Movin' On Up / Vertical Ascent

Moritz Von Oswald Trio will be appearing at Movement 2010, a.k.a. the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

They're playing on Monday, May 31 at 4 PM on the Red Bull Music Academy Stage.

Dawn Penn: You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) - Steely & Clevie Play Studio One Vintage (Heartbeat 1992)

Junior Delgado: None Shall Escape - Rare & Unreleased: 17 Exclusive Tracks (On-U Sound 2009)

Prince Jammy's: B.Q.E. Dub - Strictly Dub (Pressure Sounds 2010)

Rootah: Holy Mount - Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 1 (Jahtari 2007)

Once 11 Vs. The Pyramid: Monkey Bite - Once 11 Vs. The Pyramid (The Agriculture 2001)

The Ruts: S.U.S. - The Crack (Virgin 1979)

Trip The Off: Sunny Day (In Dub On Bud) - Trip The Off (Clark Street 2000)

Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood: Elixir Of Life - Dubsetter (Beat/On-U Sound 2009)

Starlights Feat. Stanley Beckford: Dip Them Version - Soldering (Heartbeat 1993)

Audio Active: Frog In The Well - Happy Happer (On-U Sound 1995)

Audio Active: Dub Out Of The Well - Happy Happer (On-U Sound 1995)

Toyan: Spar With Me - Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture (Soul Jazz 2008)

Alkaline: Johnny Thompson - ExtraLongLife (Universal 2000)

Prince Fatty: The Zoo - Best Of Prince Fatty (Anvil 2005)

Wayne Smith: Under Me Sleng Teng - Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music (Island 1993)

10 Ft. Ganja Plant: Cool And Collect - Bushrock (ROIR 2009)

Brain Damage Feat. Black Sifichi: Sterile - Spoken Dub Manifesto Vol. 1 (Jarring Effects 2006)

RSD Feat. Likkle Mai: Prophecy - from MySpace

Little Axe: Crossroads - The Wolf That House Built (Okeh 1994)

Little Axe: Soul Of Man - Bought For A Dollar, Sold For A Dime (Bowers & Wilkins 2008)

Moritz Von Oswald Trio: Pattern 3 - Vertical Ascent (Honest Jon's 2009)

This was a very On-U heavy show, partly because we're all looking forward to the reissue of Bought For A Dollar, Sold For A Dime, due out on Real World next month. Here's more info on the making of this excellent album:

Playlist For May 21, 2010

Both Freddie McGregor's "Rasta Have Faith" and Ken Boothe's "Silver Words" were produced by Winston "Niney" Holness a.k.a. the Observer.

Despite it's title, Michael Rose's "Observe Life" is not from the Observer, but rather from Niney's good friend Lee "Scratch" Perry a.k.a. the Upsetter.

Freddie McGregor: Rasta Have Faith - Mr. McGregor (Mercury 1979)

Mafia & Fluxy: Striving A Dub - Dub Anthems (Black Arrow Download 2010)

Ken Boothe: Silver Words - Roots With Quality (VP Records 2009)

New Age Steppers feat. Denise Sherwood: Silver Words - Rare & Unreleased: 17 Exclusive Tracks (On-U Sound Download 2009)

Prince Fatty feat. Hollie Cook: That Very Night - From MySpace

The Offs: Everyone's A Bigot - Everyone's A Bigot 7" (415 Records 1977)

Jamaica Girls: Rock The Beat - Big Apple Rappin': The Early Days Of Hip Hop Culture in New York City (Soul Jazz 2006)

Prince Jammy's: Brooklyn Dub - Strictly Dub (Pressure Sounds 2010)

Michael Rose: Observe Life - Observe Life 7" (Dug Out 2010)

New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up & Bim Sherman: Observe Life - Action Battlefield (On-U Sound 2000)

The Zircons: Stormy Weather (Old Timer Records 1964) [Free Download]

Fats Comet: Stormy Weather - Tackhead: Power Inc., Vol. 1 (Blanc 1994)

New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up: Stormy Weather - Foundation Steppers (On-U Sound 1983)

Lord Mouse & The Kalypso Kats: In The Jungle - Lord Mouse & The Kalypso Kats (Jump Up 2010)

Lee Perry, Dennis Bovell & The On-U Sound System Vs. Pempi: Iron Man - Iron Man 12" (On-U Sound 2010)

The Heptones: I Hold The Handle - On Top (Studio One 1968)

The Offs: I've Got The Handle - First Record (CD Presents 1984)

