Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio Podcast
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe best in Jamaican and Caribbean music, talk, and humour from this vintage show.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Episode 34: 34 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Penis Too Sweet X Rated Juice Attack
August 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBAlerth Bedassee - Night Food Lord Lebby - Dr. Kinsey Alerth Bedasse - Big Boy and Teacher Lord Kitchener - Dr Kitch Jackie Opel - Push Wood Nora Dean - Barb Wire Maytals - Peeping Tom Lloyd Terrell - Birth Control Ethiopiaqns - Satan Gal Lloyd & Fay - Sex Grand National Charlie Ace and Fay - Punanny I-Roy - Welding Ranking Slackness (General Echo) - Lift Up Your Dress Fat Gal Welton Irie - Fishie Anniversary Leroy Smart - She Love It In The Morning Ringo - Two Lesbians Hitch...
Episode 33: 33 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Keep It Really Rockin’ Pon The Scene
June 18, 2022 00:00 - 2 hours - 166 MBCornell Campbell - The Gorgon / U-Roy - Gorgon Wise - Attack Revive 7” Johnny Clarke - Rock With Me Baby / King Tubby - A Crabbit Version - Attack 7” Chantells - Natty Supper / Dub - Phase 1 Revive 7” Glenroy Richards - Wicked Can’t Run Away + Dub - Pantomine 7” Revive Jah Stitch - Full Control - Third World 7” Culture - Stop The Fighting - High Note Revive 7” Jerry Morris - Nyah Nyah - Black Eagle 7” Prophets - Words of The Prophets + Dub - Vivian Jackson 7” Prince Heron - Maca Bee...
Episode 32: 32 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Heavy Barry, Malawi Mood, Ras Ringo and Hot Beverages
April 15, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBBarrington Levy - In Dis Time - 21 Girl Salute - Jah Life Lp Albert Malawi - Children of the Emperor - Ethiopia First - Stereo Style - Uprising 12” Johnny Ringo - Pancoot - Pancoot - Hit Bound Lp Sugar Minott - Is It True - Up Tempo 12” Louie Ranking - Typewriter - Ah Wah! - Shelly’s Lp Sugar Minott - Strictly Sensi - Buy off the Bar - Powerhouse Lp Michael Campbell - Gunman A Come - Channel One (USA) 7” Cocoa Tea - There Is a Voice - Corner Stone 7” Johnny Osbourne - Curly Locks ...
Episode 31: 31 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - 78rpm Caribbean Kaiso Cavalcade
January 23, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBTab Hunter - My Mother’s Eyes - Down Beat - 78rpm Shellac Count Owen - Fat Gal - Kalypso - 78rpm Shellac Count Owen - Kendal Duppy - Kalypso - 78rpm Shellac Lord Begginer - History of Carnival - Brunswick - 78rpm Shellac Alerth Bedasse - Big Boy and Teacher - Chin’s - 78rpm Shellac Lord Power with Trenton Spence Quartet - Let’s Do It - Hi-Lite - 78rpm Shellac Lord Power with Trenton Spence Quartet - Strip Tease - Hi-Lite - 78rpm Shellac Laurel Aitken - Wayward Traveller - Caribou - ...
Episode 30: 30 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Chicken Scratch - The Upsetting Special
November 13, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 140 MBLee Scratch Perry passed away a short while ago and rather than add to the plethora of tributes by so many much better qualified than I to honour him, I held off until now, when I felt I could no longer delay my addition to celebrating the incredible creativity of Jamaica’s most exotic producer and performer. There is something about his utilisation of his own life as an ongoing artistic installation of Words, Sounds and Power that became a major reason for my interest in Jamaican C...
Episode 29: 29 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Photographer meets Power House and Black Solidarity inna Podcast Showdown!
September 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBPhotographer one of my favourite labels of the Dancehall era, here exhibited alongside two other labels/production houses that I like very much to give you some of the vibes of an 80s - early 90s Dance. Artists like Early B, Josie Wales, Carl Meeks, Sugar Minott, Little John, Peter Metro, Michael Palmer…. Wheel… Hope you’re on a level.. and enjoy. Nuff Murderation Inna The Dance… Play it loud…. and Mash the Bass… Little John - What A Bubbling - Power House - Selector’s Choice C...
Episode 28: 28 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Lick Stick pon all Babylonians.
