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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Playlist - 29th September 2007

DISRUPT - True Creators (Werk Discs)
KUSH ARORA feat JUAKALI - Seed Haffi Grow (Kush Arora Productions)
PINCH feat JUAKALI - Trauma (Tectonic)
DUSK & BLACKDOWN feat TRIM - The Bit's (Keysound)
ARVE HENRIKSEN – Wind and Bow (Rune Grammofon)
LOST IN HILDURNESS – Casting (12 Tonar)
7 HERTZ - Oxwich Bay (Birdwar)
PLURAMON feat JUTTA KOETHER – Can’t Disappear (Karaoke Kalk)
SAMAMIDON - Wild Bill Jones (Bedroom Community)
JOHN FAIRHURST with NANCY ELIZABETH - Passing Time (Yesternow)
CLARO INTELECTO – Dependant (Modern Love)
OCTOBER - Homosapiens (Caravan)
A MADE UP SOUND - Sleepwalk (Subsolo)
SAWAKO - It's Not On Purpose (Anticipate)
GULTSKRA ARTIKLER - Krovinka Moya (Miasmah)
PETER WRIGHT - Punishment Drugs (Students Of Decay)
WONDER - Full Metal Jacket (Wonderland)
SARANTIS - Outlaw Dub (Subsonik)
PINCH - Lazarus (Tectonic)
STRANGER SON OF WB - Bidding For Kidneys (Marquis Cha Cha)
PETER BRODERICK - Another Glacier (Type)

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Playlist - 22nd September 2007

Diplo - Diplo Rhythm - Big Dada
Flying Lotus - Vegas Collie - Warp
Skream - Sub Island - Soul Jazz
Winston Flames - In a Armagideon - Soul Jazz
Jeffrey Lewis - End Result - Rough Trade
Nancy Elizabeth - I'm Like the Paper - Leaf
Robert Wyatt - A Beautiful Peace - Domino
Trash All Stars - On the Bushside - Green Zone
Babilonci - Cini se da Imamo Hit - Green Zone
Public Enemy - Harder than you think - SlamJamz
shukar Collective - Oh, Girl... Eastblok Music
Jesse Zubot - Dementia - Drip Audio
Hotplate - A Father's Grip - World in Winter Recordings
Zico Chain - Where Would you Rather Be? - Hassle
Black Lips - Katrina - Vice
Heavy Trash - Pure Gold - Yep Roc
Vincent Black Lighting - Good Job, Proper Job - Eli Records
Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go - Viper
Basil Kirchin - Concept Suite feat. The Atonals "Secret Conversations between instruments" - Trunk
Homler Liebig Duo - Limbic - pfMentum
Francois Houle - Liege - Drip Audio
The Land of - Radiant - - http://thelandof.org
Thomas Mapfumo - Sweet Maria - Sheer Sound
ColombiaAfrica - The Mystic Orchestra - Riverboat
Tunng - Bullets - Full Time Hobby
Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie - Pure Records
Wailin' Jennies - Glory Bound - Red House

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Playlist - 15th September 2007

A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Dudanotak – Leaf
Panda Bear – Im not good girl – Paw Tracks
Shedding – W – Hometapes hometapes
Tarkatak – Foerlinga – Gnesungswerk
Hotplate – Elephas – World in Winter
Elliott Sharp – Krkd/Slide – Kwanyin
Colleen – This place in time – Leaf
Scott Solter plays Pattern is Movement – In glasstone Hometapes
Flower-Corsano Duo – Wikd – Textile
Laurent Janneau – Soundscape China – Kwanyin Records
Zhuang, man plays guitar and sings 'small love' – Kink Gong
Huan Qing, Yan Jun and Lanzhou Noise association – Huan Qing
The Hot 8 Band - Sexual Healing - Truthoughts - cd
Sandy Nelson - Let there be Drums - EMI
Sefyu Yoannes - Mela Mela - Manteca
The Winks - Abalone - Drip Audio
Carsick - High Over Sand - Drip Audio
Inhabitants - Will We - Drip Audio
Amy Speace - Step out of the - Wildflower
Steve Adey - Everything in its Right Place - Grand Harmonium Records
Bearsuit - More Soul Than Wigan Casino - Fantastic Plastic Records
The Royal We - All the Rage - Geographic
Arp - Potentialities - Smalltown Supersound

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Playlist - 8th September 2007 - Funkology

