2 Dope Productions - Driftin

Early 90s UK house cut up now on the channel.

2 Dope Productions is one of the many aliases of Ricky Morrison and Martin Watson. Together under this moniker and various others they produced all the output for Mighty Rider records. 

Ricky Morrison also had a considerable career as a solo producer, appearing on hundreds of records across labels like Strictly Rhythmn, Cutting Traxx and Azuli.

Martin Watson had a less commercially successful career, but his under the radar dub productions for the small Dredbeat Records are seriously good finds, combining elements of hip-hop, ragga and dancehall.

The Mighty Rider EP was the label's first release in 1991, apparently taking tracks from a forthcoming album Spreading the Message, which never saw the light of day. 

In a style that seemed to be all the rage at the start of the 90s in the UK, one side is early house groovers and the other is downtempo chillers. Body Work, also from the a-side is also particularly good.

Driftin has funky bongos, great solos and vocal chops over a grooving bassline. A underground classic.

Check out the record on Discogs here.

Also if in Melbourne on the weekend - celebrating Raffy's first birthday on Saturday! Going to be epic - I am on 8pm-10pm:

 

PBS Breakfast Spread

Got a run in the big chair presenting The Breakfast Spread on PBS on Monday while Claire Dickson was unwell!

Lots of morning music for you to listen to whenever you have the time. Click the pic!

Tracklist:

Artist	Song
Latitude	Clouds Dancing
Art Wilson	Long Water
Paul Rudolph/ Gerald Toon	Peter’s Piece
Roberta Flack	I Can See The Sun In Late December
The Blackbyrds	Dreaming Of You
Miroslav Vitous	Basic Laws
Marvin Franklin	Kona Winds
Letterstick Band	Gonna Rain Again
Bernie Leadon & Michael Georgiades	Glass Off
Joan Armatrading	Love And Affection
Poison Girl Friend	Love Is..
One Dove	White Love (Lonesome Demo)
Spokes H	Rabaki
Deluxe	Am I Leading You On?
Natural Experience	Dont Leave Me
Dust-e-1	Hutchin
Denis Taylor	Enough Is Enough
Ooh Baby	Driving
Bird	Sakura (Mad Professor’s Lovers Rock Dub)
Bunny Maloney	Baby I’ve Been Missing You
Vince & Claudia	You Me & He
Jahman & Madge	I Do
Billy Lo	It’s The Life
Prince	17
Theo Parrish	Dirt Rhodes
No Limits	Missing  You
Hiroshi Sato	Say Goodbye
Child Of Slan	Always Say Ever (Balo’s Dub)
Hearsay	Move Yo Body, Work Yo Body (Ragga House Mix)

Eternal Rhythm on PBS

 Had the honour of covering the incredible Eternal Rhythm on Thursday while Shio is away.

Listen back for spiritual, funky and ambient jazz styles! Click the pic:

Tracklist:

Artist	Song	Label (Year)
Greg Foat & Art Themen	Fresh Snow	Athens Of The North (2023)
Erni Clark	By The Grace Of God, I Am	Spitirual Jazz 14 on Jazzman (2023)
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio	Sankofa	ST Album on Pyramid Records (2025)
Pentangle	Reflection	Reflection LP on Reprise (1971)
Michael Franks	When The Cookie Jar Is Empty	Burchfield Nines LP on WB (1978)
Jaco Pistorius	Dear Prudence (Live)	Big World Music (1991)
Hailu Mergia	Tizita	Lala Belu LP on Aweseome Tapes of Africa (2018)
Chico Hamilton	Mysterious Maiden	Nomad on Elektra (1980)
Ken Shroeder Sextet	Hope	Afternoon In Libya LP on Mesmeric Records
The Crusaders	Lilies of The Nile	Southern Comfort LP on ABC (1974)
Seawind	Morning Star	Horizion (1979)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity	Vibrations	Vibrations LP on Polydor (1976)
Francis Lai	I Need A Man	UAR (1978)
Kimiko Kasai	Use Me	This Is My Love LP on CBS (1975)
Earth Wind & Fire	Thats The Way Of The World	Thats The Way of The World LP on Columbia (1975)
Dizzy Gillespie	Incantation	Free Ride (1977)
John Henderson	Space Array	Colour Club Records (2020)
Lonnie Liston Smith	Space Princess	Columbia (1978)

Vertigo Hypo - Hypo Rhino (Tribal Nocturnal Rainforest Mix)

 Another rarely heard cut from seminal Frankston label Vicious Vinyl up now.

Previously I've uploaded this rip from Bubbleman last year, and this is similarly a b-side cut hidden on a cheesy trance record.

This is an early label release from 1992, and the only by Vertigo Hypo an alias for Bryan St. James. 

James had a few now soughtafter releases on cult Melbourne label Azwan Transmissions throughout the 1990s and appeared on various compilations on labels like Dancenet.

As Vertigo Hypo, James goes into a psychedelic, tribal infused, strange mode to produce quite a singular record. The Tribal Nocturnal Rainforest Mix features freaky quasi-animal noises, Korg M1 flute solos and energetic drum programming.

I'm stoked to have dug it up for the channel, hope you enjoy!

Check out the record on Discogs here.