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.
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.
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?
Ijahman Levi – Jah heavy load (original version) An oldie but goodie, the classic tune from the great Ijahman Levi. An excellent song with a very subtle dub. Rare as the proverbial to get on vinyl!
Utraísta – Smalltalk (Four Tet remix) Here’s a lovely mix from Kieran Hebden which has been played to death by Gilles P over the last few weeks. Nice and glitchy, bonkers video and well catchy tune to boot!
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!
One from the great ‘spear complete with bird noises. Dedicated to the late great Duke Vin who passed away in London last Sunday. Respect to UK’s first soundman (originally selector on Jamaica’s Tom The Great Sebastian alongside the DJ, Count Machucki). In a BBC interview in 2009 asked when he will retire the duke replied, “It’s in my blood. It is my life. Death has to retire me.” Respect, let’s hope there’s some nice bass bins in the afterlife!
http://www.right-on.org/duke-vin.html
Prof.Logik – Entering unfamiliar land (intro)
Here’s a lovely piece of glitchy slow-mo hip-hop heard on this week’s excellent truthseekers radio show available as a free download on bandcamp.
http://proflogik1.bandcamp.com/track/entering-unfamiliar-lands-intro http://truthseekersradio.org/
Sheila Rickards – Jamaican Fruit Of African Roots – Shella
What a flipping tune! This was the first record I heard at work this morning on Gilles’ show via I-player. I’ve heard the heavy dub of this before but never the vocal, turns out it’s a Bunny Lee tune scorcher and there’s a touch of the Shirley Basseys about the intro too. What a tune and re-released on 10” vinyl in the new year, super! Only a minute on youtube, but it gives you a taste!
Full vocal and dub on this podcast http://www.studiofeed.com/main/studiofeed-radio-the-bass-kultcha-show-episode-7-ft-earl-grey/
And “The mystery of Sheila Rickards” from the gleaner http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080528/ent/ent1.html
Neal Hefti – The Mafista
Thanks to Noel Hawks, Steve Barker and the “On The Wire” team for this weeks “I never knew that” played on the recent show on BBC Radio Lanchashire. The inspiration possibly to the reggae classic Satta Amassa Gana by The Abyssinians no less, bonkers!
Weeds up to me knees 