Highlights included a live phone interview with "the original grammy kid" Michael Rose... a new protest tune from Cocoa Tea... and new cuts on the Blacker Dread label... BOB MARLEY - Babylon A feel This One THE JAY TEES - Prayer to Jah (Pirates Choice: Studio One) PSALMS - Rolling Stone (Impact! on Universal Sound) THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS - Right Time (Right Time: Virgin Frontline) --req BARRY BROWN - So Jah Sey (Far East: Channel One) BLACK UHURU - Solidarity (Anthem: Island) --req INI KAMOZE - General (Ini Kamoze: Island) DENNIS BROWN - Sitting and Watching (Countryman: Island) BARRINGTON LEVY - Money Move (Money Move: Powerhouse) LINTON KWESI JOHNSON - All We Doing Is Defending (Dread Beat and Blood: Virgin) --req THE BLACK SEEDS - Sit There (Keep On Pushing: Shock) BLACK UHURU - Happiness (Sensimilla: Island) BLACK UHURU - World Is Africa (Sensimilla: Island) BLACK UHURU - Utterance (Red: Island) MICHAEL ROSE + SLY & ROBBIE - Monkey Business (X Uhuru: Tabou 1)
MICHAEL ROSE - Trendsetter (African Star 7") MICHAEL ROSE - Wall Street (African Star 7") EVERTON BLENDER - Bush and Saddam (Heartbeat prerelease) COCOA TEA - War War War (Roaring Lion 7") SEAN PAUL & SASHA -I'm Still In Love (Dutty Rock: VP) --req ANTHONY B - Haile (King of the Universe) (Blacka Dread 7") EEK-A-MOUSE - Physically Critically (Blacker Dread 7") MIDNITE - Jah In Dem (Geoman: I-Grade) CHAT PON RIDDIM: The Revolutionaries on Channel One
Tag Archives: 2003
April 8, 2003
A non-reggae radio show! Filling in for Phil Egan on his drivetime show "The Bright White Land of Comfort". YABBY U & KING TUBBY - Rock Vibration (Prophecy of Dub: Blood & Fire) VAN MORRISON - TB Sheets (Blowing Your Mind: Bang) MARVIN GAYE - Right On (What's Going On: Motown) BOBBY WOMACK - Across 110th Street (The Very Best Of: Music Club) LLOYD CHARMERS - Darker Than Blue (Darker Than Blue: Blood and Fire) BLACK UHURU - Happiness (Sensimilla: Island) BLACK UHURU - Leaving To Zion (Guess Whos Coming To Dinner: Heartbeat) SIZZLA - Hard Ground (Black Woman and Child: Greensleeves) EVERTON BLENDER - Bush and Saddam (unreleased) BIG YOUTH - Wolf In Sheeps Clothing (Natty Cultural Dread: Trojan) BEASTIE BOYS - Futterman's Rule (Ill Communication: Capitol) PUBLIC ENEMY - Cant Trust It (Apocalypse 91: Columbia) BUCKSHOT LeFONQUE - Breakfast At Dennys (Buckshot LeFonque) ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT - Raining Revolution (3 Years, 5 months, 2 days..) DEZARIE - Right Direction (Nemozian Rasta: I-Grade) DJ SHADOW - In/Flux (Headz: Mo Wax) JR GONG - Still Searching (Halfway Tree: Motown) SPEARHEAD - Keep Me Lifted (Chocolate Supa Highway) FUGEES - Ready or Not (The Score) CAPLETON, LEXXUS - Revenge of September 11 (RMC 7") JAH MASON - Pure and Clean (Old Hut 7") MIDNITE - Black Congo (Nemozian Rasta: I-Grade)
More Fire 22 – April 2003
April 5, 2003
