BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 8th November 2014

Featuring the War Is In The Dance riddim from Royal Order Music, plus new songs by Protoje, Pressure, Marlon Asher and Jah 9, and an interview with Melbourne’s own Saritah.

REEMAH – War (Check Your Words: Feel Line)
JOHN HOLT – Man Next Door (Striker Lee 7″)
KEITH & TEX – Down The Street (Move & Groove 7″)
K VIBES – Time (Impact 7″)
DENNIS BROWN – The Cheater (Impact 7″)
BARRY BROWN – Blackman Should Never Turn His Back (Eek A Mouse 7″)
BANDOLOS – Stronger Strong (Iroko 7″)
TETRACK – Look Within Yourself (Message 7″)
TETRACK – Simple Things (Message 7″)
I KONG – Zion Pathway (Iroko 12″)
ISRAEL VIBRATION – The Same Song (The Same Song: Top Ranking)
JACOB MILLER – Tenement Yard (Penetrate)
U ROY & PROFESSOR – Call On Jah (Pray Fi Di People: Discograph) –request
U ROY & BERES HAMMOND – Serious Matter (Serious Matter: Tabou 1)
HORACE ANDY – Every Tongue Shall Tell (Studio One)
MIDNITE – Betterment Mouth (Beauty For Ashes: I Grade)
MIDNITE – High Place (Jah Grid: I Grade) 2006
SARITAH – Coming With The Light (Dig Deep: Time To Shine)
< interview with Saritah >
SARITAH – Thru It All (live in the studio)
SARITAH – These Days (Dig Deep: Time To Shine)
SARITAH & RANKING ROGER – Time Will Come (Ancient Forward: Time To Shine)
JAH9 – Revolution Lullaby (Showers Of Blessing) (Lost Ark Music)
MARLON ASHER & PRESSURE – See Me Thru (Don Corleon)
PROTOJE – Stylin (Overstand)
KEIDA – Stand For Something (War Is In The Dance riddim: Royal Order Music)
ROCKER T – Militant and Real (War Is In The Dance riddim: Royal Order Music)
PRESSURE – Don’t Trouble Trouble (War Is In The Dance riddim: Royal Order Music)
EXCO LEVI – Reggae Calling (War Is In The Dance riddim: Royal Order Music)
GAPP RANKS – Carpenter (War Is In The Dance riddim: Royal Order Music)
ADDIS PABLO – Melodica In The Dance (War Is In The Dance riddim: Royal Order Music)
PRESSURE & JAH MASON – My Herbs (Africa Redemption: Yard Vybz)
CHRONIXX – Eternal Fire (Dread and Terrible: Special Delivery)

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BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 1st November 2014

Featuring some older riddims, Stop That Train on Raggedy Joe records from 2000, Mad Notes on Royal Inity from 2006, and Proverbs on Lustre Kings from 2009…

