DJ Wicz

Good fortune blessed me recently with access to a collection of 80's dancehall. I was able to grab some hard-to-find records over the course of a day of looking.

Two sought-after tunes are featured above, by the one White Mice and Burro Banton. I can't think of two voices in reggae much more different from one another than these two, White Mice lives in the vocal register of the small rodent he is named after, and Burro has a cavernous rockstone voice. See Beth Lesser's excellent recent book of photos from Jamaica in the 80's for some pictures of White Mice.

Summer's a good time for a pair of songs about, well, Young Gal Business, as Shaka puts it. I'm putting these up, especially Shabba's and Lovindeer's tune, as a cautionary tale to a certain friend who has recently met an overeager young woman. They also happen to be nice late 80's digi tunes built on heavy riddims (Mud Up in the case of Shaka). Woman a hunt!

Give thanks to Mush 1 at WNYU for putting me on the air recently to play some digital tunes. I got to play nineteen songs total and had fun. The show is archived here, WNYU.ORG, complete with playlist.

Here are a couple of 45's I brought to the show (only the Prophet got played) . . .

Guest radio appearance from the DKR crew features a wide range of music, including digi, some early Channel 1 roots, a small showcase of the new DKR Ch1 releases and of course roots reggae mixed in. Large up to the man Mu$h 1.

DigikillerRadioMarch2011 by DJ Wicz