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April 19, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 19th April, 2025

Continuing to pay tribute to the late great Max Romeo; plus new music from Perfect Giddimani, Lutan Fyah, Kenya Eugene, Claye, Collie Buddz & Busy Signal; and some early 2000s roots.

MAX ROMEO & TRIBU ACUSTICA – One Step Forward (In This Time: Satta Records)
MAX ROMEO – 2000 Years Ago (Impact) credited to maxy smith
MAX ROMEO & THE UPSETTERS – Public Enemy Number One (Upsetter)
MAX ROMEO – The Coming Of Jah (Observer)
MAX ROMEO – Jordan River (GGs)
MAX ROMEO – Revelation Time (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
MAX ROMEO – Hammer and Sickle (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
MAX ROMEO – A Quarter Pound Of Ishense (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
MAX ROMEO – Three Blind Mice (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
MAX ROMEO – Socialism Is Love (Black World)
MAX ROMEO – Uptown Babies Don’t Cry (War Ina Babylon: Island)
MAX ROMEO – Stealing In The Name Of Lord (War Ina Babylon: Island)
MAX ROMEO – Sipple Dub (Black Art)
MAX ROMEO – Fari, Captain Of My Ship (Jah Shaka)
MAX ROMEO – Selassie I Forever (Mafia & Fluxy)
SANDRA CROSS – Country Living (Country Life: Ariwa)
JOHNNY OSBOURNE – Rub A Dub Session (Midnight Rock)
JAHMALI – Let Me Live (Treasure Box: Digital B)
MIKEY SPICE – Ethiopia Here I Come (Busy Bee)
LUCIANO – Spring Summer (A New Day: VP Records)
JAH MASON – Rise and Survive (Lion and Roots)
CAPLETON – Time (Lion and Roots)
DEZARIE – Criminal (Guardian: Dezarie)
PERFECT GIDDIMANI – Africa Mother Land (Sibusiso: Giddimani Music & Sinky Beats)
PERFECT GIDDIMANI – Zion House (Sibusiso: Giddimani Music & Sinky Beats)
KENYA EUGENE – You Are I (You Are I: Zion I Kings)
LUTAN FYAH – Listen Mama (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
LUTAN FYAH – Drain The Swamp (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
CLAYE & LUTAN FYAH – System (Prawley-Mae Music)
COLLIE BUDDZ & BUSY SIGNAL – Spark Up (Harper Digital)
SNOOP LION & COLLIE BUDDZ – Smoke The Weed (Reincarnated: Berhane Sound System)
MICHAEL PALMER – Smoke The Weed (Don’t Smoke The Seed) (Hit Bound)
AWA FALL – Dark Clouds (Ariwa)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-04-19/17-00-00

April 12, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 12th April, 2025

Featuring an impromptu tribute to legendary Jamaican singer Max Romeo, after news of his passing came in during the program. Plus new music from Groundation, Pressure, Nattalie Rize, Kenya Eugene, Kevoy Clarke, Irie Souljah & Alborosie, and nuff more.

PRESSURE BUSSPIPE – Buss Thru (Humbleness & Dub Akom)
VERSION – Dub In Time (Black Foundation In Dub: Jack Ruby)
WISS – Road To Babylon (Mr Sunshine: Jah Life)
CULTURAL ROOTS – Devilites (Revolutionary Sounds)
BURNING SPEAR – I and I Survive (Garvey’s Ghost: Island)
MAX ROMEO – One Step Forward (Black Art)
MAX ROMEO – Blood Of The Prophet (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
MAX ROMEO – Warning Warning (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
MAX ROMEO – No Peace (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
MAX ROMEO – Melt Away (Afrik)
MAX ROMEO – Chase The Devil (Black Art)
MAX ROMEO – War Ina Babylon (Black Art)
MAX ROMEO – Wet Dream (Unity) –request
THE PARAGONS – Yellow Bird (Treasure Isle) –request
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – I’m Hurting Inside (Wail N Soul M)
CLAIRE ANGEL – Hurting Inside (Hits 38 Productions & King Jammys)
NATTALIE RIZE – Fear and Dread (Liberate: Rize Nation)
MARIAH NGOMA – Resistance (Dub Style riddim: River Nile Entertainment)
WINKY D – Propaganda (Dub Style riddim: River Nile Entertainment)
LOYAL FLAMES – True To Life (Dub Style riddim: River Nile Entertainment)
ANTHONY B – African (Dub Style riddim: River Nile Entertainment)
BUSY SIGNAL – In Every Country (Dub Style riddim: River Nile Entertainment)
IRIE SOULJAH & ALBOROSIE – Another Way (Irie Souljah)
INTRESTT – Today Fi Me, Tomorrow Fi You (Hits 38 Productions & King Jammys)
DEZARIE – Hold On (Guardian: Dezarie)
KENYA EUGENE – Lift Up My Head (You Are I: Zion I Kings)
THE FLYING VIPERS – Believers and Deceivers (Off World: Easy Star)
KEVOY CLARKE – Fake Friend (Hits 38 Productions & King Jammys)
YANISS ODUA – Lighta (Caan Dun Music)
MARCUS GAD & TRIBE, TON RENALD – Laverrite (Take It Easy Records)
GROUNDATION – Congress Man (Young Tree: Young Tree)
GROUNDATION, MICHAEL ROSE, ALPHA BLONDY – The Youth (Candle Burning: Baco Music)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-04-12/17-00-00

