CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > AUGUST 16 > 2008

PETE WESTON & THE FLAMES - Revolution Is For The Chinaman (Every Mouth Must Be Fed: Pressure Sounds)
THE HEPTONES - Sweet Talking (Night Food: Island)
CULTURE - Production Something (Production Something: Heartbeat)
THE CHANTELLS & U BROWN - Children Of Jah (Children Of Jah: Blood and Fire)
ERROL DAVIS - Path I Have Taken (Children Of Jah: Blood and Fire)
THE TERRORS - Assemble Not Thyself (Children Of Jah: Blood and Fire) --request
FYAH WALK - Hate No More (Sunrise Red: Roots Tree and Stream)
FYAH WALK - Sunrise Red (Sunrise Red: Roots Tree and Stream)
FYAH WALK - Thieves In The Night (Sunrise Red: Roots Tree and Stream)
GROUNDATION - The Seventh Seal (We Free Again: Young Tree) --request
DEZARIE - Concern (Eaze The Pain: Afrikan Roots Lab)
IKAHBAH - Pledge No Allegience To No Flag (Gather The Remnant: Conscious Riddims)
MIDNITE - Tropics (Gather The Remnant: Conscious Riddims)
MORGAN HERITAGE - Yute Dem Share (Mission In Progress: VP)
NATURAL BLACK - Africa We Reach (Naturally Black: Rads)
BUSHMAN - Worries and Problems (Total Commitment: Greensleeves)
BUSHMAN - Life (Pickout 7")
DENNIS BROWN - Come Spar With Me (Pickout 7")
ILUE - Dirty Ways (Pickout 7")
CAPLETON - Rome A Blaze (Pickout 7")
JAH MASON - More Love (Barry U 7")
CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERS - Murder She Wrote (All She Wrote: Mango)
CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERS - Front Line (Back Off The Wall: Explorer)
PINCHERS - Border Line (Digital B 7")
SHABBA RANKS - Just Reality (Digital B 7")
COURTNEY MELODY - Round Here (Shakes 7")

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > AUGUST 2 > 2008

MIDNITE - I Chant (Live 94117: Rastafaria)
MIDNITE - Rastaman Still Stand (Live 94117: Rastafaria)
DEZARIE - Rastafari (Eaze The Pain: Afrikan Roots Lab)
GROUNDATION - Weak Heart (Each One Teach One: Young Tree)
JAH STITCH - Conference At Waterhouse (Every Mouth Must Be Fed: Pressure Sounds)
BARRY BROWN - Big Big Pollution (Real Authentic Reggae: BBE)
JOHN HOLT - Police In Helicopter (Jah Guidance 7") --reqest
DENNIS BROWN - Things In Life (Money In My Pocket: Trojan) --reqest
ERROL DUNKLEY - Keep The Pressure Down (Keep The Pressure Down: Prestige Elite)
CARLTON LIVINGSTON - Tale Of Two Cities (Hitbound 7")
SIZZLA - From Long Time (Kariang 7")
JAH MASON - Dem Have And Dem Want (Kariang 7")
JAH MASON - Black Star Liner (No Matter The Time: Nocturne)
BUSHMAN - Black Star Liner (Nyah Man Chant: Greensleeves)
ELOQUENT - Gun Alone Dem Glorify (Birch 7")
ELOQUENT - Grandman Cry (Yellow Moon 7")
ELOQUENT - Maybe (Cutstone 7")
CAPLETON, CONTRACTOR, BOBO ZARO - Pain (Cutstone 7")
CHEZIDEK - Hotter (Cutstone 7")
MORGAN HERITAGE & TONY REBEL - People Are Fighting (Protect Us Jah: Brickwall)
SIZZLA - Show Us The Way (Kings of Kings: Equal Rights)
BERES HAMMOND - Serious (Rads 7")
PRESSURE & BERES HAMMOND - Putting Up Resistance (Don Corleon)
TARRUS RILEY - Stop Watching (Fat Eyes)
COOL SHADE & INSANE - Brave Heart (Fat Eyes)
WARRIOR KING - Oh Yeah (Fat Eyes)
TONY REBEL - Call Me Name (Fat Eyes)

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JULY 19 > 2008

Paying respect to "the high priest" Roy Shirley, and Bevin Fagan of
the great UK reggae band Matumbi... RIP.  Also featuring the killer
new riddim "Sunrise" from Soul Vybz, and more from the new compilation
Gather The Remnant...