Ronnie Hudson - West Coast Poplock - Birdie
Loose Joints - Pop Your Funk - Soul Jazz
ESG - Stand In - Underdogs - re-edit
James Taylor - Cleo's Mood - Dome
Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey - Crossover
King Tim III - Charley Says! (Roller Boogie Baby) - BGP
Bar-kays - Anticipation - Mercury
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Che Che Cole -
JabberLoop featuring Nick Weston - In the Spirit - Mukatsuku
Cedric Im Brooks - Africa - Honest Jons
Ron Hardy - Music Box Classics Vol3 - Party Hardy Records
Bob James - Westchester Lady - CTI
Fabio Noble - Didn't you Know - De Ja Vu Records
The Vibrettes - Humpty Dump - Luv & Haight
Gary Davis - Remember Me (Kenny Dope Mix) - Kay-Dee Records
Domu presents Pete Simpson - Won't Give Up (The Realm Vocal Mix) - Papa Records
Restless Soul featuring Zansika - And I Know It - - Seasons
Llyod & Glen - That Girl - Trojan
Sound Dimension - Version Dread - Heartbeat
Ken Parker - - Count Your Blessings - Trojan
Stevie Wonder - Village Ghetto Land - Motown

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Playlist - 1st September 2007

Buddha Machine loop – Huan Qing CDR
Richie Phoe – Heartical behaviour – Redbud Recordings
Al Haca – Banana split – mp3
Militant Rhythm Section – Chiney brush – Utmost Sound
Bobby Kray – Silly games – V2
Filewile – Nassau massage – Mouthwatering Records
African Virtuoses – Wouloukoro Sterns stcd3024
Balla et ses Balladins – Diarby – Sterns stcd 3025
Rail Band – Maki cebalenw – Sterns
Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus – Truth and right – ROIR
Greg Isaacs – Village of the underprivileged – Trojan
AfroReggae – A parade e outra – Mr Bongo
Jegsy Dodd - Only Footbal can truly break your heart - piffle records
Alex Dingley - Don't ride your bike in the halflight - kimberley records
Fond of Tigers - North - Drip Audio
Bill Monroe - Blue Moon of Kentucky - Viper
Zion Train - Audrey and June - Universal Egg
Black Francis - Captain Patsy - Cooking Vinyl
Emma Pollock - Acid Test - 4AD
Toots and Maytals - Take Me Home Country Round - Trojan
Lou Reed - Metal Music machine (Live) - Asphodel

Dub Review - September 2007

BULLWACKIES ALL STARS

FREE FOR ALL

WACKIES CD/LP

Out originally on the Aires label, in a plain, stencilled sleeve, the title track of this set appeared on Pressure Sounds' Little Roy compilation "Packin' House" a few years ago, and still greets the visitor to the label's website. R ecorded at Randy's, and originally on The Heptones' Hepic label, it features Family Man Barrrett on keyboards, and there are three versions here including the dub of the deejay cut, Meditation Dub The explanation is that these rhythms originate from sessions run by Munchie Jackson, the mysterious owner of the Tafari label, home to Little Roy's classic early roots titles, and as such one of the most sought after of all Bullwackie's output from the early 80's. The real bonus is a trumpet dub on Little Roy's best known single "Tribal War", engineered by Scratch.



JENNIFER LARA / JACKIE MITTO & SOUND DIMENSION

WOMAN OF THE GHETTO / SIDE WALK DOCTOR VERSION

DUB STORE SPECIAL 7"

Naoki Ienaga's Dub Store Records in Tokyo is the home in the East for Studio One and to celebrate the partnership they released two 'specials' on 7" vinyl by the late, and greatly underrated, Jennifer Lara. She joined Studio One in 1969 after leaving school and although her single solo album for the label was Studio One Presents she was also featured on a number of the label's compilations and back-up vocalist for the Ethiopians, Dennis Brown, Freddy McGregor and the Jays. This cover of the Marlena Shaw tune, perhaps better known from the versions by Hortense Ellis or Phyllis Dillon, but Jennifer makes it her own and the bonus is the flip with Jackie Mittoo's deep organ cut of the rhythm.



