Hold fire massive! It’s a Live At Budokan redux featuring Yellow Mouse (aka Kiki Hitomi from King Midas Sound) on a dub-plate tip. Download again for a new take and while you’re at it check her out in the blazing new King Midas Sound track “Aroo”.

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Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The U-G

Ken2-D Special : Sunday Afternoon In The Presidents Room

Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The UmegaoKa

Fly-T : Dub

Fly-T : Song

Dry and Heavy : Private Plan Dub

Jiny A (Echo Soundsystem)

Dry and Heavy : Radical Dubber

Dry and Heavy : Run Away Dub

Dry and Heavy : Somebody Has Come

Sly Mongoose : El Bamba

Dry and Heavy : Strictly Baby

Dry and Heavy : Treat-Me-NT Dubbed

Dry and Heavy : Tiger Claw Skank

Karamushi & Green Massive : 2012

Dry and Heavy : Rumble Dub

Soul Dimension : Step Forward Dub

Soul Dimension feat Ja-ge & Mal : Step Forward

Mighty Massa : Version

Mighty Massa feat Ras Dasher : LOVEwise & DUBwise

Soul Dimension : Spiritual Version

Freedom Ensemble : Patagonia

Kyo Sakurai feat. Ja-ge : Biribiriba

Soul Dimension : Age Of Fame

Sure Shine & Sister Mami : Jammin Jamaica

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 1

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 2

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel Dub

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel

Back in December of 2012 I found myself in Toyko with the Amon Tobin “ISAM Live” tour. Taking 4000 pounds worth of stage design to the other side of the world seemed like a perfectly good excuse to spend an extra 7 days tooling around Tokyo. And of course my first mission was to find the good reggae shops. You know when you’re in a record store and the reggae bin consists of like two good records and a bunch of UB40 and you wonder “where are all the good used reggae records”… well they’re all in Japan. So after spending a ludicrous amount of money on a large stack of Jamaican classics, I turned my attention to the local bins. I admit to knowing absolutely nothing about the Japanese reggae scene. Except to say I found some amazing records and that it sounds like they all grew up on On U Sound classics. I don’t know if these are the freshest tunes out of Japan or like 10 years old or whatever. This is just some awesome stuff I finally found the time to mix together (Ghostdad has slowed down the output…).

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Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The U-G

Ken2-D Special : Sunday Afternoon In The Presidents Room

Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The UmegaoKa

Fly-T : Dub

Fly-T : Song

Dry and Heavy : Private Plan Dub

Jiny A (Echo Soundsystem)

Dry and Heavy : Radical Dubber

Dry and Heavy : Run Away Dub

Dry and Heavy : Somebody Has Come

Sly Mongoose : El Bamba

Dry and Heavy : Strictly Baby

Dry and Heavy : Treat-Me-NT Dubbed

Dry and Heavy : Tiger Claw Skank

Karamushi & Green Massive : 2012

Dry and Heavy : Rumble Dub

Soul Dimension : Step Forward Dub

Soul Dimension feat Ja-ge & Mal : Step Forward

Mighty Massa : Version

Mighty Massa feat Ras Dasher : LOVEwise & DUBwise

Soul Dimension : Spiritual Version

Freedom Ensemble : Patagonia

Kyo Sakurai feat. Ja-ge : Biribiriba

Soul Dimension : Age Of Fame

Sure Shine & Sister Mami : Jammin Jamaica

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 1

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 2

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel Dub

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel

Back in the mid-80’s I was in the back seat of a car. In the passenger seat was one of the local skinheads from my home town (one of the non-racist/non-asshole skins… I believe his name was Rob… Rob… if you’re reading this!) who popped in a tape of Time Boom X De Devil Dead by Dub Syndicate & Lee Perry. I was a punk & metal kid that until that point knew about dub & reggae largely through an obsession with Linton Kwesi Johnson’s live album, The Clash, Marley, and being really into PIL “Metal Box” but otherwise couldn’t say I’d looked much further.  That listen to Time Boom blew my mind and I tracked down a copy  the next week. That led me down the worm-hole of discovering every On U Sound record possible and was really the gate way to a lifetime of dub obsession. Although ostensibly a reggae/dub label, something about it all just seemed so different and so punk. Years later I found myself working their catalog through my job at Cargo Records. And forward 25 years later and the name still comes up on a regular basis (mostly in nerdy conversations with The Bug). So this mix has been brewing mentally for awhile. Hopefully there’s something here for the On U expert, and if you’ve never heard these records before… fucking go in!