April 5, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 5th April, 2025

Featuring new music from Derajah, Israel Vibration, Aza Lineage, Haile, Lutan Fyah, T’Jean, Chezidek, Likkle Jordee and much more.

DERAJAH & MYSTIC FIRM – Chant (Baco Music)
KING TUBBYS – Chanting Dub (Vivian Jackson)
BUNNY LIE LIE – Don’t You Try (Strong Like Sampson)
EARL ZERO – Heart’s Desire (New Flower)
WILLI WILLIAMS – Easy (Studio One)
WILLI WILLIAMS – Give Me Bread (From Studio One To Drum St: M 10)
WILLI WILLIAMS – Rock On (Unification: From Channel One To King Tubbys: Shanachie)
THE IMPACT ALL STARS – Oh Jah Dub (Impact)
WAYNE SMITH – It Soon Be Done (Youthman Skanking: Black Joy) –request
THE VICEROYS – Over Hills and Valleys (Brethren and Sistren: Thompson Sound)
CHARLIE CHAPLIN – What Kind of World (Tamoki Wambesi)
DON CARLOS – Them Say (Tamoki Wambesi)
PRINCE FAR I – Stop The War version (Umkhonto We Sizwe: Tamoki Wambesi)
TREVOR BROWN – Mr Brown (GGs)
THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS – Country Living (Stand Up To Your Judgement: Channel One)
ISRAEL VIBRATION – I’ll Go Through (The Same Song: Top Ranking)
ISRAEL VIBRATION & ASTON BARRETT JR – Herbal Cure (Reggae Music Never Dies: Riddim Agency)
ISRAEL VIBRATION & ASTON BARRETT JR – Reggae Music Never Dies (Reggae Music Never Dies: Riddim Agency)
DELROY MELORY – Humble Beginning (JahWise Inna Jamrock: JahWise Productions)
THE REGGAE SPECIALS w VICKI BONET – Baltimore (Old Tunes, New Skank: Nesta Sounds)
AZA LINEAGE – Chikiwawawoi (Jammys)
HAILE – Half Way (HaiVi)
SEVANA – Lowe Mi (GoodHzMusic) –request
BUGLE – Consequences (Consequences riddim: CD Master & Inna Mi House Music)
KAIZS & JEV – Covenant (Consequences riddim: CD Master & Inna Mi House Music)
MR G – Two Side Mouth (Consequences riddim: CD Master & Inna Mi House Music)
MACKEEHAN – Preserve (Consequences riddim: CD Master & Inna Mi House Music)
CHINO McGREGOR – Without Apology (Consequences riddim: CD Master & Inna Mi House Music)
QUEEN IFRICA – Did You Pray (Consequences riddim: CD Master & Inna Mi House Music)
KENYA EUGENE – In and Outtah Love (Zion I Kings)
HANOUNEH – Until We Are Free (Love and War: Dondada)
LUTAN FYAH – African Children (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
LUTAN FYAH & QUEEN OMEGA – Days After Summer (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
T’JEAN – Motivation (Iffa Cush Muzik & Native Immigrants)
CHEZIDEK – Jah Is In Charge (Derrrick Sound & Evidence Music)
LIKKLE JORDEE – Upfull (Style and Passion: Likkle Jodree)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-04-05/17-00-00

March 29, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 29th March, 2025

Catching up on a heap of recent releases, including Lutan Fyah’s killer new album “Strength and Resilience”, featuring combinations with Chronixx and Akae Beka, and new music from Groundation, Lila Ike, Protoje, Claye, Randy Valentine, Kumar, Samory I and much more.