LV Feat. ERROL BELLOT / DANDELION

GLOBETROTTING / TAKEOVER

HYPERDUB 12"

L.V. are another bunch of South London boys lost in bass and just as the legions of the massing dubstep army are heading towards techno fusions Kode9 allows them to take Hyperdub in the opposite direction. This is soundbwoy boost for Free King Sounds on a slip sliding shuffle beat building only marginally through the mix with a minimal set of restrained dub efx bouncing off below ex-Unity Sounds man Errol Bellot's double tracked vocal that has a strangely floating acapella feel. Equally rootical runnings on the flip this time with a skeletal chant from Dandelion, vocalist with Free King Sound, and a warm live up close feel to the mix which, just when there's some chasmic drop expected after the edgy bass synth, it refuses to materialise but instead a twisting bass line traces the vocal with increased doses of delay added as the abstraction is increased, this is wicked modern roots.



PABLO MOSES

PROVERBS EXTRACTIONS / VERSION

HOUSE OF MOSES 7"

1981 g Chung Pave the Way

In the minds of most roots reggae fans Pablo Moses has spent the majority of his career in the shadow of his astonishing debut album, 1975's "Revolutionary Dream". It did not make the singer any money but he went on to work consistently over the following years, primarily with producer Geoffrey Chung.

This newly revived single first appeared in 1981 as the opener for the "Pave The Way" album, reissued a couple of years ago – although this sounds like a rougher version, a gluey slo-mo half-stepper with the bass mixed up front on the version and the vocal zig zagging through the mix, a total one-off, out of step with everything else happening at the time.



HARRY MUDIE MEETS KING TUBBY'S

IN DUB CONFERENCE VOLUME ONE

MOODISC CD

After last month's conjecture of an 'impossible to compile' "Best of King Tubby" set here comes another contribution. The first in the series of three, this collaboration with Harry Mudie, the man who introduced strings into reggae, contains that rare thing – a string quartet in dub. "Dub With A Difference" is a wonderfully inventive version of the Heptones' "Love Without Feeling" with overdubbed strings added at Chalk Farm Studios in London and the players credited as "the Englishmen"; its as startlingly a beautiful thing as anything created by the Dubmaster with strident opening organ phrase and militant horns giving way to the string melody as violins alternate with more dramatic viola and cellos on top of drum, bass and triangles. Contrasting starkly with the album closer, as cheesy as Harry got, "Strings Dub In Rema". The album is remastered, essential and sounds crisp as a ball.



NATIVE/LITTLE MADNESS WITH LEE PERRY

ROCKSTONE (NATIVE'S ADVENTURES WITH LEE PERRY AT THE BLACK ARK LATE SEPTEMBER 1977)

PRESSURE SOUNDS CD/LP

Introduced by Upsetter bassist Boris Gardner, Wayne Jobson pitched his tunes to Lee Perry whilst he was in the studio with Robert Palmer. The week previously Paul and Lind McCartney had been at the Black Ark. Clearly it was a time when Scratch was in ascendance. Perry bought the spiel because he thought Jobson was an Arawak, he wasn't, but he clearly had the instinct to go to the man of the moment. However the music on this album was also recorded with various other producer including Errol Thompson at Joe Gibbs', Channel One with the Hookim brothers and with Jack Ruby and his house band The Black Disciples famed for their work with Burning Spear. "Rockstone", "Late September In May" and its version, plus "In A Strange Land", appearing on disc for the first time are all under the Perry spell and the strangest a set of tunes ever engineered at the Black Ark, betraying Jobson's unusual West Coast style songwriting pretensions and Scratch's perverse sense of adventure. Wayne Jobson, one time involved with the torrid Peter Tosh film 'Red X', is now a DJ in Los Angeles.



LEE PERRY & THE UPSETTERS

SUPER APE vs. RETURN OF THE SUPER APE

TROJAN CD

Perry's solo masterpiece, at the height of his Black Ark supremacy and the total reggae auteur, the album "Super Ape" was neither vocal nor dub, not DJ or instrumental, but arrived from a totally new dimension. Trojan redress all grievances by the issue of this 'alternate' or 'original Jamaican mix' of the album and at the same time body swerve litigation from Island. There are perhaps only a handful of people who might want to sit down and do the forensics, but suffice to say who cares; this album is a pure joy. If that weren't we also have the conjoined twin, "Return of the Super Ape", and although not as smart as its sonic sibling still carries tunes that confirm Perry's maverick instincts for bewildering all opposition. In there also, a genuine Perry solo vocal album, the long unavailable "Roast Fish and Cornbread", with enough tracks to guarantee any artist top rep: "Soul Fire", Curly Locks", "Free Up The Weed" and "Big Neck Police" – and this was the one Island rejected. Totally essential.



