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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Playlist - 26th January 2019

BBC Sounds




Dub Syndicate - Ravi Shankar No.1 (China mix) – Leghorn
Frankie Paul - Too much badness – Blacker Dread
Causa - Kingston hot – ZamZam Sounds
J.Kenzo - Space dub – ZamZam Sounds
Jeremy Deller & Adrian Sherwood – Fever – On U Sound
Shanty B - Mix up (Crank Angle) – Fat Eyes
Ras Midas feat. I Roy - Good old dub – Tribes Man
Junior Byles & Rupert Reid - Remember me – Blood & Fire
Johnny Clarke - feat. Dillinger - Commercial locks 17 North Parade
The Wailing Souls - Can't catch me – Soul Jazz Records
I Roy - Forward Yah – Love lov008
Leroy Smart - God helps the man – Dub Store Records
Freddie McGregor - Mighty king – Dub Store Records
Dennis Brown - Africa (We want to go) – Doctor Bird
Dennis Brown - Here I come – Doctor Bird
I Roy & Dennis Brown - Jah come here – Doctor Bird
Gunter Schicker – Ceiling – Bureau B
White Fence - I can see you - Drag City
Fumaca Preta - El Avispero – Stolen Body Records
The Telescopes - Don't place your happiness in the hands of another –
Tapete TR 409CD
Congo Natty - UK Allstars in Dub – On U Sound
Samory I - Ride on (Russ D remix) – Maximum Sounds
Alborosie - Dub for the Radicals – Greensleeves
Radikal Guru, Parly B & Baptiste - Tell dem fi run (Steppa mix) – Moonshine Recordings
Etana - Jah see dem a come – VP Records

Friday, January 25, 2019

Wreck This Mess

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Kelly Joe Phelps - Improvisation on 12- String Guitar

All the On the Wire Reggae / Dub Specials
































































Monday, January 21, 2019

what we hear is mostly noise

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

John Cage,'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937)

Saturday, January 19, 2019

On the Wire - 19th January 2019

BBC Sounds


Dub Syndicate - Ravi Shankar Pt.1 (China mix) – Leghorn
Polonius - Anaxia! – Discrepant – Artetra
On U Sound - Intro The Lost Tapes – Warp
Mark Stewart & the Maffia - High ideals and Crazy dub – Warp
Kinlaw & Franco Franco - Cyborg MC – Avon Terror Corps
Ossia - Hell (Version) – Blackest Ever Black
Rodney - Oh but of course – No Corner
Jay Glass Dubs - Animal estate – Bokeh versions
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Bridgetown dub – Editions Gravats
Pavel Milykov - Octa amb plucks – Berceuse Heroique
Higher Authorities - Neptune version – On U Sound
Ultramarine - Equatorial calms – Les Disques du Crepuscule
Visible Cloaks & Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano – Stratum – RVNG Intl.
Takao - Sweet dreams – EM Records
BELP - Hyperreal love – Jahmoni
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Nyame – Out There
Gerald Toto – Umbaka – No Format 2
Orchestra Shika Shika - Bibi tama – No Wahala Sounds
Hakon Stene – Holt – Hubro
Sir Richard Bishop & W.David Oliphant – Axiulou – Unrock
Mdou Moctar - Kamane tarhanin – Sahel Sounds
Ellen Fullman & Okkyung Lee - The air around her part 1 - Skivbolaget

Friday, January 18, 2019

On the Wire - Dub Techno / Techno Dub - 2018



oidis - A Parade -  anno
Grad_U - Balance - Pro-tez Records
Akasha Chronicles ‎– Akasha - AHAAD ‎
Convextion - R-CNVX1 Crawling And Hungry - a.r.t.less 
Vlad Caia - Sidepoint - Amphia  
Vlad Caia - Expand - Shahr Farang  
Dub Safari - Cold - Thule Records
cv313 - analogue oceans [divergent] - echospace [detroit] 
Fluxion - another side - Vibrant Music ‎
Brickman - Multiverse - MixCult ‎
Ohm & Kvadrant - Rold - Æ Recordings ‎
Steve O'Sullivan - Submerged (Deepchord Negative-space Exploration Version) - Mosaic ‎
SIT - Elevation - Sushitech Records 
SIT - webspace - Sushitech Records ‎
Paul St. Hilaire - Skank - Sushitech Records
Paul St. Hilaire - Control (Steve O'Sullivan reconstruction) - Sushitech Records
Paul St. Hilaire - Redeem - Sushitech Records 
Steve Hauschildt - Alienself - Ghostly International
NaeTek - Primary Emotions - MixCult ‎
Heavenchord - Purity - Waehlscheibe 
Vainqueur - Antistatic Pt 1+ 2 - Scion Versions ‎

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Steve Barker's Charts 2018


Dub & Reggae Ten for 2018

Nat Birchall meets Al Breadwinner feat. Vin Gordon -Sounds Almighty (Tradition)
Dubkasm - Rastrumentals (Rastrumentals)
Ossia - Dub Hell/Devil’s Dance (Blackest Ever Black)
Alter Echo & E3 meet Ishan Sound & Rider Shafique - Ah mi guide (Scrub a Dub)
Strategy - Dub Mind Paradigm (Kaliphonic)
7FO - 竜のぬけがらRyu no Nukegara (EM Records)
Miss Red - K.O. (PRESSURE)
TNT Roots - Mighty in Battle/Tears of the Righteous (Bokeh Versions)
King Kong - Repatriation (Irie Ites Records)
SKRS - Paradise Magic Traxx (Ancient Monarchy)