SAMORY I – Babylon Is Burning (JahWise Inna Jamrock: JahWise Productions)
BIG YOUTH – Give Praises (Trojan)
THE VICEROYS & TOMMY McCOOK – Slogan On The Wall (Studio One)
THE NATURAL ITES – Picture On The Wall (CSA) –request
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – Redemption Song (band version) (Island) –request
SUGAR MINOTT – Rub A Dub Sound (Tune In) (Taxi)
SUGAR MINOTT – Dance Hall We Dey (DanceHall Live / Instant Rewind: Inner City’s Street Corner Records)
MICHAEL PALMER – Lick Shot (DanceHall Live / Instant Rewind: Inner City’s Street Corner Records)
EDI FITZROY – The Gun (DanceHall Live / Instant Rewind: Inner City’s Street Corner Records)
EDI FITZROY – First Class Citizen (Check For You Once: Musical Ambassador)
ECLIPSE – Blood Fi Dem (The Midlands Roots Explosion vol 1: Reggae Archive Records)
DON CARLOS – Plantation (Dove)
TWINKLE BROTHERS – Barabas (Rasta Pon Top: Grounation)
THE PROGRESSIONS – Fair Deal (Pat Hardy)
JOEY & GROUP – Soul Love (Treasure Isle)
THE FRIGHTNRS – Gotta Find A Way (Nothing More To Say: Daptone)
ALPHEUS – Far Away (From Creation: A-Lone Productions)
LILA IKE – Too Late To Lie (Wurl Ike Records & In.Digg.Nation Collective)
KY-MANI MARLEY, IBA MAHR, LUTAN FYAH – Love and Energy (Konfrontation Muzik & DubShot Records)
LUTAN FYAH – Warning Dem (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
LUTAN FYAH & CHRONIXX – Freedom Sound (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
LUTAN FYAH – Leader Before Me (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
LUTAN FYAH & AKAE BEKA – Just The Time (Strength and Resilience: I Grade)
MARK WONDER – Force and Flames (JahWise Inna Jamrock: JahWise Productions)
KUMAR – Message In A Bottle (Fields Of Gold: Azul Music)
GROUNDATION – Spirits In The Material World (Fields Of Gold: Azul Music)
GROUNDATION – Energy (HTS Roots Creations)
CLAYE – Rumours (Prawley-Mae Music)
T’JEAN – 400 Years (Yaadman Records)
PROTOJE – Big 45 (In.Digg.Nation Collective)
RANDY VALENTINE – Long Way Home (Troots Music)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-03-29/17-00-00

March 15, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 15th March, 2025

Paying respects to one of the great Jamaican singers, Calvin “Cocoa Tea” Scott, who passed away at the age of 65 on March 11.

