Category Archives: Mixes

Morning all from Estonia

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Big shout to our good mate The Rhythm Doctor for sending us a weather report out of the studio window of IDA Radio, Tallinn this morning. They’ve just had some snow out there and the top temperature in Tallinn for this forthcoming week is predicted to be -5 C. We’re certainly will not be complaining about the weather here!

If you want to listen to something great on a Monday morning tune in here for a two hour selection of Jazz, Reggae, Electronica and downbeat from 9am. It’s a show well worth tuning into!

Dreams less sweet

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On Saturday afternoon after our Mystic Meg-like prophetic dream, the “vibes” (or more than likely the guilt) forced us out in the garden to do some tidying up. We only did a couple of hours but it was a pleasure to spend some time out the back.

We tidied up the patio and moved the carrots in the big pot we found in the street from the bottom of the garden up nearer the house. It’s all tops and does need thining out but there are baby carrots there and the decorative foilage ain’t bad. If anyone asks we’ll them they’re some sort of exotic microferns.

And we finally cleaned the leaves off the pond netting and gave it a good once over around it and it does make a difference to the look of it. With this weather God only knows when we’ll be able to get out there again though next Saturday is looking dry.

And finally we retrieved some beetroots, not many but enough to boil and to fill a small bowl and stick in the fridge to eat this week. Cheese and beetroot in a white bread sarnie, a treat you can’t beat!

And here’s a few random tunes for a Sunday evening.

 

 

We can’t control the weather but we can control the music

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The above picture was the weather we had at the start of the week and by all accounts will return tomorrow. That’s all we need but the heating’s on at the moment and the stereo has been turned up high. The first tune of the night is Straight to Mad Professor’s head from the set Mad Professor meets Channel One: Round 2 by Mad Professor and Channel One. It is one subtle dub!

 

We heard a Hugh Mundell dubplate on this week’s excellent Rhythm Doctor’s Waiting Room on IDA Radio (Tallinn). While we were looking for it we found a great Augustus Pablo Dub of Feeling Alright.

 

And the best “out there” tune of the night is from a LP called Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.1 on the excellent Sublime Frequencies label from out of Seattle. No idea who it’s from or what it’s called, all it says on the notes is that it’s in the Sumatran Dangdut style. It has a hook that sounds like an interval signal from a numbers station which we can’t place, that is sometimes played on a rasping bagpipe sounding keyboard. The LP has a wonderful cover too, what more do you want? Wonderful stuff which will worm its way into your brain as it’s so catchy.

Let’s temporarily forget the crap weather and dark times and listen to some decent tunes to soothe, inspire us and give us a break so to speak.

Proceed at all times with great caution

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Not exactly the finest weekend here at Weeds HQ. We had a burst water main that meant an addition of a micro-pond in the front garden so presently no running water and heating and to add to that a pair of glasses were lost on the P4 bus.

We did however have a little firework celebration earlier this evening with a pack of giant sparklers and a £14.99 box of fireworks from Lewisham Lldl. Obviously it weren’t as long a show as the fireworks they put on at The Thames for New Year’s Eve but they weren’t bad for the price either. We even burnt a fair bit of wood we cut down from the tree next door earlier this year (here). Musical accompliment to said firework display (unlike the ELO, Rolling Stones and Elton John they play on NYE) was provided by The Rhythm Doctor’s Waiting Room 23.10.2023 where he plays a fair few tracks from The Other Others LP. A fine show!

Whilst the fireworks were fireworking we were reminded of those public information films of the 1970’s where they used to try and frighten the living daylights out of you (and always used to go on about keeping the fireworks in a closed old biscuit tin). So to end this post here’s a few that are embedded in our consciousness. Have a good bonfire night!

The other other side of dub

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Thanks to our good friend and musical collaborator Jasmine Tutum for letting us know of her recent album for Jahtari Music as The Other Others. It’s eclectic and out there (in the best way possible) and is well worth having a listen.

Here’s a track to the late great Ari Up called “Can’t Trust”, excellent stuff.

And some dancefloor business with Daze Days. Mad!

And cheers to Jasmine for sending us pictures of her balcony of Scotch Bonnets which are being harvested today as frosts are immiment in Germany at the moment. They look great and making us think of growing some Scotch Bonnets next year.

