BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > MARCH 7 > 2009

Featuring Don Corleon's new Changes riddim... the Cash Register
riddim on John John... plus new tunes from Capleton, Sizzla, and
New Zealand's Flowsion...

COCOA TEA - Babylon Is Falling (Fat Eyes)
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Mark of the Beast (Soul Syndicate 7")
DELROY WILLIAMS - Crucial (I Stand Black: Makasound)
DON CARLOS - Crucial Situation (Suffering: Negus Roots)
HORACE ANDY - Natty Dread A Weh She Want (Tappa 12")
TAPPA ZUKIE - Tappa Zukie Weh She Want (Tappa 12")
MASSIVE DREAD - No More To Roar (Rootsman Connection: Kingston Sounds)
CULTURAL ROOTS - Thief, Liars, Criminals (Hell A Go Pop: Greensleeves)
THE VIBES TONE - Leaders of Black Countries (Rootsman Connection: Kingston Sounds)
LUCKY DUBE - Slave (Captured Live: Shanachie)
ALPHA BLONDY - Masada (Live Au Zenith: EMI)
KING TUBBY & THE AGGROVATORS - The Roots Of Dub (Once Upon A Time At King Tubbys: Pressure Sounds)
THE SENSATIONS - Every Day Is Just A Holiday (Treasure Isle 7")
SIZZLA - Made Of (Xterminator 7")
MORGAN HERITAGE - Get Away (Xterminator 7")
PRINCE MALACHI - Ready Fi Dem (Xterminator 7")
MORGAN HERITAGE - Can't Get We Out (Don Corleon)
RICHIE SPICE - More Life (Don Corleon)
JAH CURE - Never Find (Don Corleon)
ALAINE - Make It Without You (Don Corleon)
TARRUS RILEY - Getty Getty No Wanty (Don Corleon)
GENTLEMAN - Changes (Don Corleon)
I OCTANE - Blood Shed (Don Corleon)
NIYORAH - Badness Will Bloody You (Chant of the Lions: Mt Nebo)
RAS BUMPA - Taste of Consciousness (Chant of the Lions: Mt Nebo)
NATURAL BLACK - The System (Silly Walks)
FLOWSION - Villains and Police (High Stakes Records)
CAPLETON - Stay Far From Dem (Equiknoxx)
MICHAEL ROSE - Paper Dawg (John John)
ELEPHANT MAN - Must Haffi Rich (John John)
VYBZ KARTEL - Set Up (John John)
SIZZLA - Cause A Revolution (Irie Ites)
GARNETT SILK - Disadvantaged (It's Growing: VP)
GARNETT SILK - What Do You Say? (Greensleeves 12")
TENOR SAW - Wrongs Going On (Wake The Town: Ras)

talk over CD: Clinton Fearon's "Faculty of Dub" on Boogie Brown

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > FEBRUARY 28 > 2009

Featuring plenty of local reggae this week, plus the new Pressure
Sounds compilation "Once A Time At Kings Tubbys" further documenting
the musical war between Prince Jazzbo and I Roy...

