Back in the control tower after taking the last 7 weeks off
for a reggae tour of northern California, Jamaica, and the US
Virgin Islands...  Highlights include amazing new "classic roots"
albums from Groundation and Dezarie... new albums from Yami Bolo,
Anthony B, and Luciano... the brand new Good To Go riddim...
and nuff new Chant Down Soundsystem dubplate specials...

GROUNDATION - Babylon Rule Dem (Hebron Gate: YounG Tree Records)
DELROY WILSON - Peace and Love (Greatest Hits: Dynamic)
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS - The Same Thing (Slatyam Stoot: Dynamic) -req
DENNIS ALCAPONE - Here I Come (Justice 7")
DENNIS BROWN - Whip Them Jah Jah (Wolves and Leopards: DEB)
CORNEL CAMPBELL - Righteous Rastaman (I Shall Not Remove: Blood and Fire)
DEZARIE - Gracious Mama Africa (Gracious Mama Africa: Rastafaria)
DEZARIE - Slew Dem and Done (Gracious Mama Africa: Rastafaria)
MIDNITE - Charge (Weep Not: I-Grade)
STAR LION FAMILY - The Draw (Talking Roots vol 1: Mt Nebo Records)
LUCIANO, LUTAN FYAH, TAFFARI - Peace (Tell It From The Heart: Minor 7, Flat 5)
YAMI BOLO & RAS MICHAEL - Hail The Conquering Lion (Rebelution: Zion High)
ANTHONY B - Bad Boy (Smoke Free: Reggae Now)
TERROR FABULOUS - Jah Works (Chant Down Dubplate Special)
JEFFATON - Bun Babylon (Chant Down Dubplate Special)
BURRU BANTON - Phenomenon One (Chant Down Dubplate Special)
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Little Tin Pan Sound (Chant Down Dubplate Special)
TANYA STEPHENS - Gangsta (Creation 7")
FRISCO KID & CECILE - Ghetto Youths (Don Corleon 7")
VYBZ CARTEL & WAYNE MARSHALL - Why Yu Doing It pt 2 (Don Corleon 7")
BOUNTY KILLER - Sadda Dem (Don Corleon 7")
SIZZLA - It's Burning (Don Corleon 7")
ELEPHANT MAN - Bun Down Dat (Don Corleon 7")
MR VEGAS - Hand In The Air (In The Streetz 7")
CAPLETON & GENTLEMAN - Live It Up (Silly Walks 7")
CHUCK FENDER - Haffi Win (5th Element 7")
SIZZLA - Just One Of Those Days (Digital B 7")
ANTHONY B - No Hush (Digital B 7")

Highlights include Digital B's recut of the Queen Majesty riddim...
new roots from the Reggae Vibes label... and two killer new albums
from Bambu Station thanks to Mt Nebo records...

