Fight In The Air: Playlist for March 30, 2012

Thanks to Des for two tracks, Pat for two tracks and Dr. Disc for two tracks!

Unknown Dubmaster: No, No, No (You Don't Love Me) (Dubby Style 2008) Thanks Des!
Peaking Lights: Tiger Eyes (Laid Back) (Adrian Sherwood Remix) from SoundCloud Thanks Pat!
Ken Boothe: Satta Massagana (Attack 2011)
George Faith & The Upsetters: Conscious Line -- Guide Line 12" (Black Ark/Pressure Sounds 2012)
Pale Rider feat. Saddest: Look Youth Man -- Want To Go To Zion (Cassava Outernational 2009)
The Black Seeds: Pippy Pip -- Dust & Dirt (Easy Star 2012)
The Travellers(?): Rocks & Mountains (Channel 1/Deeper Knowledge 2011)
Sly & Robbie: Dub Down Mountains (Channel 1/Deeper Knowledge 2011)
Delroy Wilson: Sun Is Shining (Striker Lee 1997)
Prince Jammy: Jammy's A Shine -- Prince Jammy Vs. Crucial Bunny: Fat Man Presents Dub Contest (Auralux 2006)
Dennis Brown: Open The Gate -- Niney The Observer: Deep Roots (VP/17 North Parade 2012)
Disrupt: Holy Mount Zion -- A Fistful Of Dub (Phonocake 2004) Free download from Jahtari!
Down By The River Side feat. Grant Phabao & The Jays: Zion Holy Place (Jazz Version) -- Hard 2 Find Vol. 2 (Colored Inc. 2010) Thanks Des!
Ammoye & Rise Ashen: Swing Me -- Haffi Win (Balanced Records 2010)
Root 70: Bosco's Disposable Driver -- Heaps Dub (Nonplace 2006)
Cedric "Im" Brooks  & The Light Of Saba: Rasta Lead On Version -- Cedric "Im" Brooks & The Light Of Saba (Honest Jon's 2003)
Mark Stewart: Children Of The Revolution (Future Noise Music 2011)
The Spooky But Nice: Fight In The Air -- The Spooky But Nice (Ind. 2012)
Peabody & Sherman: Ayayaya (Chancha Via Circuito Remix) -- All Your Bass Are Belong To Us (Super Bro 2011)
Jah Wobble & Keith Levene: Strut -- EP (30 Hertz 2012)
The Bug Vs. The Rootsman feat. Daddy Freddy: Run The Place Red (Raw Meat) -- The Bug Vs. The Rootsman feat. Daddy Freddy & DJ Rupture (Tigerbeat6 Records 2003) Thanks Pat at Dr. Disc!
Congo Natty: True Love: Rastafari He Liveth In Me -- Tribute To Haile Selassie I: King Of Kings (Congo Natty 2000) Thanks Liam at Dr. Disc!
Roots Manuva Vs. Wrongtom: Big Tings Redone -- Duppy Writer (Big Dada 2010)

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"There's a big difference...: Playlist for March 23, 2012

"There's a big difference between a big piece of art with a little shit in the middle and a big piece of shit with a little art in the middle. One's a piece of art. The other's a piece of shit."  -- Lenny Bruce

The Black Seeds: Dust And Dirt -- Dust And Dirt (Easy Star 2012)

1-Stop-Experience: Peeping Tom -- Peeping Tom (Ind. 2011)

Blue Glaze Mento Band: Slide Mongoose -- We Will Wait (Bilmon 2011)

Dubmatix feat. Jay Douglas: Celebrate My Love -- System Shakedown (Renegade Rocker 2010)

Dubmatix feat. Jay Douglas: Celebrate My Love (Victor Rice Dub) -- Clash of the Titans: System Shakedown Remixes (Collision 2011) 

DUB NEWS

Dub Iration Soundsystem feat. Dubmatix: Ghetto Life -- The Lost Books of Dub (Ind. 2012)

George Faith: Guide Line -- Produced And Directed By The Upsetter (Pressure Sounds 1998)

