ’96 Jewish mystical dub
  • Ruts DC Meets the Mad Professor – The Prisonder; Rhythm Dub Collision (ROIR) ’87 UK punkdub
  • Alpha & Omega Meets Dub Judah – Almighty Jah; Almighty Jah  (A & O) ’92 UK trancedub

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): June 25, 2016: 28 Years of Reggae Radio! (Vinylicious)

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In the immortal words of Prince Far I – the humble calf, suckles the most milk

Greetings,

During the last year of Reagan. Who funded the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives thru the Student Loan Program.

KRCL was looking for graveyard shows. I was picked for late Sunday/early Monday AM. The show? 3 o’clock Roadblock – 3 hours of Reggae and World sounds at 3am during the coldest winter in 40 years in Salt Lake City.

<Smile Jamaica bio; 37 sec.>

You gots to pay your dues to get the prime time. I did graveyard for a year and decided that was enough. Then my bredrin, Rutabaga Reese, who was hosting Smile Jamaica was looking to transition out. So I sat in with him from Oct. ’89 til Summer of ’90 when he “retired”. I took over the chair, planted my flag and 28 years later it’s Saturday afternoon Roots Reggae ‘n’ Dub fix

<Early morning before prime time – gotta pay your dues; 23 sec.>

So it was the tail end of June, June 25th probably that I flicked the switch and started the Ark-Ive. Celebrate that legacy with all vinyl

No digital for I ‘n’ I

bless, robt

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28 Years of Reggae Radio: Smile Jamaica June 25, 2016 Playlist; 1 min 8 sec.

Set 1 – All Vinyl 28 Years

  • Jimmy Riley – Summertime; 12” (DEB) ’76 cover of Porgy & Bess classic
  • King Tubby – Dub From the Roots; Dub From the Roots (Attack) ’74 dub album of the hour
  • Papa Kojie & Blue Riddim – Nancy Reagan Re-Election Remix (Ora International) ’85 St. Louis

<Nancy & Ron a gwan a Russia; 23 sec.>

  • Edi Fitzroy – Youthman Penitentiary; Dreadlocks Party (Alligator) ’82 Chicago blues label
  • Michael Smith – Picture No Pictures; Mi Cyaan Believe It (Mango) ’82 LKJ produced dub poet
  • Tapper Zukie – Cally Dolly; I Man Ah Warrior (mer) ’77 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
  • Bloodfire Posse – Get Flat; Are You Ready (CBS) ’86 UK, Jamaican dance, “get flat while bullets fly overhead”
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Set 2: Roots Dawta vinyl

  • Casselberry & DuPree’ – Comin’ in From the Cold; City Down (Icebergg) ’86 Milwaukee
  • Main Attractions – Jam Up, Jam Down; Roots, Rock, Reggae (Creole) ’78 Fr.
  • Singers & Players feat. Sister B – Holy Scripture; Vacuum Pumping (ON U Sound) ’88 UK Adrian Sherwood
  • Aisha – Don’t Tire; Daughters of Zion (Twinkle) ’93 UK

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Set 3:

  • Prince Far I – Natty Champion; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK: boxing Babylon loses to Natty Dread
  • Morwells – Reggae Party; Wiser Dread (Nighthawk) ’82 St. Louis
  • Sister Carol – Show Business; Liberation For Africans (Serious Gold) ’83 NY
  • Musical Youth – Pass the Dutchie (Special Dub Mix); ’83 12” EP

<Mighty Diamonds – Kutchie pipe; Musical Youth – cooking pot; 16 sec.>

  • Scientist – 11 Guava Road Dub; King of Dub (Kingdom) Dub Album of the Hour[

<Smile Jamaica’s first dub album. Tower Records, Las Vegas ’87; 20 sec.>

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Set 4: I Three vinyl

  • Marcia Griffiths – Play Me; Sweet Bitter Love (Trojan) ’74 UK Neil Diamond cover
  • Rita Marley – One Draw; Reggae Party (Disc International) ’84 Fr.
  • Judy Mowatt & Sister Carol – Screw Face/Them Vex; 12” (Jah Life) ’87 – Bob cover

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Set 5: Wailers Family Tree set; 1 min. 22 sec.

  • Peter Tosh – Coming in Hot; Wanted Dread & Alive (EMI America) ’81: my 1st Reggae album

<the very first addition to the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives; 33 sec.>

  • Bunny Wailer – Walk the Proud Land; Sings the Wailers (Mango) ’80 – update Rock Steady classics
  • Pressure – Stir It Up; Pressure (Pool’s) US cover
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Punky Reggae Party; 12” (Tuff Gong) ’77 UK***

<Punky Reggae Party – No boring old farts; 14 sec.