Highlights included a killer protest song from Everton Blender "Bush and Saddam"... The new Randy's compilation "Impact!" on Universal Sound... and killer sounds outta St Croix on the I-Grade label... MAX ROMEO - War Ina Babylon (War Ina Babylon: Island) BOB MARELY - Ride Natty Ride (Rebel Music: Island) -req ISRAEL VIBRATIONS - Mud Up (Free To Move: ras) -req TINGA STEWART - Why Can't We Live Together (Darker Than Blue: Blood & Fire) LLOYD PARKES - We'll Get Over It (Impact: Universal Sound) ASTON BARRETT & JIMMY RILEY - Dub Maker (Familyman In Dub: Heratbeat) GREGORY ISAACS - Top Ten (Heartbeat Reggae: Heartbeat) -req BUNNY WAILER - Cease Fire version (Solomonic 7") BLACK UHURU - Leaving To Zion (Guess Whos Coming To Dinner: Heartbeat) DENNIS BROWN - Troubled World (Promised Land: Blood & Fire) NATURAL BLACK - Third World War (Mega Bass 7") HALF PINT - Fever (Mega Bass 7") HOPETON JAMES - I Am So Proud (Relic World 7") ELIJAH PROPHET - Shotta (Relic World 7") -req THE BLACK SEEDS - Black Sunrise (Keep On Pushing: Loop) ROOTBOUND SYSTEM - track one (unreleased promo) -req MIDNITE - Dry Bones Live (Assini: I-Grade) ABJA - Crucial Confessions (Weep Not: I-Grade) LUCIANO - Peace My Bredren (Blacka Dread 7") EVERTON BLENDER - Bush and Saddam (prerelease) JR GONG - Love and Inity (Mr Marley: Tuff Gong) JAH MASON - Fire (Chant Down Soundsystem dubplate special) -req CHAT PON RIDDIM: Linval Thompson Meets King Tubbys Inna Reggae Style Dub
March 29, 2003
Still burning down Babylon and the war on Iraq... MIDNITE - Ises (Assini: I-Grade) THE REVOLUTIONARIES - Why War (The Revolutionaries: Channel One) AUGUSTUS PABLO - Arabian Rock (This Is: Heartbeat) HUGH MUNDELL - Let's All Unite (Africa Must Be Free By 1983: ras) DR ALIMANTADO - Oil Crisis (Born for a Purpose: Greensleeves) BUNNY WAILER - Cease Fire (Roots Radics Rockers Reggae: Shanachie) THE MEDITATIONS - War Mongers (Reggae Crazy: Nighthawk) BLACK UHURU - Carbine (Red: Island) LITTLE ROY - Tribal War (Tafari Earth Uprising: Pressure Sounds) -req SCOTTY - I Worry (Unbeliveable Sounds: Trojan) GENERAL STRIKE - No HoWARd (The Fine Line) THE BLACK SEEDS - Little Atoms (Keep On Pushing: Loop) ROBERT LEE - Too Much War (Foundational Roots vol 1: Channel One UK) MORGAN HERITAGE - Get Away (Xterminator 7") LMS - Cease all Wars (Reality Check: VP) JAHMALI - Cry People (El Shaddai: VP) SIZZLA - Love and Harmony MICHAEL ROSE - War It Haffe Done (Fire House Crew 7") MIKEY GENERAL - Red Hot (Fire House Crew 7") ANTHONY B & HOPETON LINDO - Killing Fields (Cylton 7") LITTLE TWITCH - War (Cylton 7") MAD PROFESSOR & MICHAEL PROPHET - Dub War (Rootsman: Ariwa) GEORGE NOOKS & MERCILESS - Too Much War (Natty Chase The Barber: Superpower) DANA V - Brotherly Love (Studio One Dancehall Selection: Studio One) MIDNITE - Good Remnant (Assini: I-Grade) CHAT PON RIDDIM: The Revolutionaries on Channel One
March 22, 2003
Getting in as many anti-war and pro-peace songs as possible, and burning out the war on Iraq with word, power and sound... Highlights include the killer new "Fortune Teller" riddim on Lustre Kings... and a special tribute to the late great old-school DJ and singer Scotty. BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - War/No More Trouble (Rebel Music: Island) SCOTTY - Draw Your Brakes (The Harder They Come: Island) SCOTTY - Penny For Your Song (Unbelievable Sounds: Trojan) SCOTTY - Children Children (Unbelievable Sounds: Trojan) U ROY - Peace and Love (Your