Tag Archives: 2014

October 25, 2014

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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October 11, 2014

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)

More Fire 164 – October 2014

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“good photos by Quashani Bahd, crappy photos by old Galaxy S3… :)”

From More Fire 164 – October 2014. Posted by Chant Down Sound on 12/01/2014 (13 items)

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October 4, 2014

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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September 27, 2014

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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September 20, 2014

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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September 13, 2014

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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September 6, 2014

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 6th September 2014

Paying respects to the late Hopeton Lewis, one of the most important singers in rocksteady music, 30 October 1947 – 4 September 2014. Also featuring a brand new take on Hopeton Lewis’ “Take It Easy” riddim courtesy of Ranch Entertainment, plus the Crunch Time riddim from Dynasty, the Rebel Rock riddim from No Landing & Kushface Music, the No More War riddim from Bonner Cornerstone, and nuff more…

HOPETON LEWIS – Leaving Babylon (Dynamic: Dynamic Sounds)
HOPETON LEWIS – Rock Steady (Merritone)
HOPETON LEWIS – Music Got Soul (Wild Flower)
HOPETON LEWIS – Sounds and Pressure (K&K)
HOPETON LEWIS & GLEN BROWN – Girl You’re Cold (WIRL)
HOPETON LEWIS – Boom Shaka Laka (Treasure Isle)
HOPETON LEWIS – Proud Mary (Grooving Out On Life: Dynamic Sounds)
HOPETON LEWIS & U ROY – Tom Drunk (Treasure Isle)
HOPETON LEWIS – Take It Easy (Merritone)
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN – Playing Games With My Heart (Take It Easy riddim: Ranch Entertainment)
GC – Yuh Look Good (Take It Easy riddim: Ranch Entertainment)
JOSEY WALES – Ready Fi Josey (Take It Easy riddim: Ranch Entertainment)
RED FOX – Right Pon Time (Take It Easy riddim: Ranch Entertainment)
SCREECHY DAN – Raise Your Glass (Take It Easy riddim: Ranch Entertainment)
SHAGGY – Work So Hard (Take It Easy riddim: Ranch Entertainment)
DENNIS BROWN – Cheater (Impact) –request
DENNIS BROWN – Rocking Time (Yvonne’s Special) –request
THE CLASH – Guns of Brixton (London Calling: CBS) –request
EEK A MOUSE – Modelling Queen (Joe Gibbs) –request
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – One Love/People Get Ready (Island 12″) –request
GAPPY RANKS – President (Crunch Time riddim: Dynasty)
JAH SUN & RICHIE SPICE – Can’t Live Good (Crunch Time riddim: Dynasty)
DELLY RANX – Real Fathers (Crunch Time riddim: Dynasty)
LUTAN FYAH – Real People (Crunch Time riddim: Dynasty)
EXCO LEVI – World Wide (Rebel Rock riddim: No Landing & Kushface)
NESBETH – Old Gangalee (Rebel Rock riddim: No Landing & Kushface)
SHEENI – Bye Bye (Rebel Rock riddim: No Landing & Kushface)
DELLY RANX – One More Dead (Rebel Rock riddim: No Landing & Kushface)
GYPTIAN – Light Is Life (No More War riddim: Bonner Cornerstone)
HYAH SLICE – Jah Is My Keeper (No More War riddim: Bonner Cornerstone)
JUNIOR X – Real Link (No More War riddim: Bonner Cornerstone)
IBA MAHR – Most High (Love and Emotions riddim: Brixton Music Group)
MIDNITE – Same Boat We (Beauty For Ashes: I Grade)
MIDNITE – Hemp Scroll (Free Indeed: Higher Bound Productions) –request
PRESSURE, DAMIAN MARLEY, TARRUS RILEY – Mental Disturbance (Yard Vybz)
FREDDIE McGREGOR – Leave Yah (High Times)
BLACK UHURU – Leaving To Zion (Showcase: Taxi)
SIZZLA – Hard Ground (Black Woman and Child: Greensleeves)
SIZZLA – Freedom Cry (Kalonji: Xterminator)
BUGLE – Speak Your Mind (Tweety Bird riddim: Head Concussion)
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN – Prayer (Tweety Bird riddim: Head Concussion)

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August 30, 2014

BABYLON BURNING with Jesse I
106.7 PBS-FM > Melbourne, Australia
Saturday 30th August 2014

HORACE ANDY & ERROL SCORCHER – Mr Babylon (Unity Showcase: 12 Stars)

< Jah People mix by DJ Agent 86 >
Light Of Saba “Lambs Bread Collie”
The Abyssinians “The Good Lord”
Barrington Levy “Crucifixion”
Hugh Mundell “Time Has Come”
The Twinkle Brothers “Jah Kingdom Come”
Sugar Minott “King Of Kings”
The Jay Tees “Forward To Jah”
Yami Bolo “Struggle In Babylon”

THE OVERNIGHT PLAYERS – Shaka The Great (Babylon Destruction: Cha Cha)
DUBKASM – Victory (Sufferah’s Choice 12″) –request
PRINCE MALACHI – Stages of Life (Cousins)
LEROY HORSEMOUTH WALLACE – Herb Vendor (Trojan Ganja Box Set) –request
JAH LION – Colombia Colly (Colombia Colly: Island)
HARRY J ALL-STARS – Liquidator (Harry J) –request
TRINITY – Financial Business (Joe Gibbs)
JIGSY KING – Through the Tunnel (unreleased)
BUNNY WAILER – Ballroom Floor (deejay version) (Solomonic)
ANTHONY CRUZ – Halfway Tree (Footsteps)
BERES HAMMOND & DELLY RANKS – Siren (Harmony House)
DON HUSKY – Meditation (Down Sound)
SOJA, ANUHEA, J BOOG – Easier (Amid The Noise and Haste: ATO Records)
SOJA & DAMIAN MARLEY – Your Song (Amid The Noise and Haste: ATO Records)
RAGING FYAH – Step Outta Babylon (Destiny: Soul Beats)
DANIEL BAMBATTA MARLEY – Maintain (Digital B)
RAS MUHAMAD – Through The Smoke (Salam: Oneness)
RAS MUHAMAD – So Tired (Salam: Oneness)
PRESSURE – Serious About It (The Sound: I Grade)
ZIGGI RECADO & LUTAN FYAH – Guide Ova (Therapeutic: Zion I Kings)
LUTAN FYAH – Nat Up Yuh Head (Mungo’s Hi Fi Remix)(North Wind Remixes: Jamrockvybz)
TARRUS RILEY & MAD COBRA – Rude Boy (Heart Beat riddim: House of Stars)
MIDNITE & MYSTIC VISION – Only (Current: Mystic Vision) –request

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