This is the studio version of the KMRT transmission that went out on 9395 kHz at 23:00 UTC last night. Plug in for some mall music, shopping trolley techno and supermarket ska! At 17 minutes minutes is a mix made for all mystery shoppers everywhere from One Deck Pete. Here’s the tracklistings of The Secret Shopper: KMART87 – A1
Herzog Herzog – Supermarket Dance (excerpt of)
Sum Total – Bakery
Khalil – Loose Change down the side of the sofa
Kmart – Room at 2pm
Sadsic – Know your store
Digitaldubs ft Rebel Layonn – Bills Riddim
Consumer – Our weaknesses
And it’s just gone online, the studio quality recording of today’s broadcast of KDUB on shortwave. One Deck Pete‘s “In Dub for KDUB” is 3 minutes in alongside a lot more great dubwise material from the others at KDUB HQ. Tune in without the fading!
Tracklistings for “In Dub for KDUB” EU* – Wienn – PAUSE_2 Recordings
Dry & Heavy – Dub the Bong Around – Green Tea
Yabby You & King Tubby – Z90 Skank Dub – Vivian Jackson
Rupie Edwards All Stars – Tank Skank – Success
Pablo All Stars – Unity Dub – Rockers International
King Tubby – Play Fool Fi Get Wise dub – Jackpot
Holland Dozier – Don’t leave me now (instrumental) – Invictus
This Sunday 7th March 2021 (and repeated a week later) at 12 noon UTC/UK sees a transmission by KDUB on 9670 kHz in 31 Metre band on shortwave. There’s a whole hour of some great drum and bass heavy music including a mix by One Deck Pete called “In Dub for KDUB”. If you haven’t a shortwave radio to hand click here at 12 noon this Sunday. Also check the KMTS mixcloud site here after transmission for a recording of the whole show.
And here’s a tune that isn’t on KDUB but it is a classic and a tune with the great Mark Perry on vocals, Alternative TV with Life After Life from that grand old year of 1977.
And while we there, here’s a cover by Mark Perry of The Whole World’s Down On Me by Ken Boothe and B.B. Seaton another tune we love by Mark P!
A big thanks to Justin Patrick Moore for sending us another gardening themed music recommendation, this time a nice chilled beat-driven set from Emapea out of Poland called Seeds, Roots and Fruits.
So get those old plant pots cleaned out with some washing up liquid and warm water, give them a good dry out and then fill them with seed compost and make a start of this season’s seeds whilst this collection of tunes are on the hi-fi!
Big shout to our gardening friend from across the pond Justin Patrick Moore for sending us a picture of his garden in Cincinnati from the other day after some snow. We’ve had snow here in London but nothing like this. If you’d like to see his garden pre snow have a look here.
Justin mentioned he was enjoying the snow but was starting now to think about what kind of tomato seeds to start sprouting for spring. Hence the tune he sent with the pic, a dub of “Don’t touch my Tomato” by the great Phillis Dillon and Tommy McCook & The Supersonics.
Have you started thinking of seed to sow yet? We have some pots on the kitchen windowsill that are still dormant as it’s still so cold and a pot of germinated leggy coriander that is looking sorry for itself. Talking about coriander our good gardening friend Gerry Hectic mentioned Mexican coriander, culantro (more info here) the other day. Ever heard of it? It may be worth looking into.
Also this week we found a nice compilation from a few years ago compiled by Laut & Luise out of Cologne called Music Lovers Club #002. It’s worth a listen during these cold times!
More shortwave radio fun coming this weekend on the 75 Metre bandcourtesy of Channel 292. A transmission to mark the 20th anniversary of All Indie Radio (WAIR) will be broadcast this Sunday 7th February 2021 (and repeated on Sunday 14th February 2021) at 1700 UTC/UK on 3955 kHz. Tune in for some great music.
A big shout to Jesse Yuen who presents the excellent RTM.FM show North of the River Swan that specialises in downtempo dub and low end business on the second Sunday of the month from 4-6pm. Thanks to Jesse for sending us some pics (Thanks to Dee for taking them) of his great looking indoor planting scheme. The space is so bright and alive!
There’s a good variety of plants here even though us at Weeds are not the best when it comes to looking after plants of the indoor variety (we tend to overwater them then forget about them we’re ashamed to say.) There’s all sorts here including Kentia Palm, Chinese money plant (sometimes known as the UFO plant!), Prayer Plant, Tropic Snow, Mother-in-law’s Tongue, Devils Ivy, Parlour Palm, Umbrella Tree, Yucca, Mistletoe cactus (that looks well interesting) and the well hardy Spider Plant. (By the way whilst we’re on the subject of houseplants we have to mention a podcast to start following if you love gardening of the great indoors. It’s Jane Perrone‘s On the Ledge available here.)
And Jesse sent some of his favourite tunes from the North of the River Swan record boxes below to get stuck into. We didn’t know a lot of this stuff and that is what’s good about this music lark, once you open up that can of worms it’s never ending. There’s a ton of excellent tunes played on the show too so peruse the show’s mixcloud site here.
And do listen to the last episode of the show from 2020 featuring Jesse and Dubplate Pearl as it’s excellent stuff and full of some cracking tunes! Includes Prince Fari, Yabby You, Tradition, the great Depthcharge from Keith Hudson (What a tune!), a dub of Play fool get wise by Johnny Clarke and lots more great music.
Thanks again Jesse for sending the pics and the tunes!
A big shout to Jon and George of the excellent Coughing Pigeon Radio Showon Brum Radio that plays “Not just sounds from across THE spectrum, but sounds from across EVERY spectrum” as the Brum Radio website desribes the show and they’re not wrong there!
On last week’s show they played at 19 minutes in Jazz’min & Madtone’s “Return to the branches” and at 42 minutes Stefanosis with Remembering Augustus off the great FREE Echo Chamber – Around the World in Dub Volume 11/12 on Dan Dada Records available here. Cheers Jon for plugging the compilation! Give Coughing Pigeon a listen if you’re looking for a great cross-genre listening experience!
The weather’s been alright up until last night when it felt more like winter. We even had a visit from the Lewisham Heron yesterday who couldn’t get any of the fish in the pond due to the fine pea netting thrown over the top and gave up his statuesque posing after a few minutes. This morning we woke up to the above, mist galore. We reckon they’ll be a few jobs to be done in the garden this weekend, digging up dahlia tubers maybe one of them!
And here’s a great tune for those cold dark nights indoors, A man called Adam‘s Tic Toc (Disco Rockers Dub). It’s excellent stuff indeed, a nice off the wall dub mix reminding us of those great dub B sides on scratchy seventies seven inchers.
Which made us think of another great interpretation of dub from Bronx Dogs of Sizzla’s Rain Showers another piece of clever mixer madness with some nice cut ups thrown in plus what sounds like Tubby’s “Squawky”. A nice tune that works very well even at 33!
And while we’re looking back a few years here’s a great tune Imperial from Lazy Boy that has a lovely dub interlude at 1.16 mins in which could go on for ever in our eyes!
The final Free Radio Skybird programme of this year (bar the repeat two weeks later) is on Sunday November 21st at 1200 UTC on 6070 kHz via Channel 292.
It features DJ Frederick, Justin Patrick Moore with The Radiophonic Laboratory and Weed’s own One Deck Pete with “Tunes to cheer you up.” Tune in! #shortwavesnotdead#freeradioskybird
There’s a good variety of plants here even though us at Weeds are not the best when it comes to looking after plants of the indoor variety (we tend to overwater them then forget about them we’re ashamed to say.) There’s all sorts here including 
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