BURNING SPEAR – Door Peep (Studio One) –request
KARL BRYAN – 2K Strut (Studio One)
LLOYD ROBINSON & GLEN BROWN – Feel Good Now (WIRL 7″)
HOPETON LEWIS & GLEN BROWN – Live Like A King (WIRL 7″)
DILLINGER – Cocaine In My Brain (CB200: Island) –request
JOHN HOLT – Ghetto Girl (Roots: Trojan) –request
SUGAR MINOTT – Sufferer’s Choice (Sufferer’s Choice: Black Roots)
SUGAR MINOTT – Have You Ever Found A Love (Sufferer’s Choice: Black Roots)
SILK SATIN VELVET & SOUL – Natty Burry (Uprising 7″)
ALBERT MALAWI – Children Of The Emperor (Uprising 7″)
LEROY BROWN – Stand Up Strong (Color Barrier: Cartuna)
JUNIOR DELGADO – Devil’s Throne (Incredible Music)
JUNIOR DELGADO – Really For A Reason (Treasure Found: Incredible Music)
FREDDIE McKAY – In A Me Yard (Attack)
BLACK ROOTS – Street Life (Ghetto Feel: Soulbeats)
J BOOG – Every Little Thing (Backyard Boogie: Wash House)
RAS MUHAMMAD & CONRAD GOOD VIBES – Satu Rasa (Salam: Oneness)
RAS JAHKNOW – I & You (Jah Sta Li Dub: Ras Jahknow)
CENTRE & THE SOUTH – Don’t Tell Me (Inner City Paradise: Centre & The South)
MIDNITE & IAAHDEN SOUNDS – Stand The Test (Stand The Test: Iaahden Sounds)
MUNGA – Coronation Day (JK4 Music Group)
CHRISINTI – Same Hands (Proverbs riddim: Lustre Kings)
DANNY I – On The Streets Again (Proverbs riddim: Lustre Kings)
CHEZIDEK – Right Time (Proverbs riddim: Lustre Kings)
NORRIS MAN & RAS ATTITUDE – We Try (Proverbs riddim: Lustre Kings)
LUTAN FYAH – Slow To Anger (Proverbs riddim: Lustre Kings)
PRESSURE – Fire Keep Blazing (Proverbs riddim: Lustre Kings)
MESSENJAH SELAH – She Ask Me Say (Proverbs riddim: Lustre Kings)
RED ROSE, ANTHONY B, BOUNTY KILLER, JACK RADICS – Heart Beat (Raggedy Joe 7″)
PREZIDENT BROWN – Unity Train (Raggedy Joe 7″)
NATURAL BLACK – Beet and Shoot (Raggedy Joe 7″)
SABA TOOTH – Jah Is The Ultimate (Raggedy Joe 7″)
NATTY KING – Wicked Cry (Mad Notes riddim: Royal Inity)
PRESSURE – Heathens (Mad Notes riddim: Royal Inity)
LUCIANO – Heavy Load To Carry (Mad Notes riddim: Royal Inity)
BATCH – Rastafarian (Mad Notes riddim: Royal Inity)
BINGHI GHOST – Noble Selassie (Mad Notes riddim: Royal Inity)
BRICK AND LACE – Love Is Wicked (40/40)

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BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 25th October 2014

Paying respects to the legendary singer John Holt, and Roots Radics drummer Lincoln “Style” Scott… RIP

JOHN HOLT – I Don’t Want To See You Cry (Studio One)
LYN TAITT & THE JETS – I Don’t Want To See You Cry (Merritone)
THE PARAGONS – On The Beach (Treasure Isle)
THE PARAGONS – The Tide Is High (Treasure Isle)
THE PARAGONS – Only A Smile (Treasure Isle)
THE PARAGONS – Left With A Broken Heart (Andy’s)
JOHN HOLT – Strange Things (Sunshot)
JOHN HOLT – Riding For A Fall (Moodisc)
JOHN HOLT – Stick By Me (Jackpot)
JOHN HOLT – A Love I Can Feel (Studio One)
JOHN HOLT – Stealing Stealing (Treasure Isle)
JOHN HOLT – Hooligan (Studio One)
JOHN HOLT – Ali Baba (Treasure Isle)
JOHN HOLT – Up Park Camp (Channel One)
JOHN HOLT – Ghetto Queen (Volcano)
JOHN HOLT – Police In Helicopter (Volcano)
EEK A MOUSE – Ganja Smuggling (Volcano)
BARRINGTON LEVY – Sensimilla (Poor Man Style: Thompson Sound)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Don’t Play The Fool (Big Ship: Thompson Sound)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Big Ship (Big Ship: Thompson Sound)
SCIENTIST & MICHAEL PROPHET – Ghost of Frankenstein
PETER BROGGS – Don’t Get Weary Rasta (Progressive Youth: Ras)
DON CARLOS – Dice Cup (Volcano)
DON CARLOS – Hog and Goat (Well Charge)
BUNNY WAILER – Jammins (Rock N Groove: Solomonic)
THE WAILING SOULS – Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall (Thompson Sound)
JOHNNY OSBOURNE – Ice Cream Love (Volcano)
PRINCE FARI – Ask Ask (Umkhonto We Sizwe: Tomoki Wambesi)
GREGORY ISAACS – Night Nurse (Night Nurse: Island)
TRISTON PALMER – Entertainment (Midnight Rock)
YELLOWMAN – Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt (Volcano)
DUB SYNDICATE – Ravi Shankar (On-U ound)
LUCIANO – One In A Billion (Lion & Roots)
CAPLETON – Time (Lion & Roots)

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BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 11th October 2014