MICHAEL ROSE - Never Let Babylon Fool You (Furybass 7")
BLACK UHURU - Satan Army Band (Love Crisis)
MICHAEL ROSE - Shine Eye Gal (Party In Session Live: Heartbeat)
MICHAEL ROSE - Plastic Smile (Party In Session Live: Heartbeat)
ALPHA BLONDY - Cocody Rock (Live Au Zenith: EMI) --req
ALPHA BLONDY - Multipartisme (Live Au Zenith: EMI)
STEEL PULSE - Soldiers (Handsworth Revolution: Island)
DELROY WILLIAMS - Heathen Valley (I Stand Black: Makasound)
JOHNNY CLARKE - Do You Love Me? (Once Upon A Time At King Tubbys: Pressure Sounds)
PRINCE JAZZBO - Gal Bou I Roy (Once Upon A Time At King Tubbys: Pressure Sounds)
I ROY - Padlock (Once Upon A Time At King Tubbys: Pressure Sounds)
DERRICK MORGAN - I Roy The Chiney Come Around (Once Upon A Time At King Tubbys: Pressure Sounds)
FYAH WALK - Hate No More (Sunrise Red: Roots Tree and Stream)
FYAH WALK - Sunrise Red [King Charlie version] (Sunrise Red: Roots Tree and Stream)
THE RED EYES - Waiting For The Light (Rude World: Echo Foxtrot)
DUBWIZE featuring SNYPA LEVI - Men of Athens (The Sojourner: Reality Chant)
SNYPA LEVI & JAH MASON - Face Reality (The Sojourner: Reality Chant)
ELEPHANT WISE & DEADLY HUNTA - Highest Grade (Reality Chant / Lava Camp)
NORRIS MAN - Know The Road (Know The Road: Lustre Kings)
TORCH - Hold Mount Zion (Red Nile Music)
ZIGGI - Conspiracy (VP)
NIYORAH - Clowns Around Us (A Different Age: I Grade)
JAH DAN - Out Of The Slaughter (I Grade/Lustre Kings)
MIDNITE - Let Live (Let Live: I Grade)
SOJAH - Blood (Lion Art 7")
ELIJAH PROPHET - Better Must Come (Lion Art)
PERFECT - Revolution Song (Lion Art 7")
ANTHONY B - Can't Touch This (Lion Art 7")
SIZZLA - Why Does The World Cry (Savona Records 7")
VIDA SUNSHYNE - By The Way (Savona Records 7")
BURRO BANTON - Clean Air Clean Country (Savona Records 7")
BUGLE - Speech Nah No Freedom (Chimney)
MIDNITE - Chant A Psalm (Weep Not: I Grade)  

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > FEBRUARY 21 > 2009

nuff Michael Rose ahead of his Melbourne show this Friday night...
plus the Bad Boys riddim on African Beat, and a couple serious new
reality tunes from Vybz Kartel...

MICHAEL ROSE - Stepping Out Of Babylon (African Roots: M Records)
BUNNY & RICKY - Bushweed Corn Trash (Scratch Attack: Trojan) --req
HEPTONES - Cool Rasta (Rebel Music: Trojan)
TRISTAN PALMA - Entertainment (Midnight Rock)
JAH THOMAS & TOYAN - Two Bad DJ Haffi Talk (Midnight Rock)
COCOA TEA - Informer (Rocking Dolly: Ras)
DON CARLOS - Music Crave
MICHAEL ROSE - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Observer 7")
MICHAEL ROSE - Freedom (Observer 7")
MICHAEL ROSE - Born Free (Jesus Dread: Blood and Fire)
BLACK UHURU - I Love King Selassie I (Love Crisis)
BLACK UHURU - Utterance (Red: Island)
BLACK UHURU - Sensimilla (Sensimilla: Island)
BLACK UHURU - What Is Life (Anthem: Island)
BLACK UHURU - Solidarity (Anthem: Island)
MICHAEL ROSE - Short Temper (Michael Rose: Heartbeat)
MICHAEL ROSE - Waan Fi Go (African Roots: M Records)
MICHAEL ROSE - Be Yourself (Blacker Dread 7")
MICHAEL ROSE & ALBOROSIE - Waan Di Herb (Forward 7")
MICHAEL ROSE - Shoot Out (John John 7")
DEMARCO - Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten (John john 7")
MICHAEL ROSE & CALI P - Mr Collie remix
SIZZLA - World Leaders In Problems
VYBZ KARTEL - My Music (Arif Cooper)
VYBZ KARTEL - Times So Hard (Di Genius)
PEETAH HERITAGE - Weh Mi Come From (Juke Boxx)
TORTTRIBE, PRESYS, WILLIE BOB - Time Goes By
PERFECT - 10 Pounds Of Ganja (African Beat 7")
FRANZISKA - Jah Live (African Beat 7")
NAPTALI - Fire Burn (African Beat 7")
BURRO BANTON - Nah Drop Di Ting (African Beat 7")
BUJU BANTON - Girlfriend (African Beat 7")
BUJU BANTON & JOHN LEGEND - Can't Be My Lover (Black Chiney)
JAH MASON - Can't Stop Me (Life Is Just A Journey: Nocturne) --req
MIDNITE - Come Bust I On (New Name: Higher Bound Productions)   

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > FEBRUARY 14 > 2009

Featuring the Soprano riddim from The Bombist... a look at
the lyrical feud between I Roy and Prince Jazzbo... and nuff
lovers tunes both new and old...