If you dig this I would highly encourage you to empty your wallet in the same way I have to the mighty On U Sound :

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Dub Syndicate “Let The Spirit Rise”

Creation Rebel “Chemical Specialist”

Singers & Players “Pneumatic”

Dub Syndicate “J.A Minor”

Gary Clail “Two Thieves And A Liar”

Dub Syndicate “Hey Ho”

Singers & Players “Make A Joyful Noise”

Dub Syndicate “What Happened?”

Prince Far I “Water The Garden”

Creation Rebel “Space Movement Section 5″

Creation Rebel “Space Movement Section 3″

African Head Charge “Stebeni’s Theme”

African Head Charge “Breeding Space”

Andy Fairley “Segue”

African Head Charge “Elastic Dance”

Dr Pablo & Dub Syndicate “North Of The River Thames”

Revolutionary Dub Warriors “Dread V2″

Tackhead “Life & Dreams”

Mark Stewart “Learning To Cope With Cowardice”

New Age Steppers “High Ideals & Crazy Dreams”

Singers & Players “Quante Jubila”

Dub Syndicate “Dub Violation”

Creation Rebel “Mother Don’t Cry”

Mark Stewart “None Dare Call It Conspiracy”

Creation Rebel “African Space”

Dub Syndicate “Mafia (Mr Scruff mix)”

Andy Fairley “Jack The Biscuit”

New Age Steppers “Fade Away”

Dub Syndicate “Ravi Shankar”

Lee Perry & Dub Syndicate “Jungle”

New Age Steppers “Private Army Dub”

Bim Sherman “Can I Be Free (From Crying)”

Lee Perry… The Upsetter… Scratch Perry… One of the most legendary producers in the history of reggae. If any one person deserves a mix of just their material it’s him. I make no claim as to this being completist, chronological, covering all eras… it’s just some of my favorite Lee Perry moments put together. All classics to me… but if I had to pick one, “Brotherly Love” could be on repeat until the day I die and I’d be okay with that.

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Lee Perry : Dub Revolution
Upsetters : Sokup
Upsetters : People Sokup Boy
Bob Marley : Nice Time Dub
Bob Marley : Nice Time
Upsetters : Wap You Wah
Devon Irons : Vampire
Upsetters : Vampire Dub
Upsetters : In These Times Dub
Errol Walker : In These Times
Max Romeo : Norman
Errol Walker & Enos Barnes : John Public Dub
Errol Walker : John Public
Lee Perry : Favorite Dish
Upsetters : Freak Out Skank
Upsetters : Jungle Lion
Upsetters / Top Cat : Jungle Gallis
Leo Graham : Want A Wine
Upsetters : Double Wine
Congos : Sodom & Gomorrah
Upsetters : Much Smarter Dub
The Meditations : Much Smarter
Jah Lion : Soldier & Police War
Junior Murvin : Police & Thieves
Mystic : Forward With Jah Orthodox
Lee Perry : Enter The Dragon
Junior Dread : A Wha Dat
Max Romeo : War Inna Babylon
Jolly Brothers : Brotherly Love

7 days from the official summer kick off that is Sud-West. As a warm up, or a consolation prize for those not in Montreal I put together this mix of jams. And in the process rediscovered just how good New Age Steppers are… right then… see you on the St. Ambroise Terrace.