Best New Music 2018

DJ Novo Major & DJ Nelson - Principe mix – On the Wire 1st September 2018
Space Afrika – Somewher Decent to Live - sferic
Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Clara! – Reggaetoneras 3 – Editions Gravats
Lonnie Holley – MITH - Jagjaguwar
Shackleton – Furnace of Guts – Woe to the Septic Heart
Sandro Perri – In Another Life - Constellation
Clan Caimán - Clan Caimán - Em Records
Gwennifer Raymond – You were never much of a dancer – Tompkins Square
Silvio Astier – Pampa EP – Boomarm Nation

Best Reissues 2018

Susumu Yokota – Acid Mt. Fuji - Midgar
Rimarimba – Light Metabolism Number Prague - Freedom to Spend
John Coltrane Quartet – Both Directions at One - Impulse
Joe McPhee – Nation Time – Corbett vs Dempsey
Steve Reich – Drumming – Superior Viaduct
Ursula K. le Guin & Todd Barton – Music and Poetry of the Kesh – Freedom to Spend
Ursula Bogner – Recordings 1969 – 1988 (2018 Remaster) – Faitiche
To Catch a Ghost: Field Recordings from Madagascar – Sublime Frequencies
G.I.Gurdjieff – Improvisations – Fantôme
Michele Mercure – Beside Herself – RVNG Intl./Freedom to Spend

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Playlist - 12th January 2019

BBC Sounds


Duppy Gun Productions - Love Di People (Cakedog Version) - Bokeh Versions
Sikka Rymes - Love Di People (feat. John D., prod by D/P/I) - BokehVersions
I Jahbar & Early One - Mad (prod by Butchy Fuego) - Bokeh Versions
Duppy Gun Productions - Mad Inna Gorge version - Bokeh Versions
Spliftan - Look Up (prod by Jay Glass Dubs) - Bokeh Versions
Duppy Gun Productions - Look Up version - Bokeh Versions
I Jahbar - Beeki Boy (prod by Big Flyte & Velkro) - Bokeh Versions
I Jahbar - Sniper Rifle dubplate (prod by Big Flyte & Velkro) - Bokeh Versions
Zuli - Bump - UIQ
Zuli - Wreck - UIQ
LSDXOXO - False Idols - Bandcamp
Model 500 - NO UFO'S [Moodymann Remix] - Metroplex
Textasy - Déjà Vu Bass feat. DJ Di'jital - Dolphin Traxx
Dust-e-1 - Civilised Rhythm - Lobster Theremin
Raime - Some Things Can Happen - Different Circles
XOR Gate - Foci/Ellipse - Tresor
Barker - Cascade Effect - Ostgut Ton
Howl in the Typewriter - Manifesto - Pumf
Monoswezi feat. Hope Masike - Nyuchi - Rough Guides
Kel Assouf - Fransa - Glitterbeat
Max Cooper - Phi - Mesh pre-release
Peter Broderick - Losing my taste for the night life - Pretty
Purgatory band camp.com
Quentin Sauve - Half empty glass - Ideal Crash
Sarah Louise - Swarming at the threshold - Thrill Jockey
Gwennifer Raymond - The three deaths of the red spectre - Tompkins
Square
Silk Road Assassins - Bloom - Planet Mu
Angel-Ho - Like a girl (feat. K-Rizz) - Hyperdub
Hama - Houmeissa - Sahel Sounds
Majestika - Majestika (dub) - BBE

Friday, January 11, 2019

On the Wire Live


Saturday, January 05, 2019

Playlist - 5th January 2019

BBC Sounds



Dub Syndicate - Ravi Shankar Pt.1 (China mix) – Leghorn
DJ Marfox - Un bes bai – Boomkat Editions
G36 - No escape – Hotline
Nihiloxica - Nilo chug – Nyege Nyege Tapes
Mix Mup - Clear dub – The Trilogy Tapes
Dive Reflex Service - Harvester séance – Limbo Tapes
SolarX - Hot cherry – Galaxiid
Callum Martin & Back Free Church - Psalm 16 8-9 – Arc Light Editions
Henagar-Union Sacred Harp Convention - The Morning Trumpet –
Dust-to-Digital
Cup and Saucer - Hamba ntombi (Go, girl) – Heritage
Julia Kent – Crepusculo – The Leaf Label
Eli Keszler - French lick – Shelter Press
Jess Sah Bi & Peter One - Clipo Clip – Awesome Tapes from Africa
Professor Rhythm - Bafana bafana – Awesome Tapes from Africa
P.Allen – Fisherman – Shella Records
Food Clothes & Shelter - Fisherman version – Shella Records
UNIT - The Loch & the Glen – Pumf
Senyawa - Tanggalkan di dénia (Undo the world) – Sublime Frequencies
Ustad Saami - God is – Glitterbeat
Kim Myhr - past the – Hubro
DJ Sotofett & Maimouna Haugen (feat. Gilb-R, Haugen inna di Bu &
Stiletti-Ana) - C'est l'aventure (Original mix) – Honest Jon’s Records
P.Adrix - Abertura da Roda – Principe
Szare - Cut with glass – Polity
食品まつり a.k.a. foodman - Hitori Futari – Disktopia
Kali Malone - Glory canon III – Ascetic House