WINSTON JARRETT - Mash Down Babylon (Wise Man: Tamoki Wambesi Dove)
ISRAEL VIBRATION - Licks and Kicks (The Same Song) -req
ASWAD - Concrete Slaveship (Aswad: Island) ---req
UB40 - One In Ten (Present Arms) --req
I ROY - Straight To Prince Jazzbo's Head (Heavier Than Lead: Jamaican Recordings)
PRINCE JAZZBO - Straight To I Roy's Head (Step Forward Youth: Live & Learn)
I ROY & PRINCE FARI - Jazzbo Haffi Run (Student)
PRINCE JAZZBO - Gal Boy I Roy (If Deejay Was Your Trade: Blood and Fire) --req
CORNEL CAMPBELL - Undying Love (Striker Lee)
CARLTON & THE SHOES - Love Me Forever (Studio One 7")
MARCIA GRIFFITHS - Truly (Truly: Heartbeat)
THE HEPTONES - Sea of Love (Sea of Love: Heartbeat)
KEN BOOTHE - Without Love (A Man And His Hits: Studio One)
ALTON ELLIS - Ain't That Loving You (Treasure Isle)
COURTNEY JOHN - Lucky Man (Peckings)
BITTY McLEAN - Baby Tonight (On Bond St: Peckings)
BERES HAMMOND - They Gonna Talk (Harmony House 7")
HALF PINT - Just Be True (Harmony House 7")
ANTHONY B - Good Life (Harmony House 7")
BERES HAMMOND - There For You (Taxi 7")
TARRUS RILEY - She's Royal (Parables: VP)
SIZZLA - Words of Divine (Black Woman and Child: Digital B)
PRESSURE - Love and Affection (Don Corleon 7")
ANTHONY B - Love or Infatuation (Ba'k Beat 7")
SIZZLA - It's Just You And I (The Bombist 7")
OMAR  PERRY - Woman I Love You (The Bombist 7")
LYRICSON - Those With No Love (The Bombist 7")
QUEEN OMEGA - Jah Dawta (The Bombist 7")
QUEEN IFRICA - Below The Waist (Penthouse 7")
DENNIS BROWN - Have You Ever
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Sweet Lady (Big Ship: Shanachie)
MICHAEL ROSE - Waan Fi Go (African Roots: M Records)
LITTLE JOHN - No One Better (Massive B 7") --req
NORRIS MAN & LUTAN FYAH - Nah Pollute Your Faith (Know The Road: Lustre Kings)

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > FEBRUARY 7 > 2009

Featuring two new riddims from Irie Ites, Only Solution
and Eden Rage... the Straight Up riddim on One Drop...
plus more tunes on the Chemistry riddim...

DELLY RANKS - Chant (Twelve 9)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Roots (Rebel Music: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Them Belly Full (Rebel Music: Island)
MAX ROMEO - Chase The Devil (War Ina Babylon: Island) --req
BUNNY RUGS - Be Thankful (To Love Somebody: Tabou 1)
ASWAD - It's Not Our Wish (Don't Call Us Immigrants: Pressure Sounds) --req
BLACK UHURU - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Showcase: Taxi)
BLACK UHURU - Sensimilla (Sensimilla: Island)
BARRY BROWN - Big Big Pollution
CAPTAIN SINBAD - Run To Babylon
CLINT EASTWOOD - Jump and Pawn
ALBOROSIE & LADY ANN - Informer (Forward 7") --req
HORACE FERGUSON - Sensi Addict (Ujama 7") --req
ROBERT LEE - Put Down (Diop Side 7")
MICHAEL ROSE - Short Temper (Michael Rose: Heartbeat)
GENTLEMAN & SIZZLA - Lack of Love (Another Intensity: Four Music) --req
SPECTACULAR & LUCIANO - What Gwaan Bad (Irie Ites 10")
RAS McBEAN - Why Do Edens Rage (Irie Ites 10")
LUTAN FYAH - The Blessings (Irie Ites 7")
CHEZIDEK - War Monger (Irie Ites 7")
JAH MASON - In My Heart (Irie Ites 7")
PERFECT - Irie Ites (Irie Ites 7")
SUGAR ROY & CONRAD CRYSTAL - Nuff Time (Irie Ites 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Let's Go (One Drop Music)
FYAH KEY - On The Bus (One Drop Music)
SHAKAMELLO - Herbalist (One Drop Music)
JAH MASON - Two Strikes Out (One Drop Music)
NIYORAH - Globe All Warming (Lustre Kings 7")
TARRUS RILEY & BUGLE - Nothing Change (Tads 7")
RICHIE SPICE - Street Life (Tads 7")
D'ANGEL - Stronger (Tads 7")
QUEEN IFRICA - Essence Of A Good Man (Tads 7")
I WAYNE - Leggo Di Ego (Tads 7")
MIDNITE, ISHENCE, IAAHDEN, ANCIENT KING, BIBLICAL, J WILL - Hit On All Sides (New Name: Higher Bound)
MIDNITE - Make It In Time (Supplication To HIM: Rastar)

