Dr. John Campbell looking into antiviral properties of CBD.
CBD or cannabidiol is non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis.
Going from there he extrapolates that:
“There would be no pandemic” – if cannabis was legal and available worldwide.
Think about that.
Wu Tang Everything
Wu Tang Clan acapellas and King Tubby riddims were pioneer champion mashups choice by Macro Dubplates and staple of Jah Billah selection since way back when.
Seems there is Wu Tang everything prophecy coming true. We reported about Wu+Fugazi as Wugazi before, here comes:
Wu-Tang Clan x Led Zeppelin – The Wu-Tang Zeppelin
Wu-Tang Vs. The Beatles – Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers
Wu-Tang Clan vs ATCQ – A Clan Called Wu : Enter the Marauders
Wu-Tang Clan Vs. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Wu
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Meets Rhythm and Blues
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Meets Jazz
…And many more out there in digital wilderness including Wu Christmas mashups!
BONUS:
Wu-Tang Clan vs B.B. King – C.R.E.A.M
One of the most haunting remixes of all times with 85M views:
Wu-Tang Clan – Back In The Game – Phoniks Remix
Wu-Tang Clan vs Notorious B.I.G. – The Notorious Wu
BissoMaN – 50 Crucial Cuts Of Bob Marley
Strictly vinyl mix from main man BissoMan with 50 crucial cuts of Bob Marley.
Tracklist:
1. Judge Not (Beverley’s Records)
2. Love and Affection (CBS)
3. Simmer down (CBS)
4. One Love (Studio One)
5. Mellow Mood (Wail ‘n Soul ‘M)
6. Stir It Up (Island)
7. Rock My Boat (Upsetter)
8. No Water (Mcps)
9. Reaction (Upsetter)
10. It’s All Right (Mcps)
11. Sugar Sugar (Impact!)
12. Mr Chatter Box (Striker Lee)
13. Soul Shake Down Party (Upsetters)
14. Soul Captives (Imperial International)
15. African Herbman (Babylon)
16. Sun Is Shining (Island)
17. Concrete Jungle (Randy’s)
18. Mr Brown (Mcps)
19. Kaya (Babylon)
20. Gonna Get You (Wea)
21. Do It Twice (Fonit-Cetra Internatinal)
22. Lively Up Yourself (Mcps)
23. Bunin’ and Lootin’ (Island)
24. Rastaman Chant (Island)
25. Rebel Music (‘3 o’Clock Road Block) (Island)
26. Them Belly Full (Island)
27. No Woman No Cry (Island)
28. Jah Live (Tuff Gong)
29. War (Island)
30. I Shot The Sheriff (Island)
31. Punk Reggae Party (Island)
32. Guiltiness (Island)
33. Want More (Island)
34. Rastaman Live up (Tuff Gong)
35. One Drop (Island)
36. Jammin’ (Long Version) (Island)
37. So Much Trouble In The World (Tuff Gong)
38. Exodus (Island)
39. Easy Skanking (Island)
40. Ambush in the night (Island)
41. Time Will Tell (Island)
42. Natural Mystic (Island)
43. Redemption Song (Island)
44. Rat Race (Island)
45. Work (Island)
46. Coming From The Cold (Tuff Gong)
47. Pimper’s Paradise (Island)
48. Could Be Love (Island)
49. Buffalo Soldier (Tuff Gong)
50. Iron Lion Zion (Collection Series)
On word, sound and power!

Rastafarians have as common parlance the philosophy that word sound is power!
After the 1960s, one can identify the development of a fraternity of Rastafari faithful, taking their message into musical expression. In much the same way perhaps that the Psalms are constructed as sacred records of the ‘livity’ of the Old Testament patriarchs. The philosophy of the Movement moved to some extent (but not entirely) off the street corners, due partly to colonial repression and police brutality, into ‘the mixing lab-Oratory’ to create music that would teach the lessons of Redemption of the African.
Planno, in philosophizing to his students who would congregate in his yard in Trench town, West Kingston (including ones such as Don Drummond, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, Alton Ellis and Jimmy Cliff ) taught them to ‘tell out King Rasta doctrine around the whole world . . . Get your bible and read it, read it with understanding’ as his basic guide and teaching on liberating the individual. He would conduct his class room in the informal gatherings in his yard as together they built verses animating the experiences, ideals and aspirations of the Movement. The King James Bible consisting of its 66 books, the laws, Prophets, wisdom songs into the Revelation provided a source of reading, reasoning – analysis and interpretation. It was from this source that the Knowledge of liberation was to come, in particular from the Revelations in the Bible – revealing the identity of the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Sellassie I, the Power of the Trinity as the returned Messiah. Planno and a number of other brethren were to develop on the earliest teachings brought by the elders of the 1930s, a multifaceted cultural approach, and a network of over 60 bases in the west Kingston and the surrounding corporate area.
At these bases, the hitherto wayward – brothers in particular – became transformed, they could find hope, a receptive environment to mould and teach themselves about their identity, their history, the politics of the time, self-sufficiency and most importantly in the context of their survival how to develop a habit of industry – mostly focused on the development of self-employment ideas, and especially music that when it hit ‘yu feel no pain’. Music has been the product emanating from what has been described as the business of hardship resulting out of the Poverty Laboratory.
These bases provided vibrant centres for debates on life, philosophy, the politics of Jamaica and the globe especially as far as it affected the people of Africa, some centres even provided training in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia.
The community bases also provided shelter, humble though this may have been, where warm meals (often a one pot of porridge or ‘a sip’/soup) for all who came, books and newspapers, instruments, recording devices and of course the Wisdom Herb as sacrament to inspire the meditation and reasoning a way forward.
Soon west Kingston was to develop a reputation as a Mecca for musicians and scholars from all across Jamaica and surely enough became a fascination for researchers from around the world, the attraction being the Rastafarians and secondarily their cultural panacea – the emerging institution/industry of reggae music.
Excerpt from:
Jalani Niaah (2003) Poverty (lab) oratory: Rastafari and cultural studies, Cultural Studies.