August 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBThere’s a lot of Babylonian business going on right here & right now funk soul brothers and sisters! Royal Ascot, thousands attend, Notting Hill Carnival not being allowed to happen? The streets are filled with football fans, the parks are filled with football fans during the Euros, throwing spit contaminated beer in the air all over each other. I didn’t really believe it, but I do now believe we are being hustled, and control is being exerted on us by BABYLONIAN forces for bullshit...
Episode 27: 27 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Skip and Flip and Dip your Hip!
June 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 81 MBSo.. there I am, alphabetising my collection . . . again, when it dawns on me.. just pick out the first 20 tunes you find that swing your thing and make you want to skip and flip and dip your hip (as I-Roy may have said)… Pure 7” Singles selection with some dubs and gwaaaannn… Play it loud!! 1. Dennis Brown - Ghetto Girl - Joe Gibbs 7” Single 2. Nicodemus - Eagle Feather - Jammy’s 7” Single 3. Joe Morgan - Basement Session - Bullwackie 7” Single 4. Junior Byles - Fever - Black A...
Episode 26: 26 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - 12” Of Disco Dynamite. Vol 2
April 11, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBWhen the music hits you feel no pain, and for a chaser tek set pon the dub wise, and the deejay, nothing expresses Jamaican musical culture as well as the 12” discomix. 12 inches of pure musical pleasure. The first outing of 12” Disco Dynamite was very successful and so, here’s another edition, chock full of nutty clusters of musical happiness. Play it loud!! 1. Barry Brown - One Way Lover & Dubwise - Tad’s 12” 2. Edi Fitzroy - Check You Once Girl + Roots Radics - Check Dis Yah Du...
Episode 29: BMD Archive 05 - BMD RR meets HOR Inna Buxted Station
April 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBThe 5th Archive Show, and back by popular demand, House of Reggae and Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio. A number of listeners who can recall the BMD RR and HOR shenanigans have been requesting that these shows are re-release, so here is the first for you. Not necessarily the first show we did together, but one of the earlier ones for sure. Enjoy.
Episode 28: BMD Archive 04 - The Greatest Tunes Eva Pt1
February 28, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBArchive of a show originally from 2009 Pt. 1 Reggae music for your listening pleasure
Episode 27: BMD Archive 03 - The Steve Barrow Special Part 2
February 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBInterview first recorded with Reggae researcher, writer, collector, compiler Steve Barrow who worked for Trojan, the label he ran Blood and Fire, Soul Jazz, and countless others. Steve has also been involved in Reggae artist interview projects and co wrote the Rough Guide To Reggae. This is part two of the interview conducted in his own London home in the mid to late 2000s. Steve travelled with and hosted Bunny Lee, Glen Brown and Jah Stitch, Deejayed with Ranking Joe and many others...
Episode 27: BMD Archive 02 - The Steve Barrow Special Part 1
February 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBThe BMD Archive - Part one of an Interview recorded with Reggae researcher, writer, collector, compiler Steve Barrow who worked for Trojan, the label he ran Blood and Fire, Soul Jazz, and countless others. Steve has also been involved in Reggae artist interview projects and co wrote the Rough Guide To Reggae. This is part two of the interview conducted in his own London home in the mid to late 2000s. Steve travelled with and hosted Bunny Lee, Glen Brown and Jah Stitch, Deejayed with ...
Episode 26: BMD Archive - 01 Super Star Roots Discomix Dub 2007
February 07, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBFirst in the retrospective publishing of past shows (I had lost them all and a listener recently provided copies of most of the shows) This episode was first 'Broadcast' - in 2006/7 as Super Star Roots Discomix Dub - a Johnnie Clarke Special - Continuous mix. The first in the upcoming re-publishing (by popular demand) of older shows from Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio. Hope you enjoy them (again) Mikey
Episode 25: 25 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Get on the SKA Train . . . pure 7”
January 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBMy personal belief is that there have been two eras of Jamaican music where above all energy has ruled the choices made, the sounds created and the vibes forthcoming, Ska and Ragga/Dancehall of the late 80s/early 90s. To me, Jackie Opel is full of the same energy and force as Cutty Ranks and it’s why Ska remains a firm favourite of mine .. Hope you enjoy this selection… 1. Baba Brooks - Independence Ska - Island 7” 2. Roland Alphonso - Freedom Sound - Revive C&N 7” 3. Roland Alphon...