MIDNITE - Chant A Psalm (Weep Not: I-Grade)
HEPTONES - Party Time (On Top: Studio One) --req
HEPTONES - Mama Say (Cool Rasta: Trojan)
RAS MICHAEL & SONS OF NEGUS - Numbered Days (Rally Round: Shanachie) --req
DENNIS BROWN - Let Love In (Musical Heatwave: Trojan)
TAPPA ZUKIE & JR ROSS - Freedom Fe Natty (I Can Hear The Children Singing: B&F)
U ROY - Crashie Sweep (Right Time Rockers: Soundsystem) --req
THE GLADIATORS - Eli Eli (Trenchtown Mixup: Virgin)
DEZARIE - Woe (Talking Roots 1: Mt Nebo Records)
BAMBU STATION - Man In Exile (One Day: Mt Nebo Records)
MIDNITE - Bless (Nemozian Rasta: I-Grade)
PETER TOSH - Mystic Man (The Best of: EMI) --req
BLACK UHURU - What Is Life? (Anthem: Island) --req
BUSHMAN - Worries and Problems (Total Commitment: Jammys) --req
BERES HAMMOND - Lived My Life (Fat Eyes 7") --req
COCOA TEA - Can Not Be Real (Digital B 7")
ANTHONY B - No Rush (Digital B 7")
NORRIS MAN - Jah Jah Is The Ruler (Digital B 7")
SIZZLA - Just One Of These Days (Digital B 7") --req
LUCIANO - Love and Devotion (Pow Pow 7") --req
TANYA STEPHENS - Power of a Girl (Pow Pow 7")
SIZZLA - Can't Keep Us Down (Pow Pow 7")
RAS SHILOH - Long Live The King (Reggae Vibes 7")
TERRY GANZIE - March (Reggae Vibes 7")
KYMANI MARLEY & ANTHONY B - Valley of Decision (Reggae Vibes 7")
CHUKKI STARR - Woman Fe Positive (Ghetto Youths Livity: Ariwa) --req
JAH CURE - Dancehall Vibes (Kings of Kings 7") --req
CAPLETON - No Evil (Kings of Kings 7")
SIZZLA -  Juvenile (Kings of Kings 7")
NORRIS MAN - Bad Road (Kings of Kings 7")
BUJU BANTON - Mighty Race (Friends for Life: VP) --req
DENNIS BROWN - Concentration (Musical Heatwave: Trojan)

The annual PBS radio festival, this year the theme being "Reel To Real", 
exploring the link between music and film. For the second of two radio festival
specials, this week we took a look at various reggae songs that have appeared
in non-reggae films, and got over 60 subscribers again! Thanks to everyone
who subscribed during the festival, one of the best ever for the station...

MAX ROMEO - War Ina Babylon (War Ina Babylon: Island)
CEDRIC IM BROOKS - Mun-Dun-Gu (Studio One Scorcher: Soul Jazz)
DESMOND DEKKER - Israelites (20 reggae Blockbusters: Trojan)
KEN BOOTHE - The Train Is Coming (A Man And His Hits: Heartbeat)
WILLIE WILLIAMS - Armageddon Time (100% Dynamite: Soul Jazz)
DENNIS BROWN - Things In Life 
ALTON ELLIS - Rocksteady (The Roots of Reggae III: MusicClub)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - No Woman No Cry (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Is This Love (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Burning and Looting (Songs of Freedom: Island)
KING TUBBY & AUGUSTUS PABLO - Meets Rockers Uptown (Who Say Jah No Dread: ras)
PETER BROGGS - Jah Jah Voice Is Calling (Rastafari Liveth: ras)
JR MURVIN - Police and Thief Version (Upsetter 7")
THE CONGOS - Don't Blame It On I (Arkology: Island)
DILLINGER - Cocaine In My Brain (Mango 12")
BLACK UHURU - Sensimilla (Sensimilla: Island)
CARLTON LIVINGSTONE - 100 Weight of Collie Weed (Retrospective)
CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERS - Murder She Wrote (Watch How You Flex: Shanachie)
JESSIE PROVERBS - Poor Man Pickney (Chapter and Verse: Proverbs)
JESSIE PROVERBS - Chapter and Verse (Chapter and Verse: Proverbs)
GREGORY ISAACS - Black A Kill Black 
MIDNITE - Ras To The Bone (Jubilees of Zion: Rastafaria)

The annual PBS radio festival, this year the theme being "Reel To Real", 
exploring the link between music and film. For the first of two radio festival
specials, this week we looked at the best in reggae films and soundtracks, 
and got over 60 subscribers to the station!

BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Rastaman Chant (Songs of Freedom: Island)
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS - Monkey Man (The Trojan Story: Metro)
DESMOND DEKKER - 007 Shanty Town (The Harder They Come: Island)
JIMMY CLIFF - The Harder They Come (The Harder They Come: Island)
PETER TOSH - Stepping Razor (Rockers: Island)
JR MURVIN - Police and Thieves (Rockers: Island)
GLADIATORS - Jah Works (Proverbial Reggae: Virgin)
MIGHTY DIAMONDS - Right Time (Right Time: Frontline)
JACOB MILLER - Tired Fe Lick Weed Inna Bush (Chapter A Day: VP)
YABBY U - Deliver Me From My Enemies (Babylon: Chrysalis)
ASWAD - Warrior Charge (Showcase: Island)
THIRD WORLD - 96 Degrees In The Shade (Prisoner In the Street: Island)
NO FIXED ADDRESS - We Have Survived (We Have Survived: Rough Diamond)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Jah Live (Countryman soundtrack: Island)
DENNIS BROWN - Sitting and Watching (Countryman soundtrack: Island)
PETER TOSH - Legalize It (Legalize It: CBS)
ANTHONY B - Fire Pon Rome (Real Revolution: Star Trail)
JR DEMUS - Shot Mek Yu Wiggle (Digital B 7")
GARNETT SILK & CAPLETON - Complaint (Killamanjaro Remembers: Reggae Revue)
GHETTO YOUTHS CREW - Call The Police (3rd World Cop)

Highlights included some classics on the Observer label...
and the brilliant new Jah Cure album "Ghetto Life"...

TYRONE TAYLOR - Sufferation (Observer Station: Heartbeat)
THE SLICKERS - Johnny Too Bad (The Harder They Come: Island) --req
JACKIE MITTOO - Ram Jam (Champion In The Arena: Blood and Fire)
AUGUSTUS PABLO - Chant To Selassie I (east of the River Nile: Shanachie)
MARCIA GRIFFITHS - Feel Like Jumping (Feel Like Jumping: Heartbeat)
WAILING SOULS - Row Fisherman Row (Best of Studio One: Heartbeat)
DENNIS BROWN - Here I Come Again (Observer Gold 10") --req
DILLINGER - Flat Foot Hustling (Observer Gold 10")
MICHAEL ROSE - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Observer Station: Heartbeat)
MICHAEL ROSE - Freedom (Observer 7")
LINVAL THOMPSON - Jah Jah Is The Conqueror (Ride On Dreadlocks: Blood and Fire)
CORNEL CAMPBELL - Brothers Killing Brothers (Fatman 7")
PETER BROGGS - International Farmer (Rastafari Liveth: ras)
MIDNITE - Love Right (Ras Mek Peace: Wildchild)
ABJA - Crucial Confessions (Weep Not: I-Grade)
JAH CURE - Every Song I Sing (Ghetto Life: VP)
JAH CURE - Ghetto Vibes (Ghetto Life: VP)
DAWEH CONGO - Travel East (Militancy: Runn)
WARRIOR KING - Never Go Where Pagans Go (Calibud 7") --req
CHRISINTI - Say Jah (Calibud 7")
NORRIS MAN - Work Be Done (Fat Eyes 7") --req
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Never Fail I (Fat Eyes 7")
BERES HAMMOND & TERROR FABULOUS - Not Impossible (Fat Eyes 7")
VYBZ CARTEL - Send On (40/40 7")
DETERMINE - Fake Badman (40/40 7")
BOUNTY KILLER - Many Gal (40/40 7") --req
LUCIANO & CAPLETON - Hail King Selassie I (Black Scorpio 7")


CHAT PON RIDDIM: "East of the River Nile" by Augustus Pablo on Shanachie

Highlights included the Campo riddim out of Spain...
Italian/Jamaican reggae from the One Love Hi-Pawa camp...
and live reggae from Sunsplash 1982...