On distant drums

We need to give proper consideration specifically to the Buru (or Burru) tradition as well.
Among the Buru drummers of the first half of the twentieth century was one outstanding and very influential musician who, like Babu Bryan, remains unknown to most Jamaicans, not to mention the rest of the world. The man I am referring to is Watta King. Not to be confused with the notorious West Kingston bad man Woppy King, nor with the Rastafarian patriarch known as Bongo Watto, who were two entirely different individuals, Watta King was a Buru master drummer of Kongo descent who migrated to West Kingston from Clarendon parish.
Although he made his living as a barber, and was not himself a Rasta, Watta gained renown as a drum-builder during the 1940s and 1950s – the very time that Rasta consciousness was beginning to gather force in West Kingston. During these formative years of the Rasta faith, Watta King was the owner of the most sought-after set of African-style drums in the area, and he and his fellow Buru players became the main drummers for the earliest grounations, or ceremonial gatherings, in the Rasta hotbeds of Salt Lane and Back-o-Wall.
It appears that Watta King represents the crucial link between the rural Buru tradition of St Catherine and Clarendon, and the nascent Nyabinghi tradition of West Kingston. His playing appears to have served as a model for many in the first generation of Rasta drummers, and his great influence can be traced through at least four important drummers of later years (and likely several others).
Baba Job (also known as Brother Job), who was to become Count Ossie‘s mentor, and Seeco Patterson, Bob Marley‘s percussionist who I mentioned earlier, both spoke to me of Watta King as their “teacher” – the man most responsible for their early development as drummers.
And Skully Simms, one of the most important session hand drummers from the 1970s on, told me in considerable detail about the influence Watta King had on him.
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Excerpt from:
Distant Drums: The Unsung Contribution of African-Jamaican Percussion to Popular Music at Home and Abroad
Author: KENNETH BILBY
Source: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, Pioneering Icons of Jamaican Popular Music, Part II (December 2010)

Murray Man – Walk & Talk
First release on Homegrown records in form of transparent 10″ vinyl now on pre-sale.
Featuring Murray Man vocal cut and Vanja O melodica cut followed by dubs.
All profits from physical 10″ release will be donated towards organisations and solidarity actions for human and animal rights!
Judah Eskender Tafari & McPullish – Journey
McPullish outta Texas releases 2015 “Journey” recording of late and great Judah Eskender Tafari featuring steppers anthem cut and fitting “niyacoustic” mix meditation mix in limited color sleeve 300 7″ vinyl.
From press release:
Judah Eskender Tafari’s musical journey began at Studio One (Jamaica) in 1978, voicing now-classic songs such as “Danger in Your Eyes,” “Rastafari Tell You,” “Jah Light,” “Always Trying” and many others. He worked with many producers and musicians over the course of his impressive music career.
In 2015 Judah traveled to Austin, TX to perform and work with McPullish at his Dubhaus studio. “Journey” is a co-production between these two friends that has stood the test of time and become a favorite, beginning or ending almost every McPullish live dub set in recent years. Judah was not only a great singer but a genuine and caring person who mentored McPullish and many others, always willing to share his musical knowledge and kind spirit with whoever he met. Judah Eskender Tafari passed away in 2020 and is greatly missed, celebrated by his many friends, family and fans.
In 2022 McPullish reached out to Dan I Locks (musician, producer and operator of Deng Deng Hi Fi in Sweden) to record Niyabinghi drums and percussion for a more acoustic version of the song which is featured as the B side.