Episode 24: 24 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - The Gorgon - A Tribute to Bunny Lee
December 10, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 180 MB24 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - The Gorgon - A Tribute to Bunny Lee Bunny Lee passed away on the 6th October this year of 2020. This show is offered in respect of I believe the greatest of all the Jamaican record producers. Not only did he virtually single handedly define the ‘Skinhead’ era of Early Reggae but he excelled in the era of the Golden age of Roots Reggae, a mission seemingly past the capabilities of Coxsone Dodd and Duke Reid, who only re-packed and re-dubbed their earl...
23 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Sir Coxsone’s Immortal Brentford Road Mystifications No1
October 01, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 165 MBThe fathoms you plunder the more you get, the more you realise. The harder they drop, the deeper they fall on the wheels of steel… the more you go back to olde ways, to the fathomless mystifying sound of the Brentford Road Posse the greater the epiphany. Coxsone was a Wizard of Time and Space. Foundations isn’t even the works, foundation stone, head corner stone, is just the first building block, but the house of Reggae is built upon and within the Earth and the soil, and the beating...
22 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Throw Mi Corn and Mashie My Toe
August 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBA show for people who love their Reggae. Hosted by Big and Littlemikey Dread. & Sent Straight to Trump’s Ego!! 1. Brentford Road All Stars- Throw Mi Corn 2. Horace Andy - Government Land / Government Dub 3. Cutty Ranks with Chase and Status - Retreat 2018 4. Cutty Ranks - Retreat Sound Boy 5. The Ragga Twins - Ragga Trip 6. The Heptones - Party Time 7. Tappa Zukie - Chalice to Chalice 8. Jah Stitch - Natty Dread Thing 9. John Holt - Man & Woman 10. The Crystalites - Musical Madness ...
21 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio Special - Spectacular Dub Show - ‘The Kingdom of . . . DUB - PART 2.
June 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBStraight to Facist & Racist’s Head! Dub is a Monster and it’s coming over the hill. Bass is it’s pounding footsteps. Hi Pass filtered HI-Hat .. it’s dripping and venomous fangs. The infinite echo returns, as it screams & searches out it’s next sonic victim. If you are a Racist, if you are a Facist, it’s gonna be YOU!! Join me, Mike Murphy as I explore the realm that is ‘The Kingdom of . . . DUB and mash down all Grudgeful People. B A B Y L O N (and all wicked men) S H A L...
20 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio Special - Spectacular Dub Show - ‘Rhythmyelitis’ - PART 1.
May 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBYou can’t control the Dub, Dub is the interplanetary ship on which we travel, the ship is a living being, it has a mind of it’s own. The Blackstar Liner’s engines are set to full power, on overdrive, turbo powah, fuelled by Bass. At light Speed, we’ll get there tomorrow, and we set off in two weeks time. Tickets may be purchased for free: Care Of’ - The Concious Ticket Office’, Marcus Garvey Drive, In the Kingdom of Emancipation, Ethiopia… We’re travelling straight to Cornovirus H...
Return Of The Super Ape
April 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBCome Back show. Re-uploading as I have further storage.
09 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Suedehead Sound Selection
April 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBback up for y'all.
06 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Jamaican Flava 78s
April 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBRe-uploading as more available storage now. 78 rpm records as played on the original earlier Jamaican Sound Systems.
04 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Ghosts Of The Caribbean - Mento, Calypso and Goombay
April 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBVintage sounds, from the collection - Now re-uploaded due to increased storage here at Podomatic.
03 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Dancehall Trawl
April 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 125 MBRecently re-uploaded for your listening pleasures. now that I have more storage available here at Podomatic.
02 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Im Not Dead
April 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBRe-uploading as I now have added storage space here at host Podomatic
19 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio Special - Lockdown aka ‘In these Times of Tribulation’.
April 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBIn these times of Future Past, where we are locked down, frozen moving forwards, or backwards, in stasis and wondering what will happen to us, I offer unto thee, in These Times Of Tribulation a selection of fine Reggae music for Lockdown Generation. So, place a virtual needle on the Record, step back, admire your surroundings, turn up the volume, adjust the bass. And, get ready to dance. You can contribute to Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio with a one off payment via Podomatic to Paypal,...
18 Comfort Food - A Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio Special - featuring Old Crackly 78s.
April 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBSo in these odd days, when we are being strongly reminded of our mortality, there is something, at least for me, comforting in listening to my old 78 records. I haven’t wanted to listen to much music since this all started, and today, when I finally switched on the Hi-Fi all I wanted to do was play some Crackly Old 78s. They remind me of home, even though I don’t know what or where home is anymore. I’ve tried to mix a flavour of what I like, moody Mambo, Rhythm and Blues in it’s ori...
