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

SAM BRAMWELL - It A Go Dread Ina Babylon (Revolutionary Sounds 7")
THE SKULLS - Black Slavery Days (Fox 7")
KEN BOOTHE - Red Gold and Green (Soul Beat 7")
ABYSSINIANS - Tenyastillin (Clinch 12")
JOE HIGGS - Come On Home (Life of Contradiction: Pressure Sounds)
JOE HIGGS - There's A Reward (Life of Contradiction: Pressure Sounds)
ERROL DUNKLEY - Love Is A Wonderful Thing (Teams 7")
BIM SHERMAN - Golden Locks (Tribulation: Pressure Sounds)
LION YOUTH - Rat A Cut Bottle (Don't Call Us Immigrants: Pressure Sounds)
MICHAEL PROPHET - Young Girl (Roots Tradition 7")
LEROY SMART - Darling Hang On (Roots Tradition 7")
JIMMY RILEY - My Woman's Love (Taxi 7")
THE BARBQARIANS - Howard's Apology (Sorry Cos It's Not Our Land)
LUCIANO - Apologise (Toe To Toe: Jet Star)
MIKEY SPICE - Give A Little (Reality Calling vol 2: Jet Star)
MORGAN HERITAGE - Too Much Chef (Jammys 7")
GARNETT SILK - Give I Strength (Digital B 7")
MICHAEL ROSE - Trust In Jah (Digital B 7")
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Nah Sell Out The Ting (Road Dog 7")
CHRISINTI - Mightier Than Them (Comfort My People: VP)
FANTAN MOJAH - Born Free (Old Capital 7") --req
PERFECT - Stick Together (Old Capital 7") --req
SPECTACULAR - I Know (Old Capital 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Dunce Attitude (Old Capital 7")
GOLDIE NATCH - Hotter Fire (Star Trail 7")
TERRY GANZIE - Bring Back The Culture 
LUCIANO & CAPLETON - Jah Kingdom (Xterminator 7")
WAYNE MARSHALL - Call The Police (Hyperactive 7")
MORGAN HERITAGE & JR KELLY - Ah Who Dem (Three In One: VP)
MIDNITE & I GRADE - Sing Ye (Assini: I Grade)

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > FEBRUARY 9 > 2008

AL CAMPBELL - Chant Rub A Dub (Dynamite 7")
COOLA - Jah No Partial (Dynamite 7")
LEROY SMART - God Helps The Man (Rebel Music: Trojan)
BIM SHERMAN - Weak Heart Man (Tribulation: Pressure Sounds)
JIMMY RILEY - We're Gonna Make It (Cobra Style: Heartbeat)
MEDITATIONS - Rome (Message From The Meditations: Wildflower)
MEDITATIONS - No More Friend (No More Friend: Greensleeves)
BUNNY WAILER - Let Him Go (Roots Radics Rockers Reggae: Shanachie)
WAILING SOULS - Ghetto Of Kingston Town (Inchpinchers: Shanachie)
UB40 - Tyler (Signing Off: Virgin)
MISTY IN ROOTS - Six One Penny (Don't Call Us Immigrants: Pressure Sounds)
MIDNITE - True King (Ainshant Maps: Afrikan Roots Lab) --REQ
PRESSURE - Fire Is Getting Redder (Lustre Kings pre-release)
CHRISINTI - Deliver Me (Togetherness 7")
JR KELLY - Real (Togetherness 7")
JR KELLY - Push E Fire (Trenchtown 7")
NATURAL BLACK - Hoping and Praying (Trenchtown 7")
JR KELLY - God Bless (Humal 7")
CHEZIDEK - Life Comes First (3.5.7. 7")
GYPTIAN - You Can Get It (3.5.7. 7")
TURBULENCE - Rise (3.5.7. 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Trouble Nah Set Like Rain (3.5.7. 7")
ANTHONY B - Potential Dutty Up (3.5.7. 7")
JAHMALI - Whole Heap A Time (Brighta Days Music 7")
TURBULENCE - Never Know (Brighta Days Music 7")
JAH MASON - We Will Be Rising (Brighta Days Music 7")
BUGLE - What I'm Gonna Do (Daseca 7")
MICHAEL ROSE & JR GONG - Shoot Out remix (John John pre-release)
JAH MASON - Nah Push It (Pow Pow 7")
GENTLEMAN - Dutty Heart (Pow Pow 7")
AL CAMPBELL - Old Time People Say (Hi Power 7")
GLEN WASHINGTON - Careless Minded People (Hi Power 7")
TARRUS RILEY & JIMMY RILEY - Pull Up Selector (Taxi 7")
MIDNITE - In 8 Dub (Intense Pressure: Rastafaria)

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

Warming things up for the annual Bob Marley Birthday Bash, as well
as Junior Kelly's show next Thursday night with Overproof Soundsystem
and G Corp...

BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Babylon System (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BUNNY RUGS - What's The Use (To Love Somebody: Tabou 1)
THIRD WORLD - Roots With Quality (Reggae Ambassadors: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - High Tide Or Low Tide (Catch A Fire deluxe: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Hammer (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Bad Card (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Keep On Moving (Songs of Freedom: Island)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Midnight Ravers (Catch A Fire deluxe: Island)
STEEL PULSE - Nyah Love (Don't Call Us Immigrants: Pressure Sounds)
TABBY CAT KELLY - Don't Call Us Immigrants (Don't Call Us Immigrants: Pressure Sounds)
THE MEDITATIONS - Carpenter Rebuild (No More Friend: Greensleeves)
BARRINGTON LEVY - Don't Give Up (Poor Man's Style: Clocktower)
LITTLE HARRY - Rougher Than Rough (DJ Clash: Greensleeves)
NICODEMUS - Bubble Nicodemus Bubble (DJ Clash: Greensleeves)
FRANKIE PAUL - Worries In The Dance (Volcano 7")
FREDDIE McGREGOR - I Pray (Joe Fraiser 7")
TARRUS RILEY - Life Precious Gift (Joe Fraiser 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Kings Son (CJ 7")
NORRIS MAN - Big Bad Chucky (CJ 7")
JR KELLY - Tough Life (Maximum Sound 7")
JR KELLY - Rasta Should Be Deeper (Hi Score 7")
JR KELLY - Far From Jah (Mixing Lab 7")
LUCIANO - Cool and Settle (Mixing Lab 7")
GEORGE NOOKS - Swell Headed (Mixing Lab 7")
JAH MASON - Things To Do (Mixing Lab 7")
OVERPROOF SOUNDSYSTEM - Watch What You Put Inna (Overproof 12")
G CORP MEETS MIGHTY THREE - The Avatar Of Cyber Bar (Dubplates vol 3)
LADY SAW - Herb Haffi Bun (Diamond Rush 7")
LISA DAINJAH - Black Empress (Diamond Rush 7")
ANTHONY B - Don't Fight Dem War (Diamond Rush 7")
LADY SAW - Sycamore Tree (Mad House 7")
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - Coming In From The Cold (Songs of Freedom: Island)

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

LUCIANO - Moving Out Of Babylon (Ffrench 7")
YAMI BOLO - Conquer (Ffrench 7")
ANTHONY B - Talk Too Much (Ffrench 7")
LIGHT OF SABA - Solitude (Kingston Conexion 7")
THIRD WORLD - Brand New Beggar (Third World: Island) --req
BARRINGTON LEVY - Murderer (Grade One 7") --req
CARLTON LIVINGSTON - 100 Weight Of Collie Weed (Jah Life 7")
LONE RANGER - Can't Stand It (Grade One 7")
LONE RANGER - Collie Dub (Techniques 7")
SISTER NANCY - Money Can't Buy My Love (Techniques 7")
TECHNIQUES & LADY G - Samfie Lover (Techniques 7")
BERES & JOSEY WALES - Free and Single (Big Yard 7")
SHAGGY & RAYVON - Thanks and Praise (Big Yard 7")
CULTURE - Jah Pretty Face (Two Sevens Clash: Shanachie)
ALPHA BLONDY - Sankara (Jah Victory: Jober)
MADA NILE & AMBUSH - Keeping It Fair (Many Roads: Sound V.I.Zion)
MIDNITE - His Speeches (Better World Rasta: Rastar)
JR KELLY - Can't Get Away (Rise: Jet Star)
OVERPROOF SOUND SYSTEM - The Model Dub (Overproof Soundsystem 12")
JAH WARRIOR - Spiral Echoes (Dub From The Heart: Jah Warrior)
PETER BROGGS - Jah Is Mighty In Battle (Jah Warrior Showcase: Jah Warrior)
STEPHEN & DAMIAN MARLEY - The Mission (Tuff Gong pre-release) --req
CHUCK FENDER - Who Them (Juke Boxx 7")
BERES HAMMOND, BUNNY RUGS, CAPLETON - No Crime (In Control: Elektra)
TONY REBEL, BUNNY RUGS, GREGORY ISAACS - Rude Boy (Xterminator 7")
SUGAR BLACK & LEBANCULAH - Don't Have To Listen To Lies (Star Trail 7")
COURTNEY MELODY - In The Streetz (Star Trail 7")
ANTHONY B - Bun Down Saddom (Star Trail 7")
TARRUS RILEY - Far Away (Don Corleon 7") --req