PRINCE MALACHI – Fire It Is Blazing (Xterminator 7″)
THE AFRICAN BROTHERS – Youths of Today (Ital)
LEROY BROWN – African Roots (Prayer Of Peace: Cartuna)
THE SKATALITES – Zion I Dub (Heroes of Reggae In Dub: Motion)
THE MEDITATIONS – No Peace (Arkology: Island)
MAX ROMEO – No Peace (Open The Iron Gate: Blood and Fire)
MAX ROMEO – Chase The Devil (Black Art) –request
THE UPSETTERS – Croaking Lizard (Super Ape: Island)
MAD PROFESSOR – Chase The Devil Version (Ariwa 7″)
ISRAEL VIBRATION – Cool and Calm (Strength of My Life: Next Music) –request
JUNIOR REID – Original Foreign Mind (Youth Promotion 7″)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Shortman (Come On Over: Ras)
LEROY SIBBLES – Jah Soon Come (Strictly Roots: Micron)
UB40 – Burden Of Shame (Signing Off: Graduate Records)
BLACK ROOTS – Stuck Pon Waff (Ghetto Feel: Soul Beats)
GROUNDATION – One More Day (Each One Teach One: Young Tree)
DEYANSA – Where Do We Go From Here (Holding On To Life: Silver Kamel)
MIDNITE – Love The Life You Live (Unpolished: Rastafaria) –request
MORGAN HERITAGE – Perform and Done (Maxfield Avenue riddim: Seani B & Don Chandler)
KELISSA – Wake Up (Maxfield Avenue riddim: Seani B & Don Chandler)
ANTHONY B – Build Back (Maxfield Avenue riddim: Seani B & Don Chandler)
CALI P – Wha Gwaan (Maxfield Avenue riddim: Seani B & Don Chandler)
RANDY VALENTINE – Treat Her Right (Love Quest riddim: Kheilstone)
DELLY RANX – Bring Back The Music (Love Quest riddim: Kheilstone)
LUTAN FYAH – Keep Up The Fight (Love Quest riddim: Kheilstone)
EXCO LEVI – Welcome The King (Love Quest riddim: Kheilstone)
LUCIANO – Free Up The Herbalist (Xterminator)
SIZZLA – Submerge Cocaine Base (Xterminator)
SIZZLA – Life’s Road (Xterminator)
KANANGA – Most High Jah (Chant Down dubplate special)
TONY REBEL & MUTABARUKA – Mama Land (Flames)
JAH VINCI – Jah A Guide We (Ghetto Born: Grillaras)

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 4th October 2014

RICHIE SPICE – Babylon System (NAP 7″)
CHRISINTI – Joy (NAP 7″)
TURBULENCE – Vampire (NAP 7″)
CAPLETON – Burn Them (NAP 7″)
THE UNIQUES – This Feeling (Absolutely Rocksteady: Pressure Sounds)
VIVIAN JACKSON & THE PROPHETS – Anti-Christ (Jesus Dread: Blood and Fire)
CORNEL CAMPBELL – Love Me Girl (Boxing Round: Joe Gibbs)
DILLINGER – Stumbling Block (Black & White)
LEROY SMART – Ballistic Affair (Channel One)
MIKE BROOKS – What A Gathering (Harvest)
THE MEDITATIONS – Do Mama Do (Message From The Meditations: Ballistic)
THE MEDITATIONS – Running From Jamaica (Message From The Meditations: Ballistic)
WILLIE WILLIAMS – Armagideon Time (Armagideon Time: Studio One) –request
WILLIE WILLIAMS – All The Way (Armagideon Time: Studio One)
JOE MORGAN – Basement Session (Bullwackie Records 7″)
TONY RANKING – Guiding Star (Message From Africa: Jah Shaka)
MUTABARUKA – People’s Court part 1 (Ultimate Collection) –request
MUTABARUKA – People’s Court part 2 (Ultimate Collection) –request
ZOE & PREZIDENT BROWN – Uptown Top Ranking (Chet) –request
BERES HAMMOND – Can’t Stop A Man (Harmony House)
BRYAN ART – Rock and Come In (Fiwi Music)
GROUNDATION – Run The Plan (Here I Am: Young Tree)
BLACK ROOTS – Ghetto Feel (Ghetto Feel: Soul Beats)
I WAYNE – Life Seeds (Lava Ground: VP) –request
I OCTANE – Fire In The Streets (Love and Emotion riddim: Brixton Music Group)
IBA MAHR – Most High (Love and Emotion riddim: Brixton Music Group)
PRESSURE – Firebun Day (Chant of the Lions: Mt Nebo Records)
STAR LION FAMILY – The Draw (Talking Roots vol 1: Mt Nebo Records)
RAS MUHAMAD – Leluhur (Salam: Oneness)