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The Damned, The Jam, The Clash, Dr. Feelgood – No boring old farts

Set 6:

  • Sly & Robbie – Space Invaders; Syncopation (Joe Gibbs) ’82 UFO-ria
  • Sister Netifa – We Can’t Run No More + I Am From Africa; Woman Determined (Aluta) ’88 UK dub poet
  • Jolly Brothers – Conscious Man; Lovers and Rockers (EMI) ’80 UK comp.
  • Tad’s Logic Dub Band – Science; Chapter 1 Dub Mix (Tad’s) Thomas Dolby “She Blinded Me With Science”
  • Jah Shaka Meets Aswad – In Addis Ababa Studio (Jah Shaka) ’84 Dub Album of the Hour
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Space Invaders – UFOria

Set 7: Herbtune Vinyl

  • Bobby Culture – Big Big Bust; Tidal Wave (Unicorn) ’83 Santa Monica, CA

<Busted!; 18 sec.>

  • Alpha & Omega – Rasta Woman; King & Queen (A & O) ’89 UK trance dub w/ female vox
  • Dub Syndicate – Pounding Systems; Pounding System (ON U Sound) ‘
  • Singers & Players feat. Prince Far I – Bedward the Flying Preacher (ON U Sound) ’82 UK
  • Basement 5 – Immigration: Dub; In Dub (Island) ’80 UK – future members of Big Audio Dynamite
  • Zulu Warriors – Chanting Dub; Warrior Dub (Mr. Doo) ’89 UK

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist: June 18, 2016: Father & Dreadlocks!

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A+ record from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives. Happy Father’s Day!

Greetings,

<Happy Father’s Day; 37 sec.>

Happy Father’s Day to my Pops, Bob and all Father’s including the Heavenly Father – HIM.

In March I helped my folks become Snowbirds on a grueling drive from Salt Lake City to Phoenix. I drove because my Pops has some back issues from a lifetime of selling insurance on the road and golfing.

The whole way he was trying to shake the bee stings out of his fingers. Sure enough. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

So I joked on air while my Pops heals he has to drink Busch Lite  with his left hand for a while.

So I start off this Ark-Ive of Smile Jamaica with a killer jam by Charlie Ace Father and Dreadlocks. The story of a Parson’s son who leaves for college in a Three Piece Suit and returns home a Rastaman in humble dungarees and sandals. When his Mom nearly drops down dead, Charlie sings out, “the power of Jah is moving on!”

Father and Dread Locks – Charlie Ace (lyrics transcribed by Robert Nelson)

  • Hail Daddy-man!
  • Wha’ppen when him come for the Holidays
  • Yes-I! Whap’n rate up a draw of herb fi I place y’know!
  • Son – who dat? No Parson’s son turn Rastaman!
  • Yes-I! Man sight the fullness y’know?
  • Parson send him one son fi (to) college for the study of religious knowledge
  • Some day the boy decides to come home for Holiday
  • But when he enter him home something strange happen
  • He wasn’t wearing slicker suit
  • He wasn’t wearing big heel boots
  • He was wearing dungarees and sandals
  • And when he moved his tam from his head
  • Parson frightened til him was drop down dead
  • When him natty dreadlocks drop to the ground
  • So, his Dad looked at him and said:
  • My son, my son what comes over you? What happened?
  • You pass your GCE and sit upon University. What happened?
  • I work morning, noon and night to get you there. What happened?
  • He said, Daddy you don’t understand like I do
  • But Jah has called upon I
  • I have sight of the Promised Land
  • Daddy, I know the way you feel but one day you will understand
  • My son, what is the plan for the future?
  • He said: Daddy, I plan to use my education to defend human rights, equality and justice throughout the Universe
  • This time the Mother is in the kitchen cooking the best dressed chicken
  • So she run when she realize her one son was home to greet her one son
  • When she sight Natty Dreadlocks she nearly drop down dead
  • She said: My son, my son. What are we going to tell the people of the neighborhood?
  • He said: Mom, tell them that the power of Jah is moving on-ya!

bless, robt

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Annotated Playlist – June 18, 2016; 36. sec.