MATUMBI - War (Matumbi: EMI)
ROY SHIRLEY - Leave Babylon Land (Striker Lee 7")
ROY SHIRLEY - Hold Them (Explosive Rocksteady: Heartbeat)
ROY SHIRLEY - Touch Them (Music Is The Key: Trojan)
ROY SHIRLEY - Rolling Rolling (Music Is The Key: Trojan)
MATUMBI - Ethiopian (Testify: Solid Groove)
MATUMBI - Guide Us Jah (Seven Seals: EMI)
MATUMBI - Blood of Jesus (Matumbi: EMI)
MATUMBI - Rock (Seven Seals: EMI)
ROCKAMOVYA - The Bounty (Rockamovya: Young Tree)
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON - Soon Come (Forces of Victory: Island) --request
BOB MARLEY - Pimpers Paradise (Uprising: Island) --request
JACOB MILLER - Keep On Knocking (Jacob Miller Lives On: VP) --request
U BROWN - This Old Man (Jacob Miller Lives On: VP)
LUTAN FYAH - Blessings (Gather The Remnant: Conscious Riddims)
MIDNITE - Tropics (Gather The Remnant: Conscious Riddims)
KING DAVID - Oompakatan (Gather The Remnant: Conscious Riddims)
DEZARIE - Real Luv (Eaze The Pain: Afrikan Roots Lab) --request
SIZZLA - Clean Up Your Heart (Jet Star Reggae Max: Jet Star)
ALBOROSIE - Rainy Day (Soul Vybz 7")
FANTAN MOJAH & ZAREB - Smuggler (Soul Vybz 7")
LUCIANO - Business Lock (Soul Vybz 7")
PRESSURE - Never Will I (Soul Vybz 7")
PINCHERS - Headback Nuh Careless (Digital B 7")
PINCHERS - Can't Frighten We (Midnight Rock 7")
CARLTON LIVINGSTON - Shotta (Midnight Rock 7")
GENTLEMAN & ALBOROSIE - Celebration (Another Intensity: Four) --request

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JULY 12 > 2008

MIDNITE & I GRADE - Thank The Lord (Vijan: I Grade)
SLIM SMITH - You Don't Care (Born To Love: Heartbeat)
NORA DEAN - Barbwire (Queens of Jamaica: Jah Slams)
WINSTON FRANCIS - Lets Go To Zion (Studio One 7")
EARTH AND STONE (?) - Black Magic Woman (On Top 7") --req
GREGORY ISAACS - Tribute To Wa De (Cool Ruler Rides Again: Music Club)
GREGORY ISAACS - Night Nurse (Chant Down dubplate special) --req
EEK A MOUSE - Smuggling (Most Wanted: Greensleeves)
EEK A MOUSE - Noah's Ark (Most Wanted: Greensleeves)
TENOR SAW - Jah Guide and Protect Me (Tenor Saw 7")
INI KAMOZE - Wings With Me (Ini Kamoze: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Jah Live (Songs of Freedom: Island)
HUGH MUNDELL - Jah Will Provide (Africa Must Be Free By 1983: Ras)
TARRUS RILEY - Marcus Teaching (Cannon 7")
TARRUS RILEY - Larger Than Life (Ya Man 7")
ROCKAMOVYA - Warrior Sound (Rockamovya: Young Tree)
MIDNITE - Knowledge Increase (Gather The Remnant: Conscious Riddims)
PERFECT & CHEZIDEK - Journey (Irievibrations 7")
GYPTIAN - Struggler (Irievibrations 7")
TURBULENCE - Only Love (Irievibrations 7")
NATURAL BLACK - World In Trouble (Irievibrations 7")
JAH MASON - Don't Deny Me (Irievibrations 7")
SOJAH - War (Irievibrations 7")
TURBULENCE - Chant With Me (Chant Down dubplate special)
JUNIOR REID - Fire (JR 7")
BUSY SIGNAL - Can't Beat We (SSMG 7")
PRESSURE - My Enemies (Don Corleon 7")
BLING DAWG - Grudge (Don Corleon 7")
CAPLETON - Get The Hell Out (Weedy G 7")
BURRO BANTON - Sort Out Yourself (Weedy G 7")
CHEZIDEK - Bless I (Fire Ball 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Ganja Outlaw (Fire Ball 7")

