Category Archives: Music to pot plants to

Dreadlocks in the moonlight

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Dread at the mower controlsThis week I rediscovered on the web a right old gem of a mix I used to own on cassette years ago. It’s a recording off a Mikey Dread radio show from JBC, Jamaica around Christmas 1978. It’s a classic and includes some right old corkers. It’s available from the excellent “Who Cork the Dance” website. Scroll down (past the Barry Brown and I-Roy tributes) to “Dread at the controls – Tribute to Mikey ‘Dread’ Campbell” and download away. One to listen to while thumbing through those seed catalogues!

Some sanity with Laurent Garnier

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“It is what it is” the eclectic radio show from Laurent Garnier has been keeping me sane since returning to work after the festive break. Show 17 (22nd December) features one bonkers minimal ambient tune from Sylvain Chauveau called “An nombre des choses” from an LP on Fat Cat. All shows are downloadable too! Excellent stuff.

Another second hand classic

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the mighty two

Leo Graham – Not giving up – Locks 1975
An excellent slab of 70’s reggae produced by Joe Gibbs and Errol T (the Mighty Two), released in the UK on Birmingham’s Locks label. This was procured off a punk mate in 1978 for a piece of garb from a second hand shop I think. An excellent record with a nice dub! Always strangely puts me in mind of that old time song “Where did you get that hat, where did you get that hat?”. Excellent!

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This is Major Tom to ground control

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Felipe Lopez – Radio Space (Ape.Choons)
Here’s a great track heard on Dr Strangedub and DJ Baby Swiss’ excellent “Echo Chamber” on KFAI a few of weeks ago. The tune is a lovely piece of dub which samples a Brazilian radio amateur communicating with the International Space Station (ISS). The les dubthiers mix (the second clip) just pips the original to the post. Get this tune, you’ll love it! Big shout to Dr Strangedub for this one.

In a big people’s music style

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The first part of the excellent late 70’s documentary Deep Roots Music with Mickey Dread featuring Tommy McCook, Daddy U-Roy, The Skatalites, Count Machuki (looking good!), Sir Lord Comic, Bobby Culture, Jack Ruby Hi Power amongst many others. An excellent watch for these cold nights! Big shout to Will for passing this link onto us.

Never knowingly scabbed

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The dustbin incinerator I bought the other week has been brilliant as I’ve burnt off a load of woody stuff that has been piling up at the bottom of the garden. The only trouble is, that making fires is now getting a bit addictive. The other Saturday I was just going to burn off a small pile of waste but as the fire got on it’s way I was scouring the garden for sticks, prunings and whatever else that would burn. A couple of bits of 4 x 2 I was going for use for a gardening project got chucked in alongside wet leaves and freshly cut wood, sending thick plumes of yellow/white smoke out of the funnel at the top of the bin into the SE23 night sky. Jah Wobble mentions the same thing in his biography “memoirs of a geezer”, breaking up furniture at a friend’s squat he lived at to fuel a fire to keep him warm. What’s all that about then, a primeval thing perhaps?

Staying in is the new staying in

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Kid Koala on Beats In Space – Damon Albarn, Kid Koala And Dan The Automator – Untitled

One of my favourite Beats In Space shows is from 2011 and features the great Kid Koala and Terence Bernardo. It’s on a downtempo tip and a bit on the melancholic side but a great show all the same and on repeat play some days here.

Last week I was searching the Damon Albarn/Kid Koala/Dan the Automator track to stick on “weeds” and discovered by accident Kid Koala live in action on the show. A lovely piece of footage complete with the sound of hands at work on the mixer! Excellent!