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

COCOA TEA - Hurry Up And Come (Xterminator 7")
MEDITATIONS - Standing On The Corner (Well Charge 7")
MEDITATIONS - No Peace (Arkology: Island)
MAX ROMEO - No Peace (Open The Iron Gate: Blood & Fire)
BUNNY WAILER - Armagideon (Blackheart Man: Island)
YELLOWMAN - Mr Wong (Most Wanted: Greensleeves) --req
CORNEL CAMPBELL - Boxing (Joe Gibbs 7")
LUCIANO - Jah Never Fail I Yet (Rocky Gibbs 7")
CHEZIDEK - Ten Miles Away (Rocky Gibbs 7")
JR REID - Slip Yu Fool (Rocky Gibbs 7")
BITTY McLEAN - Sound Boy Killing (Rocky Gibbs 7")
HEPTONES - Heptones Gonna Fight (On Top: Studio One)
GARNETT SILK - Kingly Character (Digital B 7")
NORRIS MAN & TRISTAN PALMA - The Struggle (I&I Foundation 7")
RICHIE SPICE - Tek Yu Mind Off A Me (Purple Skunk 7")
RAZ BIN SAM & RAY DARWIN - Life Is A Gift (Blaze Fire Music pre)
THE RED EYES - Rude World (Rude World: Echo Foxtrot)
MIDNITE & LUSTRE KINGS - Grounds (Infinite Quality: Lustre Kings)
GYPTIAN - Higher (London Individuals 7")
TURBULENCE - Fire Burn (Lionvibes 7")
CHRISINTI - Strength of a Lion (Lionvibes 7")
LUCIANO - Know Your Roots (Lionvibes 7")
COCOA TEA - Business (Xterminator 7")
LUCIANO - Gunzalis (Xterminator 7")
JR KELLY - Hungry Days (Front Page 7")
CHUCK FENDER - Who Them (Juke Boxx 7")
ANTHONY B - Nuttin But Marijuana (HK Group 7")
SIZZLA - Da System (HK Group 7")
MUNGA - Rastafari Children (HK Group 7")
SEAN PAUL - Deport Dem (Stage One: VP)
SEAN PAUL - Check It Deeply (Stage One: VP)
VIVIAN JONES - Gunz In The Ghetto (Humal 7")
NERUS JOSEPH - Deliver Us (Humal 7")
QUEEN OMEGA - Many Mountains (Humal 7")
SYLVIA TELLA - Why (Humal 7")
SYLVIA TELLA - Brothers and Sisters (Jet Star Reggae Max: Jet Star)

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > DECEMBER 29 > 2007

The annual "best of" show, where I run through the best singles of the year...
While this is pretty subjective, it does take into account feedback from the
local dancehalls, and sales at the Higher Level Record Shack. As usual I 
haven't included more that one tune on a particular riddim, so some big tunes
won't appear where edged out by another.


