Go Bananas

By the power of the seven inch promo pre release

2011-02-18T20:30:00.000-08:00

Still available order now from bananaklan75@gmail.com or from http://www.suspect-packages.com/artists/a-f/BANANA_KLAN.php

Dolly Bit by hyltonrodney

JANUARY PLAY LIST

2011-01-05T22:13:00.000-08:00

JUNIOR KELLY - RASTA SHOULD BE DEEPER
RICKY RANKING - HEAL YOUR MIND
REBEL MC - STREET TUFF
RICKY RANKING - SPACE SHIP
EPMD - WATCH YOU SAYING
RICKY RANKING - SOON BE OVER
TY- CLOSER
PROFESSOR GREEN - CRYING GAME
KLASHNEKOFF - SOON COME
JME - OVER ME
RICK ROSS - HUSSLING
LONDON POSSE - MONEY MAD
LEX - DEM A PREE
LADY LESHURR - DIVA GETTING MONEY
RAKIM- HOLY ARE YOU
RAKIM- PHYCIC LOVE
ROOTS MANUVA - REBUFF
DADDY KOPE - KOPE MEETS IQPRODUCTION
ROOTS MANUVA - WORL A MINE
AMOS - SHOTTAS LAW

DUB CULTURE AT THE DUB COLLEGE

2010-07-20T00:19:00.000-07:00

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:

2010-05-28T15:42:00.000-07:00

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!!

2010-05-09T04:18:00.000-07:00

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:

2010-04-16T08:57:00.001-07:00

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 eye deh a my knee produced by ricky ranking and andy gibbs
kingdom rise produced by gordon g and tubbs
audio murder produced by roots manuva
yoot man produced by ricky ranking and merlin
losing you produced by mikey chin taurus
flip ya lid produced by dj ease
skit (daddy freddy) skit daddy freddy
ranking moves produced by shurus and aj from border croosing
heal your mind produced by lotek hifi
now 195lb produced by dj ease
trick i produced by roots manuva and gabriel cornish
ghetto things produced by border crossings
yoot man produced by gordon g
blaze it produced by shurus and aj
skit(daddy freddy) skit daddy freddy
stay away from them produced by greensleeve
skit ricky skit ricky ranking
you are my world produced by mikey chin
murder we produced by the bug
city of love produced by border crossing
skit produced by lotek hifi
my world dub produced by king tubbys hifi riddim
banana skins produced by gabriel cornish
ricky outro produced by ricky ranking

Klan BANANZA:

2010-04-13T14:08:00.000-07:00

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.

DUB COLLEGE

2010-04-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

Back in the Bookclub team Banana continue the obsession with Bass Culture. The all new Roots Manuva backing band will be rocking brand new material with splashes of the usual Roots Manuva live repertoire. Them in the know that have been checking the podcasts http://soundcloud.com/banana-klan and present stream of Banana digital leakage will be pleased to know that remit is standard backyard niceness.

The extended front room of the Banana klan Multi media collaboration:

Close contact with the personnel behind the Roots Manuva (live) machine. Ricky Ranking has prepared an exclusive laptop session. Dj MK will be holding centre court with some extra curricular Dub wise ping pong. Mk's knowledge of the music is second to none, his record stash is 20,000 plus records deep. Brought to the Bookclub to demonstrate that there is more to Dub than meets the ear.

Dudes this will be an Edutainment of the highest pleasure principality. This has been carefully planned by Roots Manuva himself and although Bananaklan is a multi voiced collective this event is Roots Manuva's baby. In the essence of Manuva's sonic projections you can expect a celebration of defiant Uk Black adjustment.

Expect to hear lots of lesser heard music from the full span of bass cultures gullet.

Lots of goodies available for extremely reasonable prices. My lords and ladies i bid you ONE DUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!, in the name of Banana klan may we stick up the middle finger and celebrate our heroes past, present and future.

Banana Stall:

2010-03-30T00:15:00.000-07:00

Exclusive banana stall at the next dub college: seven inches, mix tapes, t-shirts, dvd's and cheap ananas on sale.

Worries in the Dance

2010-03-18T10:48:00.000-07:00

The on going banana movement are back in the trench with some Dub overstanding. Back in our spiritual home the BOOKCLUB 23 april 2010. Standard residents in action:

Dj Jawa

Ricky Ranking (special lap top set)

Ollie B

Amaziree

Gordon G

Turbulence

Strange luv

Photo machine

Morrison Ford

The Bpm

Diabilo

and more will be ready for service. Special super star Dj MK will be conducting an in depth dub

study. Rumor has it there will be a free mixtape for the first 50 paying customers.

