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!
Getting Red I (I mean ready) for Smile Jamaica’s 20th Annual Cannabis Service Show
For the next 3 hours it will include trying to “pack” about 350 songs into 35 rinsed out on air; at most;
Smile Jamaica 420 Ark-Ives 2014 edition: 20th Cannabis Service Show
Including canna-spired soundbytes, movie clips, Reefer Madness cautionary PSA’s and Jah knows what else.
This show is either my highest (no pun or maybe pun intended) show or the lowest. Either way it’s on. Gonna celebrate some free speech while we still can in this country.
To quote Dry and Heavy:“Whenever I get low I get high”
I will link the Ark-Ive here and on Mixcloud for pot-sterity, I mean posterity.
Plus tomorrow at 4:20 AM start your easter celebration right with Smile Jamaica’s What Is Mutant Dub? Episode 4: Space Dust.
4 hours and 20 minutes of Mutant Dub at 4:20 AM on 4/20. Linked here on the Smile Jamaica blog and Mixcloud
I always start these annual 420 shows with Jah Woosh – Marijuana World Tour
I also play Sly & the Revolutionaries – Black Ash Dub as my Dub Album of the Week. Which has all the great Jah Thomas soundbytes like “Pass me the Rizla, pass me the herb”.
From Jah Woosh:
The Marijuana World Tour taking you to the four corners of the Earth. Buying and smoking the herb and the products there of.
My World Tour starts in Hong Kong where I met a lickle Chinaman. He gimme some opium. Then I trod forth to a place called Pakistan and there I met a lickle Paki man. Him gimme Paki Black
Taking you to the four corners of the Earth. My World Tour takes you to: Germany, Holland, Lebanon, Colombia, England, Thail and Jamaica.
Coming down the home stretch of the 20 Days of Cannabis. So the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives has filled you in on Jah-maican Reggae Herbtunes and 4 hr 20 min of Mutant Dub: a high-ly world and Euro phenoemon.
Good ole Americans love the Seven Leaf too. Here is Smile Jamaica’s Top Ten American Herbalists
1. The Toyes – Smoke Two Joints and Monster Hash; The Toyes (CD Tunes). All killer novelty classic. The former awards video game stalwarts two joints for every 10,000 points. The latter works on 4/20 and Halloween. Boris Pickett would be proud.
2. Future Pigeon – The Mummy; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collection) . Out of Los Jahngeles, this is another ditty that works in April or All Hallow’s Eve. “Roll a lickle spliff wif de papyrus while we smoke Sensemeenia inna Mesopotamia”
3. Ben Harper – Burn One Down; Reggae Sampler (Virgin). If Smile Jamaica tracked requests over the past two decades or so this gentle acoustic niyahbinghi number would be near the top. “Let us burn one from end to end. Pass it over to me my friend.”
4. Dub Lounge international – Dub Hangover; Dub Lounge International (Ancient Vessel). Seattle: usually the dub is blissed out riffing on the original vocal. In this case dub rid dims pump out a gravity-free mix with vocals straight no chaser. “I’ve got an Herb hangover and I don’t wanna let it go”
5. Collie Buddz – Come Around; Collie Buddz (Colombia). New Orleans by way of Bermuda. With his name you would think he was in league with the Seven Leaf. Ragga vocal style with a hint of Autotune. Thick and sticky Roots Riddim updating an old Zap Pow Reggae lick.
6. 10 Ft. Ganja Plant – Walkey Walk Tall; Presents (ROIR) Upstate New York, like #4 another truth in advertising group. They are good for one or more herbtunes on nearly all their releases.
7. Natural Roots – For My Sensi (extended); CD Single (Rock da Joint). Homegrown in Utah. Nice horn licks, rub a dub riddim and winsome female backing vox. Drum and the bass mashes up nicely with the Sensi ride. Bliss at nearly 7 minutes
8. Mystic Roots Band – Pass the Marijuana; Constant Struggle (Stay Positive). Chico, Collie-fornya. Nuff herbal meditations from this group. Features special guest intro
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9. Rootz Underground – Herb Fields; Movement (Riverstone) Nice slinky one drop tribute to guerrilla growing the Ganja crop.
10. Easy Star All Stars – One Likkle Draw; First Light (Easy Star). The label and collective out of New York. They brought us two volumes of dubadelic Dub Side of the Moon. This groover features Junior Jazz and Daddy Lion on the vox.
Gonna play a set of American Herbalists in 2 hours: Smile Jamaica 90.9FM KRCL.org. 420 Cannabis Service Show
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
I was cratedigging last weekend and swung by the magazine rack. Something caught my eye and I nearly wet myself.
