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Roger Robinson – Heavy Vibes

ROGER ROBINSON
“Heavy Vibes”

JTRLP16
release date: 22.11.2024
LP vinyl, digital

 

Vinyl LP: 19,- €

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Roger Robinson is one of the most versatile voices in the dub poetry scene today, seamlessly blending the power of the written word with the raw energy of the soundsystem.

Teaming up once again with Dub wizard Disrupt to conclude an album trilogy that began with “Dis Side Ah Town” and “Dog Heart City“, Robinson pulls a wide range of riddims straight from the Jahtari vaults to create “Heavy Vibes“, a killer fusion of bass, poetry, and social consciousness.

With a voice oscillating between soulful falsetto and deep poetry thunder Robinson’s verses hit as hard as the bass, challenging the listener to confront uncomfortable truths, while Disrupt’s richly textured, dub-heavy production ensures the music moves both body and mind. You’ll find yourself dancing, but more importantly, you’ll find yourself thinking.

Coming with stunning cover art by Kiki Hitomi and featuring deadly riddims by Tapes, Naram, Jura Soundsystem, Maffi and Bo Marley, “Heavy Vibes” balances the weight of oppression with a glimmer of hope – the belief that change is possible, that the beat goes on, and that through solidarity and art, new futures can be forged.

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WAQWAQ KINGDOM
“WaqWaq Kingdom EP”

JTR19
release date: 27. Apr 2018

12″ vinyl (33 rpm), digital



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The Science Ninja team WaqWaq Kingdom is returning to our solar system with this brain melting five tracker, continuing their space exploration program where they left off with the 2017 epic “Shinsekai“.

DJ Scotchegg and Kiki Hitomi are setting out to time-warp input from African electronic pioneers like Francis Bebe, eerie Super Nintendo soundtracks and low-end nanotech into a highly hypnotic shamanic experience that’s not to be misssed. Gravity- and genre-defying disc, including a mystical appearance of dub poetry sensei Roger Robinson!

Mastered and cut to wax by Pole / Scape Mastering Berlin, with artwork by Miles “Bokeh versions” Opland.

Limited edition of 300!




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“New Maps” video by Roger Robinson

“New Maps” video by Roger Robinson


New video by Roger Robinson on this extra-heavy Naram riddim cut. Taken from the “Dog Heart City” LP – limited vinyl version just dropped off the press, incl. trippy Kiki Hitomi artwork!

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Roger Robinson’s “Dog Heart City” out on limited vinyl LP

“New Maps” video by Roger Robinson


Hot off the press comes the vinyl version of Roger Robinson‘s epic “Dog Heart City“, originally out last January on (now hard to find) cassette.

Re-mastered and cut by Pole for extra analogue goodness and coming with hand-drawn cover art by Kiki Hitomi, this crucial document of the Brexit era shouldn’t miss in any collectors crate.

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Roger Robinson –
Dog Heart City (LP)












ROGER ROBINSON
“Dog Heart City”

JTRLP10
release date: 03. Aug 2017

LP vinyl, digital



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After his highly acclaimed album “Dis Side Ah TownRoger Robinson returns with a reel full of new tales about survival in a Dog Heart City. These stories, delivered in Robinson’s full vocal spectrum between low-end dub poetry tremors and haunting falsetto singing, are trying to make the invisible lives visible: giving people affected by gentrification, racism, unemployment and low wage work a sense of authority and aesthetic nobility.

Each song on this tape became a story in that city, while the tape itself is like the city holding these stories. “Nightshifttells about the workers who clean the buildings where power is held, and the contrast between their lives and where they clean. “Flowers” comments on the rate of young black men getting killed, where another victim dies even before the last mourning flowers have dried. There are stories about tower block life, the claiming of a postcode or how the city wears a Swastika like a proud badge in Post-Brexit UK.

This beautiful cassette collects a pile of special riddim cuts from the Jahtari vaults, from re-edited classics by Bo Marley, unreleased gems by John Frum, to completely new experiments, all lovingly dubbed live and soaked in analogue goodness.

Stunning hand-painted cover art by Kiki Hitomi.




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Welcome To Dog Heart City

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Attention All Jahtarians!

To promote the release of Roger Robinsons new album we give you the chance to enter Dog Heart City for yourself and mash up those fat cat money men through the power of technology!

Wouldn’t you love a chance to stick it to ‘the man’?

Well now you can.

Let’s do it!

All you have to do is protect our man Roger Robinson from those bureaucratic attackers!

Wait, there’s more! – we’re running a competition until the 1st March – the owner of the highest score will receive a bundle of Dog Heart City goodies from Jahtari.

More details on the competiton and how to play below.

How To Play

We’ve made it super simple to get playing.

Just head over to dogheartcity.rogerrobinsononline.com – let the credits roll and hit play



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The objective is to protect Roger from those men in suits described in the Dog Heart City Album.

They’re not going to make it easy!

Simply tap on an attacker to defeat him and keep Roger safe.

Multiple taps get more points.

Those suits are seriously aggressive though and it’ill take some serious finger tapping to keep them away otherwise they’ll do Roger some serious damage!

However there is hope!

With enough taps a heart will be displayed (see image below) – drag this to Roger and his energy will be replenished AND all suits in range destroyed!

HINT: using a touchscreen is key to a highscore!

When you’ve done the business submit your score and details and – if you’ve done well enough – you’ll be entered onto the highscore board and into the competition.

The Competition

Our competition runs up until 1st March

The highest 5 scores on that date win a prize.

Simply play the game and submit your details afterwards. You’ll be added to the Jahtari mailing list and notified if successful.

Don’t forget to share / tweet with your own networks and spread the word!







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Prizes


  • 1st – Jahtari Hoodie + “Dog Heart City” Cassette Album + 3 Jahtari Vinyls of your choice *
  • 2nd – “Dog Heart City” Tape Cassette Album + 3 Jahtari Vinyls of your choice
  • 3rd – “Dog Heart City” Tape Cassette Album + 2 Jahtari Vinyls of your choice
  • 4th – “Dog Heart City” Tape Cassette Album + 1 Jahtari Vinyl of your choice
  • 5th – “Dog Heart City” Tape Cassette Album

(* vinyl selected from available records: except On-U 7″)










Get In Touch

We hope you enjoy your time in Dog Heart City a lot of love went into creating this.

A huge thanks to our friends at Shalom Salon for the coding wizardry

Contact us via social media or directly we’d love to hear what you think of the game and the album

Until Next Time!