The Upsetters: Dub Line -- Produced And Directed By The Upsetter (Pressure Sounds 1998)

Kenny Knots: Love Light (Dubstep Remix by BunZerO) (Reggae Roast 2012)

Dennis Brown: Cassandra -- Live At The Turntable Club (VP/17 North Parade 2012)

Joshua Moses: Jah Time Has Come -- Joshua To Jashwha - 30 Years In The Wilderness (Bristol Archive 2012)

The Bleechers: What's Wrong With You -- High Plains Drifter: Lee Perry & the Upsetters Jamaican 45's 1968-73 (Pressure Sounds 2012)

The Heptones: No Bread On My Table -- Deep Roots Observer Style  (VP/17 North Parade 2012)

Page One & The Observers: Nuff Bread On Our Table  -- Deep Roots Observer Style  (VP/17 North Parade 2012)

Pole: Pirol -- Waldgeschichten 2 (Ind. 2012) 

Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meet The Congos: Happy Song -- Icon Give Thank (RVNG Intl. 2012) 

The Congos: Education Of Brainwashing  -- Congo Ashanti (Congos 2003)

General Strike: Interplanetary Dub -- Danger In Paradise (Staubgold 2012)

Cutty Ranks: Stopper -- Fashion In Fine Style: Fashion Records Significant Hits Vol. 1 (Fashion/Believe Digital 2012)

Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell: Psychic Life -- Psychic Life (Cherry Red 2011)

Keith LeBlanc feat. Lenny Bruce: Comedy of Errors -- Stranger Than Fiction (Nettwerk 1989)

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From the Irie land of Ireland... Playlist for March 16, 2012

The version of Dawn Penn's "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" that we played tonight was not actually the original (shown above) but rather a remake without the interpolation of U-Roy chanting "Wake the town and tell the people about a musical disc comin' your way."

Sorry, Desmond!  This mistake will be rectified, soon come.

Sinéad O'Connor: Y Mas Gan -- Throw Down Your Arms ("That's why there's chocolate and vanilla" 2005)

Willie Cobbs: You Don't Love Me -- Blues: La grande anthologie (1925-1962) (Body & Soul 2003)

Dawn Penn: You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) -- Reggae Love Songs - 50 Jamaican Lovers Classics (Trojan 2008)

Prince Far I: Yes Yes Yes (12" Mix w/ Errol Holt) -- Silver & Gold 1973-1979 (Blood & Fire 2005)

Mungo's Hi Fi feat. Mr Williamz: Computer Age -- Forward Ever (Scotch Bonnet 2011)

Sunshot Band: Dr. Bash -- Dial M For Murder In Dub Style (Pressure Sounds 2011)

Squattin Mobile Studio: Walter's Sugar Cubes -- Dub Dimensions (Ajnavision 2011)

Hey-O-Hansen: Please -- We So Horny (Serious Pleasure Riddims (Pingipung 2010)

Sonya Spence: Where Is The Love -- Reggae Songbirds: 17 Great Tracks From The High Note Label (Heartbeat 2010)

Sly & Robbie: Dirty Flirty -- Blackwood Dub (Groove Attack 2012)

Citizen Sound: Come What May (feat. Treson) -- Citizen Sound (Renegade Media 2010)

Stiff Little Fingers: Johnny Was -- Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit 1989)

Phoenecia: Two-Part Invention For Bodhran & Computer -- Demissions (DETUND 2011)

Barbie Gaye: My Boy Lollypop -- Jumping The Shuffle Blues: Jamaican Sound System Classics 1946-1960 (Fantastic Voyage 2011)

Millie Small: My Boy Lollipop -- Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music (Island 1993)

Prince Fatty & The Mutant Hifi: Blondes Have More Guns -- Return of the Gringo (Original Soundtrack) (Mr. Bongo 2011)

International Observer: Popcorn (BDO Opium Den Remix) -- J. Star & Dr. Cat Present Dub Zealand (Green Queen 2011)