talk over riddims = Earl Chinna Smith's "Sticky Fingers" on Third World (1977)

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JANUARY 31 > 2009

Warming things up for next week's Bob Marley birthday bash, and
speaking to Shaggy ahead of his Melbourne performance at the
Raggamuffin festival... plus new Alborosie, the Love Don't Live
riddim on Maestro, and the Mexican Bean riddim on Scotch Bonnet...

BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Rastaman Chant (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Caution (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Night Shift (Rastaman Vibration: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Rat Race (Rastaman Vibration: Island)
PETER TOSH - Igziabher (Legalize It: CBS)
MOJO MORGAN - Herbs Man Anthem (Gedion Music 7")
ERROL WALKER - In These Times (Arkology: Island)
DENNIS BROWN - Way Seek More
BOB MARLEY - Acoustic Medley (Songs of Freedom: Island) --req
ZIGGY MARLEY - Justice
ZIGGY MARLEY, STEPHEN MARLEY, TRACY CHAPMAN - Trenchtown Rock live
SHAGGY - Thanks and Praise (Big Yard 7")

SHAGGY - Get Up and Fight (Big Yard 7")
SHAGGY - Church Heathen (Big Yard 7")
SHAGGY - Who A Wear The Jacket (Big Yard 7")
RAYVON - Games We Play (Big Yard 7")
VOICEMAIL - Gal A Hype (Big Yard 7")
RED FOX - Take It To Dem (Big Yard 7")
MAVADO - On The Rock (Soul Vybz 7") --req
DAMIAN MARLEY & STEPHEN MARLEY - The Mission (Tuff Gong 7") --req
ALBOROSIE - Irusalem (Forward)
JAH MASON - My King (Maestro)
HI KEE - Woman Of Virtue (Maestro)
COLLIE BUDDZ - Not For No Chain
AFRICAN SIMBA - Media (Scotch Bonnet)
MURRAY MAN - Mash Up (Scotch Bonnet)
LYRICSON - Grudge and Vanity (Scotch Bonnet)
RANKING JOE - How Yu Bad So (Scotch Bonnet)
BENJAMIN - Mexican Bean (Scotch Bonnet)

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JANUARY 24 > 2009

Featuring the Baddaz riddim on Birch, the brand new Dub Wize riddim
on Juke Boxx, the World Peace riddim on Lion Art, the Genesis riddim
on Cousins, a new Midnite & Higher Bound collaboration, a crucial new
Sizzla on Jam Style, plus nuff classic Dennis Brown, Michael Rose, etc...