Ace From Space: Trojan) THE ROYALS - Peace and Love (Pick Up The Pieces: Pressure Sounds) JOHNNY OSBOURNE - Eternal Peace (Truths and Rights: Heartbeat) THE TERRORS - Assemble Not Thyself (Children of Jah: Blood and Fire) PRINCE ALLA - Only Love Can Conquer (Only Love Can Conquer: Blood and Fire) I ROY - War and Friction (If Deejay Was Yoru Trade: Blood and Fire) WAILING SOULS - Kingdom Rise and Kingdom Fall (Fire House Rock: Shanachie) FREDDIE McGREGOR - Peaceful Man (Big Ship: Shanachie) U BROWN - Put Away Racial and Tribal War (Rougher Than The Rest: Jah Warrior) MOTHER EARTH MASSIVE - Another Ark (mp3) -req SEER AND SHASAMANI SOUND - No War For Oil (mp3) EVERTON BLENDER - War Monger Man (Visionary: Heartbeat) MORGAN HERITAGE - No More Murder (Calibud 7") JAH CURE - Cease All War (Stone Love 7") YAMI BOLO - Mr Smith and Wesson (Stone Love 7") JAH MASON - Slip and Slide (Stone Love 7") TURBULENCE - Bun Dem Again (Lustre Kings 7") YAMI BOLO - War and Revolution (Lustre Kings 7") LUTAN FIYAH - No More War (Lustre Kings 7") JR DELGADO - Turn Em Over (Reasons: Big Cat) -req BOUNTY KILLER - Bawling (Jammys 7") -req ROARING LION - Calling for Peace (Xterminator 7") LUCIANO - Gunzalis (Xterminator 7") MIDNITE - Ancesta (Nemozian Rasta: I-Grade) MIDNITE - Love Right (Ras Mek Peace) CHAT PON RIDDIM: Termination Dub by Glen Brown and King Tubby on Blood and Fire
March 15, 2003
Highlights included Digital B's recut of the classic Java riddim... Massive B's recut of the classic Tempo riddim... BIG YOUTH - Dread Inna Babylon (Chanting Dread Inna Fine Style: Heartbeat) EATING BETTY - Dub Obsession (Eating Betty In Dub: Acetone) CAPITAL LETTERS - Natty Walk (Headline News) ALTON ELLIS - No Man Is Perfect (Many Moods of) BOB MARLEY - Johnny Was (Rastaman Vibration: Tuff Gong) -req I-ROY - Hypocrite Back Out (Crisus Time: Virgin) PRINCE FARI - Throw Away Your Gun (Dubwise: Virgin Frontline) -req PETER TOSH - Bumboclaat live (Honarary Citizen: Columbia) DEAN FRASER - Shine Eye Gal (Big Up: Island Jamaica Jazz) LINTON KWESI JOHNSON - Reggae Sounds (Bass Culture: Island) MUTABARUKA - Every Time I Hear The Sounds (Check It: Ras) DEZARIE - Zion (Fya: I-Grade) SIZZLA - Solid As A Rock (Da Real Thing: VP) WARRIOR KING - Rough Road (Virtous Woman: VP) MORGAN HERITAGE - Chase Dem (Digital B 7") BUSHMAN - Live My Life (Digtal B 7") BUJU BANTON - If Jah Was Like Man (Digital B 7") JAHMALI - Real Issue (El Shaddai: VP) SYLVIA TELLA - Plastic Smile (Stingray 7") AL CAMPBELL - Live Up (Stingray 7") PREZIDENT BROWN - War Inna Town (Stingray 7") ELEPHANT MAN - No Time For Dem (Massive B 7") SNOW - Dance Alone (Massive B 7") CHRONICLE - Say U Love Me (Massive B 7") NORRIS MAN & MICHAEL ROSE - Mt Zion (Persistance: VP) -req BUCCANEER - Ganja Man (Smoke The Herbs 2: VP) -req CHAT PON RIDDIM: "Eating Betty In Dub" on Acetone
March 8, 2003