Set 1:

  • Heptones – Cool Rasta; Trojan Story (Trojan) ’77 3LP UK box set vinyl
  • Natural Roots – Concrete Tower Dub; Natural Roots (Only Roots) ’84 Fr. vinyl: Dub Album of the Hour
  • Charlie Ace & Scorcher – Father and Dread Locks; Studio One DJ’s 2 (Soul Jazz) Happy Father’s Day

<Story of a parson’s son who returns a Rasta; 25 sec.>

  • Sound Dimension – Version; 7” (Studio One) Dub to above. Throw Mi Corn riddim
  • Aisha – Gunman; True Roots (Ariwa) ’94 Mad Professor prod’n
  • Toots & the Maytals – Take Me Home Country Roads; Trojan Story (Trojan)  ’74 John Denver cover
  • Alpha & Omega feat. Gregory Isaacs – Bush Ganja; Legend of A & O (Dopic) 2006 best of UK trance dub; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
  • Horace Andy – Satisfy Me; 10” (Channel One) ’83 UK
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The late, great Charlie Ace: Father & Dreadlocks

Set 2:

  • Bunny Wailer – Rise & Shine; Retrospective (Shanachie) ‘81
  • Jean  Binta Breeze – Dubwise + Confusion; LKJ Presents (LKJ) ’96 female dub poet
  • Lloyd Brevett & the Skatalites – African Roots; African Roots (Moon Ska) ’76 reunion – instrumental with flute
  • Black Uhuru – Sorry For the Man; 10” (Jammy$) ‘77
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Dub poet Jean Binta Breeze

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26+ Years

  • Linval Thompson – I Love Marijuana; I Love Marijuana (Trojan) ’78 herbtune
  • I Roy – Catty Rock; Heart of a Lion (Virgin Front Line) ’78 update of U Roy’s What Is Catty
  • Bad Manners – Lip Up Fatty; Dance Craze (Soundtrack) (2 Tone) ’80 live – best of British 2 Tone ska
  • Bim Sherman – It Must Be a Dream; Meets Horace Andy & U Black in a Rub a Dub Style (Original) ‘78
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Set 4:

  • Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse; Reggae Pulse 3 – Love Songs (RAS) ‘82
  • Selecter – Deep Water; Celebrate the Bullet (Chrysalis/2 Tone) ’82: UK 2 Tone ska w/ Pauline Black on the vox
  • Scientist – Jab; Heavyweight Champion (Greensleeves) ’80; Dub Album of the Hour

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Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

  • Rita Marley & the I Three – Bellyful; Reggae Sunspalsh ’81 – Tribute to Bob Marley (Elektra) ’81 live
  • Tristan Palma – Joker Smoker; Joker Smoker (Greensleeves) ’82 herbtune
  • Crucial Bee – Mark of the Beast; Just a Sting (All-Star) US Virgin Islands singer
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry – Bafflin’ Smoke Signal; Voodoodism (Anachron) ’78 about the Pope’s election

<Electing the Pope and the Bafflin’ Smoke Signal; 57 sec.>

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Popestock: Bafflin’ Smoke Signal

Set 6:

  • Peter Tosh – No Nuclear War (Single Mix); No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘87
  • 15 16 17 – Girls Imagination; Magic Touch (DEB) ’78 two sisters and a cousin over Smokey Robinson
  • Tapper Zukie – Chalice to Chalice; MPLA (Virgin Front Line) ’78 herbtune
  • Don Carlos – Dice Cup; 12” (Hitbound) ‘82
  • Dan-I & King Kietu – Pope Dub; Rastafari Judgment Fire (Imperial Roots) 2009 Italian dub album of the hourt hqdefault (5)

Set 7:

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Want More (Unreleased Alternate Mix); Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’76 bonus
  • John Holt & Tommy McCook – Stealing, Stealing; Greater Jamaica – Moonwalk Reggae (Treasure Isle) ‘69

<Studio One and Treasure Isle – Jamaican Rock Steady stalwarts; 10 sec.>

  • Sister Rasheda – Jah Is Love; 10” (Jah Warrior) 2006
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Duke Reid boss man of Rock Steady label Treasure Isle

Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • 2 Bad Card – Rome; Weed Specialist CD Single (ON U Sound) ’95 UK
  • Onejiru feat. Turtle Bay Country Club & Mike Brooks – Foolish People; King Size Dub Chapter 10 (Echo Beach) 2003
  • Willi Williams & Joseph Cotton – See Mi Yah; See Mi Yah (Rhythm & Sound)  2005 Germany
  • Orange Blossom – Maldito; Everything Must Change (Bonsai) 2004 Fr. with female Arabic vox
  • Transglobal Underground – Good Luck Mr. Gorsky; Psychic Karaoke (Nation) ’96 UFO-ria tune
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Smile Jamaica’s Holy Trinity – Mutant Dub, Female Vox, Arabic Language

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: (Stream + Tracklist) June 11, 2016: Summer Rain Utah!