Jackie Mittoo: Grand Funk - Wishbone (Light In The Attic 2006)

Sinead O'Connor: Move Out Of Babylon - Throw Down Your Arms (That's why there's chocolate & vanilla 2005)

Mossman & Bunny: Pirates Destroy The City - Message In The Dub (Dispensation 2005)

Twilight Circus Dub Sound System feat. Luciano: What We Got To Do (Acoustic Mix) - Foundation Rockers (M Records 2003)

Augustus Pablo: Pablo In Moonlight City - The Crowning Of Prince Jammy (Pressure Sounds 1999)

Anthony Red Rose: Electric Chair - Electric Chair 7" (Dug Out 2010)

Anthony Red Rose: Electric Chair (Version) Electric Chair 7" (Dug Out 2010)

Lord Mouse & The Kalypso Kats: Calypso Be - Lord Mouse & The Kalypso Kats (Jump Up 2010)

Playlist for May 14, 2010

Norman "Syd/Sid" Bucknor R.I.P.

The pioneering Jamaican recording engineer died in London on May 9, 2010.

He helped set up Coxsone Dodd's Studio One in the 60s, and both Channel One and Dynamic Sounds in the 70s. Read more.

Songs that were probably engineered by Syd are indicated by an asterisk (*)

U Roy: Wake The Town - Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music (Island 1993)

*Bob Marley & The Wailers: So Jah Say - Natty Dread (Island 1974)

*Creation Rebel: Dub From Creation - Dub From Creation (Hitrun 1978)

*Keith Hudson: Turn The Heater On - Torch of Freedom (Atra 1975)

New Order: Turn The Heater On - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit 1990)

*Zap Pow: Nice Nice Time - Zap Pow Now (Vulcan 1976)

Prince Fatty: Chairman - The Best of Prince Fatty (Anvil 2005)

G-Corp Meets The Mighty Tree: D.U.B. - Dub Plates From The Elephant House Vol. 3 (Endulge 2007)

Red Earth Collective feat. Soothsayers Horns: Dubirie - Red Earth Dub (Red Earth 2010)

Horace Andy & Alpha: Believers - Two Phazed People (dontTouch2009)

*Glen Brown & King Tubby: Wicked Tumbling Version - Termination Dub (Blood & Fire 1996)

Viv Albertine: The False Heart - Flesh (Ecstatic Peace 2010)

Dubmatix: Killing Dub - Dread & Gold (7 Arts Entertainment 2008)

Prince Jammy: Basement Dub - Strictly Dub (Pressure Sounds 2010)

*GG Russell: Who Who Wha - Let Me Tell You Boy (Trojan 1988)

*I-Roy: Musical Pleasure (Keep On Spinning) - Quad Star Revolution Vol. 2 (Moodisc 1975)

*Jo-Jo Bennett & Mudies All Stars: Hot Pop - Quad Star Revolution Vol. 2 (Moodisc 1975)

*Prince Far I: Johnny Get Worse - Silver & Gold (Blood & Fire 2005)

Slackers: Tool Shed - The Great Rocksteady Swindle (Hellcat 2010)

Twilight Circus Dub Sound System feat. Brother Culture: Foundation Rockers (Disciples Remix) - Remixed: Dubwise (M Records 2004)

Starlights feat. Stanley Beckford: Samfiman - Soldering (Heartbeat 1993)

Alkaline: Set Around - ExtraLongLife (Universal 2000)

*Rupie Edwards: Ire Feelings (Skanga) - Essential King Tubby (Metro 2007)

Toots & The Maytals: Six & Seven Books of Moses - Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music (Island 1993)

Babylon 23: Erstes Buch Mose - Bibel In Dub (Echo Beach 2003)

As promised, a reggae song about books. I just love this song!

"They are Genesis & Exodus, Leviticus & Numbers, Deuteronomy & Joshua, Judges & Ruth"

Playlist for May 7, 2010

By request, and only two weeks late!

The backing track is the Warning riddim.

We’re big fans of the Warning riddim here, having played, in the recent past, the original version by Desmond Young, the dub by the Fe Me Time All Stars (“Black Rights”), I Roy’s take, called “Double Warning” and Jah Wobble’s remix thereof from the Select Cuts from Blood and Fire series. All were produced by the mighty Jimmy Radway, not one of the most prolific, but one of the very best reggae producers of the glorious 1970s.

We fulfilled the request with Version 2 of "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", which Mick Hucknall picked for his Blood & Fire personal anthology. If you want to hear Big Youth’s Version 1 instead, here it is, alongside Desmond Young’s original.