Whenever I go to Jah-buquerque to see my Sister and family, we go to a local cafe for breakfast. They used to have a whole wall devoted to magazines. I liked that because they had The Beat magazine: a Reggae and World Music mag that I wrote Mutant Dub reviews for in the mid to late 90s. I’d grab a copy off the wall and point out my review to my fams.
So we pop in last month and boom: All the magazines were deemed redundant when everyone reads content for free on their gadget. They apologized to the evolution to more seats with plugins.
How does a perennial magazine like Rolling Stone move units in that environment? One way is to release issues for collectors of “artifacts”. Those of us dwindling consumers who want a physical memento as opposed to a utilitarian digital object.
Don’t get me wrong. I love my iPod. I have to have something to listen to from my car in the parking lot to my office and back. But very little of the music I play on Smile Jamaica comes digital born. It’s vinyl at home, CDs in the car and office.
I seriously average between 4-8 hours of active listening per day. Every day. Being a librarian I keep lists everywhere. I have 50,000 songs on my iTunes. And those are albums I listened to on headphones before I rip them and move them to playlists: herb tunes, UFO, Marley Tributes, Occupy Wall Streeet, Rockers doing Reggae.But it’s 99% physicality for surety! It was “rinsed out” on vinyl or aluminum (isn’t that what cds are made of?)
When I get iTunes gift cards at Holiday time, I mainly buy Dubstep 12″s I can’t find locally that I read about inMixmag.
There are diehards who want the cd (or better yet vinyl), magazines, actual books, magazines, comic books and music scores. There is something to be said for small scale catering to niche markets of collectors and people who want to give their eyes a break from the cathode ray nipple.
Rolling Stone has released several theme based issues devoted to the stalwarts like The Beatles, Dylan, Rolling Stones. Collections of stories and photos from the magazine on glossy page stock.
It is meant to drive even subscribers to reach for their wallet. (And I have a lifetime subscription to Rolling Stone. That is my next article for KUER Music).
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If you dig the magazine Wax Poetics (and you should if you don’t), it is very reminiscent of that attention to a better quality page than magazine glossy slicks.
The Marley Special Collection issue is top rank.
How Bob Marley Changed the World
An Encounter With the Legend; excerpt of Bob’s first cover story Aug. 12, ’76; 4 months before he was nearly assassinated in Jamaica
Visiting Bob Marley’s Jamaica musical travelogue of the Island
Living Legacy: 5 of Bob’s 11 children reflect and share memories of their father.
Plus the obligatory Top 50 Songs and artist reflections. Before I read the magazine, I ventured a guess at what would be judged Bob Marley‘s #1 song. My guess came in at #3.
70 high quality photos in color and black and white.
And since this is Cannabis Service Month. The “toker’s tally” of those 70 is 4:
Now you see him in action, let’s hear a lickle drawof Bob in service to the Seven Leaf
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”
<Soom T – Ode to a Carrot: Smile Jamaica Mini Mix; 4 min 20 sec.>
Greetings,
One of the things I want to try and accomplish with the Smile Jamaica blog is to introduce readers to new music releases and titles that I favor and listen to for the purpose of “rinsing out” on KRCL 90.9FM krcl.org. Saturday’s 4-7 PM. Smile Jamaica on “your station that rules the nation!”
Soom T is the singer. Disrupt the Dubstep producer. Jahtari is a major Dubstep label out of Jah-many.
Here is Smile Jamaica’s definition of Dubstep: heavy bass and dance music that focuses more on the “wobble” at the expense of the “echo”.
Most Post Modern Dub that I have been calling Mutant Dub for 25+ years is the evolution of Jamaican Dub. Orthodox Jamaican Dub of its 70s heyday, made by guys like King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry, concentrated on turning the vocal inside out and deconstructing or inverting the song structure.
The focus is on delay and ricochet echo of the riddim guitar and vocal; with the drum and bass pushed up in the mix. In Reggae the guitar serves as a rhythm instrument. That makes the perfect soundscape to chop that guitar down stroke (the “chukka chukka” sound of Reggae) into shards of cascading reverb.
The vocal becomes texture as it reverberates or drops in and/or fades out. In the coffee table book Reggae International,by Stephen Davis & Peter Simon, they call this studio phenomenon “X Ray Music”.
Mutant Dub is the European (for the most part) evolution in sound using contemporary UK and German dance music, modern instrumentation and studio craftsmanship while punching up the Jamaicanesque echo in both tempo and volume.
The Holy Trinity in this sound was Adrian Sherwood’s ON U Sound, the Mad Professor and Jah Shaka. They bridged the gap between 70s Roots Jamaica and today’s Dubstep, Lounge,Techno and Downtro.