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Greetings,

Nice little cool breeze summer rain last week. Rarity for sure-ty. I am gearing up for 28 Years on Reggae Radio. Early morning learns the ropes. Saturday Afternoon plants the Flag. Enjoy each show like it could be the last.

bless, robt

<28 Years of Reggae Radio>

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Reggae History Lesson – Muhammad Ali; 24 sec.

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Muhammad Ali (AKA Mehemet Ali, Mehmet Ali), 1769-1849, pasha of Egypt for Ottoman Empire. Image published: 1901.

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive: Annotated Playlist: June 11, 2016; 34 sec.

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Smile Jamaica Approved

Set 1:

  • Natural Roots – Children of Jah; Natural Roots (Onlyroots) ’84 Fr. Vinyl
  • Bullwackie’s All Stars – African Roots Act II Dub; African Roots Act 2 (Wackies) ’82 Bronx; Dub Album of the Hour
  • Errol Brown – Muhammad Ali Boom a Yay in Africa; 7” (Brown Beat) ’74 JA: Muhammad Ali mini set

<Reggae History Lesson: Muhammad Ali in Zaire; 83 sec.>

  • Dennis Alcapone – Cassius Clay; Trojan Story (Trojan)  ‘73
  • Dennis Alcapone –  Muhammad Ali; Hits & Misses (Trikont)
  • Sister Carol – Herbal Is Natural; Direct Hit! Live (Catapult) 2001 live in Maryland; 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
  • Jah Rej – Binghi in the Jungle; 12” (Jah Works) 2002 UK mutant dub instrumental
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Ali in Zaire

Set 2:

  • Peter Tosh – Come Together; No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘87

<Peter Tosh murdered: 9/11 – 1987; 42 sec.>

  • Lorna Asher – True History; Straight to Your Heart (Twinkle) ‘99
  • Culture – Jah Pretty Face; Two Sevens Clash (Shanachie) ‘77
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Roots, Rock, Reggae + Dub; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ‘76
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Tosh’s first birthday after his murder: Oct. 18, 1987 – Black Monday stock market crash

Set 3: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26+ Years

  • Judy Mowatt – Joseph; Black Woman (Shanachie) ’76  tribute to Bob Marley (Joseph the Biblical prophet)

<Bob Marley – Joseph of Israel; 13 sec.>

  • The Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom; Dance Craze Soundtrack (2 Tone) ’80 live 2 Tone ska
  • Tapper Zukie – Ital Pot; MPLA (Virgin Front Line) ’78 Mozambique People’s Liberation Army tribute
  • UB40 – I Think It is Going to Rain Today; More UB40 Music (Sound) ‘83 12” mix
  • Black Slate – Roman’s Dub; Ogima (TCD) ’81 Dub Album of the Hour

 

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Joseph – Biblical Prophet. Bob Marley Reggae Prophet

Set 4:

  • Bunny Wailer – Ballroom Floor; Retrospective (Shanachie) ‘81
  • Horace Andy – Ain’t No Sunshine; Prime of (Music Club) Bill Wither cover ‘73
  • Teddy Brown – Midnight Train to Georgia; Reggae Pulse 3 – Love Songs (RAS) ’75 Gladys Knight & the Pips cover
  • Storm – It’s My Birthday; Hits of the Past (Links) mid 70s female lovers rock
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Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

  • Brentford All Stars – My Sweet Lord; Solid Gold (Steady) NY George Harrison instrumental: Vinyl is Vital set
  • Zap Pow – Irie Land; Reggae Rules! (Rhino)  ’80 US vinyl; herbtune
  • U Brown – Chant It Down: U Brown vrs. (sic) Peter Yellow; DJ Confrontation (CF) UK deejay toasters
  • Tony Tuff – Run Come; Hustling (Scorcher) ’80 JA

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Set 6:

  • Dennis Bovell – Dub d’Cap’n; Mek It Rock (Pressure Sounds) ’80 UK dub to I Roy
  • Abyssinians – Smokey Joe; Reunion (AO!) ’98 herbtune
  • Barry Brown – Fittest of the Fittest; Reggae Heights (Mafia & Fluxy) 2001
  • Universal Speakers – We Roots; We Roots (Catch Me Time) female duo; 2012 LA

<Reggae Blues-Dawtas mix: Chuck Foster Reggae radio DJ; 28 sec.>

  • Crazy Caribs – 50 Pence Dub; Dancehall Dub; (Ariwa) 2004 Mad Professor – Dub  Album of the Hour
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Chuck Foster – dean of the Reggae Radio deejay

Set 7:

