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JANUARY PLAY LIST

1. JUNIOR KELLY - RASTA SHOULD BE DEEPER
2. RICKY RANKING - HEAL YOUR MIND
3. REBEL MC - STREET TUFF
4. RICKY RANKING - SPACE SHIP
5. EPMD - WATCH YOU SAYING
6. RICKY RANKING - SOON BE OVER
7. TY- CLOSER
8. PROFESSOR GREEN - CRYING GAME
9. KLASHNEKOFF - SOON COME
10. JME - OVER ME
11. RICK ROSS - HUSSLING
12. LONDON POSSE - MONEY MAD
13. LEX - DEM A PREE
14. LADY LESHURR - DIVA GETTING MONEY
15. RAKIM- HOLY ARE YOU
16. RAKIM- PHYCIC LOVE
17. ROOTS MANUVA - REBUFF
18. DADDY KOPE - KOPE MEETS IQPRODUCTION
19. ROOTS MANUVA - WORL A MINE
20. AMOS - SHOTTAS LAW

DUB CULTURE AT THE DUB COLLEGE

To whom ever should find it interesting.

In the name of audio empowerment i scribble these lines in celebration of Dub influenced musical advance. Might i spare you all of the long talk and let the music speak the deeper truths...... no because i'm feeling emotional in a truly content way might i add. Pigeon holes and genre alignments, tribe, gang marketing speak and media manipulation will forever have us fussing and fighting to the point where we can not remember what the hell the problem was in the first place.

As an active solo recording artist it was always my plan to build a circus around my art form. I'm a communal animal and traveling to the world singing for my supper on my jack jones was never going to work. Hiring session musician is a swear word in my mind, i like to think of the people i ask to be my touring party as an exclusive creative sparring entity in itself.

So it was only natural to give the gang a name. Banana Klan was born in 2001 a loose collective of primarily Roots Manuva, Ricky Ranking and Gordon G. The first recording was a Cover version of "yellow submarine" by the Beatles and it went down like a submarine. The response from radio and club was the familiar zero play... once a again i was back in zone of "that dude don't fit in." Weird that you may think, this was a year after "Witness" and i must stress that "Witness" may have grown to be a much remembered song but the Chart actuality was not top forty or any where near it. "Witness" stuck out like a sore thumb in radio and video land and was never designed for more than my immediate audience who frequented the underground and alternative Hip Hop events of the Uk and Europe.

In light of this i put my hand on my heart when i say i did not give a shit about radio play or playing in what is more tailored towards the pallet of middle Briton. And so the frosted

reactions from my peers veered from "dude your brave" and "shit man you can get away with anything" to "Roots.... you've gone too far" we're nothing new to me. And yes i went to the outer limits to find a direction and reconnect with calling that first called me to music: exploration, meditation and self definition.

Putting out records is risky to say the least especially if you expect to make your investment back quickly. I suppose i've made risk my motif. Banana klan home of the industry rejects and misfits. I had to get used to it quick. From the early days i was too hip hop for the reggae crowd and too reggae for the hip hop purist. But all in all i just keep it natural to instinct. Now please do get me wrong i ventured into music to make money. I worked for years as a community studio assistant engineers. Through this access to studio equipment and regular contact with local aspiring creatives i had first hand experience of studio magic. Anyway all i'm saying is even if mainstream radio don't back us or give us merely token exposure the klan remit remains as firm as ever: Rebel music central. No we are not anti - bling of anti pop we are pop. It has been an Eight year Journey just till now and the building continues out of necessity.

"A yellow submarine for fuck sake" Banana klan the name you can trust for not toeing the line.

The remit here is anti- label. Just as you decide we are of one dimension more dimensions reveal them selves within the body of our rally cry.

Such is the nature of releasing recordings i thrive off the risk factor. Poor reactions still can't stop the Banana vessel sailing the dicey waters of babylon as in all that serves as distraction in us the underclass finding something positive to do with our frustrations. Gordon g is Banana klan's first A an R and management consultant. Ricky Ranking is the first general and Culture mentor. Since then Banana klan has grown as a creative development platform for all manner of like minded creatives from Hip- hop to punk, folk and reggae.

Shrouded in mystery our recruitment policy is real simply. What can you do for us? Never call us... we do the calling. In it's first tangible fabric the Roots Manuva live touring band is it's most public body but there is more to the entity than the Mc/producer/founder Rodney Hylton Smith. Behind the scenes Gordon G, Ricky Ranking and myself are gathering personnel for all manner of multi media rebellion.

I'll make a formal introduction to the rest of the crew another but in the mean time you can check our exploits here http://soundcloud.com/banana-klan

Two captain of procedure are pictured below:

Gordon G.

Ricky Ranking

We run this audio facility in love, peace and decency. We are here to connect the dots from all Uk Black conditions of adjustment. Music first business later... soon come. The story unfolds at a varied speed. Rebellion via the application of Dub current past, present and future.

Mutant in outlook: struggle recognise struggle.

We aim to cross pollinate through age, race class, sex, sexual orientation and any other man made boundary that the machine puts in our way.

There was no Choice Fm, 1Xtra or Mtv Base when i was growing up. Black music was hard to come by. Audio Cassette tape was the medium used to capture the playlist of the Black Majority music events. It is this sonic tradition that the creative entity banana klan push via the means of podcast, mixtape and 7" etc.

