Saturday 19 December 2009

New MashUptheTown podcast


Podcast 36 - Dreadlocks Returns to the 36th Echo Chamber
This podcast contains:
Artist; Song; Album
1. King Tubby: The Roots Prophet; Balmagie Jam Rock
2. Niney featuring the Soul Syndicate; Smile Dub; Present Dub
3. Solomon Jabby; Rootsman Dub; Revolutionary Dub Vibrations Chapter 1
4. Lennox Miller/Jah Coller; Better Must Come/Speaks His Mind; Jack Ruby Hi-Fi
5. Dennis Alcopone; Segregation Is Wrong; The Good Old Days of the 70's
6. Dubmatix; Dub in Me Hand, Rengade Rocker
7. Oneshot; Rotten Town; 1st Shot
8. Dub Killer Combo; Balistica; Root Boy
9. Big Joe, Natty All in a Row; Keep Rocking and Swinging
10. Jama Sound; Rapido Sol; Superpanorama
11. Ring Craft Posse; Waterford; St. Catherine in Dub
12. Crystalites; Undertaker's Burial; Blow Mr. Hornsman: Instrumental Reggae 1968-1975
13. King Tubby and Soul Syndicate; Great Stone; Freedom Sounds in Dub
14. Herman's All Stars; Nightmare; Blow Mr. Hornsman: Instrumental Reggae 1968-1975
15. Midnite; Frequency; Infinite Dub
16. Charlie Chaplin; Chaplin Chant; Bushyard Telegraph
17. Phil Pratt; Danger Ubx; Dial M for Murder in Dub Style
18. Brad Osbourne; King Zion; King of Dub
This podcast was initially just about the reggae, and that it is a global phenomenon now, much to the pioneering efforts of the late Bob Marley, but it is also about the continued musical explorations and initatives of many other musicians, initially in Jamaica, and now the world. It is also about the message, that the world needs to be shared, that the colonial mentality of the past should be a thing of the past, and not something daily rekindled by corporations and armies.
I reference in particular here the plight of the people of West Papua, and their ongoing struggle against the oppression of the Indonesian military, who pay their soldiers in seized properties, and the neglect of governments' around the world on the West Papuan's struggle for their own independence. The large corporations intent on stealing, with assistance of corrupt officials, is the modern colonialist plague that was meant to be left for the scrapheap and the history books, instead it is OUR modern history of the world.
Reggae has always been about the struggle against oppression, and one hopes that the New Year will bring the changes the world needs, that people's lives and lands will be respected before and after any contact with government and corporation, there are too many living daily lives of destruction, violence and horror solely to feed the greedy pockets of a few, the struggle continues, hope you like the mix...

Once again my friend Paul has surpassed himself (!)
Do also check out his previous podcasts, some of the best compilations currently doing the rounds of the interwebbythingy
PS: Was indeed a drag that we didn't catch up last week, have a good hexmass and we have to catch up soon
Regards/

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