  • Kwame Bediako – Steppin’ in a Zion; African Reggae (Putomayo) 2009, from Ghana
  • Ammoye’ – Dun Suh; CD Single (Version Xcursion) Can. Female
  • Black Uhuru – Liberation 2000; Dynasty (RAS) 2001: Andrew Bees on vx
  • Stranger Cole – Red Eye; Morning Train (Jah Shaka) 2006

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  • Faithless – Muhammad Ali; Outrospective (Virgin) 2001 UK
  • Dubvisionist feat. Ari Up & Dubblestandart – Soulmate; King Size Dub (Echo Beach)
  • Judith – Such Is life; Universal Roots – UK Reggae Stars (Universal Roots) 2008 UK
  • African Head Charge – Rasta Don’t Fear; Live in Japan (ON U Sound) 2005
  • Dan-I & King Kietu – Rastafari Judgment Fire; Hail Rastafari (Imperial Roots) 2009 It.
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Can’t spell Italy without Ital

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): June 4, 2016: Livicated to to the Black Superman!

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Greetings,

Woke up last Saturday to the news the world’s #1 sports hero (at least before Michael Jordan), Muihammad Ali passed to the next world.

He was a huge influence on Reggae. He was truly a Black Superman to many in the Third World, Africa and Jamaica.

I lead off with a Tribute to the Black Superman. And on the June 11 Ark-Ive we’ll hear a whole set of rarities

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

bless, robt

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Ma’a salaama champ

 

Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: June 4, 2016: Annotated Playlist; 58 sec.

  • Tribute to Muhammad Ali
  • Wailers Family Tree: Bob, Bunny, Peter, Rita, Ziggy
  • Best of 26+ years: Gregory, UB40
  • Rockers do Reggae: Sade, Brown, Punkers – The Clash, Ruts DC
  • Vinyl is Vital midway
  • Mutant Dub last half hour

bless, robt

Set 1:

  • Kayawah & Movement Band – Never Love Jah; Culture Rock (Only Roots) ’80 Fr. vinyl
  • Prince Jammy – Jammin For Survival; Rodigan’s Dub Classics: Serious Selections vol. 1 (Rewind Selecta) UK DJ David Rodigan’s dub picks for the hour
  • Johnny Wakelin & the Kinshasa Band –  Black Superman (Muhammed Ali); Reggae Soul and Rock & Roll (Pye) ’76 UK vinyl

<RIP champ! 43 sec.>

  • Phillip Fraser – Holding On; Dancehall Explosion (Trojan) ‘82
  • Mutabaruka – What About the Land; Roots All Stars – Gathering of the Saints (Shanachie) ’98 dub poet
  • Sister Carol – Herbal Affair; Direct Hit! – Live (Catapult) 2001 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement, live in Maryland
  • Mike Brooks – Sinnerman; 10” (Teams)
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Fist to Fist rub a dub – The Black Superman

Set 2:

  • Aswad – Pass the Cup; Not Satisfied (CBS) ’82 UK herbtune
  • Rupie Dan & Jennifer Gad – Rastaman; Solid Foundation (Flag) ’92 update on Drifter riddim
  • Tapper Zukie – Oh Lord!; Tapper Roots (Virgin Front Line) ‘79
  • Augustus Pablo – Full Up; 12” (Rockers International) melodica update of Studio One riddim
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Aswad – “black” in the languages of Amharic and Arabic

Set 3: Wailers Family Tree

  • Ziggy Marley – Start It Up; Ziggy Marley (Tuff Gong) New
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Concrete; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’75: dub to Jah Live

<Concrete = Jah Live Dub; 24 sec.>

  • Bunny Wailer – Want to Go Home; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’88 best 
  • Peter Tosh – Testify; No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘87

<Murdered 9/11 1987. Bad omen for 14 years later; 46 sec.>

  • Revolutionaries – Dub Over Dub (Heartbeat/High Note) Dub Album of the Hour
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Cut down just as I got into Reggae hardcore! Livicate never deadicate

Set 4: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26+ Years

  • Rita Marley – Harambe; Harambe (Shanachie) ’82 harambe – “pull together” in Swahili; 16 sec.
  • Ini Kamoze – Wings With Me; Mini LP (Taxi) ‘84
  • Gregory Isaacs – Special to Me; Private Beach Party (Greensleeves) ‘85
  • UB40 – Rat in Mi Kitchen; Rat in the Kitchen (A & M) ‘86
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Harambe – Kenya slogan for “Pull together”. Get rid of the British colonizers