BANANAKLAN PODCAST: 5 march 2010

2010-03-08T09:20:00.000-08:00

Bananapod2 by Banana Klan

http://soundcloud.com/banana-klan/bananapod2

Fresh to death podcast action from DJ Jawa and Photomachine. Resident Dj's from the GO Bananas: Dub College event concept. Recorded at Alaska Studios by Bob Earland. Supervised by Lucy Pink from Diesel U Music.

DJ Jawa setlist

Mj Cole - Sincere nero remix prolific record

Simian Mobile Disco- Cruel intentions Joker Remix Giant Pussy Records

Dead Letter -Drop white label

Chest Plate - Menance

Skream -Kinky Ringo Recording

Hatcher V Lose- kreeping

Stanton Warrior -know How -A good vibration

Nick Thayer, Will Styles -Bomb Strikes

Rude Kids -Jack Daniels EP Beat Crawler

Freak 2 of Nature- Hexagon This is London

Steak House -Hype up Mc Zulu Monkey Steak

Photo Machine Set List

Doc Daneeka - Drums In The Deep - Original Mix

Redlight - Stupid (instrumental)

Zinc - Music Makers

Skunk Anansie - Selling Jesus (Riva Starr Vocal Mix)

Roska - Wonderful Day - Original Roska Mix

SonicC -Stickin'

Octa Push - Doctor Bayard - Original Mix

Joker - Tron

Untold - Bad Girls - Original Mix

PhOtOmaCHIne - Nite Fevr

Claude VonStroke -Big N Chords

Delphic - Halcyon (L-Vis 1990 Dub)

Martyn - Friedrichstrasse - Original Mix

PhOtOmaCHIne - Bass Odyssey (demo)

2010-02-23T12:57:00.000-08:00

The banana digital pipe is ready to flood the airwaves with pure uncut audio liquid.

Go Bananas: Scenes from the Event

2010-01-29T11:23:00.000-08:00

Tis with much pleasure the klan lords and ladies par took in Dub wise celebrations on the launch of the this multi action night of live dub mutation: Roots Manuva on the heels of a major successful Birthday Ball the Banana klan Ball has brained the GO BANANAS event concept.

This night will be home to the ever growing Banana Klan recording entourage:

Ricky Ranking

Ollie B

Daddy Kope

Gibbs King

Amaziree

Dawn Penn

Roots Manuva

Diabilo

Morrisin Ford

the bPm

Gordon G

Photo machine : Dean B

The Antipodes: Crew Banana in Transit

2010-01-27T13:26:00.000-08:00

Banana mission kicked off year end 2009 in New Zealand. First time back to the Antipodes in nearly six years. Team Banana: Ricky Ranking, Gibbs King, Jimmy Screech, Sophie A. Theo (wagga man) Gordon and Roots Manuva in Dub wise action kicking off at the Rhythm and Vines festival in Gisborne 29 december.

An amazing site for quite a special event.

Dolly Anna: Jimmy Screech

2010-01-27T12:28:00.001-08:00

�by� Jimmy Screeh Song Dolly Anna featuring Roots Manuva

For all my vinyl crew there will be a super limited run of Banana klan 7"s of the this track.

The launch of Go Bananas the Banana klan club residency

kicked off in proper mutant bashment style. Two floors of none stop action.

The Banana Klan collective go from the strength to strength. Simply Bananas. Much Bass, much skanking

and edutainment.

Go Bananas

2010-01-04T14:09:00.000-08:00

dub college :: essays in evolution

22nd January 2010

The BookClub

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100 Leonard Street
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9pm - 2am

Further more to the Dub Mutation of our times THE BANANA KLAN ENTOURAGE convene for the purpose extensive skank worthy actuality.

Hosted by ROOTS MANUVA and the BANANA SKINS BASHMENT ENSEMBLE

giving you live dub mutation and Heavy poetry.

Live set from
DAWN PENN

Riddim Selection''

the bPm

(Soul Jazz // Brownswood)

DOOR TAX £7

Brand new bananas

2009-12-17T11:14:00.000-08:00

THE EVER EVOLVING RELEASE PATTERNS OF THE ANTI LABEL ....

.... EVER FERMENTING

Dub wise thursday

2009-12-17T10:45:00.000-08:00

Greetings in the name of dub.

Much activity at the KLan Hq today.

The Alaska Studio office office doubled up as a video location for a fourth coming sean t featuring roots manuva project- 'move your shoulder"

Perpetual Grind

2009-12-15T09:05:00.000-08:00

Big rehearsal production day at banana HQ our spirited home Alaska Studios, Waterloo, London se1 8xe

Team Banana in action... rehearsing for New Zealand and Australia tour.