COCOA TEA – Babylon Is Falling (Fat Eyes)
COCOA TEA – If Jah Is For Us (Settle Down: Corner Stone)
COCOA TEA – There Must Be A Time (Settle Down: Corner Stone)
COCOA TEA – Reggae Music (Settle Down: Corner Stone)
COCOA TEA – Too Much (Settle Down: Corner Stone)
COCOA TEA – Jah Made Them That Way (Weh Dem A Go Do: Volcano)
COCOA TEA – Don’t Be Shy (Settle Down: Corner Stone)
COCOA TEA – Settle Down (Settle Down: Corner Stone)
COCOA TEA – On Top Of The World (Weh Dem A Go Do: Volcano)
COCOA TEA – I’m Going Home (Weh Dem A Go Do: Volcano)
COCOA TEA – I’m Wanted (Weh Dem A Go Do: Volcano)
COCOA TEA – Chalice Nuh Fi Ramp With (Weh Dem A Go Do: Volcano)
COCOA TEA – Evening Time (Weh Dem A Go Do: Volcano)
COCOA TEA – Can’t Stop Cocoa Tea (Weh Dem A Go Do: Volcano)
COCOA TEA – Crying Time (Jammys)
COCOA TEA – Come Again (Jammys)
COCOA TEA – We Must Be Free (Rikers Island: Mr Doo & Greensleeves)
COCOA TEA – She Loves Me Now (Xterminator)
COCOA TEA – We Do The Killing (Digital B)
COCOA TEA & SHABBA RANKS – Love Me Truly (Digital B)
COCOA TEA & SHABBA RANKS – Flag Flown High (Digital B)
COCOA TEA – Burn Satan (Xterminator)
COCOA TEA & SIZZLA – Bruk Down (Xterminator)
COCOA TEA – Israel’s King (Israel’s King: Xterminator)
COCOA TEA – Hurry Up And Come (Xterminator)
COCOA TEA – There’s No Hope (Israel’s King: Xterminator)
COCOA TEA – Repatriation (Israel’s King: Xterminator)
COCOA TEA & LUCIANO – Rough Inna Town (Israel’s King: Xterminator)
COCOA TEA – Mr Neck Tie Man (Xterminator)
COCOA TEA – Cannot Be Real (Digital B)
COCOA TEA – Cycle (Boot Camp)
COCOA TEA – Medical Marijuana (Top Shelf riddim: Walshy Fire)
COCOA TEA – Moving On (Digital B)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-03-15/17-00-00

March 1, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 1st March, 2025

Showcasing the works of Queen Omega ahead of her first ever performance in Melbourne, and paying respect to the late Jamaican singer Ken Parker.

QUEEN OMEGA – Babylon Pressure (Queen Omega: Green House Family)
ABBACUSH – Batta Dem (In Progress: People Unite)
MISTY IN ROOTS – Musi O Tunya (Musi-O-Tuni: People Unite)
BLACK SLATE – Romans (Slate)
WINSTON JARRETT & THE RIGHTEOUS FLAMES – My Sheep (Man of the Ghetto: Sonic Sounds)
HUGH MUNDELL & M EDWARDS – Oh How I Love HIM (Rockers)
NIOMINKA BI – Selassi (Maksound)
KEN PARKER – A Change Is Gonna Come (Giant)
KEN PARKER – How Could I (Island)
KEN PARKER – True, True, True (Treasure Isle)
KEN PARKER – I Can’t Hide (Duke Records)
KEN PARKER – Count Your Blessing (Attack)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Little Angel (Lee’s)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Jah A We Father (Observer)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Push Comes To Shove (Weed Beat) –request
NITTY GRITTY – We Run Things (Music Master)
CARL MEEKS – Danger (Redman International)
QUEEN OMEGA – Uprising (Green House Family)
QUEEN OMEGA, SIZZLA, CAPLETON – Warning (Green House Family)
QUEEN OMEGA – No Retire (Clean Vibes riddim: Special Delivery)
QUEEN OMEGA – Hypocrites and Parasites (Queen Omega: Green House Family)
QUEEN OMEGA – Serve The King (Runaway Slave riddim: Stingray)
PRINCE MALACHI – Runaway Slave (Runaway Slave riddim: Stingray)
MORGAN HERITAGE – Armagideon Calls (Runaway Slave riddim: Stingray)
QUEEN OMEGA – Blessed (Rise Up riddim: Oneness)
QUEEN OMEGA & GENTLEMAN – Revolution (Visions riddim: Special Delivery)
QUEEN OMEGA – Hold Meditation (Greatest Friends)
QUEEN OMEGA – Media Corruption (Greatest Friends)
QUEEN OMEGA – Lioness (Baco Sessions Live: Baco Records)
QUEEN OMEGA, KUSHITE, JALIFA – Wise Queens (Lions Flow Productions)
KING JAMMY – African Queen (King Jammy’s Unites The Nations With Dub: Greensleeves)
QUEEN OMEGA – No Love (Little Lion Sound & Evidence Music)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-03-01/17-00-00

February 22, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 22nd February, 2025

Paying respects to the late reggae artists Determine, Danny English and Naâman, plus new tunes from Lutan Fyah and Micah Shemaiah, and the usual foundation classics.

