Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – ATL: The Best Place in the World, 2011

Top Rankin Hi-Fi – Never Hang Up Your Boots, 2011; Playlist

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Version #2; 2011

1. Binghy Carlton & Patrick Andy – Can’t Stop the Youths

2. Sizzla – Stop It Right Now

3. Anthony B – Can’t Stop Me

4. Dennis Brown – (Brother) Stop the Fussing and Fighting

5. Linval Thompson – Can’t Stop Natty Dread Again

6. Barry Brown – Stop Them Jah Jah

7. Prince Mohammed – Hooligan Stop A While

8. Johnny Clarke – Stop the Tribal War

9. U Brown – Stop Them Jah

10. Leroy Smart – Stop Your Warring

11. Yabby You – Stop Your Quarelling

12. Tappa Zukie – Stop the Gun Shooting

13. Dillinger – Stop Stealing in the Name of Jah

14. Prince Far I – Stop the War

15. Sister Nancy – Ain’t No Stopping Nancy

16. Ranking Joe – Can’t Stop Natty Dread

17. Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Stop That Train

18. The Viceroys – They Can’t Stop Us Now

19. Johnny Osbourne – Never Stop Fighting

20. Horace Andy – Stop the Fuss

21. Noel Ellis – Stop Your Fighting

22. Barry Brown – Just Can’t Stop Us

23. Willie Williams – No One Can Stop Us

Top Rankin Hi-Fi – Siam Meets São Paulo, 2011

Counting Numbers Version #4 has arrived

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Droppin’ ill vibes once again

Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen

Diggin’ inna di crates with that eye so keen

Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen

Cop this platter, nah mean

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This marks the final journey from 1 to 19. Hope you enjoyed listening to the various sets as much I did making them. What started on a whim quickly developed into four versions. Top Rankin’ got dem hella deep crates! Let me know which one you were vibin’ on the most or, better yet, serve up a dish of your own and send it my way.

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Counting Numbers Version #4, 2011

1. Atmosphere – The Number One
2. Intellekt & Dirty Digits – A Tale of Two Cities
3. DJ Cash Money – 3:00 in Da Morning
4. Ohmega Watts, Surreal, and Braille – 4 Days in Geneva
5. The Sound Providers feat. The Procussions – 5 Minutes
6. Common feat. Bilal – The 6th Sense
7. Asamov aka The ABs – Seven
8. People Under the Stairs – 8 is Enuff
9. Psalm One – The Nine
10. The Dynospectrum – Tenfold
11. Us3 – Eleven Long Years
12. Jurassic 5 – Twelve
13. Guilty Simpson – Mic Check 313*
14. Aloe Blacc x 14KT – Fourteen
15. Natural Yogurt Band – Biscuit 15
16. Bongolian – 16th Century Troubadour
17. Oh No – Seventeen
18. Murs – Can It Be (Half A Million Dollars and 18 Months Later)
19. Q-Tip & The Beat Junkies – Intro; Common feat. Sadat X – 1.9.9.9.*

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Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi ah di number one station fi numerical vibrations!

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Counting Numbers Version #3, 2011

1. Sister Nancy – One Two
2. Papa Finnigan & Junior Ranking – Two the Hard Way
3. Dennis Brown – Three Meals A Day
4. Groundation – Fourth Dimension
5. Mamadou Barry – Africa Five
6. Collective Efforts feat. Grip – One Through Six
7. Polyrhythm Addicts – Seven Steps Behind
8. Jimmy Smith and Eddie Harris – 8 Counts for Rita
9. Carl Dawkins & Bob Marley & The Wailers – Cloud Nine
10. Big Youth – Ten Against One
11. J Dilla – One Eleven
12. Lefties Soul Connection – 12-Inch Rims
13. Common – Chapter 13 (Rich Man vs. Poor Man)
14. Beastie Boys – 14th St. Break
15. Atmosphere – The Keys to Life vs. 15 Minutes
16. Prince Jazzbo – Apollo 16
17. Sir Harry – Apollo 17
18. The Techniques – Stalag 18
19. Toyan – Just Nineteen

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Don’t hesitate to pick up the first two versions for more sequential excursions.