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BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 27th September 2014

Featuring the Junction riddim from Lustre Kings and Zion I Kings… plus local artist Ras Jahknow live in the studio…

ANTHONY QUE – Ease Up The Pressure (Meditation Time: 149 Records)
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS – Pressure Drop (Beverly’s)
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS – Got To Feel It (From The Roots: Trojan) –request
PETER TOSH – Maga Dog (Black Dignity: Trojan) –request
BUNNY FLIP – Maingy Dog (Black Dignity: Trojan)
PETER TOSH – Black Dignity (Black Dignity: Trojan)
THE JAY BOYS – African People (Harry J 7″)
AL BROWN – Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City (Arab 7″)
I KONG – The Way It Is (Top Ranking)
AUGUSTUS PABLO – The Way (Talent Corporation)
ASHER & TRIMBLE – Humble Yourself (Rockers)
DELROY WILLIAMS – Three Men In A Truck Back (Message)
DELROY WILLIAMS – Mountain Top (I Stand Black: Rockers)
JOHN HOLT – Police In Helicopter (Volcano) –request
RAS JAHKNOW – World Of Tribulation (Jah Sta Li: Ras Jahknow)
RAS JAHKNOW – Obrigado Jah (Jah Sta Li: Ras Jahknow)
CLINTON FEARON – The Hunter (Goodness: Boogie Brown)
HEZRON – Inna Di Ghetto (The Life I Live (D) : Tad’s)
ARMY – Tru Luv Come Down (Dredlocks Time: Higher Bound)
ARMY – Long Long Road (Jump For Joy riddim: Splatterhouse)
MIDNITE & DESMOND WILLIAMS – Repatriation Song (Kayamagon: Rastafaria)
MIDNITE – I People (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
PRESSURE – Who You Are (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
PERFECT GIDDAMANI – The People We Are (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
LUTAN FYAH – Up In The Hills (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
LLOYD BROWN – Get It Rights (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
BOBBY HUSTLE – Chatty Mouth (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
HEMPRESS SATIVA – Still Survivng (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
JAHDAN BLAKKAMORE & KABAKA PYRAMID – For The Children (Junction riddim: Zion I Kings)
ASSASSIN – Badda Dan Dem (Zinc Fence)
LATTY J – Same Pay (MV Music)
MACKA DIAMOND – We Run Things (Nicko Rebel Music)
RICKY GENERAL – Pressure Dem (Joe Fraiser)
KIPRICH – Loyalty (DJ Frass)

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BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 20th September 2014

Paying respect to the late Jackie Bernard of the vocal group The Kingstonians, plus a spotlight on local reggae music, and the new “Soundclash” riddim from Melbourne producer Mista Savona.