DETERMINE & BEENIE MAN – Kette Drum (Digital B)
PRINCE FAR I – Final Chapter version (Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter 3: Daddy Kool/Cry Tuff)
PETER TOSH – Burial (Intel Diplo) –request
PETER TOSH – Get Up Stand Up (Equal Rights: Intel Diplo)
PABLO MOSES – Corrupted Man (Revolutionary Dream: Jigsaw)
KOJAK – Penitentiary (Kojak)
KOJAK – Bunny Rygin (Kojak)
KNOWLEDGE – Fools and Their Money (Stars)
KNOWLEDGE – Population (Stars)
LACKSLEY CASTELL – Collie Tree (Soundoff)
HUGH MUNDELL – Rastafari’s Call (Blackman’s Foundation: Mun Rock)
JERRY BAXTER – Macka Jungle (Ball O Fire)
BUGLE – Devalue (Be Yourself: An9ted Ent) –request
LUTAN FYAH – Strength and Resilience (I Grade)
MICAH SHEMAIAH – When Yuh Right (JahSolidRock Music)
NAAMAN – Riot (Big Scoop Records)
NAAMAN – Karma (Rays of Resistance: Soulbeats)
NAAMAN – Pop Dem Bubble (Rays of Resistance: Soulbeats)
CAPLETON – Narrow Escape (Shine and Criss riddim: Prominent)
LOUIE CULTURE & ANTHONY CRUZ – Cool Out Son (Shine and Criss riddim: Prominent)
COBRA – Draw Me Out (Shine and Criss riddim: Prominent)
BOUNTY KILLER – Top A Top (Shine and Criss riddim: Prominent)
DANNY ENGLISH – Cut and Go Through (Shine and Criss riddim: Prominent)
DANNY ENGLISH – Bigga Bus This Year (Midnight Rock)
DANNY ENGLISH – Bun (Ice Pick riddim: Q45)
DANNY ENGLISH – Every Night I Pray (Mixing Lab)
DANNY ENGLISH & EGG NOG – Party Time (Diwali riddim: 40/40)
DETERMINE – Fake Badman (Time Travel riddim: 40/40)
DETERMINE – Weep Not (School riddim: Builders)
DETERMINE – Time Like This (MX-6 riddim: X-Rated)
VIDA SUNSHYNE, DETERMINE, CRYSTAL – Heard It All Before (Children of the World riddim: Savona Records)
DETERMINE – See Di Fire (Angel riddim: Black Scorpio)
DETERMINE – Full A Hype (Street Sweeper riddim: Studio 2000)
DETERMINE – Rappin Up Rhymes (Night Night riddim: Steely & Clevie)
DETERMINE – More Fire (Chant Down dubplate special)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-02-22/17-00-00

February 1, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 1st February, 2025

Revisiting some big tunes from 2014 and 2015 instead of the usual brand new music, including riddims Gate 7, Dancehall Sings, Brit Jam Soul and Groupie Luv… plus the usual vintage classics in the first hour.