17 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Up Tempo
March 14, 2020 15:20 - 2 hours - 165 MBA Collection of Tunes that could have got played, and are now... - Dedicated to Will, Ferdinand, Keith, Roy Hanney and Crew. Tracklist: Jah Lion - Columbia Collie - Black Art - Revive 7" Vivian Jones - Institutionalize Racism - Global Domination 7” Junior Murvin - Philistines On The Land - Black Art - Revive 7” Upsetters - Bingo Kid - Black Art - Revive 7” Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves - Island 7” Jah Lion - Soldier and Police War - Island 7” Jah Walton - Stay A Yard and Prai...
16 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - 12” Of Disco Dynamite.
February 02, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 192 MBAnyone who loves Reggae will love the extended mixes that came with the invention of the 12” single, built for remixes and versioning and with the deeper and wider grooves for a heavier BASS they are an ideal way to showcase riddims, the song, the deejay cut and the dub. Here are some of my favourites, without chat, (we chatted so much on the last show), I hope you like the tuneage as much as I do; the show includes the Shaka show stopper Jahovia, an excursion into dub versioning tha...
15 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Russ Disciple meets Bigmikeydread Inna Bexhill Old Town Basement Session
December 28, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 236 MBMr. Russ Bell-Brown aka Russ Disciples, of the Disciples, UK Roots and Dub Producer, shares some of his favourite signpost tunes with Bigmikey on a whopping three hour + Basement Session recorded before and during the Christmas period 2019. There are some truly classic tunes on the show and too much to get your teeth into. Russ chats about favourite tunes, production and his musical influences and musical loves in general. A must for all Roots lovers and budding Reggae producers who...
14 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - A Right Old Hotch Potch
November 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBI’ve been listening to this, and I’ve been listening to that, I’ve been putting those tunes to one side and this is them.. enjoy your meal. 1. Tony Mahoney - False Preacher / Burn False Preacher 7” Single 2. Pachyman - Flash The Rhythm - Pachyman In Dub Lp 3. Ken Parker - It’s True - Dragon 7” Single 4. Dennis Brown / Big Youth - Equal Rights + Version - Lightening 12” Single 5. Pat Kelly - How Long - From Both Sides Lp 6. Chantells - Baby Don’t Leave Me - Phase One Waiting I...
13 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Meanwhile In Jamaica - 4 The Easy Way
October 18, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 125 MBWhen Marley and his post Wailing Wailers was swingin’ his thing in the USA and Europe, Jamaica was listening to Messrs. Isaacs, Clarke, Brown & Campbell. In an effort to right the balance, here’s some good olde worlde tunes from these 4 luminaries of the Jamaican pop music scene. Gregory Issacs - Thief A Man - 7” Single Dennis Brown - Tenement Yard - 7” Single Johnny Clarke - Peace In The Ghetto - 7” Single Cornell Campbell - Wherever I Lay My Hat - 7” Single Gregory Isaacs - Uncl...
12 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Next ‘Nuff Selection In Your Direction
September 01, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBa right ole hotch potch of poorly considered bad choices, .. nah not really.. Listen and you will hear a veritable musical genius at work... This show contains tunes by Pablove Black, Dennis Brown, The disciples, Barry Brown, Jerry Morris, Ken Boothe, Rico Rodriguez and many more. Yabby You and the Prophets - Conquering Lion + Dub - 7” Single L. Bennett and Jah Berry - Captivity - Discomix 12” Jim Brown - In Tine - 7” Single The Diciples - Return To Addis Ababa - 12” Glen Brown & ...
11 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - The I've just moved and made a totally random selection oif tunes - Show
August 01, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 200 MBWhole leap a good music to hear, whole leap a dance music to jump and prance, whole heap of good tunes to nice up your party and free up your mind.. Well over 2 hours of great music and frankly woeful commentary to get you through your daily commute, the lunchtime break at work, your kids birthday party or a tedious trip to the inlaws house one weekend... Michael Palmer - Can’t Take the Fuss aka Run Around Woman - Greensleeves 12” Barrington Levy - Come On - Greensleeves 12” Scien...
