The ism and schism

So, apologies for the radio silence this past month, the blog has been slipping away. But my allergies have me firmly incarcerated in my apartment so I have time to catch up. First off you may notice that we've had a bit of a visual retro-fit around here, and once I wrangle with some server issues I'll have better mp3 post architecture and begin posting stuff from the large amount of obscure and out of print releases I have sitting around here.

Next week I head to Morocco for a few weeks and I should return with a large haul of gnawa, berber and maghrebi music that should keep us going for a few weeks...

In the meantime, on to this week's show....

This week we focus on dancehall and ragga, a wide spectrum of stuff from JA, London, and New York, from the 80's and 90's up to the present day. The other day digging through the $1 45s at A-1 music I found every voicing of the Likshot riddim on the massive b label. As it happens Massive B played this weekend at Galapagos along with Dead Prez, K-Salaam, and others. Massive B killed it, as expected, though I will say I was dissapointed(but not really surprised) to see them playing off Serato... Dead Prez was amazing, more polemics than music, blowing holes in the hope found in the ongoing success of Barack Obama.

"We didn't vote our way into this shit, how we gonna vote our way out?"

A good point. And I admire their unflinching anarchist nihilism when it comes to the American government, and even though I agree with them I feel the need to dance the electoral dance too. As Cornell West has said, if Obama wins I will celebrate for one day, then become his harshest critic.

But on to the music.

Also this week some choice, bhangra and kwaito cuts in the second hour....

check it:

Heart Attack - Dave Kelly(City Lock Records 7")
Lickshot - Rewind(Massive B 7")
9 To 5 - Sean Paul (City Lock Records 7")
Where's My Girl? - KMC(Massive B 7")
Highest Grade - Chronicle & Norrisman(Massive B 7")
If A War - T.O.K.(Massive B 7")
Red - Zebra(White Label 7")
Next Generation - Sean Paul(Mo Music 7")
Riggormortis - Tanya Stephens(Mo Music 7")
Headache - Version(Mo Music 7")
The Road to Zion - Damian Marley feat Nas(Ghetto Youths Unite 7")
Numbers - Organized Konfusion(Priority 12")
High Plains Drifter - Sholay(The Roots of Dubstep LP, Tempa)
No Coke Pipe - Top Cat(Catonine Tales, Catonine CD)
Me Too Bad - Buju Banton(VP Records 12")
On & On - The GTs(Taxi 7")
Come Forward - Bandulu(Marco Dub Infection, AstralWerks)
Anytime - Tester(10lb Sound 12")
Weh Dem Gone - Capelton(Wizer Remix 7")
Mt Zion - Sizzla(Don Corleon 7")
Matie Payroll - Beenie Man(Vibes House 7")
Hype Life - Scare Dem Feat. Bounty Killer (Fat Eyes 7")
All A Woman Want - Anthony B(Big Links 7")
Prove Them Wrong - Turbulance(Xterminator 7")
Put The Fire Pon Dem - Sizzla(Techniques 7")
Black Man Rise- Anthony B(Manatee 7")
Liberation Has Come - Yami Bolo & Capeton(Yam Euphony Music 7")
What Does It Worth? - Sizzla(Greensleves 7")
Majajne - Sukshinder Shinda(Living the Dream, Planet Records CD)
Can't Touch Me No More - Tanya Stephens(Greensleves 12")
Douta Mbaye - Alif(Out|Here LP)
Gabroo - Jazzy B(TIPS CD)
White Label - Filastine(White Label 12")
Samba - Son Palenque(Honest Jon's 12")
Atoti -Gidigidimajimaji(Out|Here LP)
Fuji Ouija - Diplo(Honest Jon's 12")
Skeng(Kode9 remix) - The Bug feat Killa P + Flowdan (Hyperdub 12")
Complain Neighbour- Tippa Irie(An England Story: MC Culture In The UK, Soul Jazz LP)
No No No - Dawn Penn(VP 12")