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Counting Numbers Version #2, 2011

1. The Ducky Boys – All for One & One for All
2. The Bruisers – These Two Boots of Mine
3. The Greenhornes – Three Faint Calls
4. The Clash – Four Horsemen
5. Choking Victim – Five Finger Discount
6. Black Flag – Six Pack
7. Rancid – 7 Years Down
8. The Mercenaries – Eight Against Rove Version
9. Ticklah – Nine Years
10. Prince Heron – Ten Commandments
11. Public Enemy – More News at 11
12. RA Scion – The Twelve
13. Outkast feat. Big Rube – 13th Floor
14. The Ducky Boys – Fourteen
15. Swingin’ Utters – Fifteenth and T
16. Decendents – M16
17. Transplants – One Seventeen
18. Shel Silverstein – Eighteen Flavors
19. Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Ode to Northside Tavern (Jukebox Favorite of Ol’)

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Counting Numbers Version #1, 2011

1. Chris Murray & The Slackers – One Everything
2. Cornell Campbell – Two Face Rasta
3. Trinity – Three Piece Suit
4. The Skatalites – Four Seasons
5. The Senior Allstars – Five to Nine (aka Funky Reggae)
6. Linval Thompson – Six Babylon
7. Ranking Trevor – Seven the Hard Way
8. Tommy McCook – Eight Years After
9. Lucan I – Nine to Five
10. The Mad Lads – Ten to One
11. The Skatalites – Kingston 11
12. Linval Thompson – 12 Tribes of Israel
13. Purpleman – Thirteen Women to a Man
14. Cadillac Jones – 14th Street Hustle
15. The Slackers – Fifteen
16. The Heptones – Only Sixteen
17. Dave & Ansel Collins – Stalag 17
18. Derrick Harriott – Eighteen with a Bullet
19. Harry Mudie & King Tubby – Nineteen Love in Dub

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Dta Wan Awk Jer Dta Wan Dtok: Cha Bap Sawng, 2010

Getting in the mode of thought that I was actually going to be able to attend the shows, I started diggin’ in my limited surf crates and came out with the tunes I’d use to get psyched about it.

Regretfully, I was still in the phase of exchanging records when I was heavily into surf music and many vanished from the crates. I did hang on to my favorites though and was able to recover some via blogs. Hadn’t listened to these tunes in a long time, and, upon revisiting them, it took me back to the days of high school and remembering some of those amazing surf and garage shows at the Wreck Room, Cotton Club (original location on P’tree and 11th), The Point, The Star Bar, Echo Lounge, Somber Reptile, Masquerade, The Bottletree, inside WREK 91.1 FM studios, and the 40 Watt.

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Static Impulses of Collapsing Vortices; 2010

]]> http://www.thegoldbrick.net/top-rankin-hi-fi-static-impulses-of-collapsing-vortices/feed/ 0 http://www.thegoldbrick.net/top-rankin-hi-fi-dta-wan-awk-jer-dta-wan-dtok-cha-bap-nueng/ http://www.thegoldbrick.net/top-rankin-hi-fi-dta-wan-awk-jer-dta-wan-dtok-cha-bap-nueng/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:05:07 +0000 The One Nero http://www.thegoldbrick.net/?p=4873 The first of a two-part series, Dta Wan Awk Jer Dta Wan Dtok: Cha Bap Nueng showcases lost 45s, dating from the 60s and 70s, that have been unearthed here in The Land of Smiles. This session features sounds ranging from Luk-Thueng, roots-funk grooves from Isaan to Morlam-influenced arrangements played on the phin, khaen and sor to offbeat-disco dance scorchers to who knows what is coming out of my speaker. Thick horn lines, traditional percussion and string elements, deep bass lines, and intriguing vocals. The tunes are originals, covers, and adapted covers that were formed by the hybrid of Western-influenced sounds and instrumentation, and the native, traditional sounds of Thailand.

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Dta Wan Awk Jer Dta Wan Dtok: Cha Bap Nueng, 2010

Top Rankin’ Hi-Fi – Love Is All I Bring; 2010