Streaming audio from back in the day
At the Streamola studio we were occasionally honored by a visit from Andrew Tosh. In 2000 I was fortunate to be able to program a board recording of a recent show in Brazil. A fine performance that truly shows that musical talent was passed from father to son.
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Part two of the session on St Paddy’s 2001 turns out to be a smooth set of fresh tunes presented in a gentle style by the man called Joseph. Highlight is a three way version excursion on the Conversations riddim, featuring Coco Tea, Louie Culture, and Sizzla.
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St. Paddy’s 2001 – a Saturday night. Ras Kush, returned from an extended visit to Japan, goes live on the Reggae Vibes stream. He kicks off with some warm rub-a-dub before breaking out the crucial UK steppers. Ari Up aka Madussa shows up and immediately gets on the mic for an extended skank on her tunes of the day. After a short period of technical difficulty we hear some sublime roots n culture in the old time come back again style; as the version runs back comes Ari with “No Peace” – a song I’ve never heard her sing anywhere else. A Gregory Isaacs segment allows Ari to tear it up on the Slavedriver riddim. A strong Horace Martin dub sees her produce a novel take on The Slits ‘New Town’.
I know the tape cuts off suddenly, but Part 2 is coming..
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It’s not well known that, before all the current more famous incarnations of the name Jack Balchin and I ran a Dub Club in the Talbot Tabernacle in London around 1981. In the late 80s I revived the name to do some nights in NYC with DJ Woody Dee and his Dreadbeat Massive Sound. This tape survives from one of our more notable shows, occasioned by a visit from the UK by Lepke (aka the Dread Outta Control) from original reggae pirate radio Dread Broadcast Corp, plus the imminent closing of the East Village’s favorite roots record store Irie Ites, for which it served as a send off party. A line-up of selecters was duly arranged along with Richie from Underdog as MC.
What you hear here first is some sistren acappella as John (The Italian) takes the decks playing raggamuffin – John was representing a new store Ujima that had opened on the Bowery. My set follows, somewhat beset with tech difficulties, then Cathy Tobias of Irie Ites, and then Lepke who scores mightily with the just-released ‘One Blood’ by Junior Reid. I believe that is in fact John The Italian doing most of the MCing. Later in the night Keith Morris (of the Circle Jerks) took over and did a very credible job.
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I don’t remember too much about puppetmaster – I think I may dig up a pic over time. Ras Kush brought him in for this session on cinco de mayo 2001. He brought some electronic wizardry to bear on an extremely solid dub set.
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I’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), plus a few other selected old & new recordings.
Joly
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