JESSE I'S TOP 25 NEW ROOTS SINGLES OF 2007

1. ALBOROSIE - Rastafari Anthem (Forward 7")
2. ALBOROSIE - Holy Mount Zion (Maximum Sound 7")
3. PRESSURE - Ghetto Life (Don Corleon 7")
4. LUCIANO - Use Jah Words (Oneness 7")
5. ALBOROSIE - Kingston Town (Forward 7")
6. LUTAN FYAH - Thanks and Praise (Pure Music 7")
7. JAHMALI - Jah Works We Tek Up (Roots Garden 7")
8. TARRUS RILEY - Back Biter (Don Corleon 7")
9. COLLIE BUDZ - Blind To You (Black Chiney 7")
10. CAPLETON - Prophet Rides Again (Ink A Link 7")
11. MORGAN HERITAGE - Politicians (Juke Boxx 7")
12. MORGAN HERITAGE - Headline News (Yellow Moon 7")
13. MORGAN HERITAGE & BUSY SIGNAL - Run Dem (Juke Boxx 7")
14. GENTLEMAN & QUEEN OMEGA - Revolution (Special Delivery 7")
15. CAPLETON - Be Like Dis (Taxi 7")
16. CHUCK FENDER - Upside Down (Juke Boxx 7")
17. LUTAN FYAH - Dunce Attitude (Old Capital 7")
18. ALBOROSIE - Sound Killa (Forward 7")
19. ALBOROSIE - Police Polizia (Forward 7")
20. MIDNITE - Gi Dem (Rastar 7")
21. CHEZIDEK - Keep Us Strong (La Familia West 7")
22. RAY DARWIN - People's Choice (Tads 7")
23. JAH CURE - Sticky (Danger Zone 7")
24. COLLIE BUDZ - Tomorrow's Another Day (Black Chiney 7")
25. WARRIOR KING - Crazy People (Road Dog 7")

Honorable Mentions:
BEENIE MAN - Foundation Bad Man (The Baker 7")
BLACK DILLINGER - America (IM Music 7")
SHAGGY - Move Too Hype (Big Yard 7") 


JESSE I'S TOP DANCEHALL SINGLES 2007

1. SHAGGY - Heathen (Big Yard 7")
2. JR GONG - Something For You (Tuff Gong 7")
3. BURRO BANTON - Badder Than Dem (Massive B 7")
4. MOVADO & SERANI - Dying (Daseca 7")
5. JR REID, BABY CHAM, MIMS - This Is Why We Hot remix (Darkside 7")

Honorable Mentions:
LUTAN FYAH - St Jago de la Vega (Mac D 7")
RAYVON - Games We Play (Big Yard 7")
CAPLETON - Safe Travel (John John 7")

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > DECEMBER 22 > 2007

Featuring the Devil's Angel riddim on Supersonic, the Rebel True riddim
on Tuff Gong, wicked new Busy Signal, and a pre-release from Stephen and
Damian Marley... plus an excellent Bim Sherman compilation on Pressure 
Sounds... a version excursion on the Gunman riddim... and a taste of 
Junior Reid live in Melbourne from last Saturday's More Fire dance...

JUNIOR REID - Babylon Release The Chain (live at Brown Alley, Melbourne)
JUNIOR REID - Bad Man / Anthem (live at Brown Alley, Melbourne)
ANTHONY CHAMBERS - Jah Foundation (Freedom Sounds 7") --req
BIM SHERMAN - Tribulation (Tribulation: Pressure Sounds)
BIM SHERMAN & JAH WOOSH - Love In The Ghetto (Tribulation: Pressure Sounds)
BARRINGTON LEVY - Lose Respect (Morwell Esquire 7")
LINVAL THOMPSON - Cool Down Your Temper (Ride On Dreadlocks: Blood and Fire)
DENNIS BROWN - Africa (Money In My Pocket: Trojan)
CHEZIDEK - No Fear (Inna Di Road: Greensleeves)
FREDDIE McGREGOR - Holy Mount Zion (Big Ship: Shanachie) --req
MICHAEL PROPHET - Gunman (12" Rulers: Greensleeves)
CHUKKI STARR - Gun Man (Digital B 7")
TURBULENCE - No Other Way (Down Sound 7")
TONY REBEL - Nuh More Than So (Down Sound 7")
LUTAN FYAH - Real Rasta (Down Sound 7")
BERES,GRAMPS,BUSHMAN,REBEL,IFRICA,ETC - African (Penthouse 7")
STEPHEN MARLEY - We've Come A Long Way (Tuff Gong 7")
LOUIE CULTURE - Rebel True (Tuff Gong 7")
DETERMINE - Positive Music (Tuff Gong 7")
TARRUS RILEY - She's Royal (Tuff Gong 7") --req
MORGAN HERITAGE & BUSY SIGNAL - Run Dem (Juke Boxx 7")
BUSY SIGNAL - Nuh Man (Hyperactive 7")
SHAGGY, SIZZLA, COLLIE BUDZ - Mad Mad World (Intoxication: VP)
STEPHEN & DAMIAN MARLEY - The Mission (Tuff Gong pre-release)
ELF TRANZPORTER & VIDA SUNSHYNE - Blessed Up (Ethereal Lotus Fleet: Shock)
COLLIE BUDZ & ROACHE - Sensimilla (Come Around: Columbia)
CHRISINTI - My Enemies (Supersonic 7")
NATURAL BLACK - Gideon Move (Supersonic 7")
MILLION STYLEZ - More Life (Supersonic 7")
JAH MASON - Corruption (Supersonic 7")
JR KELLY - Come One Day (Conscious Voice: Jet Star) --req