Set 5: Vinyl is Vital

  • Well Pleased and Satisfied – Love Train; Burning Sampler (Burning Sounds) ’79 UK red vinyl
  • Cassandra – Thank You For The Many Things You’ve Done; Babylon Soundtrack (Takoma) ’80 UK
  • Tony Tuff – Born in the Ghetto; Presenting Mr. Tuff (Black Roots) ’81 JA
  • Tony Bell & Kutchie – Thief Can’t Prosper; Mercy (Indigo Music) ’89 UK
  • Daddy Freddy Meets the Rootsman – Back Pon Dem Case; Old School New School (BSI) 2000 Portland Ore.
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Red Vinyl from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives

Set 6: Rockers do Reggae

  • Sade – By Your Side (Reggae Mix); CD Single (Sony) 2000 Sly & Robbie prod’n
  • Jackson Browne – Everywhere I Go; I’m Alive (Elektra) ‘93
  • The Clash – White Man in Hammersmith Palais; From Here to Eternity (Epic) punkers out of sorts at Jamaican concert in London : Live Best Of (Baltimore, MD)

<Punkers love Jamaican Reggae; 43 sec.>

  • Ruts DC Meet the Mad Professor –Rhythm Collisoion; Rhythm Collision Dub (ROIR) ’80 UK punkers do dub

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Set 7:

  • Mo’Kalamity & the Wizards – Vision; African Reggae (Putomayo) 2006 Cape Verdean group w/ female vox
  • Audio Active feat. Bim Sherman – Free the Marijuana; Happy Shopper in Europe EP (Beat) ’95 Jah-pon mutant dub herbtune
  • Eric Rebel Lion Buddles – Rebel Lion.; Roots of Black People (Progressive Internaitonal)

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Set 8: Mutant Dub

  • Legend of A & O (Dopic Sounds) 2006 UK ttrance dub w/ female vox: Mutant Dub Set
  • Steffe – Heart of Fire; More Bass Than Space  (Dubmission) 2000 UK
  • Lee “Scratch” Perry vs. the Moody Boyz feat. Roots Manuva – International Broadcaster; King Size Dub: ON U Sound 30 Year Anniversary (Echo Beach) 2011
  • Dubadelic – High; Bass Invaders (WordSound) ‘98

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Smile Jamaica’s Mutant Dub Mash Down – Digital Dubplate Only (June 2016)!

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What is Mutant Dub?

Greetings,

Took last Saturday off on a cratedigging assignment. In order to keep fresh roots on my Mixcloud stream, I cooked up 3 hours of Mutant Dubwize in my Secret Dubratory.

I call these off-air Ark-I(ves: Digital Dubplates since they are online only.

Bass in yer Facd!

bless, robt

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Bass the Final Frontier on the Starship Dubwise

Digital Dubplate – Mutant Dub Mashdown (June 2016) Playlist:

0-30 hr.

  • Alpha & Omega – King and Queen; King and Queen (A & O) ’89 UK trance dub w/ female vox: 3 Hours of Mutant Dub
  • Thievery Corporation – Sound the Alarm; It Takes a Thief (ESL) 2010  Best Of: DC dubbers
  • The Gorillaz – Ghost Train; G-Sides (EMI) 2002
  • Future Pigeon – Yuppy Conqueror; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collect)  2006 So Cal
  • Samia Farah – Le Monde; Many Moods of Samia Farah (SAM) 2008 Tunisian-French singer
  • Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom – Chin Up; Duppy Writer (Big Dada) 2010 UK chanter
  • Heavyweight Dub Champion – Champion’s Return + Higher Elevation; Survival Guide for the End of Time (Champion Nation) 2002 Boulder, CO
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Roots Manuva – UK toaster over dubblicious beats

30 min – 1 hr.:

  • Disrupt – Asteroid Dub Force; Jahtarian Dubbers vol. 3 (Jahtari) 2012 German
  • Hollie Cook – Postman; Twice (Mr. Bongo)  daughter of Sex Pistol Paul Cook
  • Dub Judah/Mad Professor – Standing Firm; In Captivity (Nubian) ’95 UK
  • Dreadzone – Cave of Angels; Second Light (Virgin) ’95 UK
  • Ben Wa – Break That Stone (Granite Mix); Docking Sequence: BSI Campaign vol. 1 (BSI) 2000 Portland, OR dub label
  • Sevendub feat. Angelique & Zakaya – Fire (Soul Fire mix); Dub Club Edition (Collision) 2006 Germ.
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Mutant Dubstress – Hollie Cook: dawta of a Sex Pistol. Former Slit

1 hr. – 90 min.:

  • Scott Hardkiss – Hey Deejay!; Technocolor Dreamer (God Within) 2009 San Fran
  • Balkan Beat Box – What a Night; Give (Nat Geo)  2011 NY/Israeli group. Necrophilia lyrics?
  • The Interruptor – African Satellite Dub; Roots of Dub Funk 4 (Tanty) 2004 Swiss artist
  • SoKo – I Thought I Was An Alien; I Thought I Was An Alien (Babycat) Fr. Female, 2013 UFO-ria
  • Klaatu – Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft; Hope (Capitol) ’77 Can. UFO-ria.
  • Full Moon Scientist – Lunar Base Dub; Planet Dub (Ultimate) ’96 UFO-ria
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French singer SoKo and her boy-alien as opposed to boy-friend

90 min. – 2 hr.