More on The Other Others LP on Jahtari Bandcamp here.

Heavy (Dubwise) Showers

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Blimmin eck, it didn’t half come down in the early hours today in London, so much so that the water in the pond is quite close to the top. If it rains any more those goldfish will be touching the pea netting which is there to keep the Lewisham Heron out.

Talking of showers or “music like shower” to be exact, a big shout goes out to Steve Barker of the excellent long running On The Wire radio show for getting back to us on the name of the mystery tune on the compilation from the Little Axe label. It’s called So long baby/An Irie Version by Derrick Morgan & Paulett/Prince Trinity and it’s a heavy tune!

If you want to hear a top show full of reggae and all sorts of great records tap into the latest shows of On The Wire on Totally Radio here or have a look through the archive on the blogspot here. You will enjoy it! Cheers again Steve!

It is October and what is that tune?

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Well things should be coming towards an end in a couple of week’s time and all that outside gardening fun may be slowing down but we still can grow stuff on our windowsill. The chillies we got in a plant swap are still going well. If it gets the heat and the protection from frosts it may survive and give us more hot chillies. Even the butternut squash outside is still cracking on.

 

Also the other day we relistened to the B side of a compilation we bought a couple of weeks ago and found (at 17 mins in on the above) a 1970’s Bunny Lee/King Tubby’s sounding cut of the wonderful Shirley & Lee’s – Lee Goofed. There’s versions out there by John Holt & Hortense Ellis (So long Baby) and The Love Children/The Marvels (Lee Goofed) on youtube but nothing sounding as heavy as the one on the Little Axe Compilation (A label which releases some wonderful tunes by the way and worth checking out). Any ideas on what the version on the compilation is? Any ideas appreciated.

The cut reminded us of those 1970’s old singles on the Grounation label like these two corkers below. Now there was a good label.

Rocking all over this Earth

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Here’s Sunday night’s transmission of Skybird Radio International which was broadcast through the services of Shortwave Gold. There’s tracks from all over the map and genre’s galore.

At 45 seconds in is One Deck Pete‘s third mix for Skybird Radio International and here’s the track listings:
Madtone – Diamonds in the Sky (Excerpt)
Les Maîtres Fous – La Mort d’Icare
Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – Wegenne
Narcy – Nehaya
Wilmoth Houdini – Blow Wind Blow
Unknown Track off “Cantos Oscuros” from Little Axe Records (at 05.18 in on Side 1).

Enjoy the sounds from all around this Earth of ours!

 

Autumn, Jean-Michel Jarre and butternut squashes

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It ain’t half now turned a bit autumnal especially after the Autumn Equinox (on Saturday at 7.50am). At the end of the garden is a very small bed that has a right mixture of stuff in the tiny space include chillies and Cape gooseberry and peppers too. Also what we thought was some sort of melon may now be a butternut squash (pic below). Will it ripen before the frosts come?

And here’s a tune from Maurice Louca from Cairo a chap we discovered over the weekend while we were researching a forthcoming shortwave mix. From the excellently titled LP Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Salute the Parrot) here’s the percussive monster called Maksim (Maxim) and it’s wonderful stuff. Listen to it a few times in a row and you’ll be noticing bits you never noticed the time before and be wanting to listen to it again. Mad mad stuff.

And while we’re talking about Cairo we’ve just remembered this tune from the excellent Zeb – The Spy From Cairo called Qanun in Dub.

Man-dolins in the street, oh yeah

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Yesterday we found this copy of The Mandolinist (no. 33) in what we thought was a violin case left out someone’s front garden with “take me on it”.  We don’t know that much about the mandolin sadly apart from John Peel appeared on Top of the Pops in 1971 pretending to play one alongside Rod Stewart and the Faces on “Maggie May” but we’re always up for finding out any good tunes featuring said instrument. Here’s a few we found tonight, the first is by Ekss called Dub des Deux Mandolines. Some nice vibes on here outta Sweden!

And one from Prakash Hariharan, Mandolin Prakash playing the electric mandolin on Kanchadalayadakshi. This is some wonderful classical mandolin playing!

And to match the current heatwave here in London (32 degrees C here in SE23 today) here’s some balearic mandolin business from Residentes Balearicos with Mandolina Suave.

As you can see the mandolin may not be easy but it is pretty and effective!