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Have you seen me record middle? Part 2

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Bells Group – Kingston 13 (Blank) 1962 (B side to Derrick Morgan In My Heart)
A lovely little number from the Bells Group on a Jamaican (President) blank 7″ (later to be released on the Prince Buster label in 1962) found in a bunch of tunes this evening. We haven’t heard this for a long while!

The blank at the top above is our copy but unfortunately not the one directly above, which has the legendary “Beverley Ice Cream Parlour, 135 Orange Street, Kingston” stamp on it. That’s a bit of musical history there.

That one goes very well with this one below which we pulled out as well. Top tunes from yesteryear.

You get an extra hour in bed, evenings become darker earlier

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Just a little reminder that while we kip tonight the clocks will go back causing all sorts of havoc to sleeping, shortwave radio programming schedules and the like. So come 2am tomorrow morning in the UK, those hands of time will be turned back automatically (or manually when we wake up).

A Sunday afternoon dub discovery

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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!

Keep watching those northern skies

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Cheers to Rich up in the Lake District for sending us some pics taken above his house when trying to capture the latest aurora activity up there. He may not have caught the northern lights but the milky way counts as some heavy stuff. Lovely pictures Rich!

He was telling us that last week was wet and windy in the week. I wonder if we’ll be getting some of that weather down here this week?

And a couple of skyward related tunes for you.

Dubwise and otherwise

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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

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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.

We present the classics

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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

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

 

Nolly was a great mate of ours

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While we were putting together a shortwave mix we came across a cover of the Crossroads Theme Tune that we couldn’t stop smiling to by The Lost T-Shirts of Atlantis. It is some tune! (The cast above including Carney the Gardener, Benny and is that Buzz the hippy character with the long hair and beard at the back?)

Question of the evening is “What does hearing The Theme from Crossroads by Tony Hatch, mean to you?” Answers to one deck pete (at) gee male dot com.

Radio IS a foreign country

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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!