Tuner rides alone, reining in three CD players, two computers and a microphone:

Da Step Corner: The Last Drop – Step4i Part 6 (Original Dub Gathering 2010) [free download]
Salmonella Dub: Seeds – Heal Me (EMI/Virgin NZ 2007)
Little Axe: Too Late – Slow Fuse (Wired Recordings 1996)
Little Axe: Too Late [Dub] – Fusion (Slow Fuse Disc 2) (Wired Recordings 1996)
Little Axe: 2 Late [Bernard Fowler Vocal] – Bought For A Dollar Sold For A Dime (Bowers and Wilkins Music Club 2008)
Big Youth: Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing (Version 2) – Run It Red (Blood and Fire 2005)*
Dubmatix: Renegade Rocker Dub – Dread & Gold (7 Arts Entertainment 2008)
Dubmatix: Burning Fire Dub – Renegade Rocker (7Arts Entertainment 2008)
Dubmatix: Empirical Conqueror – Champion Sound Clash (Soul Stepper Sound 2004)
New Age Steppers: Observe Life – Action Battlefield (On-U Sound 2000)
Black Uhuru: Botanical Roots – The Complete Anthem Sessions (Hip-O Select 2006)
Disrupt: Forward On Jah – Jah Bit Invasion (Jahtari 2005) [free download]
Horace Andy & Alpha: Storm – Two Phazed People (dontTouch 2009)
Gary Clail: One Flesh & Blood – Keep The Faith (Epic 1995)
Restless Mashaits: Africa – Kingston Sessions 1992-2002 (Addis Record 2002)
Restless Mashaits: Africa Dub – Kingston Sessions 1992-2002 (Addis Record 2002)
Martha & The Muffins: Echo Beach (Gabriel Le Mar Remix) – Select Cuts From Echo Beach (Echo Beach 2002)
Lazy Robot: Free Soul (from MySpace)

*Real World Records will be releasing a new edition of Little Axe’s Bought For A Dollar Sold For A Dime on June 6, 2010.

Thanks to Son of Exile on Moan Street for the link to the digital version of this very rare 2008 release that we played on the show.

Playlist for April 30, 2010

Tuner & Drongo present the first instalment of a new irregular feature here on Wake the Town: "Where Dub Comes From." In this episode: Germany und Austria!

U Roy: Wake The Town – Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music (Island 1993)
Nina Hagen: African Reggae (Nuff Weat Remix) – King Size Dub Vol. 3 (Echo Beach 1997)
Headcornerstone: Hot Like Fire – Reggae Germany Downtown (Echo Beach 2004)
Zion Train feat. The Crispy Horns: Zion High – Original Sounds Of The Zion (Universal Egg 2002) (not actually German, but recorded at Zion Train Studio in Germany)
Walkner.Mostl: Who Is It? – King Size Dub Chapter 7 (Echo Beach 2001)
Tosca: Annanas (Sascha Crnornja Organic Grooves Remix) – Suzuki in Dub (!K7 2002)
Nick Holder: Moments In Dub – Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions Vol. 3 (Guidance 2002)
Kieser Velten: Dubolition – Dub Selector (Quango 1999)
Stereotype & Soothsayer: Dub Club Track – Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions Vol. 3 (Guidance 2002)
Disrupt: Foundation Bit - Foundation Bit (Jahtari 2007)
D-Flame: Raus Aus Babylon – Reggae Germany Downtown (Echo Beach 2004)
Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players: Hut Selector – Just Landed (~scape 1999)
Dubblestandart: Return From Planet Egalica (Freedom Satellite Remix) – Are You Experienced? (Echo Beach 2006)
Rhythm & Sound: No Partial – Rhythm & Sound (Rhythm & Sound 2001)
Sly and Robbie feat. Beans & Hawkman: Vice Vanity (Noiseshaper Remix) – Real To Reel (Echo Beach 2006)
Pre Fade Listening: Tribute Dub – Solarized (Different Drummer 2000)
Dubmatix: Senseless Killing Dub – Atomic Subsonic (Silencio 2007)
Dubmatix: Rightful Ruler Dub – Dread and Gold (free download 2008)
Dubtari: Dubtari Rocks – Reggae Germany Downtown (Echo Beach 2004)
Dubblestandart: Evil Empire – Heavy Heavy Monster Dub (Echo Beach 2004)

Martin was unexpectedly away this week, so the reggae book song and the request for Big Youth are still soon come...