Big thanks to Steve Barker from On the Wire for putting up their Keith Hudson special up on youtube (above). As you imagine there’s some super stuff on this show. Kick back and enjoy…
Taking the formula
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Category Archives: Dub Gardening
Run, run, runaway
Whilst looking for suitable tracks for a forthcoming shortwave mix this week we found a couple of good tunes. The first is Anomie with Tradisi Urang (Anomie psychedelic reggae version). Excellent reggae related stuff out of Indonesia.
And out of Indonesia too here’s a wonderful tune from Benyamin S with Superman. This is just something else, it really is!
Job done (finally)
And we finally tidied up the front garden after much putting off and excuses (“We haven’t enough bin bags”, “It looks like rain later” and “We’ll do it next week”. We reckon it may have been a good year and a bit since it had a good tidy up and it was so bad we got a few business cards put through the front door from gardeners, the shame of it.
It took us about 3 hours, steaming through it pretending we’ve been given a “job and finish” task from the council. Now we have a clean slate to think about what can go in there. We’re alright with doing the work once we make a start but it’s making that start…
A tune for a Thursday night
An excellent tune from Lloyd Sparrow Clarke called Heaven and Hell, one to blast out on a Thursday night. Also released under the name The Invaders with a toast by Trinity. Heavy!
Imaginary vibes all served in a Collins glass
Below is the studio version of Sunday night’s Skybird Supper Club Imaginary Lounge Episode 2 live from Paris, Maine programme on WRMI for your chilled out, silk dressing gown wearing, listening pleasure.
At 39.49 in is One Deck Pete with a mix called “There’s someone sleeping in my lounge again” mix and here’s the tracklisting:
Opal Vessel – Libidine
Sounds for the office by コディ (Kodi?) – Clocking in
Godspeed – Night crawling
So enjoy your complimentary totally free cocktail possibly the “73” (Premium Vodka, Vanilla Liquor and half a Guiness), slump down on the sofa and chill out to the show. To apply for your free cocktail there’s more details of the offer at 1 minute into the transmission above (*Subject to availability of course.)
Banjos in the mix
Big shout to Steve Barker for playing this tune above on On The Wire a long while ago, it’s by Andy’s All-Stars and it’s called Banjo Serenade, the B side to I Roy‘s Step Right Up. That record may be the only instance of said instrument used in reggae unless you know any more examples. Don’t Banjos sound great when dubbed up!
Oh dear looks like we may have opened that banjo can of beans as these can be sort of deemed dubwise. Know of any others?
Fast and bulbous. Got me?
A couple of weeks after we featured them in a post here we can see that those shallots are coming on well. As we said last time, we haven’t had much success with them in the past in the raised beds but it looks like starting them under cover and sticking some organic matter in may have done the trick. We’ll keep you posted.
In the top right of this pic above you can just about make out the giant garlic. We stuck the sides of the raised bed (without the polythene on top) back on them as a bit of added protection as the wind seemed to give them a bit of knock last week. We’ll start feeding the garlic and the shallots soon with some comfrey/nettle liquid as soon as we can get some started and on the go. Hopefully that combined with some good weather to come may help them on their way.
There is a land far far away (musical update)
Here’s a quick update to the last but one post featuring Jesse Yuen‘s parents garden in Perth, Western Australia. Cheers to Jesse for sending us an update of what he’s listening to on the Hi-Fi at the moment.
This mix from Aussie producer Cousin is a great eclectic mix up:
Also Paul St. Hilaire’s – Tikiman Vol.1 is on heavy rotation
And this local reissue of 90s dub/downtempo tunes is also getting frequent spins. This is some nice stuff by the way!
Cheers Jesse for sending us some nice recommendations that we’re going to explore further.
There is a land far far away
Talking of RTM FM, a big shout to Jesse Yuen of the excellent North of the River Swan radio show (which is on a break for the time being) for sending us this morning some excelllent pictures of his parents garden in Bassendean, Perth, Western Australia where he is at the moment. It’s a brilliant space and has some out there plants we could only dream about having here!
It looks a wonderful space and a lovely place for chilling out in! He’s sent us some close ups of flowers from the yard too. Great stuff!
And here’s the last North of The River Swan (until later this year hopefully) as Jesse (as it says on the mixcloud) “is taking some time off to recalibrate the compass and recharge the radio batteries”. Take it easy and we look forward to your return to the radio and to your shortwave debut. Cheer for the gardening pics, do send us more.
This Easter go West
This Easter Sunday 9th April Imaginary Stations will be going in a Westerly direction at 2200 UTC on 9395 kHz via WRMI. In one word they’ll be going WEST, there’ll be some Westbound trains, themes from Westerns and even some spoken word from Adam West. So get your compass out, tune in your shortwave radio and enjoy everything Westward Ho! from 2200 UTC on Easter Sunday.
At 2.42 into the show One Deck Pete will be presenting a 15 minute mini-mix called in true Pete “Alright treacle?” Beale style “We’re going up West”. Tune in for an Easter Western treat!
Weeds up to me knees 