Dub College by definition is the gel that binds the unspoken about or hard to link from Jah Shaka to Kool Dj Herc to Soul II soul to London Posse to Ragga Twins to Roni Size to So Solid crew and all the between. Dub and a lot of the afore mention seemingly have little connection but the truth is if you can picture the sonic soundscape of UK music without Dub or the effect of Jamaican influenced recording technics there would be pop, rock, jazz, gospel, folk and classical and little else. The Dub in my mind is the essence of audio mutation that strips elements from all these forms and birthed new adjustment in sound exploration.

I love music, music pays my bills with Banana klan i give back with Dub college i announce the intention of mystic gathered learning, reason and celebration.

Roderic Manuva

Banana klan Founder.

STREET VIBES:

photo: paz@studiofantastic

To my dudes and dudettes...

Might i take this opportunity to convey this Klandestiny concept.

The extent of mutant ragga hip hop dialog. Banana Klan the trade mark you can trust to tread

the untypical water of British Black adjustment. Anti- label ....the records are a small part of

an intricate tapestry of coded slang slinging, a Modern day tribe of digital rebellion.

In dub we trust.

DUB compilation records by scientist and king tubby have fueled my love for music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist_(musician)

. I've been listening to these record since before i can remember.

The sleeve designs and the sonic journey provided me with an escape from south london's perpetual hussle and bussle. At nine years old the pop chart and british television hardly gave black culture any light but the light that shun from these recordings are the foundation for so much black thought that has touch people of all greed worldwide. This meditative ceremony is deeper than genre, this is the poor peoples bbc/cnn. The modern day shackle of the system will torment us till we drop dead. Dub will help you free yourself and indeed be yourself.

I attach my Test Tape: Klandestiny series one:

Klandestiny podcast/promo tape by Banana Klan

KLAN ON THE BANG, BANG!!

Photo Machine and dj jawa
Dj Jawa

Strange love and Kevin Turbalance

Hash, Amaziree, Roots Manuva and Ricky Ranking back stage at kokos.

The ever morphing digital tussle of Dub influenced base music continues. Much to celebrate here at Klan Hq- where ever that is. Came across some vintage epk and ghetto clip footage from way back. Not sure why it was not revealed till now but sooner better later felt like a nice surprise and a good focus nudge as to not getting bogged down in the super speedy nature of digital disposables.

Dub College (part two) went down pretty nicely at the BookClub, Roots Manuva at KoKo Re: camden crawl was a Major break through for the present new Banana klan members. Not wishing to ram it down your throat but the klan spread like a virus, you may not see it coming but that which it claims shall feel the wrath of Dub Mutation.

And the proceedings continue the all new Roots Manuva live entity the Banana Skins Bashment ensemble will be in force at the events below:

29/05/10		Roots Manuva @ Eco Fayre. Buy Tickets Here Bristol Eco Fayre (Venue TBC)		UK
26/06/10		Roots Manuva, Live. Buy Tickets Here Vilnius Be2gether Festival		Lithuania
16/07/10		Roots Manuva, Live. Buy Tickets Here Tokaj Hegyalja Festival @ �12K		Hungary
31/07/10		Roots Manuva, Live Moscow Afisha Picnic @ Kolomenskoye Park		Russian Federation
7/08/10		Roots Manuva, Live. Buy Tickets Here Ledbury Big Chill Festival @ Eastnor Castle Deer Park		UK
13/08/10		Roots Manuva, Live. Buy Tickets Here Leicester Summer Sundae Weekender @ De Montfort Hall and Gardens		UK
19/08/10		Roots Manuva, Live. Buy Tickets Here hradec kralove Hip Hop Kemp		Czech Republic
28/08/10		Roots Manuva, Live. Buy Tickets Here Leeds Leeds Festival		UK
3/09/10		Roots Manuva, Live. Buy Tickets Here Pula Outlook Festival		Croatia

01 Dub college volume 1: Ricky Ranking Mix Tape by Banana Klan

DUB COLLEGE VOLUME1:

The long awaited Ricky Ranking Mix Tape. Yes there will be hard copies made available at the Banana klan stall thebookclub 23 April. Make sure you get yours,

1. 1 eye deh a my knee produced by ricky ranking and andy gibbs
2. kingdom rise produced by gordon g and tubbs
3. audio murder produced by roots manuva
4. yoot man produced by ricky ranking and merlin
5. losing you produced by mikey chin taurus
6. flip ya lid produced by dj ease
7. skit (daddy freddy) skit daddy freddy
8. ranking moves produced by shurus and aj from border croosing
9. heal your mind produced by lotek hifi
10. now 195lb produced by dj ease
11. trick i produced by roots manuva and gabriel cornish
12. ghetto things produced by border crossings
13. yoot man produced by gordon g
14. blaze it produced by shurus and aj
15. skit(daddy freddy) skit daddy freddy
16. stay away from them produced by greensleeve
17. skit ricky skit ricky ranking
18. you are my world produced by mikey chin
19. murder we produced by the bug
20. city of love produced by border crossing
21. skit produced by lotek hifi
22. my world dub produced by king tubbys hifi riddim
23. banana skins produced by gabriel cornish
24. ricky outro produced by ricky ranking

Klan BANANZA:

Grey sky's are never an issue once you GO BANANAS:

We have limited edition stock to go, the banana stall will be full of goodies.

Bargain prices this 12'' comes free with these £5.99 sun glasses.