If you love Big Youth you’ll love this! Two and a half hours of Manley Augustus Buchanan as put together by Steve Barker and On The Wire. Tune in below:
Youth, youth, youth
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Yesterday once more
Here’s the studio audio from last night’s KTAB, the latest in the Imaginary Radio Stations series transmitted to the world via the valves and wires of WRMI.
At 24 minutes into the recording is One Deck Pete’s “I’ve got those broadcast blues”. Here’s the full track listing of the 15 minute mix complete with the Bandcamp sites the tracks were obtained from. Do check them out as there were a lot of interesting stuff on the labels, Death is not the end feature tons of tunes from Jamaican Doo Wop to Pirate Radio Adverts from the Acid House days and as for Canary Records, there’s a truck load to explore there!
One Deck Pete presents “I’ve got those broadcast blues”
Japanese Movie 1940s-1950s – A1 Senri Records
Washboard Sam and His Washboard Band – Broadcast Blues Putz Disc
Keith & Enid – Worried over you Death is not the end
Charlie Barnet – Ogoun Badagris (Voodoo War God) Swingin’ Dick’s
Kishor Kumar – Eena Meena Deeka Canary Records
Japanese Movie 1940’s-1950’s – B1 Senri Records
Using your modern day computer, take a step back in time and enjoy an hour of old time business that comes back again!
For when you need something chilled
Here’s one from many years ago, a very nice chilled classic found when looking for a Jose Padilla Cafe Del Mar mix the other week when something slow mo was needed. Here’s “Spiritual High” from Moodswings, a tune that slows that stressful thing called life down.
Here’s the Jose Padilla mix that we found in the end, it’s a mix worth listening to.
Old time (radio) business come back again
This Sunday the imaginary radio stations crew have a right treat for you. KTAB will be featuring “Yesterday’s music today” on 9395 kHz at 2200 utc on Sunday 31st July 2022 via the magic of the wireless.
The show will feature all sorts of old time music from the year dot to the late 1950’s including a mix called “I’ve got those broadcasting blues” from One Deck Pete at 24 minutes in featuring this classic from Keith & Enid called “Worried over you”. Tune into the shortwave time machine.
The early morning DJ has lots of records to play
Many thanks to Steve Barker again for recommending more great squeezebox tunes, this latest one is a belter! It’s from Los Corraleros de Majagual from Colombia and called Los Sabanales. This video is something else. Cheers Steve, great tunes are always appreciated here at Weeds!
And cheers to DJ Frederick Moe for the following top music tips. Firstly this radio DJ themed one by Houston (Bob) Mills called The Early Morning DJ with the great line: “most people are still sleeping, his wife and kids he leaves at home, it won’t be long before he’s signing on”
And then this wonderful LP of chilled out dub LP by Sumac Dub with the very apt title for us called Le Jardin de Lucy. Cheers for the recommendation Fred, this is a brilliant LP! More on the band here. The title track is a tune!
Where does it go from here? Is it down to the lake I fear?
Meanwhile, in the pond earlier this morning.
A different class of railway tunes
Here’s a good radio show if you like all things on a train tip. CTRN was originally scheduled for last Sunday but sadly didn’t happen due to a glitch at the sidings. The show will now go ahead this Sunday 24th July via WRMI on 9395 kHz at 2200 utc. Listen in to hear a different class of train tune and the show is dedicated to everyone working on the trains, the train spotters with their electronic notepads and all passengers of course.
And whilst we’re on the subject of trains here’s a few rail related reggae tunes…
The first the flip of Culture & Niccademus‘ Disco Train called Righteous Train complete with speeded up vocals and mad sound effects by the great Joe Gibbs & The Professionals.
And this lively one from Big Joe and King Tubby’s with Rasta Train.
And finally the classic from Linval Thompson & U Brown with Train to Zion. Tickets please!
WELK after WELK after WELK
Cheers to Steve Barker for bringing this great tune to our attention which features some dubbed out squeezebox. It’s from Cerrero & Vivi María and it’s called Cumbia de las almas extrañas. It’s wonderful stuff!
And here’s one that didn’t make the “More Squeezeboxes on shortwaves” mix. It’s from Oro11 and it’s called Macumbiabass.
Never mind the heatwave
Even in the heatwave we’ve had some visitors to the garden. The stag beetle (we’re sure it is) above didn’t seem to mind the high temperatures. They look brilliant when they’re flying over at dusk (looking for a mate) like some small army tank/helicopter hybrid machine. More on the stag beetle here.
As it says on the site it’s good to keep some dead and decaying wood lying about as it’s a vital habitat for them. So don’t “Keep it tidy” when it comes to some parts of the garden, the beetles will thank you for it.
Also the compost heap at the bottom of the garden seems to be thriving in the heat. We’re trying to give it a daily turn over with a garden fork making sure the ingredients are well mixed up which at the same time adds air into the pile this speeding up the rotting process. The pic below is pre “The Big Mix Up”. We prefer the traditional pile now as opposed to those dalek ones that seem to take the skin off your hands when giving it a fork over.
Enjoy this spell of cooler weather!
Sunshine, sunshine do your job
The strange vegetable bed at the bottom of the garden is looking healthy. We’ve red cabbages and tomatoes and a red hot poker but God knows what that’s doing there. The bed usually suffers with a lack of water but we added some organic material from the compost heap at the start of the season, feed the plants there weekly and make sure we get the watering can on it daily. Over the next few nights we may even give it a water in the evening.
Earlier this year we went to that great seed swap at Glengall Wharf Garden in Peckham and got several different varieties of tomatoes. We’re hoping that the toms above are the beefsteak Costoluto Fiorentino from the seed swap and the tomatoes in the raised beds halfway down the garden are the classic plum San Marzano as they look a bit like them.
We really should be more organised with some sort of colour coded notebook and plant labels but sadly we’re not. Let’s see what they turn out like at harvest time.
