Audio illusions of Dub!!    Aricd / lp 225

Mad Professor

1. Kalimba dub  

2. Slave trade  

3. Rasta Kaos  

4. Wari wari      

5. Mek a tell yo 

6. Fula girl   

7. Echo Delusion 

8. Miskito Dub 

9. Dry wood Dub 

10.On the Brink of feedback!

11. Kingston 1972

12. Hot Fever dub

13. Cool & easy Dub

14. Left Shot Dub

Illusions is a funny word!

Probably the most tricky word in the world of words.

Optical illusions make a thirsty man think there is water ahead

Too much mental illusions, and you will be described as schitzophrenic

One of the greatest effects slavery had on black people is racism..

Sometimes, just as the mirage, you see it, and as you get nearer it disappears.

Sometimes it’s the opposite. Everything appears normal, as you get to know the scene better, you realise some serious under current exists.

Described as a chip on the shoulder, by those who don’t experience it, As Bob sung, Who feels it, knows it!

Audio illusions of Dub encapsulates the mood of this strange form of music exhales.

In existence since the turn of the 1970’s when to satisfy the new breed of soundsystem talkers (Toasters, Mc’s etc), Jamaican producers and engineers took the part 2 ( version) idea as practiced by soul & R&B labels, a little further. These innovators (King Tubbys, Lee Perry, Niney, Bunny Lee, Errol Thompson)  and others reshaped the version, recolouring the sound and texture of the music by adding extreme doses of reverb and delays at certain points. 

This is Dub Music, an original form of Jamaican Music, priestly ignored in it’s original country, hijacked, distorted, re-titled as Dub step!!

In the beginning there was Dub!!!!

On last Wednesday I paid my second visit to the Lovers Rock Lounge in the West End of London, where I was thoroughly entertained!

Hosted by the evergreen Carroll Thompson, this night has been running for about a year now, and it's on the first Wednesday in every month, at Ruby lee, off Oxford Street. This evening had performances from Audrey Scott (lead singer of the Sadonians), singing her early eighties hit, "goodbye my love " and Joy Mack, another singer from the same era, who had the almost full venue singing all the words to her biggie "You had your chance, you silly so & so!"

The was also Omar, though not Lovers Rock, his hit "There's nothing like this" was adopted by the reggae masses, and by default of his Dad Byron, he is a descendant of the London reggae scene! As was expected, Omar was almost mobbed by female fans, who jostled each other to rub him up while he was singing, at one point he was rubbed simultaneously by two very hungry ladies, resulting in our hero screaming delightfully "Menage ala trois"!

This highly entertaining evening was filmed by colourtv, and can be viewed at www.colourtelly.tv, dj for the night was the comical President (Back to the future!) Kennedy!

I highly recommend this night. Next month, the first of 2009 will be held on January the 20th, and will also be a party to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obamba...So if you are not busy, I would reccomend this highly entertaining evening. 

Ariwa on Obama!!

November 6^th 2008 I am on flight AA66 American Airlines just arrived in London from Dallas / Hawaii. "Welcome to London!" Greeted the air stewardess, "I am please to tell you that we have a new president of the United States, Barrack Obama"!

It's hard to describe the feeling that engulfed my soul. Having spent the past 10 days on the East Coast of America, and the past week in Hawaii, I had read the signs. Though knowing Americans, I wasn't convinced that I was reading the correct signs. After all, this is a nation of people that has 2 faces, a public and a private face. The two white youths that picked me up in Buffalo were singing loud and proud Obama.

In Hawaii, where Obama spent much of his childhood, old shopkeepers, taxi drivers, were all quite open about who they were voting in.

The sad truth is that America's history of segregation and racial intolerance of the African descendants continued to have a negative effect on black people up to this day. Even beyond America, countries like Italy and Spain, continues to treat black people as if we are a species of lesser value!

To me, the greatest aspect of Obama's success is the fact that he is clearly out of the Marcus Garvey school of thought that recommended in the early 20^th century. Rules that were not taken very serious by many of Garveys' rivals.

It's only when we consider that Obama did not even compromise in the changing of his name, a move that many a black "revolutionary" made to make things easier for the system.

Can you imagine the teasing he would have got going to school in the US, the UK or even in the Caribbean!

We must all use this historical moment as an example, and a reminder that we are who we are. If the system don't like it, they will have to get use to it!

                           Mad Professor

.Ariwa is proud to present from the vaults!!

Ari 219a  Africa is Zion......Tony Benjamin

Ari 219b  Zion is dub...Mad Professor

Ari 220a   Nuclear Weapon....Johnny Clarke

Ari 220b  Jordan River....Mad Professor

Ari 221a  The Creator ..........Aisha

Ari 221b  Ffwd into Dub...Mad Professor

Ari 222a King Moses Dub......Joe Ariwa
Ari 222b King Moses Version.......Joe Ariwa

Ari 223a Mental Slavery (kunte kinte)........Arabingi (A.W Lafta)
Ari 223b Mental Dub..........Joe Ariwa

Ari 224a Because Of I Roots........Rasites
Ari 224b Because Of Dub.........Joe Ariwa

.Ariwa is proud to present from the vaults!!

