Manwel Tabone’s Reggae Club radio show
A few years ago at RIT I went dub crazy and spent a few weeks collecting as much as I could from streaming radio shows and the internet in general. While trying to track down some High Tone tracks, I found Reggae Club. Reggae Club was a radio show broadcast on Radio Malta from 1989 to 2005. Manwel Tabone put it together, and let me tell you, that man has exquisite taste in dub. I was hooked immediately.
Fortunately for us dub fans, Tabone has uploaded 87 of his hour-long shows in MP3 format with track listings. You can find them in the “Audio” section of the show’s website. Unfortunately, the recordings are only 16kbps. They sound a bit poor as you’d expect, but they only weigh in at around 7MiB apiece. I emailed Manwel to express my gratitude for his efforts and to ask about higher-quality recordings of his past shows. It turns out that none exist.
Most shows are a nice mix of roots reggae and dub. There are some dancehall tunes too. He’s even uploaded some tribute shows including a bunch with a Bob Marley theme.
I just got finished listening to show #674 which features “Finger on the Pulse” from The Dub Revolutionaries, a collaboration between Sly and Robbie and The Mad Professor. This track has a hot little sax line in it. So hot, in fact, that I had to go dig out my burned copy and listen to the whole thing!