RICHIE PHOE

HEARTICAL BEHAVIOUR / ITAL FOOD

REDBUD RECORDS 7"/MP3

Southend DJ Richie Phoe has made the graduation from hip hop into reggae that is becoming a route more travelled for the aspiring young DJ/producer. This his first single after 10 years of bedroom doodling and it's out via US East Coast dub label redbud. "Heartical Behaviour" is a jump up dancer revving up like an outtake of Joe Gibbs' "African Dub Chapter 3" but then breaking down into a straight-up hard chugging dancer whereas the flip has shuffling percussion, a flute blowing smoke rings and distant dread chants straight from the hold of the Black Ark. Richie can be found on the decks in the Brighton area and on the odd occasion via the town's Juice FM.



BIM SHERMAN

TRIBULATION / TRIBULATION DUB

MY WHOLE WORLD / MY WHOLE WORLD VERSION

PRESSURE SOUNDS 7"

Up and coming in October this year is a Pressure Sounds Bim Sherman set compiled by the label's Pete Holdsworth long time friend of the singer during the latter half of this career spent in the UK. Prefacing that release are two of Bim's best-loved tunes both alternate versions not to be carried onto the album. Out first on Sun Dew in 1975 this is the Scorpio 1977 version of "Tribulation" and is mixed with Bim's voice more prominent than usual and the dub extends well beyond the timing on the vocal, mixed at Tubby's studio in 1977 it sounds like it could be an early Scientist with a trademark echoing test signal at the mix's opening. " My Whole World" was covered by the New Age Steppers with a typically off-kilter Ari Up vocal, this is the original version, this is the original version with a beautiful trombone tracing of the vocal and a dub on the flip which certainly is prime Tubby's and not in the hands of a disciple!







GENERAL DOGGIE & TENOR SAW

CHILL OUT, CHILL OUT

NIGHT LIFE POSSE 7"

Perhaps best known for the incomparable "Ring The Alarm" voiced over Winston Riley's "Stalag" rhythm for the Techniques label, along with Nitty Gritty Tenor Saw became of the key singers of the early digital era. Through the 80s his selection both songs and producers was astute, especially the time spent with Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotion set-up where he turned out "Lots Of Sign", "Pumpkin Belly", "Fever" and "Golden Hen" – still a big tune in today's dance. His duet with General Doggie on "Chill Out Chill Out", for Digital English recorded in Brooklyn in 1987 was to be his final call as he was killed by a speeding car in Houston, Texas in the same year. Also revived and on the street now is "Victory Train" the excellent single recorded with Freddie McGregor's Studio One Band.



CHUCK TURNER / PROFESSOR GRIZZLY

TRYING TO CONQUER I / FIGHT THE PROFESSOR / VERSION

BASIC REPLAY 12"

Originally a session drummer for hotel bands on Jamaica's north coast he began to sing with sound systems such as King Jammy's, Stereo Mar and Stereo One in the early eighties. Turner's first release on vinyl came in 1983, and then again in '85 for producer Top Ranking. King Jammy recorded him in 1987, producing Turner's first hit song "I Need You". "Them Trying To Conquer I" appeared around the same period for Crat Productions in NYC with Dave Kelly as engineer. Maybe on radio this came across as a competent, contemporary roots dancer – a little out of line with the then DeeJay vogue, but played out live on a sounds system this is an absolute monster, cut deep into the vinyl by the Rhythm & Sounds boys, the mix is unforgivably urgent with shrill synth stabs, Turner's sweet delivery grates against the lyric perfectly: "….blood and fire..ah, to all vampire! …". On the same rhythm Professor Grizzly turns in a standard self-referential piece but the version on the flip punches like a vintage hungry welterweight.



ZION TRAIN

LIVE AS ONE

UNIVERSAL EGG CD/LP

Long gone are the days of Perch, Cod and Tench versus the world, this is Zion Train's ninth album and the first since 2002 since when the rest of the world seem to have come into line with both the 'band's' musical vision and also their world view – the main album insert is the Hiroshima Peace Declaration plus a frog and toad educational section. Sole (no pun intended) production duties now lay with Neil Perch in Cologne who is surrounded by all stripes of dub talent from across the continent; amongst those new UK YT sounds ruffer on top of roots, Dubdadda is coming across more confident and its great to see Tipper Irie around again, but it's the single track "Why" from Marlene Johnson that stands out – along with the dubstrumentals which strung together pick up where Dub Syndicate left off around ten years ago. Still leaders of the nu roots pack.