2009-12-15T08:53:00.000-08:00

Team Elastic of the talent source entity www.elasticartist.net

klan branded.....

Going, Gone and Truly Bananas

2009-12-11T11:27:00.000-08:00

Green Bananas Are Good for You!!

Dub College (part two)

2009-12-09T11:54:00.000-08:00

It's all based on Dub.

The deep structure of reggae music then restructured tweaked and twiddled.

Birthing genre within genre.

The initial inception was the b side of a vinal record - stripped down and manipulated with special effects: echo, reverb, feed back, chorus and flange. Cross reference to the root of the a side with edited vocal insights and often quite a brash vocal contortion. At first promtted by economics constraints on studio time: rather than record a next song the remix was born.

This mutation grew into a much loved craft firstly honed by Jamaican mobile discoteques what is now known as sound systems and is still a thriving culture world wide.

Talking over B side instrumental recordings in free from lead to rehearsed vocal essays in all aspects of life from playful bragging to serious thoughts about anything.

Many people say they do not like reggae and can not see the object of non sung or half sung vocal expression let alone monotone metered dialog to the beat or off the beat. But this basic minimal musicality has birthed a much loved and hated vocal tradition many do it few master or understand the true essence of spoken intercourse.

Now with marketing terms like gangster rap and grime the old machine ghettoises and marginalises what should be considered one of the most ground breaking forms of linguistic discourse conveying a multi faceted massage of folk law and reason.

So many parallels for the dub it is proof of infinite sound scape.

Klan lord Ricky Ranking and Dj diabilo say it in session

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VKQFXPOL

Attention in the class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Banana Skins Ridim: test blend by various artist

2009-12-08T14:02:00.001-08:00

Banana Skins Ridim: test blend �by� various artist

KLan family thing featuring beats by Strange Love:

Vocal renditions from- Lord Goshington, Ricky Ranking, Jimmy Screech, Sean T, Morrison ford, Connie Bell, Mc Scott, Rupert the ? and more.

This is just a ghetto taster dub test tape. Klan thing Banana Bang, bang.

Late January Download release of full version will be available at www.inzu.net/bananaklan

Audio murder clip by hylton Goshington

2009-12-08T09:47:00.001-08:00

Audio murder clip �by� hylton Goshing

New riddim to be featured on Banana klan version clash experiment.... watch this space for the evolution of dub.

2010 belongs to rebel music.

2 peaces remix clip by Ricky Ranking

2009-12-08T09:17:00.001-08:00

2 peaces remix clip �by� Ricky Ranking

This is a tune from out the great banana vaults by Ricky Ranking taken from a fourth coming album ceasefire. One of the many unreleased Ricky Ranking projects... this a sneak taster for the impatience crew.

Digital Bananas:

2009-12-07T13:12:00.000-08:00

THE BRAND NEW DOWNLOAD SHOP:

the plan is to keep this as the digital pre-release domain.

proper hot press straight out the studio and ready for sale.

we only have 1 gig of storage.

pure rowdy non conventions.

Vintage Klan: THE Black Gold

2009-12-07T12:44:00.000-08:00

Movement in Dub wise actuality ... Word, sound and power.
The art form mutates.

Linguistic currency.

Barber Shop Dialog on Tap:

Dub Plate= Tape, Cd, Dat, Mp3,

2009-12-07T11:11:00.001-08:00

2009-12-07T11:05:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the peoples Dub college

2009-12-05T10:24:00.000-08:00

We use the term college in reference to our state of edutainage and learning. Banana klan is a school of thought.

I hate to shatter the mystery contained in the unspoken massages and the sublime, sub text of the audio extent and these scribbles parading as essays are but the sum of the celebration that we part take in most thankful to the Dub Pioneers too many to mention :

Lee Scratch Perry

King Tubby

Aswad

The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra

Krs One

Saxson International

London Posse

Ragga hip hop, Uk Hip hip, Grime, Drum and bass, Jungle Techno, Broken Beat, UK Bashment

and or whatever the new phrase will be do little to describe the true essence of what has taken place in what kind only be considered stifling , morally challenged, economically stretched and spiritually depletive times.

Short comings and great advances this post second war British born and or conditioned populus has consistantly thrown up some futuristic re invention of convention within the mechanism of non convention.

And so with much to augment in the philosopical property of art and creative political gestation's Banana klan the collective unite in attempt to reclaim the DIY grass root ethics of an era most people are too busy to give a dam about.

Run the track, crack the joke but find time to recognise the serious missed opportunity at stake in times of mindless apathetic non communal society break down and all out modern day savagery.

Whatever you choose.. be it to vocalise to it, dance to it, construct it, trade in it.. the class has evolved. We are living testaments to the Dub wise resonance .....