A Sunday afternoon dub discovery

 

Cheers to The Rhythm Doctor for letting us know about a great LP called David Rodigan’s Dubwise Shower on BBE bandcamp here. There’s some classic stuff on there including the above horns cut of Delroy Wilson‘s “Have some mercy” that we haven’t heard before.

Also a version of Gregory Isaacs’ “Walk right in” by Sylvan Morris & Andy’s All Stars.

 

And talking of said tune and thanks to Steve Barker playing it on On The Wire a while ago, here’s some Banjo Dub!

Dubwise and otherwise

Big shout to our radio collaborator Jesse Yuen, for sending us last month’s and the month’s before Dubwise and Otherwise show this morning. Both shows are well worth listening to for some genuine Sunday morning chilled vibes.

The show is broadcast once a month on Radio Cazimi, an online community radio station based in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. (Walyalup is located at the mouth of the Swan River and of course Jesse’s other show was called North of The River Swan!)

We’re half-way through the Springtones show at the moment and it is cracking! We were scratching our head’s thinking “Where do we know the intro from?” and it’s The Aloof with Never get out of the boat, a tune we only had in our hands last night while rearranging our records.

We’ll check out the Soundcloud link in a couple of days for yesterday’s great show. Cheers Jesse!

Dub for a Saturday morning till 10am

Big shout to Jesse Yuen and friends Lia T and Rok Riley who are on the air via the internet for the “Dubwise and Otherwise” show from 8-10am on this Saturday morning from the other side of this world of ours. If you want to chill out indoors in the warm to some downtempo bass heavy vibes tune into radiocazimi.com here.

What speed do we play it at?

We’ve just finished a shortwave International themed mix and chose this cracking version of Manzanita‘s Paga La Cuenta Sinverguenza in a Cumbia Rebajada style (slowed down).

Below is the track at the original turntable intended speed. What speed do you prefer? The track now sounds a bit “Pinky & Perky”.

We present the classics

A couple of weekends ago on Imaginary Stations a programme called CLSC was broadcast via the transmitters of the great Shortwave Gold. “Music we like to think is classic, or classical in nature” was the theme of the show and featured all sorts of loosely defined classic(al) tunes. Have a listen to below how the theme was translated by the Imaginary Stations crew.

Also at a couple of seconds in, is a mix from One Deck Pete called Classical Gas.
Tracklistings are:
Yussef Dayes – Magnolia Symphony
Classical Mechanics – Porphyry
Scientist Ft Alicia Previn – Scientist Spacewalk
The Salsoul Orchestra – You’re just the right size
The Poplar Bluff High School Bands – GRC – Classical Gas

There are more episodes of CLSC to come including CLSC2 which was broadcast last weekend and appears on the Imaginary Stations Mixcloud here.

 

 

Dub for a saturday evening

A wonderful bit of dub just released out of the Jah Warrior camp called Lost Dub by I-Lodica. Excellent stuff.

 

Radio IS a foreign country

Cheers to Steve Barker from the excellent On The Wire radio show for letting us know about the wonderful online radio station that is Radio is a Foreign Country here. As it describes itself: “An endless stream of obscure (and mostly retro) global music and audio ephemera.” Crazy is not the word.

There’s a whole load of stations to have a listen to here from Shortwave, Exotic, 24/7 Nature Radio, Oddball (including Mechanical Music Radio), American Elsewhere (WBCM Radio Bristol) and tons more. It is such an eclectic selection and for God’s sake, don’t touch that dial. Cheers again Steve!

On a Chilli tip

Thanks to Kit G5KIT in Bristol who sent us these great pictures of his chilli plant and he wrote: “Remember those little chilli seedlings from earlier in the year? We’ve given most of them away, but kept the biggest one – and we took our first crop yesterday. The chillies aren’t very big, maybe 20mm long for the largest ones, but boy do they pack a punch. They’re not called ‘Demon Reds’ for nothing; they’re about 194,000 on the scoville scale of heat!” Wow that is crazy Kit!

He sent a tune too and added: “I do like the way the fruit grows upwards, they’re attractive as well as tasty. We’re going to make some chilli oil from these ones.” Cheers Kit for getting in touch.

Morschen43 on the wire

A big thanks to Steve Barker, Fenny and Jim from the excellent On The Wire for playing Morschen43’s Dark Dread / Toi … , L’Homme … at 1 hour in on the show earlier this morning. Cheers Steve for mentioning Weeds up to me knees also!

The track is off Spike’s new album available on Bandcamp here.

The track above was the tune played before it which is of the crazy dubby trumpet variety. Cheers again Steve!

To listen to the wonderful eclectic programme that is On The Wire check the blogspot here.

It’s also on Totally Radio on Sundays at 6pm here. It’s well worth a listen to say the least.

Now across to the twin cities

Another big shout out to our good friends across the pond Dr Strangedub and DJ Baby Swiss of the excellent radio show The Echo Chamber on KFAI. We’ve said this countless times, but if you want to hear reggae, dub, downbeat and beyond, tune in from 8 – 12 UK time on a Wednesday morning here.

This Wednesday just gone was the annual Echo Chamber/Echo Beach Dub Club Tiki Bar Special (not unlike the The Skybird Lounge series of shows) with all sorts of beach bar and holiday beach destination classics including One Deck Pete presents a mix for WAVE at 80 mins in.

Tracklistings:
The Grizzly Folk – Broomway
High Skies – The shipping Forecast
Michael Rose – Surfing in the dub (Intro)
Quiet Village – Keep on Rolling

Pull up the deck chair or get the 1970’s sun lounger out and tune in here for a far out holiday sunny vibes show as there’s some wonderful stuff on the show.