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Dub Session's Global Reggae Showcase Series continues with its second installment, the Latin American Reggae and Dub special. This episode of the Dub Session explores some of the key artists from Latin America's reggae, dub and ska music scene. Artists featured in this edition include Gilberto Gil from Brazil, Federico Aubele from Argentina, Sinsemilla Dub from Brazil, Sergent Garcia from Cuba, Manu Chao from Spain, The Gotan Project from Argentina, El Grand Silencio from Mexico, Suba from Brazil, King Chango from Mexico, and a special performance by Pato Banton in Brazil.

Dub Session's National Reggae Showcase Series brings you its first installation, the New Zealand Reggae Showcase, Vol. 1. Stardate: 1992. Place: Wellington, New Zealand. Status: there is a reggae buzz in the air. New Zealand's reggae scene is emerging and expanding. "The strange music booming and crackling from the speakers ripples the loose skin on your kneecaps. It sounds like the record is scratched beyond repair, but somehow it sounds good. It's the early 90s at Taki Rua Depot - a small theatre-cum-live music venue tucked down a seedy alley off Wellington's Cambridge Tce - and the Roots Foundation Sound System are educating the masses about roots, reggae, ragga, and dub. Like many in this smoky room I'm witnessing not only new music but a new way to experience music - in New Zealand, at least. "- Scott Kara,The NZ Herald. Over the last ten years, reggae roots and dub have grown to become mainstays on the national music scene thanks to bands like TrinityRoots, Salmonella Dub and Fat Freddy's Drop. These artists blend local styles, political culture, island roots, and global messages together seamlessly. Since 1992, the Dub and Reggae scene in New Zealand has blown up to super-size proportions. Just as Jamaica was abuzz with Reggae in the early 1970s, and England was the launchpad for the birth of global reggae in the late 70s/early 80s, New Zealand thriving, culturally significant and powerfully popular reggae culture is now emerging on the global scene. Like Musical Youth said in 1978 "we are the heavy heavy mothers yeah!" This is the spirit of the NZ Reggae scene today. This episode of the Dub Session explores the defining artists of the New Zealand reggae scene. New Zealand's music has a special, unique flavor - a distinct blend of reggae-funk-hip hop-Maori roots-dub styles that provides a fresh expression of roots culture, modern technology, and future vision.

For our thirtieth episode, Dub Session Episode takes you on a Version Excursion, starting with a home-baked riddim scratch ensemble with elements of Mikey Dread, Lee Scratch Perry, the Mad Professor, Aswad in Dub, and some "Dektronic" Acid loops. The Dub Session continues to celebrate the revolutionary outernational styles of the reggae version, inna future dub styleeee. Episode 30 kicks off with the DJ Chill Will's Riddim Scratch homebrew, followed by Boozoo Bajou's "Killer," Aswad's legendary live dubbed-out version of "African Children" at the Notting Hill Carnival, and The International Observer's "London" Then we come with a different stylee and bring you the toasts with the most, starting with General Saint and Clint Eastwood "Another One Bites The Dust ", followed by Pato Banton and Tippa Irie in "Double Trouble." Musical Youth brings us "The Youth of Today", Black Uhuru with "Botanical Roots", Stereotyp with Tikiman in "Fling Down Style", the Mad Professor remixes Vienna artists Sofa Surfers "Red Beans n Rice", Asian Dub Foundation's "The Riddim I Like", Stereotyp with Sootsayer in G-Stone's Title Track to the "Dub Club" LP, and Sola Rosa with "Sleepwalker". Then the version takes an excursion to the Pacific with Celestial's "Rocking Tonite" from the Hong Kong Dub Station album. New Zealands' Fat Freddy's Drop brings us "This Room" from the acclaimed Based on a True Story CD. We wind down the show with South Africa's Lucky Dube in a thoughtful story "The Other Side" and close with Ziggy Marley's "One Good Spliff". Join us for next week's Episode 31, where we keep on dubbing the future styles of reggae, version and downtempo.

Greetings. This is DJ Chill Will, the host of the Dub Session podcast. This episode is a tribute to everyone who has sent Positive Vibrations to the Dub Session podcast. Since we started in August 2005, the audience has grown and we have enjoyed lots of feedback from all over the world. We're getting mail from listeners in Africa, Brazil, Europe, Asia and even China! I feel personally grateful for every one who has sent greetings and positive vibes via email to the show. As they say in Venezuela I'd like to thank "Los Amigos Invisibles" or my invisible friends. These are the people who took part in over 5000 downloads of the Dub Session in February, 2006. Whodat? I don't know. But thanks go out to all folks downloading and listening to the podcast. We are grateful, and in return we have mixed up a new show just for you - the Positive Vibration edition.

This week the Dub Session celebrates the 30th year anniversary of the production of the movie "Rockers!" In 1976, the movie was produced and released in 1977. At the time the movie was released, the Rockers were a group of musicians, DJs, producers and Toasters in Jamaica who were expanding the boundaries of music production and innovation. Often, a hit song would be released on an "A" side like Dennis Brown's "Revolution" or Jacob Miller's "Pamela", or the infamous "Under Mi Sleng Ting" ryddym. Typically, records were released as singles, and on the A side was a vocal version of a popular song, and on the B side was a "dub" version. These popular songs were played in the clubs, or Dancehalls in Jamaica, and then the B sides were played. These B-sides, or dub versions, became templates for reggae-rappers known in Jamaica as "DJs" or "Toasters" to show off their craft. This was the time for Toasters and DJs to shine and show off their stuff. These DJs were Big Youth, I-Roy, U-Roy, U-Brown, Dillinger, Al Capone etc to name a few. The "Rockers" movement in Jamaica from 1972 to 1979 provided the genesis of modern hip hop music production and toasting/rapping, from Kingstown to Brooklyn, Brixton and beyond. In the same way that King Tubby and The Scientist became famous for re-producing hit songs into dub classics like "King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown", their counterparts Africaa Bambaataa and Grand Master Flash in the later 1970s were mixing up the birth of hip hop with their production wizardry and dubplates for rap artists. Jamaican star DJs and Toasters inspired the birth of the rap movement in Brooklyn in the late 1970s where disco hits' B-sides were played, and rappers from different "crews" would battle for style points and popularity just like their Jamaican cousins did at the Dance Halls in Kingston and Negril. So, this week we celebrate the Rockers and put together a showcase of classic Rockers artists, albums and some new-steppers and Rockers from New Zealand, the UK, Jamaica and Austria.

