Heads Up 'Cause We're Droppin' Some...

Ya'll have to remember Jeru. Always a fan of Primo's beats, when Jeru dropped back in '93 I was all over it. Fond memories of the golden age of Hip Hop.

Walk Tall

I hope everyone already knows this album. Cannonball is one of my favorite artists of all time. This album is as classic as it gets. This is the opening track with an awesome intro by Rev. Jesse Jackson. Also note the killer keys by the late great Joe Zawinul, RIP.

Cannonball Adderly Quintet - Walk Tall

Lucky Dube RIP

We mourn the tragic loss of a great performer and freedom fighter today. I wish I had some music in digital format to post up. If anyone has anything I will post it. Until then we give blessing and respect to the most high in honor of a great man.

Read the message on his official website www.luckydubemusic.com.

Some Good Old Grateful Dead

Going to start of this week with some good old grateful dead. Here are a couple of my favorite covers the band did. These are from the Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland, CA on 11-21-85. The opening song originally by the Olympics, and the encore originally by Rufus Thomas. Anyone got the second set to this night? Don't know what happened to my copy.

GD-Big Boy Pete
GD-Walking the Dog

Dubs of Summer Mix

As a last tribute to summer here's an old mix of mine in two parts. It is mostly instrumental and dub reggae with a few vocal tracks thrown in. All classic stuff here. I am not sure if I have a track list written down anymore, if I do it is buried in an old notebook. I made it so I had something good to listen to in the car probably like three years or so ago. I can't really remember that now either, but I still listen to it fairly often. Hope you enjoy.

dubs of summer pt1
dubs of summer pt2

National Front Riddim

Another quick post. Still haven't been able to split up that mix. Big wind storm last night knocked power out for almost six hours. So to tide you over again here are some tracks on the national front riddim by two artists who were phenomenal at the Nortwest World Reggae Festival 2007.

Luciano-Traveling
Chezidek-Leggo Herbsman

Don't Know What Funky Is?

Quick post here for the day. I am working on getting some of my older mixes posted up here. The first one I am working on is still too big to use a free file host so I got to split it into two parts. I just haven't had time find the right spot to split it up. So to tide you over until I get to it is a video I came across yesterday. Sly Stone and the Family at the Ohio State Fair 1968. People just don't get down like this much anymore, and if you ask what it means to be funky, this is what I would show you.

NW World Reggae Festival

Well the underground has really been underground for more than a minute, but we are back now. Summers at it's end and Fall is in the air. Lots happened over the summer; some great festivals, a big move into my new place, a long trip back to visit family on the east coast. Through it all, and my biggest excuse for a lack of posts, I battled with my damaged laptop. Now I am in the process of moving over to a new one I got, though school and out of town dj gigs have been keeping me from getting things here going again. That is about to change. Just like the weather bringing a fresh dusting of snow to our ridgelines, I am going to be bringing some goods more often than in the past. So I will pick up close to where I left off...

This years Northwest World Reggae Festival was simply awesome in almost everyway. The new festival site outside of Marcola was a much better home than either of the previous locations. The music even with some absences was exceptional, and celebrity packed. The people, food, vending, etc...all fantastic. Even cool starry skies at night with an amazing meteor shower that lasted throughout the weekend. I encourage everyone to join the underground and come out to this great new annual northwest festival.

I had to create a web page for my web development class making a photo album. I borrowed some photos posted on the forum at the festival site to use in the assignment. I figured I would throw up a link to it as well as to the NWWRF site. I would like to give a big big up to all who worked in production to make this past years festival happen, as well as those who posted the photos on the forum. It made for a great close to an already awesome summer. So don't forget to come out and support this great crew next year!

NWWRF Photo's
www.nwworldreggae.com