talkover - King Tubbys' "Dub Like Dirt" on Blood and Fire

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JULY 5 > 2008

A varied show, featuring reggae music from all eras, and all over
the world - including Australia, New Zealand, and of course fresh
prereleases from Jamaica...

MIKEY SPICE - Chant Down Babylon (Happiness: Ras)
JUSTIN HINDS - Carry Go Bring Come (Made In Jamaica: Tuff Gong)
JOYA LANDIS - When The Lights Are Low (Queens of Jamaica: Jah Slams)
JOYA LANDIS & JOHN HOLt - I'll Be Lonely (Queens of Jamaica: Jah Slams)
JOE HIGGS - Wages of Crime (Every Mouth Must Be Fed: Pressure Sounds)
JR BYLES - Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Every Mouth Must Be Fed: Pressure Sounds)
CARL DAWKINS - Satisfaction (Techniques 7")
PRINCE ALLA - Gold Diver (Rootsman Connection: Kingston Sounds)
THE SEEKERS - Jah Know You (Rootsman Connection: Kingston Sounds)
DEZARIE - What A Morning (Eaze The Pain: Afrikan Roots Lab)
GNAWA DIFFUSION - Ya Laymi (World Reggae: Putamayo)
BANAWARUN - Bullymen (Banawarun)
AGENCY DUB COLLECTIVE - Merdeka 
ILLZILLA & JORNICK - All In (Wasteland: Shock)
SYNPA LEVI & JAH MASON - Face Reality (The Sojourner: Reality Chant)
WARRIOR KING & DUBWISE - Never Go (Crate Killaz: More Fire)
WARRIOR KING & LINVAL THOMPSON - No Bad Boy (Dubmatix pre-release)
GYPTIAN & KHARI KILL - See The From Far (Lion King pre-release)
CAPLETON - Fire Bun (Made In Jamaica: Le Maquis)
CAPLETON - Jah Is My Everything (Made In Jamaica: Le Maquis)
DUANE STEPHENSON - August Town (From August Town: VP)
LUCIANO - Jah Is My Navigator (Jah Is My Navigator: VP)
MIKEY GENERAL - Sinners (Stronger Rastaman: VP)
KONSHENS - Teach Them How To Pray (No Doubt prerelease)
BUGLE & TARRUS RILEY - Love Reigns (Sons of Spoon prerelease)
BUSY SIGNAL - Unknown Numbers (Juke Boxx 7")

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JUNE 28 > 2008

A special show tracing Australia's role in the birth of Jamaica's
music scene, featuring music by The Caribs (a group of Australian
musicians who played on some of the very first recordings) and a 
studio interview with engineer Graeme Goodall, who set up the island's
very first recording studios, and ran his own label, Doctor Bird.
Other hightlights included the Secrets riddim on Don Corleon, A Bitter
World riddim on Irastapasta, and a relick of the Fort Augustus riddim
on Stingray...