  • Ari Up – Kill ‘em With Love; Dread More Dan Dead (Collision) female punk dubber of Slits, New Age Steppers
  • African Head Charge – Touch I; In Charge – Live in Japan (Beat) 2005
  • Anju Kumbz – Stand Up On Your Feet; Binghi Riddim (M) 2008 Neth.
  • Martin Campbell – No Farmer; Historical Tracks (Channel One UK) 2010 best of
  • Zion Train feat. Molara – Freedom; Love Revolutionaries (Universal Egg) ’99 UK trance dub w/ female vox
  • Singers & Players –  Thing Called Love (Don’t Fight); Revenge of the Underdog (ON U Sound)
  • Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers – Marley Dub; Clive Hunt & the Dub Dancers  (Makasound) 2008 Fr. Bob cover
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RIP Ari Up – Slit, New Age Stepper. Step-daughter of Johnny Rotten

2 hr. – 2 and 1/2 hr.

  • Creation Rebel – Chatti Chatti Mouth/Threat to Creation; Psychotic Jonkanoo (Statik) ’81 UK: Adrian Sherwood prod’n
  • Soho – Shake Your Thing; Goddess (Atco) ’90 UK dubbers w/ female vox
  • Audio Active – Return of the Space Ape; Apollo Choco (ON U Sound) ’97 Jah-pon; UFO-ria
  • Bomb the Bass w/ Spikey Lee – Darkheart (7” Edit); clear (Quango) ’95 UK
  • Congo Ashanti Roy & Singers & Players – African Blood; Disco Plates Collection Part I (ON U Sound) ’81 UK
  • Akabu – Fate of the World; Warrior Queen (ON U Sound) ’95 UK female group
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Adrian Sherwood’s collector vinyl. Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives

2 and 1/2 – 3 hr.:

  • Black Star Liner – Bonus Track; Yemen Cutta Connection (Echo Beach) ’96 UK/Hindi group
  • Survival Soundz – Dub Is Dub; Land of Baboon (Baraka Foundation) ’96 Brooklyn
  • Dub Syndicate – Herbal Roots; Acres of Space (Lion & Roots) 2001 UK
  • Kanka feat. Moyenei – Ya Estas Aqui; Sub.mersion (Hammerbass)  2009 Fr. w/ female vox
  • Kode9 – Magnetic City; Box of Dub (Soul Jazz)  2007 UK dubstep
  • Dubmatix feat. Ammoye – Lock Down; Clash of the Titans (Collision) 2011 Can. w/ female vox

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives (Stream + Tracklist): May 21, 2016 – Memorial Weekend Roots Soundtrack!

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Greetings,

Cratediggers weekend! Enjoy last Week’s show. Nuff vinyl in all styles and fashion. Wailers Family Tree. Mutant Dub. Best of Smile Jamaica – Year 1 (1989-90.

bless, robt

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Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Annotated Playlist – May 21, 2016; 68 sec.

Set 1:

  • Sidney Jackson – Hit Me With Music; Hit Me With Music (Trojan) ’74 UK vinyl
  • Dub Specialist – Sitting With Stupid; Juck’s Incorporated (Studio One) ’76 JA vinyl: Dub Album of the Hour
  • Kingman + Jonah feat. Claudious Linton – So Wrapped Up; Sign Time (Sun King) 2008
  • Zema – Praise B4 Battle; Look at the Heart (Melchizedek) ’99 So Cal female singer
  • 10 Ft. Ganja Plant feat. Sylford Walker – Hard Times; Shake Up the Place (ROIR) 2011 Upstate NY
  • Revolutionaries – PLA; Hitbound Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat) ’76 dub. People’s Liberation Army (Communist China)

<Tributes to 70’s revolutionary movements – The Revolutionaries (Sly & Robbie); 22 sec.>

  • Tapper Zukie – Chalice to Chalice; MPLA (Virgin Front Line) ’78 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement

<Jamaican saying: I came to drink milk, not count cow; 14 sec.>

  • Aquizm & Mad Professor – Kunta Kinte; 10” (Ariwa) 2008 UK instrumental over Creole’s “Beware”

<Alex Haley’s Roots = Kunta Kinte; 20 sec.>

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Kunta Kinte = Alex Haley’s Roots

Set 2: Wailers Family Tree

  • Bob Marley & the Wailers – Jah Live; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) ’76: single livicated to HIM

<HIM overthrown by Ethiopian Communists – Jah Live; 55 sec.>

  • Bunny Wailer – Soul Rebel; Retrospective (Shanachie) ’81 Marley cover
  • Peter Tosh – Lessons In My Life; No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘87
  • Sister Carol & Junior Jazz – 70 Sup’m Pieces of Bob; Direct Hit: Live (Catapult) 2001: tribute to Bob Marley
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Picture sleeve from the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives

Set 3:

  • Martha Velez – Bend Down Low; Escape From Babylon (Sire) ’76: Bob produced/Wailers on the riddim/Scratch engineer

<Roots Dawta – Martha Velez; 25 sec.>

<More Velez; 29 sec.>

  • Barrington Levy – Collie Weed; Dancehall Explosion (Trojan) ’79 herbtune
  • Barry Brown – Forward On; Far East (Hitbound) ‘81
  • 4th Street Orchestra – Dubber; 10” (Rama) ’77 UK: Dennis Bovell dub to Beatles’ And I Love Her
  • Aston Familyman Barrett – Familyman in Dub (Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour
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Broadway singer Martha Velez

Set 4: Best of Smile Jamaica – 26+ Years

  • Aswad – Down the Line; Not Satisfied (Columbia) ’82 herbtune: 
  • Dennis Brown – Get Up; Love Has Found Its Way (A & M) ‘82
  • IJahman Levi – Moulding; Strictly For Rockers (Mang) ’85 comp.
  • Faybienne – Fire; Roots Daughters (Ariwa) ’88: Mad Professor prod’n, female vox
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Dennis Brown – The Crown Prince of Reggae

Set 5: Vinyl Is Vital

  • Marcia Griffiths – My Ambition; At Studio One (Studio One) ’80 JA
  • Niney – My Spliff; Nuclear Jammin’ (Voiceprint) ’86 herbtune, Chicago

<Niney the Observer, producer; 13 sec.>

  • New Age Steppers feat. Bim Sherman – Memories; Foundation Steppers (ON U Sound) ’83 UK mutant dub/Adrian Sherwood
  • Dillinger – Check Sister Jane; King Pharaoh (Blue Moon) ’84 UK toasting over Leroy Smart’s version of Bob Marley’s Waiting in Vain
  • Al Campbell – Children of the Ghetto + Ghetto Dub; Showcase (DEB) ’78 UK
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Niney the Observer: lost a finger working the docks

Set 6: Jamaican Jukebox 45 RPM 7″ vinyl; 9sec.

  • Debra Keese & the Black Five – Travelling; 7” (Orchid) Lee Perry/Black Ark
  • Colour Red – Christ Is Black; 7” (1st Rasta) 2000
  • Junior Byles & Glen Ricks – I & I; 7” (Triple RRR)  ‘99
  • Jim Brown – Calypso, Calypso; 7” (Studio One) dj to Slim Smith’s I’ll Never Let You Go
  • Charley Ace – Country Boy; 7” (Impact!) ‘73

<Labrish – gossip in Jamaica; 17 sec.>

  • Tassilli Players – Interstellar Overdub; Outer Space (Universal Egg) ’95 UK (mutant) Dub Album of the Hour

<Tassilli – cave painting in Algeria – Ancient Aliens>

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Tassilli Algeria

Set 7:

  • John Holt – Police in Helicopter; 12” (Holt) ’83 herbtune

<Look in your rearview mirror!; 13 sec.>

<Best siren in Reggae>

  • Black Uhuru – Spongi Reggae (Disco Mix); Red (Deluxe Edition) ‘81

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Set 8: Mutant Dub

<What is Mutant Dub?; 17 sec.>

  • WordSound I Powa – Wickedness Increase; Live From Planet Crooklyn (ROIR) ’96 Mutant Dub Set – Brooklyn dubbers
  • Kaleidoscope – Deep Water Black; More Bass than Bass (Dubmission) 2000
  • Dubadelic – Sirius Bass; Bass Invaders (WordSound) ’98 NY
  • Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear; Culture of Dear (ESL) 2011 DC dubbers
  • Shadow Army – Thought Is Boss; Destroy Babylon (ADD) 2008
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Conspiracy theory dub?