JACKIE BERNARD – When Rasta Leave Babylon (Roosevelt 7″)
THE UPSETTERS – Curly Locks Dub (Black Art)
THE KINGSTONIANS – No False Witness (JJ 7″)
THE KINGSTONIANS – Put Down Your Fire (JJ 7″)
THE KINGSTONIANS – Out Deh (Song Bird)
JACKIE BERNARD – Jah Jah Way (Studio One)
HOPETON LEWIS – Sounds and Pressure (K&K)
PETER SPENCE – Hard Time Pressure (Peckings)
TARRUS RILEY & DEAN FRASER – Cry No More (Love Situation: Canon)
ALTON ELLIS – It’s A Shame (Splash 7″) –request
EARL SIXTEEN – Soldiers of Jah Army (Black Art)
AL CAMPBELL – Every Man Say (Terminal 7″)
CULTURAL ROOTS – Drift Away From Evil (Revolutionary Sound 7″)
CULTURAL ROOTS – Ghetto People (Revolutionary Sound 7″)
RASTA UNITY – Global Warning (Global Warning: Jah Wise Records)
LARRY MALUMA – Seed (Ndakondwa: Safari)
RAS JAHKNOW – Jah Sta Li (Jah Sta Li: Ras Jahknow)
ECHO DRAMA – Smoke (Bury The Weapons: Echo Drama Music)
JES GREW – Bomber Dub (Thus Dubbed Zarathustra)
NATALIE TOMLINS & PAPA RICHIE – Little Birdy & Fly Away Dub (Echo Point Productions)
TRINITY featuring KING RU – Gwaan Yute
DIZZY & TORCH – Never See We Fading (ABRA Tribe)
MAXI PRIEST – Cry For The Children (Maximum Collection: Music Club Deluxe)
MAXI PRIEST & MICHAEL ROSE – Lion In The Jungle (Maximum Collection: Music Club Deluxe)
JOHNNY CLARKE & DETERMINE – African Roots (Soundclash riddim: Savona Records)
IYAHSHANTI – Land Of The Free (Soundclash riddim: Savona Records)
BURRO BANTON – Bad Like Me (Soundclash riddim: Savona Records)
SIZZLA & TURBULENCE – Champion Sound (Soundclash riddim: Savona Records)
SIZZLA & ERROL DUNKLEY – Champion Sound (Soundclash riddim: Savona Records)
SK SIMEON – Round of Applause (King Toppa)
SK SIMEON – Dopper Than Dope (King Toppa)
TRADESMAN & PARLY B – Know Bout Style (Scotch Bonnet)

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BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 13th September 2014

Featuring the Freedom Fire riddim from Inde Works, revisiting the classic Moving Away (aka It’s Growing) riddim from Digital B, the Combination riddim from Kickin, plus the new Diamond Sox refix, and a killer new roots tune from Bugle…

FIKIR AMLAK – Fya (Kings of Kings: Jah Youth & Black Lion)
CORNEL CAMPBELL – My Sweet Baby (Thompson Sound)
HOPETON LEWIS – False Sentence (Rockers Plantation 12″)
ROMAN STEWART – Rice and Peas (Rockers)
GREGORY ISAACS – Word of the Farmer (Cool Ruler: Virgin)
LINVAL THOMPSON – Freedom Fighters (Rocking Vibration: Makasound)
LINVAL THOMPSON – Tell Me You Love Me (Whip Them King Tubby: Auralux)
THE VICEROYS – We Must Unite (Thompson Sound)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Holy Mount Zion (Big Ship: Thompson Sound)
LEROY SMART – Jah Helps The Man (Super Star: Third World)
DON CARLOS – Passing Glance DJ Version (Just A Passing Glance: RAS)
HALF PINT – No Substitute Lover (Digital B)
LEROY SMART – Talk Bout Friend (Digtial B)
ADMIRAL TIBET – Nuttin Nah Run (Digtial B)
AL CAMPBELL – Dress Back (Digtial B)
GARNETT SILK – It’s Growing (Digtial B)
LUCIANO – Babylon Claw (Roaring Lion)
EEK A MOUSE – Border Patrol (U-Neek: Peace Posse) –request
BUSHMAN – Creatures Of The Night (Signs: VP)
RC – The Only Way (Righteous Child Music)
BUGLE – Life Goes On (Simma Stew)
TORCH – Blazing (Freedom Fire riddim: Inde Works)
RC – Words of the People (Freedom Fire riddim: Inde Works)
EXCO LEVI – Love Yourself (Freedom Fire riddim: Inde Works)
SHUGA – Freedom (Freedom Fire riddim: Inde Works)
BUSY SIGNAL – Nah Follow Dem (Freedom Fire riddim: Inde Works)
JESSE ROYAL – Muddy Road (Natural High Music) –request
CHRONIXX & PROTOJE – Who Knows (Overstand Entertainment)
JAH MASON & JAHMALI – Strength to Strength (Kickin 7″)
CAPLETON & LUCIANO – Behold (Kickin 7″)
CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERS – I Saw The Sign (Kickin 7″)
IBA MAHR & TARRUS RILEY – Diamond Sox (Notis)
CHRONIXX – Wheel Out (Dread and Terrible: Special Delivery)
CHRONIXX – They Don’t Know (Lance-A-Lot Productions)
RAS MUHAMAD – Lion Roar (Chant Down dubplate special)
MIDNITE – Force and Flames (Lion Out Of Zion: Afrikan Roots Lab)

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