Tune in if you ranking!
September 3rd, 2009I’m going to use this blog to post some of the streams that were webcast on streamola.com (now defunct) in the good old days (1999 – 2001).
Joly
Joly + Ari Up + Mad Scientist – Party 4 Haiti 2010
February 6th, 2010Ari Up was booked to DJ at a Haiti Benefit at Le Poisson Rouge on Feb 4 2010 and invited me down to help out. Very dodgy start with a slippery turntable mat, but after that we were fine – assisted by a buoyant Jamaican known as Mad Scientist who had some great selections & proceeded to give a dynamic dance demo on the floor, joined by Chloe Sevigny’s date David.
Selecter Bernard – Muzik
January 27th, 2010Selecter Bernard is a young associate of Black Redemption Sound hailing from the Garden State. He contributed this mix which went out on Streamola’s Reggae Vibes channel in October 1999.
One Love Hi Powa – Hamburg 1998
January 8th, 2010Not sure where this one came from – Manwel perhaps – but it’s Italian sound system One Love Hi Powa playing out in Hamburg, Germany on 7/31/98.
Mad Professor – Tricks In The Mix 1999
January 7th, 2010Again thanks to The Dubologist for this recording, I believe from the same Wetlands show as the Lee Scratch Perry previously posted – 6/14/99. It’s a monster session with Neil throwing in dub, techno, jungle, and anything else he can lay his hands on!
Rebel Rockers – Live 1983
December 23rd, 2009When I arrived on the West Coast in mid-1983 I knew practically nobody except Zed Records and Roger Steffens. Steffens introduced me to Blue Riddim, who were on tour, and they in turn introduced me to the Rebel Rockers of Laguna Beach, who kindly took me in as a guest. Also staying in their house at the time happened to be Darryl and Doc from the Bad Brains, which started a long and fruitful friendship..
The Rebel Rockers themselves, in a marked contrast to the ‘cool and deadly’ style to which I was accustomed in the UK, played high energy SoCal skanking music, predating illustrious followers like Sublime and No Doubt. Powered by Redz on bass, they were fronted by the lively, and lovely, Princess on vocals. The guitarist, who’s name I forget, brought a distinct latin tinge to the proceedings, and when, on one notable occasion I accompanied them to a show with the Circle Jerks in Tijuana, they raised the roof! The band is still going and can be found on myspace.
Somehow I have retained a cassette of a set I recorded at one of their shows and here, for your delectation, and posterity, it is:
Ras Kush in Session – Sep 15 1999
December 23rd, 2009From the Ides of September 1999 an early Streamola session from Ras Kush of Black Redemption .
Belize Reggae
December 23rd, 2009I’ve already mentioned Jumpin’ Alex, a wild rock’n'roller of East European origin who had his own stream. He returned from a visit to Belize excitedly bearing a cassette of a snippet of an indigenous roots session recorded, I believe, one evening on a beach..
Ras Kush – Tribute To Augustus Pablo Pt.1
December 21st, 2009A major feature of Streamola was the Augustus Pablo Memorial Stream. The great and inspiring musician Horace Swaby passed on in May 1999 just after the station’s founding. A year later Ras Kush of Black Redemption put together a definitive and heartfelt retrospective session, of which this is the first part.
Go Bros. – Foundation
December 10th, 2009Yet another mix from Selecter Yoske, again with the rub-a-dub foundation vibes.
Pre-release 1979
December 3rd, 2009Here we have one of the oldest tapes I have around – dates back to the good days at Better Badges when we’d just got our Alpha hi-speed cassette duplicator. The great thing about this was that it was a magnet for rare and unreleased material, such as this, brought in by Steve Jameson – who long worked the counter at Rough Trade. I don’t recall details but he arrived from some studio (Street Level?) in a high state of excitement with this one containing brand new mixes of the Twinkle Brothers, Undivided Truth, Prince Hammer, and more importantly, Jah Shaka’s masterpiece ‘Kunte Kinte’. When I played it on Streamola even Ras Kush, who has got every single thing that Shaka has done, asked for a copy. Enjoy!