Celebrating International Womens Day with 100% female vocals... from the original I-Threes, through to fresh cuts on the killer Clappas riddim. JUDY MOWATT - Rasta Woman Chant (Mellow Mood: Tuff Gong) MARCIA GRIFFITHS - Truly (Truly: Heartbeat) JENNIFER LARA - Consider Me (Feel Like Jumping: heartbeat) JENNIFER LARA - A Change Is Gonna Come (Studio One Presents: Studio One) MARCIA AITKEN - I'm Still In Love With You (Reggae Love Songs: Trojan) ALTHEA AND DONNA - Uptown Top Ranking (Uptown Top Ranking: Virgin) JANET KAY - Loving You (Reggae Love Songs: Trojan) ELIZABETH ARCHER & THE EQUATORS - Feel Like Making Love (Reggae Love Songs: Trojan) MARCIA GRIFFITHS - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Reggae Love Songs: Trojan) MARTHA VALEZ - Happiness (Escape From Babylon: Tuff Gong) DHAIMA - Inna Jah Children SISTER ASHA - Africa Calling (Message From Africa: Jah Shaka) LILLIAN ALLEN - One Poem Town (Conditions Critical: Verse to Vinyl) DELLA GRANT - Rise Up (Dawta of the Dust: Twinkle Brothers) SISTER NANCY - Bang Belly (The Yellow, The Purple, The Nancy) SISTER CAROL - Shackles (Liberation for Africa: Serious Gold) MINX - Jah Breath Life Inna Me (Dancehall Culture: Easy Star) LISA DAINJAH - Be Wise (Diamond Rush 7") QUEEN IFRIKA - Life QUEEN OMEGA - Take A Chance (Queen Omega: Green House Family) QUEEN IFRIKA - Strong Orange and Herbs TANYA STEPHENS - It's About Time (South Rawkas Crew 7") CECILE - Honey (South Rawkas Crew 7") LADY SAW - Never Leave You Lonley (Kings of Kings 7") CHACHI - Hoya Hoye (Hoya Hoye: Kariang) SYLVIA TELLA - I'll Never Be Thirsty (Jet Star Reggae Max: Jet Star) SYLVIA TELLA - Brothers and Sisters (Jet Star Reggae Max: Jet Star) DEZARIE - Iron Sharpen Iron (Fya: I-Grade)
More Fire 21 – March 2003
March 1, 2003
WARRIOR KING - Power To Chant (Virtous Woman: VP) LEE SCRATCH PERRY - Can't Control The African (Fire In Dub: Ariwa) THE TENNORS - Pressure and Slide (Rock Steady Classics: Nighthawk) KING TUBBY - A Rougher Version (Blunted In The Bombshelter: Antidote) KING TUBBY - Cool Down Version (Blunted In The Bombshelter: Antidote) I ROY & LEE PERRY - Space Flight (Blunted In The Bombshelter: Antidote) ROLAND ALPHONSO - On The Move (Blunted In The Bombshelter: Antidote) THE SKATALITES - Guns of Navarone (Blunted In The Bombshelter: Antidote) THE TECHNICIAN - Industrial Dub (unreleased) THE TECHNICIAN - CO2 (unreleased) THE TECHNICIAN - Chain Gang Dub (unreleased) BURNING SPEAR - Come (Social Living: Blood and Fire) LEE SCRATCH PERRY - Kiss The Champion (Time Boom x Devil Dead: ON-U) JUNIOR MURVIN - Working in the Cornfield (Police and Thieves: Island) CORNELL CAMPBELL & DILLINGER - The Minstrel (Third World 12") -req CAPITAL LETTERS - Fire (Headline News) MISTY IN ROOTS - Salvation (People Unite 12") -req U BROWN - Put Away Racial and Tribal War (Rougher Than The Rest: Jah Warrior) CHARLIE CHAPLIN - One of a Kind (Red Pond: Tamoki Wambesi) -req SLY & ROBBIE - Unmetered Taxi (Sly Go Ville: Tabou 1) ANTHONY RED ROSE - Good Sensimella (Smoke The Herb 2: VP) GARNETT SILK - Judge Not -req WARRIOR KING - Love Jah and Live (Virtous Woman: VP) SIZZLA - Why Should I (Da Real Thing: VP) NATURAL BLACK - Standing at the Gate (5th Element 7") CHUCK FENDER - Rough Out Deh (5th Element 7") DAMAJAH - Meditation Ting (Bass and Roots: Didgeridoo) TOK - Cree (B-Rich 7") SEAN PAUL - Time after Time (B-Rich 7") TENOR SAW - Ring The Alarm (Techniques 7") -req SISTER CAROL - Principle (Liberation for Africa: Serious Gold)