Ari 219a  Africa is Zion......Tony Benjamin

Ari 219b  Zion is dub...Mad Professor

Ari 220a   Nuclear Weapon....Johnny Clarke

Ari 220b  Jordan River....Mad Professor

Ari 221a  The Creator ..........Aisha

Ari 221b  Ffwd into Dub...Mad Professor

Ari 222a King Moses Dub......Joe Ariwa
Ari 222b King Moses Version.......Joe Ariwa

Ari 223a Mental Slavery (kunte kinte)........Arabingi (A.W Lafta)
Ari 223b Mental Dub..........Joe Ariwa

Ari 224a Because Of I Roots........Rasites
Ari 224b Because Of Dub.........Joe Ariwa

Sitting on the Virgin flight from Chicago to London, looking at Richard Branson promoting his Virgin Atlantic baby, that’s no longer a baby, but a real adult competitor in the airline industry, a flash thought came into my head. How extreme it may have seemed for Virgin to make the move from what was "The secure profitable record business" in 1979, to The Dodgy airline industry. An industry that saw many airline investors losing millions of pounds, including the famous Freddie Laker, who created the model that Virgin copied.

Having just finished touring the USA for the past 4 weeks, Probably one of the best tours I have done in the USA.

Ably assisted by Kar Melody, part time Mc, technician, adviser, we travelled from a hot enthusiastic LA crowd, to a cold Breakenbridge mob, whom with the exception of 5 or so could have been at a David Bowie’s concert!

I reflected that anyone who knew me in 1979 would also find it very funny, and almost impossible to believe that I am on stage performing in front of an audience! Me! The shyest guy on the planet! How? Why? When did this happen?

Impossible, because 29 years ago starting a studio was a joke! More so, if you didn’t have £50,000, didn’t play an instrument, and only knew 1 musician, Dave Morgan! Who also worked in electronics.

Why should I leave my day job, paying a guaranteed £200.00 per week? ( A very good wage in 1979).

Sure I knew how to build and design amplifiers and mixing desks.

Lined up tape machines.

I even re-wired my house!

But what did I know about the strange creatures who woke up in the afternoon, smoked and drank excessively, and never had any money!

Most singers and musicians in 1979 lived for the dream. The dream that one day they will hit the Jackpot! Their songs will be heard by millions, and they will never be poor again.

Now nearly 30 years later, it is incredible how things have changed, well some things.

The point I was trying to make, why is it that an outsider can enter an industry totally alien to them, and make it work, the way Branson entered the record business, milked it, and knew when to leave!

Time for another career change? Why not? Well! I’ll try writing! Or gardening!

So, when you have a dream, and that dream is miles from your predictable expectations. Pursue it!!

You probably stand a good chance in changing the dreams into reality.

Ari 209  Country Living.....The Wild Bunch feat Sandra Cross c/w   Country Dub....Mad Prof & Robotiks..
Ari 210  Dread a who she love.......Macka B & Kofi...................Dread Dub
Ari 211  Baby I love you.....Susan Cadogan.................Dub you
Ari 212a  The African Warrior (Kunte Kinte)...........Aquizm
Ari 212b  African Warrior Dub  .. Mad Professor   Aquizm / mad professor
Ari 213a ITHIOPIAN QUEEN      The Rasites     Jahmel Ellison and Kashta Tafari
   Producer Bobby Digital
    Executive producer Eddie Brown
Ari 213b ONE WORLD  The Rasites   Jahmel Ellison and Kashta Tafari
   Producer Dean Fraser
    Executive producer Eddie Brown
Ari214a  Warrior Style (Kunte Kinte) .......Macka B / Mcfarlane  Ariwa Music    
 Ari214b Warrior Dub (Kunte Kinte)    Aquizm
Ari215a  Losing You  ............Susan Cadogan  Hart / Bell
Ari215b  Losing Dub..............Mad Prof & The Robotiks
Ari 216a   Prophecy…………Aisha  (Fabiene Miranda)
Ari 216b   Prophecy Dub…Mad Professor
Ari 217a   English Girl ….Audrey (A Donegan)
Ari 217b   English Dub Connection…Mad Professor
Ari 218a  True born African ….U-Roy and Sister Audrey (Beckford / Donegan)
Ari 218b  African Dub……..Mad Professor.....

February 2008..>>>>

On the last day of January this year, I got a message that Jayzik, one of our more poetic artists, was in hospital. I called her and had our last conversation together.
She had difficulties in speaking, and was on oxygen.
Apparently she had a collapse lung, and a partial working lung, from the cancer that incubated in her body in the past few years.
I was shocked!
After all, a week or so earlier, The Simple Poet was in an extremely good mood.
She had just opened her own restaurant Jazra, and was dressed to the nines while she entertained guests.
A week later, she died on January the 31st.

Jayzik was not just a poet.
She was a mum of 4.
A business woman
A cook
A seamstress
A singer
A philosopher
A friend
A Pan africanist.
More than most, she lived her dream.
Whilst thousands of others treated Rasta and Africa as a fashion accessory,
She turned it into reality, by settling down in Kolloli, Sene Gambia with her 2 young kids.
An article in the local Observer described her as a national hero.
Her song, Everyone loves the Gambia, has been used by the Gambian Tourist Board since 2005. 
Close friends and family immediately flew out as the news circulated around London.
Sylia tella, Levi Roots were amongst the mourners from the Uk reggae fraternity.
The funeral was a deep emotional affair.
Supported by a wide crossection of people, it reflected the diverse array of humans that were touched by Jayzik.
Afro Caribbeans, Lebanese, Gambians, Europeans, Ghanians, Nigerians were there.
The procession left from Luigis, passing Jazra, then the "Nu Whirld Compound" where she lived, before her resting place on the beach near Banjul.

The vibes was solem, compared with the previous nite when
we had a party and played mostly Bob and Jayzik's music and partied in the way that she requested.
As she requested, no one wore black.
It finished with her being buried by the sea, around 6:00pm.
Jayzik, rest in peace. It's just another journey.
Mp