CORNEL CAMPBELL - Press Along (Striker Lee 7")
LAUREL AITKEN & THE CARIBS - Boogie In My Bones (R&B 7")
THE CARIBS - Taboo (Starlight 7")
OWEN GREY & THE CARIBS - Mash It pt.1&2 (Starlight 7")
LYNN TAIT & THE BOYS - Storm Warning (Doctor Bird 7")

LORD COMPOSER & THE SILVER SEAS HOTEL ORCHESTRA - Hill and Gully Ride/Mandeville Rd (Mento Madness: V2)

JUSTIN HINDS & THE DOMINOES - The Higher The Monkey Climbs (Doctor Bird 7")
ALTON ELLIS - Girl I've Got A Date (Doctor Bird 7")
THE ETHIOPIANS - The Whip (Doctor Bird 7")
THE TENNORS - Massi Massa (Doctor Bird 7")
ROLAND ALPHONSO & THE SOUL VENDORS - From Russia With Love (Doctor Bird 7")
MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA - Rockfort Rock (live)
JAMELODY - Pressure (VP 7")
JAH CURE - Miles Away (Don Corleon 7")
MORGAN HERITAGE - Gun Town (Don Corleon 7")
PRESSURE - Bless My Soul (Don Corleon 7")
QUEEN IFRIKA - Keep It To Yourself (Don Corleon 7")
ALBOROSIE - Call Up Jah (Forward 7")
BUSHMAN - King Selassie (Stingray 7")
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Work (Stingray 7")
CHUKKI STARR - Back Door Deal (Stingray 7")
RAS ITES - Sex Violence and Drugs (Stingray 7")
CHEZIDEK - A Di Weed (Irastapasta 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Lonesome Fyah (Irastapasta 7")
CUTTY RANKS - The Stopper (The Stopper: Profile) --request

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > JUNE 14 > 2008

Highlights included new riddims General Key on Oneness, Journey
on Danger Zone, Kingdom on Massive B, Cherry Pie on African Beat,
plus two fresh Jr Reid combinations, and the new Tappa Zukie compilation
Rootsman Connection on Kingston Sounds...

MIKEY GENERAL - Babylon Cake (Chant Down dubplate special)
LLOYD CHALMERS - Judgement (Wild Flower 7")
MAX ROMEO - Revelation Time (Open The Iron Gate: Blood and Fire)
I ROY - Message From The Top (Every Mouth Must Be Fed: Pressure Sounds)
JOHN HOLT - Left With A Broken Heart (The Tide Is High: Trojan) --request
CORNEL CAMPBELL - Press Along (Striker Lee 7")
YABBY YOU - King Pharoah's Plague (Jesus Dread: Blood and Fire)
TRINITY - King Pharoah's Plague (Jesus Dread: Blood and Fire)
THE VIBES TONE - Leaders Of Black Countries (Rootsman Connection: Kingston Sounds)
CULTURAL ROOTS - Every Man Has A Right (Cultural Roots: Greensleeves)
CULTURAL ROOTS - Love Feelings (Cultural Roots: Greensleeves)
JOHN HOLT - Police In Helicopter (Volcano 7")
MIDNITE & DESMOND WILLIAMS - Jah I (Kayamagan: Rastfaria) --request
DEZARIE - The Truth (Eaze The Pain: Afrikan Roots Lab)
LUCIANO - Jah Is My Navigator (Jah Is My Navigator: VP)
TARRUS RILEY - Ease Off (Reggae Gold 2008: VP)
QUEEN IFRIKA - About Love (Oneness 7")
JR KELLY - Can't Reach (Oneness 7")
PRINCE MALACHI - Gideon Road (Oneness 7")
JAH CURE - Journey (Danger Zone 7")
FANTAN MOJAH - No War (Danger Zone 7")
MORGAN HERITAGE - Traitor (Danger Zone 7")
QUEEN IFRIKA - Rise Ghetto Youths (Danger Zone 7")
TONY REBEL - Hope The Law (Danger Zone 7")
I OCTANE - Sow Life Seed (Danger Zone 7")
CHEZIDEK - Call Pon Dem (Massive B 7")
COLLIE BUDZ - Let Me Know (Massive B 7")
CHOPPA CHOP - Poor Man Cry (Massive B 7")
BURRO BANTON - Garrison (Massive B 7")
ALBOROSIE - I Am (African Beat 7")
BURRO BANTON - No Problem (African Beat 7")
BUSY SIGNAL - Curfew (Juke Boxx 7")
JAH CURE & JR REID - Hot Long Time (Danger Zone 7")
JR REID & BUGLE - Living Legend (Daseca)
TARRUS RILEY - Stop Watching (Fat Eyes)