This week Valentine's Day creeps up on us and submits us to an endless barrage of commercialism and lovey dovey awareness. For this Valentine's, you will find the Dub Session dubbing to the beat of a different drummer selection. It can be said that if you fall in love, your heart catches fire and burns. For Episode 27, the Dub Session aims to "Catch A Fire" and play songs related to this theme. So whether you wish to Catch a Fire as an ital correction, a Nyabinghi meditation, or via cupid's arrow, this station brings you the healing of the nation, with version.

February brings us a special Super Bowl Sundae edition of the Dub Session. This episode features sounds and songs of football to celebrate the world's biggest game and broadcast - the Super Bowl this Sunday, February 05th. DJ ChillWill has mixed up a special edition of champion sounds emphasizing the strong, tough, fit, bloody, hard-hitting and razor-sharp songs from the Dub Session reggae catalog to get you in the mood for Superbowl 26. This episode features a sweet-tooth treat mixing in three different versions of Ozomatli's incredible arrangement "Super Bowl Sundae" with a sittar, congo drums, mouth harp, DJ ColdCut on the Turntables, Charlie Tuna from Jurassic5 on vocals, and the fantastic horn section of Ozomatli. Are you ready for some football? Get ready for the thrill of the victory, and the agony of de-feet.

From the land of the longhorns and alligators comes the latest edition of the Dub Session, now broadcasting from Houston, TX. Episode 25 kicks off with a great intro/promo piece custom made for the Dub Session by Colin of Power Steppers and the Zion Train - thanks to Colin for the killer intro. Our 25th episode takes you around the world for some inter-continental dub grooves, starting in Europe with the Zion Train, Celestial's Hong Kong Dub Station, Alpha Blondy from Cote D'Ivore Africa with a French version of "Natural Mystic," The New Zealand's dub steppers Salmonella Dub with Platetonic and NZ's Black Seeds with TukTuk, Steel Pulse' Steppin' Out, Thievery Corporation's Richest Man in Babylon G-Corp Remix, Dub Syndicate with "Out and About", a DubMission2 Fila Brazillia remix of Black Uhuru's Chill Out, HeadCornerStone with Hot Like Fire, and finally Black Uhuru from the legendary Dub Factor LP with Boof N Baff N Biff. We wrap up episode 25 with a special promo spot for the PuffCast weekly reggae podcast from Seattle, WA by Dr. Puff - a great selection of new, podsafe artists, and original electronica remixes

Open Sesame, here comes Rasta La Vista man. Abracadabra catch me if you can. Steppin Out carries in the theme of Dub Session 24 - Keep On Movin! It's a new year, a new time kick things off right and get a move on. From the North To the South, in the East and in a Westward excursion, this station rules the nation with version. This is a Steppers special with shout outs to the Dodge City crew from the new Dub Session studios in Bayou country.

We're kicking off the New Year with the ground shaking sounds of the Djderidoo. Call up the ancient spirits. Mix up a martini. Dub Session episode 23 starts with a Didjeri 007 intro, a Killer Dub from Boozoo Bajou, and a French Double-Dub serving with the Troublemakers and Mad In Paris with GoGo Motion. Then we transport you to the 1970s for a "Rastafarian folk song, dedicated to the world's first hippie", from Cymande, along with some Wax Poetic, Drum n Bossa, Fila Brazillia, DnK, and the Dub n The Restless. This week also marks the 20th anniversary of the 1976 production of the reggae film Rockers, and we have a funky wah-wah title track to the score with Bunny Wailer singing the R-O-C-K-E-R-S Rockers! Finally we have some rare cuts from the BMW Exodus Deluxe release, with a Punky Reggae Party (long version), and an alternative version of Roots.

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For Thanksgiving week, Dub Session presents a special thanksgiving episode with songs of thanks and praises. Special thanks to DJ Dluxe for the Brazilretro mix, DJ Geno for the Space Dub Mix, and special shout out to Tedlox and MC Larz for guidance and assistance with the show. Thanks to listeners and web portals for the great emails and support, including JT Conducive, Dub dot com and the Zion Train's Dub Portal, and shout outs to the Poppa Fresh crew and the Tuna Pilot brethren. Thanks to the many podcast directories like Yahoo Podcasts, FeedBurner,Odeo, The Podcast Directory, Podcast News and many others for making the Dub Session podcast available through their outlets. Happy Thankgiving to all Dub Session friends and listeners.

Dub Session welcomes old-school roots reggae DJ D-Lux to the show for a stone cold groove of Brazilian roots and trip hop sounds. For nearly twenty years, DJ D-Lux has been both a DJ and student of Jamaican and Brazilian music. This mix blends Brazil's roots-funk protest music of the 70s with singer-songwriters of the 60s and mix masters of the present day for a unique, D-Lux sound. For more information, see the Dub Session DJ D-Lux interview and the show playlist.