Thanks to Dr Strangedub for including the dub to the above (Mad Professor – Fast Forward into Dub) on this week’s Echo Chamber on KFAI which made me post the original here. A lovely tune!
Also found the above on youtube the other day, a great bit of live mixing by the King (Jammy) himself. Two to perk up those dark winter nights!
It’s the nearest Saturday to Guy Fawkes night (aka “get rid of your garden rubbish in one big bonfire and the neighbours can’t complain” night) and the big pile of clippings which have been taking up space at the bottom of the garden were planned to go up in smoke tonight. Even a cheap pack of Fireworks had been purchased from Lidl to add to the effect too. It’s now mid-afternoon and it’s chucking it down, typical! Now the sun’s come out…
Ta again to Dr Strangedub for linking us up with another music maker/gardener. This time it’s Martin L Kennedy from the excellent All India Radio from Melbourne, Australia. AIR make some great chilled tunage which Dr Strangedub has been playing on the echo chamber for a long while now.
Thanks to Martin for getting in touch with us and for sending us some photo’s of his mother’s back yard, which is a quality garden featuring some lovely planting!
Here’s what Martin wrote: Here’s some pictures of springtime in an Australian back yard. This is actually my mothers garden where I grew up. Amazingly many of the same plants that were planted when I was young (over 40 years ago) are still growing. Some of them were gifts to my parents, bought from the school fete or nicked from the neighbours gardens!
Great stuff Martin, looking good! I still can’t get my head around that it’s nearing the end of the gardening year here and in Australia it’s just beginning. Great stuff!
A nice bit of off-the-wall electronica for a Thursday night heard on Rob Da Bank’s show over the last couple of weeks.
And another piece of tunage, heard this time on the Rt Hon David Rodigan’s show. A piece of minimal electro reggae straight out of the land of wood and water (and organ stabs straight out of toytown!)
And by the power of youtube the instrumental the drum roll of which, reminds me of Bango (to the Batmobile) from the man like Todd Terry…”Let’s go!”
A very bonkers kiddy-rave track that’s had me smiling all week (as it’s so daft!) after hearing it on the Rob Da bank show. Not my usual cup of tea but a tune I can’t help thinking, white gloves, glowsticks and gurners when I hear it. How speeded up is that italo house piano break?
I might turn the dustbin over in the middle of the back garden tomorrow, use it as a podium and give it large in a “where were you in 93?” revival style (much to the delight of the neighbours!)
What the hell do you call this, ragga-rave, electro reggae or minimal dancehall? Who cares what it’s called, it’s a big tune to be, played by the Rt Hon David Rodigan last week and one to annoy the neighbours to on a Saturday night. Can you feel it?
http://soundcloud.com/redgallery/balearicos-mix-r3d-market-by
A nice chilled as mix by Phil Mison and Balearic Mike found this morning on soundcloud. One to do the pruning to, that’s if you can prune lying down! Big up “The Grim Reaper from Ibiza.” Nice one Phil!
It’s taken me over a year to get rid of the big pile of clippings and prunings which have been occupying most of the vegetable bed at the bottom of the garden. I can thank the several bonfires and sneaky black bin bags snided at the bottom of the wheelie-bin on a fortnightly basis for that.
Now the space has been cleared, the weeds are doing very well thank you. If all goes well in the next few days if it don’t rain over the weekend I’ll clear the patch and stick in some onion sets and make use of the space over the winter months.
What is bonkers though, is since I’ve cleared one load of clippings, there’s another one starting to pile up not even 15 feet away and getting taller and taller by the week. Mad or what? It’s an never-ending circle this gardening lark!
From Natty Dread magazine 2003
Respect to BBC 1Xtra for their excellent “1 Xtra stories” which this week features one Osbourne Ruddock aka one of the creators of dub, King Tubby. A brilliant programme, well researched and presented by the great David Rodigan. Available on i-player for a few more days and for any self-respecting reggae fan definitely one to listen to! Big up Tubbs!
A big shout to Dr Strangedub for being the first contributor to our “Dub Gardeners of the world unite” feature last week. The next one will feature Med Dred from the sunny island of Cyprus with some nice veg (Ta to Dr Strangedub for the link up and Med Dred for saying yes). Watch this space!
You don’t have to be a dub gardener to send us your pics as we’re interested in all gardeners who like any sort of music! Just drop us an email to the address below with some images and a bit of text and we’ll do our best to feature it (windowsill, allotment or whatever you have).
We’re also on the look out for any companies who want to send us seeds, plants, even gadgets which if we like, we’ll give an honest review and pass the word on to all. If you are a company/nursery and want to send us something drop us an email to onedeckpete@gmail.com