Egoless – The Last Solitude
Brand new in Egoless sound The Last Solitude starts with epic 6 and half minutes post-techno drive trough whirlwind of deep emotions.
This is second EP from meastro this year as ongoing experiments in meeting place of modular and acoustic, analog and digital, man and culture carry on, with All the Shit Left Behind released in January.
More pronounced direction of free explorations of sound is welcomed presence of vocal harmonies.

On Rastas in Ghana

Reggae is not unlike “highlife,” the most popular form of Ghanaian music, which mixes both African and Caribbean influences and can be traced to the 1920s and 1930s.

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While the South African singer Lucky Dube pioneered reggae in places like Ghana during the 1970s, and still ranks as one of the most sought-after performers throughout contemporary Africa, other “imports,” such as Don Carlos, Jimmy Cliff, and Bob Marley, not forgetting more recent acts such as Black Uhuru, Steel Pulse, and Buju Banton, have emerged to create and define a certain ethos that, at least from one perspective, may be seen as “Rasta.”
In all likelihood, “Rasta” as a religious-cultural import influenced a few Ghanaian youth to practice Rastafarianism in the 1970s and 1980s. Its social message, often wrapped in musical garb, would have been appealing, for instance, to disenfranchised youth during those long years of economic mismanagement and domestic privation.
Reggae was, and remains, an important “Rasta fashion,” and so too is the general appearance of “the Rastaman,” particularly the dreadlocks, which seem to carry enormous appeal in Ghana. It seems highly likely that some of these early Rastas noted the similarity between the appearance of Rasta celebrities like Bob Marley, with his long matted hair, and traditional African fetish priests and, therefore, perceived Rastafarianism as an authentically African way of life.
Okomfo Anokye is worth noting here, as a truly legendary figure in Ghanaian religion and culture. According to Ashanti mythology, he established the Ashanti Kingdom by calling forth its sacred Golden Stool from the sky. In addition, Ashantis claim that one of the three palm nuts Anokye threw on the ground marks the spot that would later become Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti kingdom.
Furthermore, they link him to a legendary sword, observable today in a small room behind Kumasi’s Okomfo Anokye Hospital. According to Ashanti tradition, this sword was mysteriously placed at the exact spot where Okomfo Anoyke called forth the Golden Stool. Royal lore claims that the Ashanti dynasty will suffer unspeakable tragedies should the sword ever be removed.
Not only do Ashantis treat Okomfo Anoyke as their founder and protector, they hold him as one of their highest fetish priests, mysteriously born as a locksman with fully-grown, matted hair.
This arresting detail is not lost on current Ghanaian Rastafarians. While it is difficult to prove that early Ghanaian Rastafarians made any kind of solid connection between their faith and the figure of Okomfo Anokye, from my perspective, the link seems obvious. More than a few non-Rastafarian Ghanaians remarked to me that with the emergence of Rastafarianism among Ghanaian youth in the mid-to-late 1970s, fetish priests found a wider audience for their words and deeds.
Excerpt from:
AS IT IS IN ZION:SEEKING THE RASTAFARI IN GHANA,WEST AFRICA
Darren J. N. Middleton, Black Theology: An International Journal, 2006.


Dubmatix – ReWired
King Dubmatix coming in with brand new album out on Echo Beach label.
11 vocal tracks with plethora of riddim riders in all kinds of styles and shapes. Including lovely Blue Monday rendition by none other than Barry Ashworth outta Dub Pistols institution, alongside 3 closing dubwise instrumental tracks. This musical delivery sounds groovy, phat, bouncing and flowing in perfect blend of fresh forward roots and solid foundation future classics.
PRE-ORDER VINYL

On Biomusic
Science has been moving in complementary ways to art for centuries, including recently, with the introduction of biotechnology into the arts.
The mix of eastern/western and holistic/analytical-technocratic thinking contributed to a multi-angular approach to human nature.
The informatics that supports biotechnology became a craftsperson’s tool. According to Whitelaw, especially biotechnology involves technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture and cloning, while it produces results that are the source of inspiration for those occupied with the subject.
Bioart rather suggests that any future outcome for embodiment in the field of informatics should leave some space for the aesthetic processes of composition. The term bioart, an invention of artist Eduardo Kac for his work ‘Time Capsule’ in 1997, and its derivatives, such as biomusic, belong to what could be described as the next level of syncretic creativity. It is about a technoetic evolution, where the self comes to the forefront through generative arrangements and processes.
The self is shaped through new dimensions of consciousness.
Excerpt from:

Marshall Neeko – Various Artists – Swing Easy Riddim / General Penitentiary Riddim
Marshall Neeko opening up 2023 with already two riddim albums with various artists. This time reworking Swing Easy riddim and General Penitentiary riddim bringing back that late 90’s sound.