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Prince Fatty “Dry Up Your Tears”
Prince Fatty “Bedroom Eyes Dub”
Horace Andy “Spying Glass”
Scientist “Dance Of The Vampires”
Michael Prophet “You Are A No Good”
Serge Gainsbourg “Aux Armes Et Cetera”
Lloyd Parks “Mafia”
Bim Sherman “My Whole World”
New Age Steppers “My Whole World”
Grace Jones “She’s Lost Control Dub”
Grace Jones “She’s Lost Control”
Max Romeo “One Step Forward Dub”
Max Romeo “One Step Forward”
Chuckles “Melody Maker Version 2″
Horace Andy & Earl Flute “Don’t Think About Me”
Big Youth “Can You Keep A Secret”
Keith Hudson “Satan Version”
U Roy “The Hudson Affair”
Soul Syndicate “Bongo Riot”
Dennis Brown “Westbound Train”
U Roy “Train From The West”
Big Youth “Ride On / Wild Goose Chase”
Conroy Smith “Dangerous”
Courtney Melody “Bad Boy”
Dr Evil “Wine Up Your Body”
Problem Child “Real Bad Boy”
Ward 21 “Jump & Skip”
Nardo Ranks “Burrup”
Prince Fatty “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”
Busy Signal “Bye Bye”

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XX Marks The Spot

Last month the beard hit the road with the Ninja Tune XX tour. Taking a break from all that label work to do some 20th anniversary celebrating. One run in the with NYPD, one relocated show in under 90 minutes, two big shows in SF & LA, lots of booze, 6800 people rocked by Ninja Tune crew… no sleep until Ninja Tune XXX.

This is the set I was more or less kicking on those nights. Leaning heavily on the Ninja Tune XX box-set and some other recent Ninja/Big Dada hotness and mixed up with some ragga business… including Beenie Man’s awesome rip on Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” which I can’t get enough of (how could you really).

Dels – Shapeshift
DJ Vadim – Bang It Out
Roots Manuva – Witness (Modeselektor mix)
Sonido Del Principe – Cartagena
Dub Gabriel feat. Zulu – No Lies
Modeselektor – The Dark Side Of The Sun
Poirier feat. Face-T – No More Blood (Megasoid remix)
Lutan Fyah – Mix Up
Perfect – Money Can’t Be Love
King General – If I Was A Rich Man
Busy Signal – Food Fih Dih Pot
Mr Lexx – Nutten Nah Gwan Fi Dem
Jagwa – Gah Ah Dagga
Beenie Man – No Where To Run
Toddla T – My Pum Pum
King Cannibal – Aragami Style
LV – Globetrotting (Ruddz Rwrkd)
The Bug – Poison Dart (Scratcha DVA remix)
Bang On – Hands High
Bar 9 – Murda Sound (Eskmo remix)
Warrior One – Lord Of Bashy (Douster remix)
Mungo’s Hi-Fi feat. Ranking Joe – I Love Jah
Top Cat – Buck Up
Lady Chann – Money Ah Dem God
Perfect – Reggae Music
Macka B – Roots Ragga

Summertime… and the living is easy…

Here’s your tune of the summer… woman of the moment Natalie Storm comes in dub-plate style on Poirier’s “90’s Backyard (Wildlife mix) for the big man Ghostbeard. Original taken from new Poirier album “Running High”… cop it if you haven’t done so already.

And make sure to check Natalie’s latest jam with Sticky “Look Pon Me” (in fact you can hear it in my last mix… scroll down kids… scroll down)

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Ancient sun gods got nothing on me… I’ve been to Egypt and my sound is still the champion sound.

New mix… starting off with some versions on the very excellent Prisonbreak Rhythm, couple jams from the new South Rakka’s joint, and leaning heavily on Poirier’s forthcoming Running High album for material because it’s just not easy to choose one tune (and hey… if I’ve got to do the paperwork for it… I’m going to cramp his style). If you were at the big big Karnival V.2 last weekend you’d have heard most of this go down…

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01 Is Bigger Than Amun-Re

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Misses His Gig In Hell

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Hey look… it’s a new mix in preperation of this weekends Piknic Electronik with myself, Amon Tobin, Speakerbruiser Rob, and Boom Monk Ben. I’ll have some proper copies for sale there, but you can stream/download here.

Big up to Doubleclick for the excellent artwork. Do him a favor and go buy the Two Fingers album if you haven’t already… it’s excellent.

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A Fistful Of Awesome

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