Laurel Aitken: Sweet Chariot -- Looking Back (The Jamaican Chart Toppers of 1958 & 1959 (Sunrise 2011)

Black Dub: Canaan -- Black Dub (Jive 2010)

The Congos: Education Of Brainwashing -- Congo Ashanti (Congos 2003)

Dave & Ansil Collins: Doing Your Thing -- Dave & Ansil Collins In Toronto (G Clef 1974)

Ri Ra: 25 O'clock -- Chainstore Massacre (On-U Sound 2002)


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"Love is all I bring" -- International Women's Day Special March 9, 2012

Louise Bennett-Coverley aka Miss Lou (1919-2006) 

was the grandmother of Jamaican music, dialect poetry and comedy. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in the 1940s, and performed extensively in the US in the 1950s during the "calypso" boom.

She returned to Jamaica to help create the little theatre movement, and delivered "Miss Lou's Views" on the radio from 1966 to 1982.

After moving from Jamaica to Fort Lauderdale and settling in Toronto, Miss Lou said:

"Any which part mi live - Toronto-o! London-o! Florida-o! - a Jamaica mi deh!"

Dub Project feat. Shyama: Joy -- The Dub Project: A Twilight Production (M Records 2004)
Louise Bennett: Brown Girl In The Ring -- Children's Jamaican Songs & Games (Folkways 1957)
Millicent Todd: Fire In Your Wire -- Queen Patsy & Stranger Cole Fabulous Songs of  Miss Sonia Pottinger Vol. 1 (Rocka Shacka 2007)
Cooly G: Craze Refix -- Dub Organiser Vol. 1 (Dub Organizer 2010)
Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell: TIghtrope -- Psychic Life EP (Cherry Red 2011)
The Dice: Judy Nylon -- Pal Judy (On-U Sound 1982)
1 Stop Experience: Mentally Ska'd -- Peeping Tom (Ind. 2011)
Mwanamke Mwfrika: Black Woman -- African Woman Abroad (African Woman 1982)
New Age Steppers: Conquer -- Love Forever (On-U Sound 2012)
Rita Marley: Pied Piper (Rio 1966)
Judy Mowatt: I Shall Sing -- Reggae Songbirds: 17 Great Tracks From The High Note Label (Heartbeat 2010)
Marcia Griffiths: Hurting Inside -- Reggae Songbirds: 17 Great Tracks From The High Note Label (Heartbeat 2010)
Mungo's Hi-Fi feat. Soom T: Bad Bad Boy -- Forward Ever (Scotch Bonnet 2011)
Louise Bennett: Me Want Me Daughter -- Jamaican Folk Songs (Folkways 1954)
Lillian Allen feat. Anta Allen: We Are The Future -- Freedom & Dance (Verse To Vinyl 1987)
Lillian Allen: Dis Ya Mumma Earth (Peace Poem) -- Conditions Critical (Verse To Vinyl 1987)
Ranking Ann: Feminine Gender -- Method To The Madness (Trojan 2005)
Hortense Ellis: Hell & Sorrow -- Keep The Pressure Down (Prestige Elite 2004)
Sonya Spence: Talk Love  -- Reggae Songbirds: 17 Great Tracks From The High Note Label (Heartbeat 2010)
Jessica: Ying Yang -- Reggae Playground (Putumayo 2006)
Ammoye & Rise Ashen: Haffi Win -- Haffi Win (Balanced Records 2010)
Althea & Donna: Uptown Top Ranking -- Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music (Island 1993)
Est'elle & Joni Rewind: Uptown Top Ranking -- An England Story: The Culture of the MC in the UK 1984-2008 (Soul Jazz 2008)
Dub Colossus: Uptown Top Ranking -- Addis Through The Looking Glass (Real World 2011)
Black Chow: Wonderland -- Wonderland EP (Jahtari 2011)
Candy MacKenzie & The Upsetters: Long Enough -- The Return Of Sound System Scratch (Pressure Sounds 2011)
Bonjay: Creepin -- Broughtupsy (Mysteries Of Trade 2010)


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Louise Bennett and others explore the origins of Jamaican music in ring games and digging songs. Fascinating!