ASHANTI WAUGH - Babylon Wrong (Punky Reggae Party: Trojan)
CHARLIE ACE - Country Boy (Impact: Universal Sound)
PORTI - Mr Big Man (Observer Station: Heartbeat)
JACKIE MITTOO - Earthquake (Champion In The Arena: Blood and Fire)
KEN BOOTHE - When I Fall In Love (Studio One 7")
LITTLE ROY - Jah Can Count On I (Tafari Earth Uprising: Pressure Sounds)
BURNING SPEAR - I&I Survive (Garvey's Ghost: Island)
JOE HIGGS - More Slavery (Life of Contradiction: Macola)
EEK-A-MOUSE - Ganja Smuggling (Live at Reggae Sunsplash 1982) -req
MUTABARUKA - Every Time I Hear The Sound (Live at Reggae Sunsplash 1982)
MUTABARUKA - The System (Live at Reggae Sunsplash 1982) -req
JAH THOMAS - Bicycle Skank (Stop Yu Loafing: Greensleeves)
NASIO FONTAINE - Apple (Revolution: Aphelion)
MORGAN HERITAGE - Rebel (Three In One: VP)
GONDWANA & AL PANCHO - Fuego (Made In Jamaica: RAS)
GINKO - Le Tue Ragioni (One Love 7")
ANTHONY B - Gwaan A School (One Love 7")
TURBULENCE - My Amore (One Love 7")
TOK - Galang Gal (40/40 7") -req
WAYNE MARSHALL - Overcome (40/40 7") -req
BOUNTY KILLER - Sufferer (40/40 7") -req
ELEPHANT MAN - Pon The River Pon The Bank (Q455 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Clearance (Minor 7, Flat 5 7")
LUCIANO - Babylon Go Down (Minor 7, Flat 5 7")
TURBULENCE - Facts (Minor 7, Flat 5 7")
SPECTACULAR - So LOng (Minor 7, Flat 5 7")
LAROZ - On and On
WAILING SOULS - Very Well (Wild Suspense: Island)

CHAT PON RIDDIM: Wild Suspense In Dub by The Wailing Souls on Island

Highlights included Pow Pow's wicked relick of the 007 Shanty Town riddim...
new albums from Morgan Heritage and Natural Black... new Jackie Mittoo reissue
on Blood and Fire... and a visit from Basmati Kazar of Brisbane's Rhythm
Collision soundsystem.

LUCIANO - Babylon Go Down (Minor 7, Flat 5 7")
HEPTONES - Give Me The Right (Out of Many, One Jamaican Music 2: Trojan)
MAX ROMEO - Macabee Version (Let The Power Fall: Dynamic)
CONGO ASHANTI ROY - African Blood (Congo Ashanti and Friends: Kotoko)
JACKIE MITTOO - Brain Mark (Champion In The Arena: Blood and Fire)
DEVON IRONS - Vampire (Arkology: Island)
HUGH MUNDELL - Jah Fire Will Be Burning (Crowning of Prince Jammy: Pressure Sounds) -req
JR REID - Cat A Matches Stick A Four (Big Timer: Artists Only) -req
TRISTAN PALMA - Rubadub Session (Jah Jah Dreader Than Dread: Munich)
U BROWN - Rock To The Riddim (Jah Jah Dreader Than Dread: Munich)
YELLOWMAN - Mr Chin (Volcano 7") -req
JACOB MILLER - Suzy Wong (Songbook: VP)
PRINCE FARI - Bedward The Flying Preacher (Staggering Heights: On-U Sound) -req
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION - Weapons of Mass Destruction 
21 DUB STREET - Polynesian Dub
BROKENHEAD - Zoo Army (Locarno: Valve)
MORGAN HERITAGE - Nice Up Your Medi (Three In One: VP)
MORGAN HERITAGE & JR KELLY - Ah Who Dem (Three In One: VP)
LUCIANO - Love and Devotion (Pow Pow 7")
TANYA STEPHENS - Power of a Girl (Pow Pow 7")
SIZZLA - Can't Keep Us Down (Pow Pow 7")
ANTHONY B - Time for Love (Pow Pow 7")
JAH MASON - Too Much Youth Dying (Pow Pow 7")
NATURAL BLACK - Mi Do Mi Best (World War: Lion and Roots)
MICHAEL ROSE - Babylon 911 (Love Injection 7")
LUCIANO - Long Story (Serve Jah: VP)
JR REID - One Blood (JR 7")  -req

CHAT PON RIDDIM: "Sound of Channel One" by King Tubbys on Motion Records