JUNIOR ROY – Deep Call (Urban Observations: Ashanti Selah Music)
BURNING SPEAR – Institution (Social Living: Burning Spear)
THE WAILERS – No More Trouble (Catch A Fire: Island)
THE WAILERS – Midnight Ravers version (Tuff Gong)
JOE HIGGS – Got To Make A Way (Life Of Contradiction: Micron)
GREGORY ISAACS – One One Cocoa (Pantomine)
DENNIS BROWN – Let Love In (Sun Shot)
FREDDIE McKAY – I’m A Free Man version (Santic)
ALPHA BLONDY – Jah Houphouet (Apartheid Is Nazism: Shanachie)
RAS MICHAEL & THE SONS OF NEGUS – Booma Yeah (Kibir Am Lak: Rastafari)
CEDRIC IM BROOKS & THE LIGHT OF SABA – Sabasi (The Light Of Saba: Honest Jons)
THE MIGHY DIAMONDS – Africa (The Right Time: Virgin & Channel One)
THE ROYALS – Peace and Love (Pick Up The Pieces: Tamoki Wambesi)
THE ROYALS – Peace, Love and Dub (Dubbing With The Royals: Tamoki Wambesi & Pressure Sounds)
JUNIOR LOGAN – Long Run (Inti-mate Records)
KING SIGHTER – Master Of All (Ras Oney)
I ROY – Point Blank (Observer)
DILLINGER – Take A Dip (The Thing)
GREGORY ISAACS – Slave Master (The Thing)
YAMI BOLO – Love Is Everything (Fat Eyes)
CULTURE & TONY REBEL – Hungry People (Fat Eyes)
TORCH & BUGLE – Fire Man A Bun (Gate 7 riddim: Weedy G Soundforce)
AGENT SASCO – Mash Dem Dung (Gate 7 riddim: Weedy G Soundforce)
DON TIPPA & PERFECT GIDDIMANI – Mek It Bun (Gate 7 riddim: Weedy G Soundforce)
MITCH – Friends Dem Gone (Gate 7 riddim: Weedy G Soundforce)
BUGLE – False Prophet (Dancehall Sings riddim: CR203)
MAVADO – Kill Dem Slowly (Dancehall Sings riddim: CR203)
ALKALINE – Weh You Did Deh (Dancehall Sings riddim: CR203)
MASICKA – Just Can’t Do It (Dancehall Sings riddim: CR203)
KONSHENS – Bad Man Heart (Dancehall Sings riddim: CR203)
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN & AZUZU – Pass Me A Blunt (Dancehall Sings riddim: CR203)
RC, EXCO LEVI, SHUGA – Ready When You Ready (Penthouse)
JAH CURE – Rasta (Iyah Cure)
ROMAIN VIRGO & AGENT SASCO – Fade Away (Lifted: VP)
AGENT SASCO – Celebrate (Brit Jam Soul rididm: Good Good)
BUGLE – Divine Intervention (Fight Poverty First) (Brit Jam Soul rididm: Good Good)
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN – Naah Work (Groupie Luv riddim: Daseca)
KONSHENS – Naah Run Lef Mi Fren (Groupie Luv riddim: Daseca)
DEXTA DAPS – Mi Like A Gal (Groupie Luv riddim: Daseca)
SAGITARR – I’ll Follow You (Groupie Luv riddim: Daseca)
ALAINE & BUGLE – Star Life (Groupie Luv riddim: Daseca)
DENYQUE – All Night Long (Groupie Luv riddim: Daseca)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-02-01/17-00-00

January 25, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 25th January, 2025

Featuring a live studio interview with Marvin Priest, lead singer of Crown Heights and son of Maxi Priest… a new take on the No Man Is An Island riddim from Stingray Records… local productions from Sasquatch Sound… new tunes from Claye, Perfect Giddimani, and EyeGen… and the usual vintage classics.

CULTURE – Rolling Stone (Humble African: Fat Eyes)
COUNT OSSIE – Whispering Drums (Moodisc)
PAT KELLY – You Send Me (Justice)
JUSTIN HINDS & THE DOMINOES – Meditation (Travel With Love: Nighthawk)
GLADSTONE ANDERSON – Holy Mount Zion (Glad Sound)
GLEN ADAMS – What About Africa (Landmark)
THE GATHERERS – Words (Black Art)
JAH LION – Wisdom (Black Art/Island)
MISTA SAVONA – Words and Meditations (Mista Savona)
THE UPSETTERS – Dread Lion (Black Art/Island)
EARL SIXTEEN – Concrete Castle (Merge Records)
BURNING SPEAR – Follow Marcus Garvey (Hail HIM: Burning Spear)
BURNING SPEAR – The Ghost (Garvey’s Ghost: Island)
BURNING SPEAR – Old Marcus Garvey (Marcus Garvey: Island)
DENNIS BROWN – No Man Is An Island (Studio One)
GEORGE NOOKS – No Man Is An Island (Island riddim: Stingray)
RANDY VALENTINE – Timeless Token (Island riddim: Stingray)
MEDISUN – Image Of My Dream (Island riddim: Stingray)
ABKA KABA – Tingling Feeling (Island riddim: Stingray)
GINJAH – One Way Street (Island riddim: Stingray)
YASHEMA MCLEOD – Lord Is My Shepherd (Island riddim: Stingray)
MARVIN PRIEST – We Pray (Message In A Bottle riddim: Nusantara Records)
CROWN HEIGHTS – My Days (Crown Heights)
< interview with Marvin Priest >
CROWN HEIGHTS – The Vibe (Slow Down: Irie Nation)
MAXI PRIEST & KABAKA PYRAMID – Nyabinghi Love (Clive Hunt)
JEMERE MORGAN – Sweet Love (Ghetto Youths International)
RUBI DU – Played Me (Low Key Source)
RAPHA PICO – Dem Greedy (Sasquatch Sound)
DANNY RED – What A Deal (Sasquatch Sound)
PERFECT GIDDIMANI – High Grade Mi Love (Giddimani Music & Sinky Beats)
WILLIAM SPRING & JOLLY STEWART – Hold On (The Hidden Treasures of William Spring: Roll & Record)
CLAYE – Money Can’t Buy (Prawley-Mae Music)
CLAYE – Holy Water (Prawley-Mae Music)
EYEGEN – Reggae Calling (Hits 38 Production & King Jammys)
PROTOJE – Wait On The Law (In Search Of Zion: In.Digg.Nation, Six Course Music, Zion I Kings)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-01-25/17-00-00