Time Is A Moment In Space: Playlist for March 2, 2012

Easy Star Allstars feat. Horace Andy: Airbag -- Radiodread (Easy Star 2006)
Easy Star Allstars: An Airbag Saved My Dub-- Radiodread (Easy Star 2006)
1-Stop Experience: Headless Chicken -- Peeping Tom (Ind. 2011)
Little Axe: Seeing Red -- If You Want Loyalty, Buy A Dog (On-U Sound 2011)
Bunny Lee & The Aggrovators: Golden Rule Dub -- Dub Will Change Your Mind (King Spinna 2011)
Blue Glaze Mento Band: Wheel & Turn Me -- We Will Wait (Bilmon 2011)
Dub Colossus feat. Tirudel Zenebe: Wehgene (Almamegretta Remix) (2012)
Gregory Isaacs: No Speech, No Language -- Love Is Overdue (Snapper 2011)
Sly & Robbie: Frenchman Code -- Blackwood Dub (Groove Attack 2012)
Lee Perry: What A Good Woodman -- Trojan Presents Ska (Trojan 2011)
Ken Boothe: Who Gets Your Love -- Phil Pratt Thing (Pressure Sounds 1999)
Sunshot Band: Who Gets Your Dub -- Dial M For Murder In Dub Style (Pressure Sounds 2011)
Citizen Sound feat Richard Underhill: Riddim Culture -- Citizen Sound (Renegade Media 2010)
Stereo MC's: City Lights (Dub) (Umberto Echo Remix) -- Dub The World (Echo Beach 2010)
Laurel Aitken: Sweet Chariot -- Looking Back: The Jamaican Chart Toppers of 1958 & 1959 (Sunrise 2011)
Solo Banton: Music Addict (Jahtari 2011)
Dub Trio: Drive By Dub (Live) -- Cool Out & Coexist (ROIR 2007)
Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen: Inadjiwowin - Unity of Culture -- One Nation (Balanced Records 2011)
Mungo's Hi-Fi feat. Soom T: Bad Bad Boy -- Forward Ever (Scotch Bonnet 2011)
Dean Fraser: Have Mercy -- Big Up (Island Jamaica Jazz 1997)
Unitone Hi-Fi: Daktari (Audio Safari) -- Wickedness Increased (Incoming! 1995)
Rhombus In Dub: Dem Only Know (Dem Only Dub Mix) -- JStar & Dr. Cat Present Dub Zealand (Green Queen 2011)
Lord Power: Chambolia -- Dip & Fall Back: Dr. Kinsley to Haile Selassie (Trojan 2006)
New Age Steppers: Revelation -- Love Forever (On-U Sound 2012)
Wayne Smith: Time Is A Moment In Space -- The Crowning Of Prince Jammy (Pressure Sounds 1999)
Dubmatix feat. Ammoye, Henrii & Kulcha Ites: Push -- Renegade Rocker (7Arts Entertainment 2008)

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Motown Jamdown: Playlist for Feb. 24, 2012

Jamaica responds to the inspiration of Motown. 

This episode owes everything to 

Trojan's Motor City Reggae Box (2006) 