10 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Deejay Come To Play
May 12, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 117 MB10 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Deejay Come To Play, Yowser yowser yowser as Frank Zappa would’a say.. please find herein some right nice Deejay tunes, for I love up the toasting and I hope you do too, it has a way of bring the dance into your home, so draw your brakes, see how much pressure your house of joy will take, and lick up one spliff and two Heineken my friend.. it’s the Big Mikey Dread Reggae Radio extravaganjah. Buckers - Sugar & Spice - Deb - Dj Tracking Lp Prince Far-I...
08 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Rootsman Selection No2
February 20, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 141 MB08 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Rootsman Selection No2, all taken from 7” Single. (and one Lp Track). Join me while I check some nice nice Roots from Singles, niceness pure. 1. Joe Higgs - Let Us Do Something - Elevation 7” Revival Single 2. Higgs Gallery - Instrumental (Let Us Do Something) - Elevation 7” Revival Single 3. Palmers Brothers - Step It Out Of Babylon - Hawkeye 7” Revival Single 4. Karl Bryan - 2K Strut - Studio one Roots 2 - Soul Jazz Lp 5. Richie Spice - Earth A Run...
07 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Rootsman Selection No1
January 16, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBBigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Rootsman Selection No1, all taken from Lp. (and one 7” single), join me while I check some nice nice Roots from Lps, nice. Shalom with Rhythm and Sound - We’ve Been Troddin’ - taken from Lp - Rhythm & Sound w/ the artists. Sam Brainwell (sic Bramwell) - It A Go Dread Ina Babylon - taken from 7” single - on the Revolutionary Sounds label. Michael Prophet - Warn Them - taken from the Lp - Serious Reasoning The Cimarons - Wake Up Jah-Man-Can - taken from t...
05 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio - Fast Reggae
October 29, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 99.6 MBBeing the 5th episode of the 2018 season, whereupon Big Mikey features some favourites of the 'fast reggae' genre, otherwise, and quite probably known to many as Skinhead Reggae.. 1. Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - Soul For Sale - Soul Shot - Revive 7” Single 2. Viceroys - Tek Your Hands From Mi Neck - Matador - Blank 7” Single 3. Junior Soul - The Hustler - Crystal Records - Revive - 7” Single 4. The Little Roys - Bongonyah - Camel - 7” Single 5. Max Romeo - Wine Her Goosie - Un...
04 BigMikeyDread Reggae Radio - Ghosts Of The Caribbean, Mento and Calypso Show
October 03, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBDeep in the Caribbean, the radio waves brush over quiet Islands, nursing them with sound... come with me to a land that time forgot and the music that blanketed those lands.. the Mento and Calypso and Goombay of the 1950s and 60s. Come with me, Beyond The Reef. Warning, this episode contains the word penis on multiple occasions. 1. Monty Reynold’s and his Silver Seas Orchestra - Car Park - MRS 10” Lp - Series 5 All Jamaican Calypsos 2. Mighty Sparrow - Going Home Tonight - National Recor...
02 Big MikeyDread Reggae Radio - Im Not Dead
August 04, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBThe second show in the 'comeback' series, prepared with love, cooked on gas, served on silver.. Tracks were as follows, I-Roy - Buck and the Preacher - Ackee 7" Single Larkin Shaw - Stop The War - Jah Christo's 7" Single Well Pleased and Satisfied + Unknown DJ - Barberman Bawling / Version - Trojan 7" Single Trevor Byfield - Burning Bush - 7" Rootical Dubber Single Carl Meeks - Haul and Pull Up Selector - Photographer 7" Single Burning Spear - Foggy Road - Coxsone 7" Single Ethiopians - Ho...
01 Big MikeyDread Reggae Radio - Return of the Super Ape (Come Back Show)
July 17, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 101 MB1 Johnny Osbourne + Papa Tullo - Rock and Come In Yah : Black Joy 12" 2 Dean Stone and the Naggo All Stars - Mighty & Dreadful : Third World 12" 3 The Techniques - You Don't Care : Treasure Isle (UK) 7" 4 The Versatiles - Children Get Ready : Crab 7" 5 Tab Smith & Orchestra - My Mother's Eyes : Ja. Downbeat 78rpm 6 Little John + Billy Boyo - What You Want To Be & Disc Jockey : Rusty's International (Revive) 12" 7 The Ticklers - Glamour Gal - Melodisc 78rpm 8 Lloyd Robinson - Cuss Cuss : Duke...