10.31.13 - Halloween Special with Grace of Spades

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Halloween was here again and this year I invited our pal Grace of Spades to join me in selecting some ghostly tunes for you. The echoes and organs of many dub and reggae songs lend themselves perfectly to an eerie and haunting vibe, and we brought plenty of those as well as selections that were more straightforward and fun. Check the playlist and the archive! Booo.

09.19.13 - Reggae Rajahs Selections

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The Reggae Rajahs were in town to celebrate the opening night of Dub Champions Festival NYC with Deadly Dragon at The Delancey, and I was happy to get Diggy Dang and General Zooz on the show earlier in the day. The Reggae Rajahs are India's first reggae sound system out of New Delhi, and known for their energetic live performances.

I started out the show with an all 45 B side set and the Rajahs took over the selections in the second hour with some wicked dubplates and more. I also talked to them a bit about some upcoming events and side projects as well as how it is to perform in such a reggae-deprived country. Check the archive.

09.20.12 - Dubwise / Roots Radics Selections

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Emch, Style Scott, QM

A convenient continuation of the previous week's Keith Hudson show, this show features other dub pioneers such as King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Scientist and more. The Dub Champions Festival that has just happened this weekend was inspiration to get me listening to more dub than I have in a long time. Which, obviously, is a good thing.

The Dub Champions Festival (www.DubChampions.com) was put on by Subatomic Sound, and lucky for us Emch from Subatomic was in a studio not too far from the EVR studio and managed to drop by towards the end of the show to talk a bit about the festival. An even luckier surprise was that he had Style Scott of the mega-band Roots Radics with him! What a very nice and cool guy, I would love to have him on again to talk about some more history with us. Hope you got to check them all out this weekend, Roots Radics played "Rids the World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires" with none other than Scientist himself! And Johnny Osbourne! Killer show. I missed the Lee Perry one (caught him with Emch last time though) and I am sure that was great too. Big ups to Subatomic Sound for helping bring more dub events to NYC.

09.13.12 - Keith Hudson Tribute

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This show is dedicated to and inspired by the great producer and artist Keith Hudson aka "The Dark Prince of Reggae", known for his influence on dub music.  Most of the songs on the show are sung by or produced by him, though I did include some other songs by artists he has worked with or that I thought went with the sound of the Hudson tunes. I apologize for some technical difficulties early on in the show, apparently the needles were a bit worn, and once we figured that out and replaced them, everything was alright...

I recommend reading up about Keith Hudson if you do not know a lot about him, his career is filled with so much work that I was unaware of. Here is a link to his wikipedia page here and also a discussion on a blog to whether or not "Pick A Dub" is officially the first dub album or not here. Apparently Ian Curtis of the English band Joy Division was a huge fan and I end the show with his favorite Keith Hudson song "Turn The Heater On", followed by a tribute cover from New Order that was made for Curtis. I love seeing the influences of Jamaican music throughout music all over the world, and I can only imagine how far-reaching Keith Hudson's have been.