Cougars: I Wish It Would Rain -- Jamaica To Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974 (Light In The Attic 2006)
The Beat: Tears Of A Clown -- The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (Chrysalis 1993)
Leroy Sibbles: Baby I Need Your Loving -- Now (Generation 1980)
The Temptations: Everybody Needs Love -- Temptin' Temptations (Gordy 1965)
Slim Smith: Everybody Needs Love -- Trojan Explosion (MOJO 2002)
Prince Jammy: Everybody Needs Dub -- King Tubby & Friends: Dub Like Dirt 1975-1977 (Blood & Fire 1999)
Jackson 5: Born To Love You -- Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 (Motown 1969)
Techniques: Born to Love -- Techniques In Dub (Pressure Sounds 1997)
The Elgins: Put Yourself In My Place -- The Weekend Starts Here (EMI 2008)
Delroy Wilson: Put Yourself In My Place -- 40 Greatest Hits (Attack Download 2009)
The Fantastic Four: I Love You Madly -- Best Of The Fantastic Four (Soul 1969)
Delroy Wilson: I Love You Madly -- Solid Gold Coxsone Style (Heartbeat 1992)
Marvin Gaye: Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) (Motown 1962)
Cornell Campbell: Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) -- Trojan Motor City Reggae Box Set (Trojan 2006)
The Aggrovators: Wherever I Lay My Hat Version -- The Essential King Tubby (Metro 2007)
I Roy: Mr. Benwood Dick -- Bunny Lee Meets King Tubby & The Aggrovators (Culture Press 1970s)
The Temptations: Message From A Black Man -- Psychedelic Soul (Motown 2003)
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires: Message From A Black Man -- Trojan Motor City Reggae Box Set (Trojan 2006)
The (Detroit) Precisions: If This Is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely) -- The Sound Of Sidra (Outta Sight 2010)
Eddie Spencer: If This Is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely) -- Jamaica To Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974 (Light In The Attic 2006)
The Temptations: I Want A Love I Can See -- My Girl: The Very Best Of The Temptations (Motown 2002)
Jackie Edwards: I Want A Love I Can See -- Trojan Motor City Reggae Box Set (Trojan 2006)
Dawn Penn: I Want A Love I Can See -- No, No, No (Big Beat 1994)
Yellowman: Rub & Go Down -- Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt (Greensleeves 1984)
Syreeta: Your Kiss Is Sweet -- Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta (Motown 1974)
Stevie Wonder: I Don't Know Why (I Love You) -- The Definitive Collection (Universal UK 2002)
Desi Young: Don't Know Why (I Love You) -- Trojan Motor City Reggae Box Set (Trojan 2006)
Devon Russell: Sexual Healing (Coxsone 1982)

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Ran outta time and didn't get to play this massive song!

Philosophy Is A Walk On A Slippery Rock: Playlist for Feb. 17, 2012

Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters feat. The Full Experience: Dyon-Anaswa -- Ape-Ology (Trojan 2007)
Jah Wobble & Keith Levene: Back On The Block -- EP (30 Hertz 2012)
Holger Czukay: On The Way To The Peak Of Normal -- On The Way To The Peak Of Normal (EMI 1981)
Marty Dread: What I Am -- It Sometimes Rains In Paradise (Five Corners 2012)
Marty Dread: What I Am Dub -- It Sometimes Rains In Paradise (Five Corners 2012)
Lee "Scratch" Perry: African Style -- Voodooism (Pressure Sounds 1996)
Lee "Scratch" Perry: African Style Version -- Voodooism (Pressure Sounds 1996)
Duppy Gun Productions feat. Dayone: Multiply (Ind. DL 2012)
Duppy Gun Productions feat. Early One: Earth (Ind. DL 2012)
Kiddus I: Graduation In Zion -- Earl "Chinna" Smith & Idrens: Inna De Yard (Makasound 2008)
Joe White: I'm So Proud -- Trojan Explosion (MOJO 2002)
Candy McKenzie: Keep Him Strong -- Lee "Scratch" Perry Presents Candy McKenzie (Trojan 2011)
Mystica Tribe: Flowers from SoundCloud
New Age Steppers: The Scheisse Song -- Love Forever (On-U Sound 2012)
Pampidoo: Synthesizer Voice (Goth-Trad Remix) (Greensleeves 2011)
Devon Russell & Anthony Bailey: Rat & Bat/Race Track Riot (Globe International/Digikiller 2012)
Unitone Hi-Fi: Guiding Star (MPLA Burial) -- Wickedness Increased (Incoming! 1995)
Unitone Hi-Fi: Guiding Star (Manasseh Remix) -- Rewound + Rerubbed (Incoming! 1996)
Candy McKenzie: Breakfast In Bed -- Lee "Scratch" Perry Presents Candy McKenzie (Trojan 2011)

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