January 18, 2025

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 18th January, 2025

Featuring the new Party Time riddim from Tad’s Records, the Constellation riddim from Skunga Records, more on the Resilience riddim from Kushite Organic Records, homegrown reggae from Australia’s Jah Tung and Jason Heerah, new dancehall from Popcaan, Kranium, Masicka, Yaksta and Chronic Law… and the usual vintage classics.

THE CO-OPERATORS & DENNISON JOSEPH – More Fire (Sounds from the Fridge: Waggle Dance Records)
KARL BRYAN & THE AFROKATS – Money Generator (Studio One)
BUNNIE & SKITTER – Lumumbo (Worldisc)
SOUND DIMENSION – Congo Rock (Bongo Man)
ALTON ELLIS – It’s True (Studio One)
ALTON ELLIS – Rasta Spirit (Clintones)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – Burnin’ and Lootin’ (Burnin: Island) –request
JACOB MILLER – Jolly Joseph (Top Ranking)
BARRINGTON LEVY – Good Loving (Prison Oval Rock: Volcano/VP Records)
GENERAL ECHO – Oil In A Babylon (Manzie)
DILLINGER – Plantation Heights (Well Charge)
THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS – I Need A Roof (Right Time: Virgin/Channel One)
JUSTIN HINDS & THE DOMINOES – What You Don’t Know (Jezebel: Island)
PETER BROGGS – I Don’t Know (Progressive Youth: RAS)
THE GLADIATORS – Chatty Chatty Mouth (Trenchtown Mix Up: Virgin)
JAH STITCH – Words Of Wisdom (Justice)
CULTURE – Nah Stay Inna Babylon (Humble African: Fat Eyes)
CULTURE – Humble African (Humble African: Fat Eyes)
RICHIE SPICE – Righteous Youths (5th Element)
JESSE ROYAL – Those Days (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
KHALIA – Devil In Disguise (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
CHEZIDEK – One Life (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
HEZRON – We’ve Made It (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
GUINNEY PEPPER – Island Home (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
ANTHONY CRUZ – Badmind (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
TERRY LINEN – Praise You (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
WARRIOR KING – Positive Energy (Party Time riddim: Tads Records)
JAH TUNG – Count My Blessings (House Of Riddim)
JASON HEERAH – Nothing Without You (JH Records)
RAS MUHAMAD & CONRAD GOOD VIBRATIONS – Satu Rasa (Salam: Oneness)
MEDISUN – Harmony (Constellation riddim: Skunga Records)
KUMAR – Hell and Powder House (Constellation riddim: Skunga Records)
KABAKA PYRAMID & IRIE SOULJAH – Show Love (Resilience riddim: Kushite Organic Records)
EESAH – Justice (Resilience riddim: Kushite Organic Records)
LUTAN FYAH – Bad Dawg (Resilience riddim: Kushite Organic Records)
QUEEN OMEGA – Resilience (Resilience riddim: Kushite Organic Records)
INDIE ALLEN – Good Vibes Only (Oasis: Indie Allen)
POPCAAN & DANE RAY – Fully Prayers (Hope Yuh Memba: Island Specifix)
KRANIUM & MASICKA – Cut The Link (TJ Records & Out Deh)
YAKSTA & CHRONIC LAW – Cease Fire (Makaveli Muzik & Bush Music)

listen online at https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/babylon-burning/2025-01-18/17-00-00