21st Century Dubstep serves to lessen the echodelic environment and goes for over modulating the bass. That phenomenon is where you get the pulsating vibrato effect which has a more dark and ominous sound that is less kinetic and more dense. The brooding and malevolent “wubba” effect. Geared at maximum volume right at your groin.
One of the other components of Dubstep is the tendency to cut all that “murk” by layering in tinkly video game effects and bleeps and boops.
Soom T & Disrupt have crafted a typical Dubstep release in Ode to a Carrot which showcases the “wubba” as well as the 80s Atari lo fi sound.
Soom T is a wee female Singjay out of Glasgow, Scotland. Singjay is a style in Reggae that combines a synthesis of Jamaican toasting along with singing. Think Eek a Mouse or Sister Carol. Singjay = singer + deejay.
In addition to her album, Soom T has been a featured rub-a-dubber for collectives like Mungo’s Hi Fi. Ode to a Carrot is, essentially, a “concept” album devoted to the Seven Leaf; 15 tracks on disk or dubble LP all devoted to Ganja.
I play her with frequency on Smile Jamaica: as a way to get more quality women’s music into the show, herbtunes and Mutant Dub. That’s why I usually call her The Weedstepper on air.
Vocally she has a winsome, youthful voice with a little Scottish burr and sass in her delivery.
The lead off track “Roll It” grabs you by the eardrums with its “Bic flicking” intro and green smoke exhale. Lyrically, it is anthemic pot propaganda full of four letter middle finger salutes in praise of aggressive cannabis consumption in all its style and glory. The thud of the bass is leavened with slicing electronic syncopation while video game effects swirl in and out. “Suck it, f*** it, everybody inhale to get stoooooned.”
“Boom Shiva” is old school video game soundtrack welded to Digital Reggae Sleng Teng bass Riddim underneath Soom T’s double time lyric delivery. The Wubba interlude will make your fillings ping. “Never Get Caught” shows our gal so boastful she brags about selling weed to the cops. She blows smoke their way again on “Puff the Police”. “Puff” being a substitute for another 4 letter word.
“Saved by a Ganja Leaf” showcases her unique rhythmic speed rap over a gurgling bass and chunky pump organ chop chop. She is fearless in her devotion to the Seven Leaf. She inspires me to do the same here on the Smile Jamaica blog. Selah!l
“Puff That Weed” is straight in the UK tradition of 80s speed rappers like Smiley Culture packing dubble the lyrics per BPM. The throwback 80s Riddim has some Dubstep grit in the baseline. She segues into more of a cool down the pace outer space echo on “I Need Weed”. Nice to mix up the flow of the disk for a sense of free from gravity expansion with some old school Mutant Dub stylee.
“Ganja Ganja” is straight out of the 80s synth pop tradition with its thudding drums and keyboard burps. A heavy dose of video game effects makes it contemporary. More great programming, as 80’s dance funk slides straight into slow and sticky rub a dub bass on “Wee Rant”. This features Soom T’s spoken word narration sounding like Spud’s li’l sister from the flick Trainspotting.
You could listen to “They Call It Pot” and use it for your research paper detailing the different types of marijuana: Cannabis Sativa, Indica and Ruderalis. In between her lecture, Soom T vamps it up on the singing part. Very overt video game texture on the mix. “Weed is Sweeter” is smokey Weedstep Lovers Rock where Soom T sings in a very fetching and attractive chanteuse style. She surfs on a more space age classic Neodub riddim that approximates the weightlessness of space. 21st Century Spliff Odd-yssey as opposed to Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey. Very slinky way to end the set.
Hopefully Weedstep will become as much a perennial sub genre as Mutant Dub has become. At least on Smile Jamaica.
<Soom T – Ode to a Carrot: Smile Jamaica Mini Mix; 4 min 20 sec.>
That wobbly stack of disks is what I have left to “harvest” (ha ha) to my exclusive online-only Mixcloud Digital Dubplate Show: 420 Canna-bass!
What Is Mutant Dub? Episode 4: Space Dust
4 hours and 20 minutes on 4/20 at 4:20 AM.
Rise ‘n’ Shine!
Wake ‘n Bake!
Wake the Town ‘n’ Tell the People!
With a week to go, I have rinsed out 197 minutes of a total (4 x 60 plus 20, by my liberal arts math, that adds up to…) 260 minutes of acoustic levitation inna Herbal meditation!
63 minutes plus cannabinoidal soundbytes to go. Selah!
Here’s a little “nugg’s” worth, free sample:
<Mutant Dub Herb Show: Space Dust clip; 6 min>
bless, robt
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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