CULTURE - Nah Stay Inna Babylon (Humble African: VP)
BITTY McCLEAN - I've Got Love (On Bond St: Peckings)
THE MELODIANS - I'll Get Along Without You (Treasure Isle)
THE ABYSSINIANS - Yim Mas Gan (Rebel Music 2: Trojan)
THE WAILERS - Burin and Lootin (Songs of Freedom: Island)
JACOB MILLER - I'm Just A Dread (Dancehall: Soul Jazz)
TRINITY - One Shut (Dancehall: Soul Jazz)
YELLOWMAN - Getting Married (Dancehall: Soul Jazz)
DENNIS BROWN - The Prophet Rides Again (The Prophet Rides Again: A&M)
DENNIS BROWN - The Exit (Jammys)
NITTY GRITTY - Ready Done (Under Mi Sleng Teng: Trojan)
MICHAEL ROSE - Not Doing Right (Techniques 7")
MICHAEL ROSE - Last Chance (Ruff Cutt In Roots: Tabou 1)
SIZZLA - Crucial Time (Jam Style 7")
BEENIE MAN - Love Is Lovely (Juke Boxx)
BUSY SIGNAL - Spliff Tail (Juke Boxx)
ASSASSIN - Priority (Juke Boxx)
PETER MORGAN - Warzone (Juke Boxx)
SOJAH - Blood (Lion Art 7")
ELIJAH PROPHET - Better Must Come (Lion Art)
PERFECT - Revolution Song (Lion Art 7")
ANTHONY B - Can't Touch This (Lion Art 7")
CONROY SMITH - Dangerous (Dancehall: Soul Jazz)
ELEPHANT MAN - Dance (Birch)
VOICEMAIL - Nah Stray (Birch)
KIPRICH - Who Say (Birch)
VYBZ KARTEL - Selassie I Love We (Birch)
BUSY SIGNAL - Hustle (Birch)
THE BUG & WARRIOR QUEEN - Insane
BUSY SIGNAL & ALBOROSIE - Murderer (Loaded: VP)
CHRISINTI - Hold Dem On The Wire (Cousins)
LUCIANO - Youth Dem Dangerous (Cousins)
TURBULENCE - Rasta Forever (Cousins)
NORRIS MAN - Never Turn Away From Jah (Cousins)
GINJAH - Positive Words (Cousins)
LUTAN FYAH - Bun Dem Selassie (Cousins)
MIDNITE & HIGHER BOUND - Come Bust I On (New Name: Higher Bound)
NIYORAH - Angry Mother Nature (A Different Age: I Grade)

talkover: Half Pint Classics In Dub (Hightone)

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JANUARY 17 > 2009

Featuring the World Go Round riddim on Itation records...
the Angel riddim on Hot & Spicy... Conqueror riddim on House
of Riddim... new Michael Rose in a UK roots style on the 
Willow Tree label... new Pressure and Tarrus Riley tunes from
Don Corleon... and a new tune from Brisbane's Elephant Wise on
a wicked roots riddim produced by NZ's High Stakes Records.

PRINCE JAZZBO - Hand of Babylon (Striker Lee)
VICEROYS - Love and Unity (Ya Ho: Heartbeat)
HEPTONES - Pretty Looks Isn't All (On Top: Studio One)
SUGAR MINOTT - Never Give Up (Sugar Minott At Studio One: Soul Jazz)
JOHNNY OSBOURNE - Nah Skin Up (Truths and Rights: Studio One)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Trenchtown Rock (Songs of Freedom: Island)
NINEY THE OBSERVER - Hail I (Truths and Rights Observer Style: Heartbeat)
MICHAEL ROSE - Clap The Barber (Truths and Rights Observer Style: Heartbeat)
BLACK UHURU - Shine Eye Gal (Tear It Up: Island)
BLACK UHURU - Plastic Smile (Tear It Up: Island)
LEROY SIBBLES - What Is Mine (Strictly Roots: Micron)
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Sweet Lady (Big Ship: Shanachie)
GREGORY ISAACS - Front Door (Cool Ruler Rides Again: Music Club)
DENNIS BROWN - Hold On To What You've Got (Taxi 7")
DENNIS BROWN & JR KELLY - Hold On To What You've Got (Taxi 7")
LUCIANO - If You Are Not (Taxi 7")
CHRISINTI - Natural Love (Taxi 7")
TARRUS RILEY & QUEEN IFRICA - Stay With You remix 
TARRUS RILEY & ALAINE - Forever More (Don Corleon)
PRESSURE - Live And Never Die (Don Corleon)
PRESSURE - Ganja Makes The World Go Round (Itation)
NIYORAH - No Pain No Gain (Itation)
TURBULENCE - On and On (Itation)
CHEZIDEK - The Way You Live (Itation)
ROCKER T - All Di Ghetto Youth (Itation)
SIZZLA - Goodness (Itation)
SIZZLA - What Is The World Coming To (Hot and Spicy)
JAH MASON - Wicked Man (Hot and Spicy)
NATTY KING - The Truth (House of Riddim)
EVERTON BLENDER - Emergency (House of Riddim)
JAH MASON - Shed No Tears (House of Riddim)
ELEPHANT WISE - Burning Slow (Lava Camp / High Stakes Records)
MICHAEL ROSE - Needs Everyday (Willow Tree 7")
VERSION - Needs Everyday (Willow Tree 7")
MUSCLE EMMANUEL - Rasta Set Away (Willow Tree 7")
SIZZLA - Ghetto Youths (Fire House Crew 7")

chat over: Words In Dub