The First Cut Is The Deepest

Down in the Ghetto - Sister Carol(Black Cinderella, Jah Almighty LP)
Selassie I Teach Us - Jah Mason(Ranking Joe 7")
Wicked Babylon - U Brown(Ranking Joe 7")
Get On Up - Big Youth(Rock Holy, Negusa Nagast LP)
Hail Him - Sister Rasheeda(Rasheeda 12")
Hurt So Good - The Upsetters(Trojan 12")
Roady(Nutmen Mix) - Fat Freddy's Drop(Kartel 12")
Things Change - Warrior Queen(Soul Jazz 12")
Paper Planes - MIA(XL 12")
Notorious(Socios Version) - Turbulence(Ghetto Arc 12")
Sensi - White Label
White Label - Kromestar
Look to The East - The Bush Chemists(Conscious Sounds 10")
Bazaar - African Head Charge(On-U Sound LP)
The Further Down - Medium Medium(The Glitterhouse, Jem Records LP)
Death Disco - Public Image Limited (Virgin 7")
Kether Hot Kneves - A Certain Ratio(DD 12")
Bug in the Bassbin - Innerzone Orchestra(Planet E CD)
Deserter(Fourtet Remix) - Matthew Dear(Asa Breed, Ghostly CD)
Hiding Your Present From You - Arthur Russell(Audika CD)
Magnetic(Dub) - Ectomorph(Interdemensional Transmissions CD)
Mikrophone 1 - Karlhienz Stockhausen(Columbia LP)
Archangel(Lief Remix) - Burial(mp3)
Archangel - Burial(HyperDub LP)
Gys Low(Soultek Remix) - Polycubist(Zer0gsounds 12")
My Eyes Are Closed - Calvin Incline(Digital English 7")
D.E.O.M. Dub - Digital English(Digital English 7")
The First Cut Is The Deepest - Norma Fraser(Studio One 7")
SuperStar Remix - Jah Life (Jah Life 12")

Pakistan

This weeks broadcast follows a little bit of a different format. Guest Ty Bertrand brings us field recordings from sufi mazars in Lahore Pakistan made while working on the film "Kashf". The word Kashf translates directly to "the unveiling", however its a sufi term which represnts something more akin to a metaphysical change. The film is currently in postproduction. We also listen to some recordings made by myself while in Pakistan in 2005.

enjoy.

Mother, Mother....

Twilight - Carl Craig(Paris Live, Planet E 12")
Reverse Tachion Beam - DMX Krew(Rephlex 12")
Hyped-Up Plus Tax(OutPutMessage Remix) - Dabrye (Ghostly 12")
Ulysses(Fax Remix) - Murcof(Leaf 12")
Lost(Live) - Electric Birds(EtherDrag 12")
Found a Way feat. Tikiman - Main Street(Main Street 12")
House Restoration - Plex (Beta Bodega 12")
Us vs. Us - Recloose(RushHour 12")
Dem Never Know(SleepArchive Mix) - Rhythm & Sound(Burial Mix 12")
Flow - Osunlade (Auquarian Moon, BBE CD)
Love is Spiritual - Joi/DJ Ichiro (Common Ground 12")
Eledewdu of Agege - Thank You God(Honest Jon's 12")
Kass Kass -Syran M'Benza(African Music Gallery 12")
Great Stone - Gussie P(Rubble Music 12")
Submerge - Dusk + Blackdown(Keysoundrecordings 12")
The Lift - Plasticman (Road 12")
Gold - Komet(Raster-Noton 12")
Shooting Stars & Asteroids - Bjork/Bogdan Roczynski(Rephlex 12")
When I Come Back Around - Jamie Lidell(Warp 12")
21st - Cabaret Voltaire(The Arm of the Lord, Some Bizarre Records LP)
wierd White Label 7" I got in Chicago years ago, Beautiful packaging but no label or artist info, I have few more from the same folks that I found around CHI record stores at the time, more to come.
Mother Sky - Loop(Eternal*The Singles, Chapter 22 Records LP)

Our Love is God's Money....

"I and I work at a radio station
and I and I obey all the regulation..."

