Is it the fire and brimstone? Is it the burning chalwa? I need to listen to more of this mixtape to find out! I heard about this over at DJ/Rupture‘s site – mudd up! Jr. Reid has dropped a mixtape titled Why I’m Hot, a collaboration with DJ Power. Rupture gives it a great review and reports that the title is not pure empty boasting, and indeed, Mr. One Blood is HOT on this album. I need to hear the rest of it to find out why… You can download it from iChoons, listen to 2 songs on mudd up! or purchase it from various places.

Go directly to mudd up! for more. Thanks for the free listen Rupture!

Grammy award winning reggae sensation Wayne Wonder will be releasing a new album at the end of July on VP Records. Foreva will include a fabulous remake of the Thompson Twins’ 1984 hit “Hold Me Now” which has been updated by music producer Tony Kanal (No Doubt). You can hear the first single off the album, “Again” on NYC radio stations HOT97, POWER105, and Z100 or on his music $pace page.

2 Live Shows Scheduled:
Saturday June 16th in Chicago IL
Sunday June 17th in Hollywood CA – Jamaican Gold 12th Anniversary

Source

WAYNE WONDER LINKS

Wayne Wonder website
VH1 Artist Bio
music $pace

JAHTARI performed a digital dub/reggae set for Mary Anne Hobbs show on BBC Radio 1 last week. If you missed it, you can still listen to the stream of that show until the new one airs on Thursday Night/Friday morning depending on your time zone.

You can listen to the show while you read by clicking here to open a new window with the player innit.

Highlights From Playlist

Burial – ‘Stairwell’ (Demo)
Flying Lotus ft J Dilla & Phat Kat – ‘Game Over’ (White)
Magnetic Man – ‘Ligma’ (Dubplate)
Cdatakill – ‘No Brakes’ [Detritus remix] (Ad Noisium)
The Bug & Flowdan – ‘Jah War’ [Loefah mix] (Ninja)

The Download
Local – ‘They Are Local’ (Betulla)

MED – ‘Rhymes With An L’ from Peanut Butter Wolf presents Chrome Children Vol 2 (Stones Throw)

Jahtari Live Digital Laptop Reggae Set

Laurie Anderson – ‘O Superman’ (Nonesuch)

Burial starts off beautifully, lovely bass and dark synths. Hobbs keeps rolling out the dubstep for a while, including a fantastic dubstep riddim by The Bug with Flowdan pon di mic. This combo is amazing! Flowdan is pure spitfire Rastafari – like Ninjaman meets Sizzla inna concrete jungle! BIG TUNE! An interlude into experimental electronica and noise that sounds like Squarepusher left alone in a room with a toddler and a Casio, some relaxing dub frequencies that step up to UK steppers dub, building suspense, building intrigue for all these spacey sounds…. unless you skip ahead. A unique set from JAHTARI kicks in at 16:50 (BBC radio players use the time of the show). All spaced out, relaxing, digital dub. Beautiful stuff. Lay down with a warm wet cloth over your eyes or something, really relax and listen to this lovely sound. Enjoy! Then wake back up to a little Laurie Anderson and enjoy the last half hour of the show.

More JAHTARI News On HearingTest:

- includes links to where you can download or stream a lot more digital dub tunes….

JAHTARI on Tour And BBC Radio – HearingTest
JAHTARI Net Label – HearingTest

The Bob Marley family has the heavy task of managing his legacy and his estate. Rita Marley personally decides what is good for his posthumous image and her bank account. It is very difficult sometimes to win her approval to publish books, cds, dvds and whatnot that use images of the late legend or his music or words. So, this comes as quite a fantastic surprise -
Roots, Rock, Remixed will be released on July 24th and features remixes of original Bob Marley tunes. It will be the first remix album ever approved by the Marley Estate. I guess that means that Remixed Hits and Chant Down Babylon (the latter is an EXCELLENT album, especially the Chuck D “Survival” remix) were not officially approved by Marley’s family, despite several of his sons reworking “Kinky Reggae” on Chant Down Babylon.

Tracklist for Roots, Rock, Remixed

‘Soul Shakedown Party’ (Afrodisiac Sound System Remix)
‘Lively Up Yourself’ (Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix)
‘Duppy Conqueror’ (Fort Knox Five Remix)
‘Sun Is Shining’ (Yes King Remix)
‘Soul Rebel’ (Afrodisiac Sound System Remix)
‘African Herbsman’ (King Kooba Remix)
‘Don’t Rock My Boat’ (STUHR Remix)
‘Small Axe’ (Paul & Price Remix)
‘Rainbow Country’ (DJ Spooky’s Subliminal Funk Remix)
‘Trenchtown Rock’ (Trio Elétrico Remix)
’400 Years’ (Jimpster Remix)
‘One Love’ (Cordovan Remix)

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This news comes closely on the heels of the official Bob Marley website announcing that in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of Exodus, Island Records will be reissuing the album on 2 brand new digital formats – USB and Micro SD.
You can read more about that in my earlier post:
Bob Marley’s Exodus Gets ReIssued

Always at the forefront of revolution – the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley’s Exodus is being celebrated with the album’s release on the new music formats USB Memory Stick and Micro SD Memory Card. Marley has entered the Matrix. 4000 copies of the USB version in glorious red, green and gold include the entire album of music plus 3 video tracks recorded in June 1977 at the Rainbow Theatre in London during Marley’s exile in Britain. ([More →])