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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Ghostbeard Vs The Upsetter

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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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Sud-West

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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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Yeah, well earlier this year, somewhere in my mind I thought if I did a title tribute to Scientist it would spur the Habs to bring home the cup… fuck that went well… right around the time I finished this Robert Lang was out for the season, Kovalev forgot how to play hockey… and all that remained was actually just a really fucking good mix… You can’t step to that version of 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover by Shinehead.

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Ghostbeard Wins The Stanley Cup

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From around August 08. Just in time for last years Piknic gig with Sase One & Bliss. A whole lot of Burro Banton… but that’s never a bad thing. And a rediscovery of “No Tribal War”… which was a mainstay back in the Dub Lounge residency days.

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Girls Them Pet Ghostbeard

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Holy crap… a mix from 9 years ago. This was while on a mini-tour with Amon Tobin in 2000. We stopped by Dublab in L.A to lay down some sets. I was still DJ’ing as The Notorious WIG in those days… pre hair migration to the chin. Hilariously I’m introduced on this by Daedelus who I didn’t know at the time but ended up working with closely years later when we signed him at Ninja Tune.

Anyway, this is kind of interesting just to hear what I was into in 2000. Still sounds pretty tight. Amazing what happens when you DJ sober in the afternoon.

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01 Dublab Session

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