mikey dread















Oh Me Oh My - Lloyd Chambers (Lovers For Lovers, The Bussiness Records LP)
Roots Rocking - Aswad(Island 7")
Kipling - Jim Nastic(Chaunting, Studio One LP)
Still Waters - The Tamlins (DEB Music 12")
Truths and Rights - Johnny Osbourne(Studio One 7")
Tide is HIgh - U-Roy(State Line 7")
Dreadlocks In the Moonlight - Lee Perry (Upsetters 7")
Night Nurse - Gregory Isaacs(African Museum 7")
Pressure Me(Dub) - King Tubby(Fire House 7")
Bring the Sensi Come - Johnny Osbourne(Right Rock Music 7")
To The Rescue - Tanya Stephens(VP 7")
Fort Augustus - Junior Delagado(Taxi 7")
Better Collie - Horace Andy(This World, Attack LP)
Red Hot - Sly & Robbie(Taxi 7")
SchoolGirl - Mikey Dread(Dread at the Controls CD)
The Spirit of Umoja - Augustus Pablo(DEB Disco 12")
Walk Rastafari Way -Mikey Dread(Dread at The Controls CD)
Sun is Shining - Prince Alla(Freedom Sounds 12")
Read Up - Afrikan Simba(Salvation for The Now Generation, Urban Gospel CD)
Praise You Jah Jah - Micheal Prophet(Yabby You Disco 12")
Yekitir Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke(Soundway 10")
Cheyla Ya Haiuune - Group Doueh (Sublime Frequencies LP)
Tamatant Tilay - Tinariwen(Aman Iman:Water is Life, World Village CD)
Tumhein Dillagi - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan(The Evergreen Hits of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, SunMoon CD)
Asmarina - Fedadu Amde-mesqel (Ethiopiques Vol. 4, Buda CD)
Suns of Africa - Sunny Murray(Homage to Africa, BYG LP)
mixed w/
No Knock - Gil Scott Herren
Juba Juba - Yusef Lateef(The Blue Yusef Lateef, Atlanic Records LP)
mixed w/
Nowadayz - Jaylib(Champion Sound, Stones Throw LP)
God's Money V - Gang Gang Dance(Gods Money, The Social Registry LP)
Build - Diverse(Chocolate Industries 12")
Time Bandits - M.A.D. (Backwoodz 12")

RIP Mikey Dread

Sad to say that this past friday the great reggae producer vocalist and pioneering radio deejay Mikey Dread passed away at his home in Connecticut. He leaves us too soon at the age of 54.
It is hard to overstate his influence on reggae music. He was the first deejay to play reggae on the JBC(remarkably not until 1976!), and his show, Dread at The Controls went on to pioneer a fusion of Carribean dj styles and the sonic experimentalism of Dub and first broke many of the new reggae artists of the day. He was know world wide as a brilliant engineer and producer, working with Clash and UB40 among others and performing on the Sandanista! record.
His incredible baritone sing-jay stlyes are featured on a few tracks on todays radio show(playlist soon come).

He will be missed.

...............


In other non-musical but equally important news Barack Obama this week gave what may be the most singularly direct and coherent speech about race in America that I have ever had the privilege of seeing in the 15 or 20 years I have been following politics. He made a number of astute observations about the different ways we veiw each other and our personal struggle to get ahead in the capitalist shitsystem(my words not his...). Among other things he was spot on about the attitude the working class so-called "ethinic" whites have about race in America. Above all, for me, its refreshing to hear a political speech and really see a mind a work. In this culture where we are so taught to devalue critical thinking and intellectual exercise unless it makes money. You've probably all seen it but I still feel the need to repost it.

03.13.08

Grounds of Being from Africa to Central Asia

Momma Mo Akoma Ntutu - Genesis Gospel Singers(The Guitar and The Gun, Africagram LP)
Tudo Azul N'America Do Sul - Abilio Manoel(Osean 7")
Bayama Part 1 - Fire Family Band (Luapula 7")
Mister Oh! - Syran Mbenza(African Music Gallery LP)
Dakar Streets - Manu Dibango(Island LP)
No Woman No Cry - Gilberto Gil(Elektra 7")
Si Useme - Rachid King(Makossa 12")
Dangwa - Manu Dibango(Atlantic 7")
Ase - King Sunny Ade and His African Beats(Island 7")
Midnight Birds - Sa-Ra Creative Partners(Blue Note 12")
Timing, Forget the Timing - Black Devil(Rephlex 12")
Dominic Christ - Suicide(WaxTrax! LP)
Lemonsoul - 808 State(Outpost Transmission, Circus CD)
Deck The House - Akufen(Force Inc. 12")
Kingstown - Kode9(HyperDub 10")
Brooklyn Anthem(Accapella) - Team Shadetek feat Jah Dan & 77Klash (SoundInk 12")
Prophecy Is Fulfillment in The Mouth of the Land - Teleseen(Fear of the Forest, Percepts, Unreleased)
Abraxisis - Echospace(Modern Love 12")
For The Smokers - Matty G(Argon 12")
Everyday - Kush Arora feat Juakali(Kush Arora CD)
Super Soul - Nick Fury(Metatronix 12")
Copy Copy - Timeblind(Soot 12")
Kaushik Dhwani - G.S. Sachev (Chandi Productions LP)
A Gulf Between Us - Muslimgauze(Staalplaat CD)