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > DECEMBER 15 > 2007

Two hours of pure Junior Reid, ahead of his first ever
Melbourne show... including a live studio interview
with the man himself...

JUNIOR REID - Chanting (Fire House Clash: Live & Learn)
JUNIOR REID - Know Myself (Greensleeves 12")
JUNIOR REID - Speak The Truth (Greensleeves 12")
JUNIOR REID - Cut A Matches Stick A Four (Big Timer: Artists Only)

JUNIOR REID - Mini Bus Driver (Lost Vinyl Classics: JR)
JUNIOR REID - Boom Shaka Lack (Jammys 7")
JUNIOR REID - Are You Ready Now (Big Timer: Artists Only)
JUNIOR REID - Babylon Release The Chain (Joe Gibbs 7")
JUNIOR REID - Fit Yu Haffi Fit (Brutal: Ras)
JUNIOR REID - Positive (Positive: Ras)
JUNIOR REID - Anthem (JR and the Bloods: Ras)
JUNIOR REID & MICHAEL ROSE - Burning Down (JR and the Bloods: Ras)
JUNIOR REID - Friend Enemy (JR 7")
JUNIOR REID & CAPTAIN THUNDER - Gun No Have Sense (JR and the Bloods: Ras)
JUNIOR REID & BOUNTY KILLER - World's Too Haunted (Dancehall Kings: Blunt)
JUNIOR REID & ANTHONY B - Victims (True World Order: JR)
JUNIOR REID - Crime Monster (True World Order: JR)
JUNIOR REID - Rasta Government (JR 7")
JUNIOR REID - Fire (JR 7")
JUNIOR REID - One Blood (JR 7")
JUNIOR REID - True World Order (Black Scorpio 7")
JUNIOR REID - Man A Nuh Taliban (JR 7")
JUNIOR REID, BABY CHAM, MIMS - This Is Why We Hot (Darkside 7")
JUNIOR REID - John Law (JR 7")
JUNIOR REID - Stand Up (Massive B 7")

CHANT DOWN BABYLON with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
5-7 PM > DECEMBER 8 > 2007

As part of Live Music WeeK at PBS, Mista Savona and his band played
live to air in Studio 5, complete with guest vocals from the one
Vida Sunshyne... also paying respect to Tyrone Taylor (1957-2007).

TYRONE TAYLOR - Sufferation (Sufferation: Auralux)
TYRONE TAYLOR - Live Table (Two Of A Kind: Tuff Gong)
LIGHT OF SABA - Thy Kingdom Come (Kingston Connexion 7")
JUNIOR REID - Poorman's Transportation (Rockers Forever 7")
JUNIOR REID - Original Foreign Mind (Youth Promotion 7")
JUNIOR REID - Rappa Pam Pam (JR 7")
JUNIOR REID - One Blood (JR 7")
TERRY GANZIE - One Blood Remix (JR 7")
MIDNITE - Loose Everything (Infinite Quality: Lustre Kings)
COLLIE BUDZ - Come Around (Epic 7")
COLLIE BUDZ - Blind To You (Black Chiney 7")
TARRUS RILEY - System Set (Parables: VP)



LUTAN FYAH - Africa (Taxi 7")
CONRAD CRYSTAL & SUGAR ROY - Praise Him (Taxi 7")
TONY REBEL - Fire (Taxi 7")
JR REID & INNER CIRCLE - Too Much Blood A Run (Soundbwoy Ent 7")